Donald Locke
Frieze Masters, Regent’s Park, London
9 – 13 October 2024
Donald Locke, Plantation Series X/1, 1973. Courtesy: Estate of Donald Locke and Alison Jacques, London © Estate of Donald Locke; photo: Michael Brzezinski
My work has been trying to encompass and bend to the will of the imagination, every aspect of the life and experience of black people in the New World – their political and sociological structures, the landscapes they inhabit, their physical uniqueness, the folk-lore and myths which crowd their imagination, and the socio-economic legacies they inherit from the past. – Donald Locke 2004
Alison Jacques exhibits a solo presentation of Guyanese painter, sculptor and ceramicist Donald Locke (b.1930, Stewartville, Guyana; d.2010, Atlanta, USA). Locke studied in the UK and lived between Guyana and the UK for many years before moving to the USA in 1979. This presentation anticipates Locke’s solo museum exhibition at Atlanta Contemporary, USA (24 October - 2 February 2025) and his forthcoming UK survey at Spike Island, Bristol (31 May - 7 September), touring to Camden Arts Centre, London and Ikon Gallery, Birmingham. Locke’s work is currently on view at Tate Britain as part of the permanent collection display.