The artist Hew Locke worked for two years with staff across the British Museum to select objects exploring the impact of ...
S itting inside a grand office at the British Museum, with a bright green scarf draped over his slim black suit, Hew Locke, ...
The British-Guyanese artist will place five masts in front of the depiction of Leopold II, whose administration was characterised by “systematic brutality and atrocities” ...
But when it comes to alternative histories, which are British-Guyanese artist Hew Locke’s stock in trade, the wordsmakes a ...
A British sculptor has been chosen to make “an artistic intervention” to a divisive statue of the Belgian king whose brutal ...
The British Museum are spotlighting the artist Hew Locke in this must-see exhibition, questioning the legacy of imperialism ...
An anti-Brexit lawyer known for beating a fox to death has demanded that the British Museum dedicate more space to slavery to ...
What have we here?” is Hew Locke’s bold and thought-provoking exhibition that exposes the British Museum's bloody colonial ...
The Guyanese-British artist Hew Locke worked for two years with staff across the British Museum to select objects with which to explore the cultural impact of British Imperialism.
Hew Locke's 2019 exhibition at Birmingham's Ikon Gallery, Here's the Thing, featured figures decorated with ornate regalia and skulls. The Birmingham 2022 Festival cultural programme said the ...
Join us for the 2024 Grimshaw Foundation annual art lecture given by Guyanese-British sculptor Hew Locke, followed by a conversation and questions with writer and curator Ekow Eshun. The annual RIBA ...
Hew Locke won the commission, the first of its kind in Belgium, to recontextualise the equestrian statue of King Leopold II in the seaside resort of Ostend. The landmark monument depicts Leopold ...