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  • Hew Locke’s ‘Odyssey’ Flotilla Sails Through Global Colonial History and Current Affairs

    Kate Mothes, Colossal, June 10, 2025
  • Six amazing London art exhibitions closing in February 2025

    Eddy Frankel, Time Out, January 28, 2025
  • Hew Locke excavates the museum's imperial roots in "what have we here?"

    Melissa Baksh, Artforum, January 9, 2025
  • Hew Locke excavates the museum's imperial roots in "what have we here?"

    Melissa Baksh, ArtForum, January 9, 2025
  • Curators' Tour of Hew Locke: What have we here? exhibition at the British Museum

    The British Museum, January 3, 2025
  • Alt Power 100 Artlyst 2024/2025 Art Of Our Time

    Artlyst, December 31, 2024
  • Best Visual Arts Exhibitions of 2024 with Christine Lindey

    Christine Lindsey, Morning Star, December 30, 2024
  • Artist Hew Locke Confronts Colonialism at the British Museum

    Simon Coates, The Observer, December 23, 2024
  • Seven Highlights from the World of Frieze in 2024

    Frieze, December 20, 2024
  • The best art and architecture of 2024

    Adrian Searle, The Guardian, December 18, 2024
  • 8 Exhibitions To See In London This Winter, From African Diaspora To Electric Dreams And Picasso

    Lee Sharrock, Forbes, December 14, 2024
  • At The British Museum: ‘what have we here?’

    Esther Chadwick, London Review of Books, December 11, 2024
  • Top Ten

    Ekow Eshun, Art Forum, December 1, 2024
  • Hew Locke to ‘disrupt’ statue of Belgium monarch who oversaw brutal Congo regime

    Gareth Harris, The Art Newspaper, November 27, 2024
  • Hew Locke: Thought Provoking Exploration Of Imperialism

    Sue Hubbard, Artlyst, November 25, 2024
  • Look, and then Look Again: Hew Locke’s What Have We Here? at the British Museum

    Chloe Redston, New Wave Magazine, November 20, 2024
  • “It’s A Grand Classical Building, But It’s Built On Violence”: Hew Locke On His Skewering British Museum Exhibition What Have We Here?

    Ekow Eshun, British Vogue, October 24, 2024
  • Moving Forward Through The Past: Hew Locke’s Intervention At The British Museum

    Meike Brunkhorst, FAD Magazine, October 22, 2024
  • Hew Locke on the Little Objects That Reveal a Big, Messy History at the British Museum

    Jo Lawson-Tancred, Artnet, October 21, 2024
  • Hew Locke: what have we here?; Haegue Yang: Leap Year – review

    Laura Cumming, The Guardian, October 20, 2024
  • Hew Locke’s subversive interrogation of the British Museum collection

    Jackie Wullschläger, The Financial Times, October 19, 2024
  • Artist Hew Locke explores empire at British Museum

    Simon Stephens, Museum Association, October 17, 2024
  • Hew Locke Shares Curiosities from the British Museum

    Sam Gaskin, Ocula, October 16, 2024
  • Hew Locke’s British Museum looting exposé: ‘inescapably, deeply shocking’

    Adrian Searle, The Guardian, October 15, 2024
  • Hew Locke: a maverick yet moving take on the British Museum’s colonial legacy

    JJ Charlesworth, The Telegraph, October 15, 2024
  • Hew Locke: ‘The British Museum has become a punching bag’

    Alastair Sooke, The Telegraph, October 13, 2024
  • ‘It’s quite a thing to do a show here and openly use the word looting’: artist Hew Locke on decolonising the British Museum

    Tim Adams, The Observer, October 13, 2024
  • Hew Locke on Place and Power at Frieze Masters 2024

    Frieze, October 12, 2024
  • Echoes of empire, a million rabbit holes and a close look at a cave – the week in art

    Jonathan Jones, The Guardian, October 11, 2024
  • ‘A live issue’: Hew Locke’s new work referencing slavery displayed in London

    Lanre Bakare, The Guardian, July 11, 2024
  • London is getting a new memorial to the victims of transatlantic slavery – here are the 6 shortlisted artworks

    George Phillips, Time Out, June 13, 2024
  • ICA Watershed opens 2024 summer season with ‘The Procession’

    Celina Colby, The Bay State Banner, May 29, 2024
  • At ICA’s Watershed, Hew Locke’s rough pageant of humanity

    Murray Whyte, The Boston Globe, May 23, 2024
  • An Exhibit About El Dorado Dares To Ask: What If Columbus Had Never ‘Discovered’ America?

    Jonathon Keats, Forbes, May 16, 2024
  • Code thread – the new language of art

    Péjú Oshin, The Financial Times, May 3, 2024
  • “Entangled Pasts, 1768–now”

    Zehra Jumabhoy, Artforum, May 1, 2024
  • London’s Royal Academy Looks Critically at Its Past

    Oliva McEwan, Hyperallergic, March 25, 2024
  • Spotlight artist Gordon Cheung

    The Wick , March 20, 2024
  • British Museum Announces Exhibition Exploring Its Imperial Legacies

    Olivia Emily, Country & Town House, March 14, 2024
  • British Museum Taps Hew Locke to Explore Its Colonial Legacy in New Exhibition

    Jo Lawson-Tancred, Artnet, March 13, 2024
  • These Mad Hybrids: John Hoyland and Contemporary Sculpture

    David Trigg, Studio International , February 26, 2024
  • Black History Foregrounded in New Show at London’s Royal Academy

    Jo Lawson-Tancred, Artnet, February 13, 2024
  • Untangling the Pasts of Slavery, Colonialism and Art

    Farah Nayeri, The New York Times, February 7, 2024
  • Entangled Pasts, Royal Academy review — a triumphant and surprising showcase of black art

    Jackie Wullschläger, Financial Times , February 1, 2024
  • Art, Colonialism and the Royal Academy: 250 Years and Now What?

    Jade Foster , ArtReview, January 30, 2024
  • Entangled Pasts, 1768–Now: Art, Colonialism And Change

    Mark Westall, Fad Magazine , December 13, 2023
  • The 10 Best Booths at Art Basel Miami Beach 2023

    Maxwell Rabb, Artsy, December 7, 2023
  • A summer celebration of the arts commences as nominees are announced for the 27th South Bank Sky Arts Awards

    Sky, June 15, 2023
  • With ‘The Ambassadors’, Hew Locke seeks to deliver an important message

    Owen Scott, The Mancunion, May 16, 2023
  • Art Industry News: The U.K. Government Has Commissioned Nine Artists to Make Work Responding to the Coronation + Other S

    Artnet, May 15, 2023
  • Commemorating King Charles III's coronation: nine artists commissioned by UK government to create works

    Gareth Harrs, The Art Newspaper, May 15, 2023
  • British and British-Based Artists Have Begun Work on Artworks Reflecting on the Coronation

    ArtDependence, May 13, 2023
  • Leading artists get to work on coronation-inspired artworks following art collection commission

    Department for Culture, Media and Sport and The Rt Hon Lucy Frazer KC MP, GOV.UK, May 13, 2023
  • Someone is getting rich

    e-flux, April 24, 2023
  • 'A new model for cash-strapped public galleries? How England's Baltic filled its empty halls with Hew Locke's Procession

    Kirsty Lang, The Art Newspaper, March 29, 2023
  • What to See in New York This March

    Hakim Bishara, Valentina Di Liscia and Daniel Larkin, Hyperallergic, March 8, 2023
  • Hew Locke: The Procession at Baltic

    Arlo Brown, NARC Magazine, February 20, 2023
  • Hew Locke's The Procession: Where is Your Renaissance?

    Bryson Edward Howe, The Big Ship, February 18, 2023
  • Hew Locke: Countering colonialist sculptures in 2022

    Mathilda Drukier, The Bubble, January 16, 2023
  • Beauty is in eye of the holder — ‘so let people touch art’

    David Sanderson, The Times, December 29, 2022
  • The 10 best art exhibitions of 2022

    Hettie Judah, inews, December 24, 2022
  • Looking back: London's best exhibitions, 2022

    Eleonore Dresch, Culture Whisper, December 21, 2022
  • The best art and architecture of 2022

    Adrian Searle, Katy Hessel, Oliver Wainwright and Jonathan Jones, The Guardian, December 20, 2022
  • The Year in Art: We take a look at 2022’s biggest stories—and what they mean

    The Art Newspaper, December 16, 2022
  • The Best Public Art of 2022

    Artsy Editorial, December 13, 2022
  • Artist of the Year

    Apollo Magazine, November 30, 2022
  • Carnival and Colonialism Converge in Hew Locke’s The Procession

    Aditya Iyer, Hyperallergic, November 7, 2022
  • In the U.K., Public Art Shifts Toward Black Experiences

    Precious Adesina, The New York Times, October 28, 2022
  • At Tate Britain, Hew Locke Powerfully Reckons with Colonialist Histories and Their Lingering Aftereffects

    Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews, October 13, 2022
  • In the studio with sculptor and visual artist Hew Locke

    Fiona McKenzie Johnston, House and Garden, October 10, 2022
  • In the studio with Hew Locke RA

    Rosanna McLaughlin, RA Magazine, October 6, 2022
  • Dreaming New Worlds: A Conversation with Ekow Eshun

    Eric Newman, Los Angeles Review of Books, October 1, 2022
  • Artist Interview—Hew Locke: Gilt | Met Exhibitions

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 29, 2022
  • Imperialist Violence Undergirds Hew Locke’s Majestic Met Museum Facade Sculptures

    Hakim Bishara, Hyperallergic, September 16, 2022
  • Hew Locke’s Symbolic Gold Trophies Hoisted in Met Facade Commission

    Sam Gaskin, Ocula, September 16, 2022
  • Hew Locke covers Met Museum with golden trophies inspired by colonial looting

    Gabriella Angeleti, The Art Newspaper, September 15, 2022
  • The Eyes Have It in Hew Locke’s Power-Challenging Show

    Holland Cotter, The New York Times, September 15, 2022
  • Artist Hew Locke Mines the Met’s Trophy-Hunting History in His New Facade Commission

    Jo Lawson-Tancred, Artnet, September 15, 2022
  • Sound Of The Crowd: The Procession By Hew Locke

    Gair Burton, The Quietus, August 20, 2022
  • Hew Locke presents 'The Procession', a new large-scale commission for Tate Britain

    Shraddha Nair, Stir World, August 18, 2022
  • In The Black Fantastic London’s Best Summer Exhibition – Hayward Gallery

    Revd Jonathan Evens,, Artlyst, August 13, 2022
  • A “Fantastic” New Show Celebrates the Black Diaspora with Myth and Magic

    Emi Eleode, Artsy, August 5, 2022
  • Stepping Into the Expansive Worlds of Black Imagination

    Charlotte Jansen, The New York Times, August 4, 2022
  • Metropolitan Museum director Max Hollein to take on dual role of director and chief executive

    Gabrielle Angeleti, The Art Newspaper, August 3, 2022
  • The Past and Future of Afrofuturism

    John-Baptiste Oduor, Art Review, July 29, 2022
  • As the Commonwealth Games open, Birmingham’s museum sector contends with the legacy of colonialism

    Tom Seymour, The Art Newspaper, July 29, 2022
  • ‘More than UB40 and heavy metal’: Birmingham’s alternative arts and entertainment

    Jon Bounds, The Guardian, July 29, 2022
  • Hew Locke’s Quiet Radicalism

    Melissa Baksh, Art Review, July 28, 2022
  • Exploring the Black Atlantic

    Ekow Eshun, Tate, July 22, 2022
  • The best exhibitions in London in 2022

    Sarah James and Anya Meyerowitz, Condé Nast Traveller, July 19, 2022
  • Stop tearing down controversial statues, says British-Guyanan artist Hew Locke

    Stuart Jeffries, The Spectator, July 16, 2022
  • Hew Locke with Emann Odufu

    Emann Odufu, The Brooklyn Rail , July 13, 2022
  • In the studio with… Hew Locke

    Apollo Magazine, July 5, 2022
  • At home with Hew Locke

    Harriet Lloyd-Smith, Wallpaper*, June 28, 2022
  • In Victoria Square

    Daniel Triling, London Review of Books, June 27, 2022
  • Late at Tate Britain Returns

    Mark Westall, FAD Magazine, June 25, 2022
  • Fantastic Black artists, climate crisis in sound, and a Windrush victory – the week in art

    Jonathan Jones, The Guardian, June 24, 2022
  • Hew Locke reimagines Birmingham’s controversial Queen Victoria statue for an anti-imperialist age

    Louisa Buck, The Art Newspaper, June 23, 2022
  • Hew Locke Challenges Empire in Birmingham

    Dan Hicks, Hyperallergic, June 17, 2022
  • ‘I’m not panicking!’ – artist Hew Locke on setting sail with six Queen Victorias

    Emine Saner, The Guardian, June 16, 2022
  • Japan gets an international art fair

    Melanie Gerlis, The Financial Times, June 9, 2022
  • James Corner and vPPR lodge Camden Highline plans

    Jim Dunton, Building Design, June 7, 2022
  • In the Black Fantastic: The Hayward Gallery

    Martin Cid Magazine, June 6, 2022
  • Hew Locke And The Christian Roots Of Carnival – Tate Britain

    Revd Jonathan Evens, Artlyst, June 2, 2022
  • Art shows to leave the house for this June

    Ashleigh Kane, Dazed, June 2, 2022
  • Critical exuberance: How Hew Locke's sculpture questions the history of global trade

    Kadish Morris, Art Basel, May 31, 2022
  • The best artist portraits of Queen Elizabeth II, from Cecil Beaton’s fairytale glitter to Jamie Reid’s punk provocation

    Louisa Buck, The Art Newspaper, May 30, 2022
  • Grayson's Art Club

    Channel 4, May 25, 2022
  • Hew Locke

    Talk Art, May 19, 2022
  • Summer: In the Black Fantastic - Imagining New Futures Through Black Art + Culture

    Mark Westall, FAD Magazine, May 18, 2022
  • Exhibition Diary

    Kaddish Morris, The World of Interiors, May 13, 2022
  • Hew Locke – 'Let's make something positive'

    Tate, May 3, 2022
  • Artist Hew Locke will activate the Met facade with a quartet of trophy-like reflections on the museum's history and coll

    Josh Niland, Archinect, April 11, 2022
  • Hew Locke Will Bring His Vibrant Sculptures to the Met Museum Facade

    Tessa Solomon, ARTnews, April 8, 2022
  • Hew Locke Announced as Artist for the Met's 2022 Facade Commission

    City Life Org, April 8, 2022
  • Hot on the heels of Tate commission, Hew Locke chosen to transform Met museum façade

    Gareth Harris, The Art Newspaper, April 8, 2022
  • Hew Locke to Create Artworks for Met Museum Facade

    Robin Pogrebin, The New York Times, April 7, 2022
  • Bringing The Procession to Life

    Joel Campbell, Voice Online, April 4, 2022
  • On View: See Images From 'Hew Locke: The Procession,' New Tate Britain Commission in London is Parade Through Time, Geog

    Victoria L. Valentine, Culture Type, April 2, 2022
  • Cultural Capital: Hew Locke at Tate Britain and True Things 60 second review

    Nancy Durrant, The Evening Standard, April 1, 2022
  • Bright Colors, Dark Subjects: Hew Locke’s Unsettling Pageant

    Elizabeth Fullerton, The New York Times, April 1, 2022
  • The Procession: A Celebration of Narrative in Form

    Vaidhiswaran Ramesh, Felix, March 31, 2022
  • The History Man

    Precious Adesina, Elephant, March 30, 2022
  • Hew Locke in the heart of Tate Britain

    Felicity Finch, BBC World Service, March 29, 2022
  • Hew Locke: The Procession review – human history in all its variety

    Laura Cumming, The Observer, March 27, 2022
  • Tate Britain Commission: Hew Locke reclaims the Duveen Galleries

    Steven Dinneen, City A.M., March 26, 2022
  • Carnival and troubled histories combine in major new artwork

    AP Archive, March 26, 2022
  • Ghosts haunt the Square Mile and a digital punk comes to Glasgow – the week in art

    Jonathan Jones, The Guardian, March 25, 2022
  • Hew Locke's carnivalesque Tate Britain commission tells disturbing colonial histories with flamboyance

    Louisa Buck, The Art Newspaper, March 24, 2022
  • Tate Britain Commission 2022: Hew Locke, The Procession review – An overriding mood of unquenchable subversive energy

    Mark Hudson, The Independent, March 22, 2022
  • Hew Locke: The Procession, Tate Britain, review: a thrilling spectacle with a sinister message

    Hettie Judah, iNews, March 22, 2022
  • Hew Locke: The Procession, Tate Britain review

    Culture Whisperer, March 22, 2022
  • Hew Locke, Ivo Van Hove, Danielle De Niese, Ernesto Ottone and Dr Maya Goodfellow

    BBC Radio 4, March 21, 2022
  • Hew Locke’s Procession brings colour and conflict to Tate Britain

    Nadia Khomami, The Guardian, March 21, 2022
  • Tate Britain Unveils the Procession, A Major New Installation By Artist Hew Locke

    Mark Westall, FAD Magazine, March 21, 2022
  • 'A roaring carnival of humanity’ – Hew Locke: The Procession review

    Adrain Searle, The Guardian, March 21, 2022
  • Hew Locke: The Procession at Tate Britain

    Mersa Auda, The Up Coming, March 21, 2022
  • Hew Locke, the new Tate Britain Commission artist, on finding his work at the centre of debate

    Nancy Durrant, The Evening Standard, March 21, 2022
  • The Procession is a bravura picture of colonial history in a building built on sugar

    Cal Revely-Calder, The Telegraph, March 21, 2022
  • Renaissance codpieces, Jenny Saville on the Holocaust and fungi fun – the week in art

    Jonathan Jones, The Guardian, March 18, 2022
  • Seeing Through Glass

    Paul Carey, FAD Magazine, March 16, 2022
  • The best free spring culture, chosen by Observer critics

    Susannah Clapp, Sarah Crompton, Laura Cumming, Kitty Empire, Fiona Maddocks, The Guardian, March 12, 2022
  • Creative Journeys

    Helen Sumpter, Art Quarterly, March 10, 2022
  • A State of Matter: Modern and Contemporary Glass Sculpture

    Blaire Dessent, True Living, March 9, 2022
  • Birmingham Commonwealth Games: Artist to decorate Queen Victoria statue

    BBC News, March 5, 2022
  • Artist Hew Locke to re-work historic statue of Queen Victoria in Birmingham city centre

    Gareth Harris, The Art Newspaper, March 1, 2022
  • Opening in June: In the Black Fantastic at the Hayward Gallery

    Martin Cid Magazine, February 23, 2022
  • Waves and Tides

    John Akomfrah, Vanley Burke, Sumuya Khader, Mark Leckey, Helen Legg, Darren Pih, Tate Etc., January 24, 2022
  • Movement is Everything

    Elena Crippa, Tate Etc., January 24, 2022
  • A World Before the World We Know—Interview With Hew Locke

    Cosmo Whyte, Art Papers, January 21, 2022
  • Navigating Worlds an Ocean Apart, Through Art

    Desiree Ibekwe, The New York Times, January 7, 2022
  • Acquisitions round-up: Tate buys Hew Locke's airborne flotilla ahead of his major new commission in March

    The Art Newspaper, January 5, 2022
  • Van Gogh’s self-portraits and colossal venues: 2022’s best art and architecture

    Adrian Searle, Jonathan Jones and Oliver Wainwright, The Guardian, December 28, 2021
  • Life Between Islands, Tate Britain, review: an exhilarating, ambitious look at the British Caribbean story

    Hettie Judah, i News, December 7, 2021
  • Life Between Islands Is A Must-See Exhibition Of British Art

    Tabish Khan, Londonist, December 6, 2021
  • A different perspective: the changing status of Black British art

    Rianna Jade Parker, The Guardian, November 6, 2021
  • This immersive exhibition traces the legacy of Black British creativity

    Emily Dinsdale, Dazed Digital, September 30, 2021
  • 'This has never been so much fun!’: Royal Academy Summer Exhibition review

    The Guardian, Jonathan Jones, September 16, 2021
  • Surrealism, Sickert, Cézanne and Cornelia Parker’s exploding shed: what to see at Tate in 2022

    José Da Silva, The Art Newspaper, July 27, 2021
  • BBC4’s Dark Matter: A History of the Afrofuture celebrates a black cultural cosmos

    Suzi Feay, Financial Times, May 21, 2021
  • London to get its very own elevated thoroughfare thanks to the Camden Highline

    Katherine Keener, Art Critique, February 28, 2021
  • Re Making the Monument

    Debika Ray, Crafts Magazine, November 1, 2020
  • Mindful Vandalism: A Conversation with Hew Locke

    Elizabeth Fullerton, Sculpture Magazine, September 1, 2020
  • Where we’re at: Bulletins from around the globe

    Artforum, September 1, 2020
  • Hew Locke and Indra Khanna on Britain’s Fixation with Its Past

    Frieze, August 21, 2020
  • Acquisitions of the Month: June 2020

    Apollo Magazine, July 2, 2020
  • What to do about problematic statues?

    Ben Luke, The Art Newspaper, June 19, 2020
  • The Statues Were Toppled. What Happens to Them Now?

    Nina Siegal, The New York Times, June 15, 2020
  • With Monuments Falling All Over Europe, We Asked Historians and Artists to Weigh in on How They Should Be Replaced

    Naomi Rea, Artnet, June 11, 2020
  • The art of creative destruction

    Apollo Magazine, Daniel Trilling, June 10, 2020
  • Unprecedented Toppling of Monument to Slave Trader Shocks British Art World

    Javier Pes, ARTnews, June 9, 2020
  • Protesters topple monument to slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol—mayor wants to place it in a museum

    Gareth Harris, The Art Newspaper, June 8, 2020
  • Hew Locke's cultural highlights

    The Guardian, April 25, 2020
  • An exhibit at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art explores the theme of British colonialism.

    Gina Kaufmann & Mackenzie Martin, KCUR 89.3, January 3, 2020
  • Hew Locke, Here's The Thing, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art

    Neil Thrun, KC Studio, November 22, 2019
  • The Top 7 Art Exhibitions to see in London in November

    Tabish Khan, FAD Magazine, November 3, 2019
  • Hew Locke at Hales Gallery

    Kate Sutton, ArtForum, October 27, 2019
  • Looking in London: 24 Fall Exhibitions Feature Artists Mark Bradford, Kara Walker, Ada Mulaneh, Lina Iris Viktor, Stanle

    Victoria L. Valentine, Culture Type, October 8, 2019
  • The A List: The Best Culture to Catch This Week

    Vanity Fair, September 30, 2019
  • In London for Frieze Week? Don’t Miss These 15 Must-See Gallery Shows During The Fair

    Naomi Rea & Javier Pes, Artnet, September 30, 2019
  • What’s on in London During Frieze Week

    Dalia Dawood, The Financial Times, September 28, 2019
  • Lying to the Queen is not a good look

    Javier Pes, Artnet, September 24, 2019
  • Making up for the past - the artists filling in the blanks in our collective memory

    Daniel Trilling, Apollo, July 20, 2019
  • The United States Debt to Immigrants

    Gaiutra Bahadur, The New Republic, June 25, 2019
  • Jewels from the Windrush: Get Up, Stand Up Now at Somerset House

    Maya Jaggi, The Financial Times, June 4, 2019
  • Get Up, Stand Up Now- Black British art’s response to the Windrush scandal

    Colin Grant, The Guardian, June 2, 2019
  • Hew Locke: Here’s the Thing

    Noel Halifax, Socialist Review, May 31, 2019
  • The Top 7 Art Exhibitions to see right now

    Tabish Khan, Fad Magazine, May 27, 2019
  • Ruptured Histories: How Hew Locke is Peeling Back the Layers of Britain’s Colonial Past

    Aurella Yussuf, Frieze, May 20, 2019
  • The 10 best family-friendly exhibitions in Britain this Easter

    Nancy Durrant, The Times, April 15, 2019
  • Significant presence of South Asian artists in exhibition at Met Breuer

    Sujeet Rajan, News India Times, April 8, 2019
  • Rituals and Royalty

    Debika Ray, Crafts Magazine, Issue 277, April 1, 2019
  • Hew Locke: Here’s the Thing - Review

    Christopher P Jones, Riot Material, March 29, 2019
  • A new exhibition of work by the Scottish artist Hew Locke floats Rachel Campbell-Johnston’s boat

    Rachel Campbell-Johnston, The Times, March 15, 2019
  • Hew Locke review – exquisite objects raise the ghosts of colonialism

    Hannah Clugston, The Guardian, March 8, 2019
  • The best exhibitions in April 2019: Van Gogh and Renaissance nudes

    Emma Crichton-Miller, Prospect, March 4, 2019
  • Hew Locke Retrospective at Ikon Gallery

    Nina Siegal, Blouin Modern Painters, March 1, 2019
  • Hew Locke: power boats

    Louisa Buck, The Art Newspaper, March 1, 2019
  • Hew Locke Interview

    Veronica Simpson, Studio International, February 5, 2019
  • Interview: Hew Locke, ‘Here’s the Thing'

    Artimage, January 21, 2019
  • Hew Locke: Patriots

    Marcia E. Vetrocq, The Brooklyn Rail, November 1, 2018
  • Meet Hew Locke, the Artist Who Dresses Up ‘Patriotic’ Statues to Reveal Their Whitewashed Histories

    Javier Pes, Artnet News, October 11, 2018
  • All That Glitters: The Frieze Bling List

    Fair Game, Elephant, October 5, 2018
  • 6 Artists Turning Beads into Spellbinding Works of Art

    Ariela Gittlen, Artsy, February 16, 2018
  • The newly empty plinths are all potential Fourth Plinths

    Hew Locke, The Art Newspaper, December 1, 2017
  • A Sea of Suspended Boats Evokes the Migrant’s Perilous Journey

    Monica Uszerowicz, Hyperallergic, October 19, 2017
  • Local artist Hew Locke takes us on a journey of the soul

    Linda Quinn, Brixton Blog, September 6, 2017
  • Exploring colonialism's impact on art

    Huang Lijie, The Straits Times, October 11, 2016
  • Guyanese Painting Hew Locke: Putting Art on the Map

    Rykesha Hudson, Young Voices, July 13, 2016
  • The Other Us

    Sarah Lewis, Art in America , May 1, 2016
  • Hew Locke’s Artful Flotilla Drops Anchor in New York

    Hilarie M. Sheets, Introspective Magazine, March 7, 2016
  • Hew Locke "If I wasn't an artist, I'd be a historian"

    Tim Adams, The Guardian, November 22, 2015
  • Sculpture at Runnymede celebrates Magna Carta’s blow against injustice.

    Hannah Ellis-Petersen, The Guardian, June 15, 2015
  • The Tourists and HMS Belfast: Hew Locke in conversation with Artimage

    Artimage, May 11, 2015
  • The Tourists

    Angela Kingston, This Is Tomorrow , May 1, 2015
  • Every Toy Jaguar Has Its Place

    Fullerton, Elizabeth, ARTnews
  • Day if the dead festival - Old Vic Tunnels

    Nomad, February 2, 2013
  • Sharing vision to lift town's spirits

    Hannah Walker, South London Press, June 15, 2012
  • Folkestone Triennial 2011

    Adrian Searle , The Guardian , June 26, 2011
  • My monarch, my muse

    Kathy Brewis, The Sunday Times, June 5, 2011
  • Artforum: Hew Locke

    Barry Schwabsky, ARTFORUM, December 1, 2010
  • Hew Locke

    Natasha Hoare, Don't Panic Magazine, Issue 11, November 1, 2010
  • Trafalgar Square fourth plinth: the contenders

    The Guardian, August 19, 2010
  • Born Exotic

    Lyder Hermansen, Syljie Synnove, KUNTSforum, Issue 2, January 1, 2010
  • In the Studio- Hew Lock

    Helen Sumpter, Time Out, February 24, 2008
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