Literature

,Emine Saner, ‘I’m not panicking!’ – artist Hew Locke on setting sail with six Queen Victorias, The Guardian, 16 June 2022: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/jun/16/panicking-hew-locke-setting-sail-queen-victorias-birmingham

Dan Hicks, Hew Locke Challenges Empire in Birmingham, Hyperallergic, 17 June 2022: https://hyperallergic.com/741417/hew-locke-challenges-empire-in-birmingham/

Artist Hew Locke draws inspiration from Guyana, News Room, 17 June 2022: https://newsroom.gy/2022/06/17/artist-hew-locke-draws-inspiration-from-guyana/

Louisa Buck, Hew Locke reimagines Birmingham's controversial Queen Victoria statue for an anti-imperialist age, The Art Newspaper, 23 June 2022: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/06/23/hew-locke-on-reimagining-birminghams-controversial-queen-victoria-statue-for-an-anti-imperial-age

Daniel Trilling, In Victoria Square, London Review of Books, 27 June 2022: https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2022/june/in-victoria-square

Stuart Jeffries, Stop tearing down controversial statues, says British-Guyanan artist Hew Locke, The Spectator, 16 July 2022: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/stop-tearing-down-controversial-statues-says-british-guyanan-artist-hew-locke

Melissa Baksh, Hew Locke’s Quiet Radicalism, Art Review, 28 July 2022: https://artreview.com/hew-lockes-quiet-radicalism/

Jon Bounds, ‘More than UB40 and heavy metal’: Birmingham’s alternative arts and entertainment, The Guardian, 29 July 2022: theguardian.com/travel/2022/jul/29/birmingham-alternative-arts-and-entertainment

Tom Seymour, As the Commonwealth Games open, Birmingham’s museum sector contends with the legacy of colonialism, The Art Newspaper, 29 July 2022: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/07/29/commonwealth-games-birmingham-museums-legacy-colonialism