[Many thanks to Veerle Poupeye (Critical.Caribbean.Art) for bringing this item to our attention.] Roanoke School will host artist Hew Locke, who will likely be speaking about his observe and his public artwork tasks. See hyperlink under to seek out out extra and to register for this Webinar. This occasion will happen on Tuesday, November 29, 2022, at 12:00pm (EST) / 5:00pm (GMT).
Description: Roanoke School is partnering with Artistic Time, an internationally famend nonprofit arts organisation. Sponsored by the Heart for Finding out Constructions of Race, the Memorials, Monuments & Reminiscence Lecture Sequence brings to campus quite a lot of artists, architects, and students whose work addresses the position of monuments and memorials in society.
Hew Locke RA is a Guyanese-British sculptor and modern artist. Born in Edinburgh in 1959, he spent his adolescence (1966-80) in Guyana earlier than returning to the UK with an ambition to check artwork.
Locke explores the visible language of energy, how totally different nations vogue their identities by visible symbols of authority, and the way these representations are altered by the passage of time. These explorations have led Locke to a variety of topic issues, imagery and media, assembling sources throughout time and house in his deeply layered artworks. Coats-of-arms, public statuary, heroic portraiture, trophies, weaponry, delivery and the costumes and regalia of state are a number of the issues appropriated in Locke’s sculptures, wall-hangings, installations and images.
In March this yr, his Duveen Corridor Fee for Tate Britain, The Procession, was unveiled to nice reward, and in September his work Gilt was unveiled because the Façade Fee for The Metropolitan Museum in New York. Throughout this yr’s Commonwealth Video games in Birmingham, Locke’s non permanent re-dressing of the historic statue of Queen Victoria, Overseas Alternate, rose over the principle sq., depicting a ship carrying 5 smaller duplicate statues of Victoria, sporting helmets, paying homage to that worn by Britannia and medals signifying battles within the historical past of the British Empire. His public sculptures embrace The Jurors, completely sited at Runnymede to commemorate 800 years of the Magna Carta. Locke is repeatedly featured with solo shows in worldwide exhibitions and Biennales globally, together with in China, India, the Americas and Europe. [. . .]
To seek out out extra and to register for this Webinar, go to https://www.roanoke.edu/…/creative_time_presents_hew_locke
For extra info, contact Dr. Jesse Bucher, bucher@roanoke.edu
[Photo above by Max McClure: Detail from Hew Locke’s “The Jurors” (2015). For more information, see https://www.situations.org.uk/projects/magna-carta/.]