SAM LOCK
I N SI TU 12th May - 9th June 2018
Cover: Black the Hills Mixed Media on Canvas, 30 x 30cm Inside Cover: In the Memory II (Detail) Framed work on found bookcover, 46.5 x 37cm Additional works will be available during the exhibition. More information on the artist, artworks and prices can be found on our website and via our Artsy profile.
SAM LOCK
IN S IT U 12th May - 9th June 2018
Join us for the opening on Saturday 12th May from 2-4pm
&Gallery
17 Dundas Street, Edinburgh, EH3 6QG andgallery.co.uk info@andgallery.co.uk
SAM LOCK For me Painting is a daily practice, necessary for my mind to spark and within which I am tangled up. It is my heartbeat and preoccupation and as a consequence a continuous cycle of making that feeds back into itself, the by-product of how my time is spent, the energy of the studio space and my creative existence. Each work is the result of a sequence of intuitive actions, an immediacy that captures the physicality of the moment, a mark put down, a footprint left, the tracks and avenues of my thoughts and their circuits; their energy. The painting is the afterwards of the minds movement, the residue of action, a fluid space of freefalling notions and occurrences and consequence (sanded, stained, scorched, sealed, torn). Heavily and physically worked layers of immediacy where ideas are acted upon and allowed to interact with each-others time and place. The space in these paintings goes inwards, into and through their own strata, physical rather than as illusion across the space. I want my paintings to spread out into the senses, to create an energy that involves and intrigues people, hooks into their imaginations and helps their minds wander. I use the texture and layers of my surfaces to do this, they make a history of secrets and reveals, with colour and marks. They are as visual as I can make them – each time you look I want there to be something more than before. They are not paintings that reveal themselves in a glimpse; knowing what these paintings are about is not instantly legible or accessible, rather it is felt or sensed and contemplated and needs the viewer to find a different pace. This is not meant as a trick but more as a deliberate way of involving people, a way in which to turn audience into companions. The paintings surface is my interface between my inner and outer personalities, the duality of the conscious and subconscious. What the painting becomes and the journey it takes are a by-product of drifting between the 2 states. This is the source of the abstraction in my work, its open-endedness. They are part-formed, partial mindscapes, landscapes that are part-imagined and part of us. Spaces where I have been and left something behind and found something else. My paintings grow and change, transform, an organic build-up of layers and previous images and tones that is broken back into, torn away, covered up, pushed back, revealing the archaeology of the past. It gives the work an elusive feeling, where the colours drop in and out of themselves and the structures and spaces are a palimpsest of what came before. As a consequence, my work revolves around time; the time it takes to make them, histories and memories, traces of another time and place. This is where the work finds its tone of voice, a contemplative space, maybe melancholy, or calm, the poetry of yesterday.
Hills Step Down Mixed Media on Canvas, 150 x 120cm
Yellow the Stars Mixed Media on Canvas, 100 x 100cm
Drag the Sea Mixed Media on Canvas, 100 x 100cm
No Still Place Framed work on found paper, 57 x 50cm
Hoisted White Clouds, And Turns Away & As The Day Framed work on found paper, 50 x 43cm
Day Glides By Mixed Media on Canvas, 120 x 100cm
In Darkness Vanishes Mixed Media on Canvas, 120 x 100cm
The River Glides Mixed Media on Canvas, 30 x 30cm
In Sunlight Speaking Mixed Media on Canvas, 30 x 30cm
By the River MIxed Media on Canvas, 100 x 100cm
Construction I Mixed Media on Canvas, 50 x 43cm
Construction II Mixed Media on Canvas, 50 x 43cm
MA Fine Art (Hons), (Painting, History of Art) University of Edinburgh 1997 FORTHCOMING SHOWS 2018 May Solo Exhibition, In Situ, &Gallery, EDINBURGH Oct AAF Bristol, Four Walls BRISTOL Oct AAF Stockholm, Four Walls STOCKHOLM Nov AAF Hamburg, Twelve Twelve Gallery HAMBURG Dec Solo Exhibition, Twelve Twelve Gallery, DEN HAAG NL
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 Feb Solo Exhibition, Cadogan Contemporary LONDON 2017 Aug “Presence”, Twelve Twelve Gallery DEN HAAG NL Jun Solo Show, Wimbledon Fine Art LONDON Jan Solo Show, Cadogan Contemporary LONDON 2016 Sept Liminal Space, Twelve Twelve Gallery, DEN HAAG NL Sept Solo Show, Wimbledon Fine Art LONDON Jan Discoveries, Temporary Gallery, HOVE 2014 Sept Bluemoon Gallery, TUNBRIDGE WELLS 2013 Oct “Trace Element”, Studio 226 Chelsea Design Centre LONDON Sept Solo Show, Xavier Gallery, BRIGHTON
GROUP SHOWS 2018 Apr Jan Jan 2017 Dec Nov Oct Jan 2016 Mar 2015 Jun 2013 Oct
Spring Collection, Josie Eastwood HANTS UK “Juxtaposition” Galerie Biesenbach, COLOGNE Little Picture Show, Josie Eastwood Fine Art, HANTS “Connection” &Gallery, EDINBURGH Winter Collection, Josie Eastwood Fine Art HANTS Artthehague, Twelve Twelve Gallery DEN HAAG Inaugural Exhibition, Anne Neilson Fine Art, USA Art at Home, Jenna Burlingham Fine Art LONDON Drawn, RWA BRISTOL 32 Paintings, Phoenix Gallery, BRIGHTON
S E L E C T E D E X H I B I T I O N S A N D A R T FA I R S 2018 Kunst Rai Art Amsterdam, Twelve Twelve Gallery, AMSTEDAM AAF Hampstead,, Four Walls LONDON AAF Battersea, Four Walls, LONDON 2017 Edinburgh Art Fair, Four Walls AAF Stockholm, Four Walls AAF Hampstead, Four Walls Fine Art AAF Battersea, Four Walls Fine Art Spring Battersea Decorative Arts Fair Winter Battersea Decorative Arts Fair London Art Fair, Jenna Burlingham Fine Art 2016 AAF Bristol, Four Walls AAF Hampstead, Four Walls Battersea Decorative Arts Fair, Jenna Burlingham Fine Art New Year Exhibition, Cadogan Contemporary AAF Battersea, Four Walls 2015 Mixed Show Cadogan Contemporary, London SeeArt Fair, Tunbridge Wells 2014 Columbia Road Gallery, London 2013 Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries Spring Show, Bircham Gallery, Norfolk 2011 Spring Show, Bircham Gallery, Norfolk 1996-2010 Christmas Show, Bircham Gallery, Norfolk Brighton Art Fair ConTemporary Gallery, Queens Rd, Brighton London Artists Book Fair, ICA, London Chichester Open Art Exhibition Art at Amberley Museum Undercurrents, Phoenix Gallery, Brighton Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh Mile of Art (369 Gallery) Royal Mile, Edinburgh
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