Robert Leckie on Donald Locke’s Five Decades of Experimentation
Art Africa
October 2025
Working between Guyana, the UK, and the US, Locke forged a visual language that merges abstraction, myth, and memory through clay, steel, paint, and found materials. His art examines the intertwined histories of colonialism and modernity, while asserting the cultural and imaginative agency of the African diaspora. In conversation, Leckie reflects on Locke’s formal inventiveness, his resistance to categorisation, and the enduring relevance of his work today.