Donald Locke (1930–2010) was born in British Guiana and died in Atlanta, but he also spent a quarter-century in the UK. Having established a formidable reputation as a painter in Guiana, making paints from unusual ingredients and winning prizes for abstract work, he was awarded a scholarship to study ceramics in Bath at the age of 24 and went on to master a number of other art forms. Viewing his frenetic drawings, pared-back metal sculptures and large multimedia paintings side by side, it’s hard to believe that they came from the same hand. This retrospective, which began in Bristol and moved to Birmingham last year, is now opening in its final version in London (10 April–30 August). On display are a number of works that weren’t included in the exhibition’s two previous editions, such as ceramics made in the last decade of Locke’s life and a series of works on paper from the 1990s that combine collaged images with impassioned mark-making.
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