Our ‘At home with’ interview series explores what creatives are making, what’s making them tick, and the moments that made them. This time, we step over the threshold with Guyanese-British ar...
Our ‘At home with’ interview series explores what creatives are making, what’s making them tick, and the moments that made them. This time, we step over the threshold with Guyanese-British artist Hew Locke Hew Locke’s work – anchored in past events but jarringly contemporary – asks us not to romanticise our history but to question it. The London-based artist, who spent his childhood in Guyana, received widespread acclaim for his epic commission at Tate Britain’s Duveen Galleries.
Locke’s work is static but appears to move; is silent yet cacophonous; attractive yet deeply uncomfortable. This is human history and culture in its rich, complex and ‘messy’ variety – and not necessarily how we know it. , a temporary public artwork presented by the Birmingham 2022 Festival and commissioned by Ikon.Wallpaper*: Where are you as we speak?Sitting in the lime green front room of my attic flat . I can see old photos of parents and my in-law’s 1950s wedding photos.
of the Oxford Hotel in Georgetown hangs on a wall behind me. From the open window, I can hear young children and teenagers heading for Brockwell Park.For the last couple of months, I’ve been working my way through every episode of the 1980s-90s sitcom, which is being repeated on Netflix. Set in a barber shop in Peckham, it follows a Guyanese-British family and stars groundbreaking Guyanese actor Norman Beaton.
W*: Your work is rooted in global histories and geographies, specifically those associated with colonial and post-colonial power. Why is exploring, and reclaiming past events so important to our present?The past informs the present. Every time we forget, we are reminded of this fact. The history and war in Ukraine is just one example of this.
Unfortunately, British society seems to have become divided into different and opposing camps on whether we should talk about these histories at all. I would say, there is no reason for a person to be afraid of having their ideas challenged. History is complex and messy, and that is OK.
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