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Ty Locke's practice is constantly changing in response to his emotional and social circumstances. Locke experiments with everyday objects, changes them, and creates defamiliarization, mostly in a light-hearted, playful manner, while exploring a deeper social commentary.
"My sculptures have always explored tedious labour, endurance, repetition, working class-ness and absurdity, sometimes becoming voluntary torture or punishment. I set myself mundane rules to follow, committing to this irrationality to create dysfunctional objects. I use what’s to hand to create and impose processes onto familiar reference points. Since I left my job as a store assistant at Aldi, my focus has been on domestic spaces, things that exist domestically, the mundaneness of it all, and my relationship to home, currently and throughout my life." Locke Ty Locke is currently preparing for an exhibition for the Quench Gallery in Margate at the beginning of August 2022. It is a group show exploring relationships to domestic spaces as a queer child. Each room in the gallery represents a different room in the house; Locke has been given the kitchen. Group Shows: The Turner Contemporary Open, Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK, 2021 Deconstructing, The Liberty Museum, Philadelphia, UCA, 2021 Hung on a Minute, Platform Southwark, London, UK, 2021 Few View Phew Points, UCA, Canterbury, UK 2021 Dysfunctional Pleasures, DODO, Brighton, UK, 2021 House Party, Crate, Margate, UK, 2021 Cindyyyyyy, Set, London, UK, 2020 Art Fritter, Van, London, UK, 2020 Odds’n’Sods, Limbo, Margate, UK, 2019 Platform Graduate Award, Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK, 2018 Solo Shows: Domestic Bliss, My Flat, Margate, UK, 2021 23p Beans, Resort, Margate, UK, 2019 38 CODE, The Brewery Tap, Folkestone, UK, 2019 Sand on Sand, Beach, Margate, UK, 2018 Upcoming Shows: Adult By Nature, Quench, Margate, UK, 2022 Interim Show, Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK, 2022 www.tylocke.com @tylockeart @mocalondon_we |
Work list:
PHOTOS: 1. Loafed Toaster 2021, toaster 2. Kitchen Cupboard 2021, groceries 3. Finely Sliced Knife 2021, kitchen knife 4. Fixed Broken Plates 2021, porcelain, cardboard, tape 5. Rizla Burger 2022, liquorice Rizla, Rizla, Rizla packet, saliva 6. Rizla Rug 2022, Rizla, saliva 7. Liquorice Rizla Arm Chair 2022, Liquorice Rizla, cardboard, saliva 8. Horny Chair 2022, wooden chair 9. Horny Table 2021, wooden table VIDEOS 1. ''I taped my kitchen to my body'' 2021, the contents of my kitchen, tape, (A clip from a 45-minute video) 2. Purposely Stained Tea Towels 2021, tea towels, tea, coffee, beetroot, wine, mustard, tomato, washing-up liquid, soya sauce, beans, chocolate, hot Sauce, lip stick, blueberry, Ribena, ketchup, mayonnaise, OJ, butter, BBQ sauce, guacamole, Marmite, tomato puree, ravioli, dirt, ice cream 3. Fag Filter Bead Curtain 2020, cigarette filters, thread, wood |