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Lana Locke is a cross-disciplinary visual artist living and working in London
Education
MA in Academic Practice, London College of Communication, 2023-24
Practice-based PhD on The Feral, the Social and the the Art Object, Chelsea College of Arts, London 2013-2018
MA with Distinction in Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art and Design, 2011-12,
Postgraduate Diploma Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art and Design, 2010
(No undergraduate studied in any subject)
Exhibitions and Events
2025 A Feral Plot, collaborative residency and publication with Melanie
Jackson, Camberwell Space, London
2025 Not Just, APT Gallery, London
2024-5 Say it with Flowers, White Conduit Projects, London
2024 A Daughter and Feral Mothers, AMP Gallery, London
2024 What Grows in the Hollows (solo) ADH Gallery, in the Chapel,
Brompton Cemetery, London
2024 Wounds duo exhibition with Ingrid Berthon-Moine, Somers Gallery,
London
2024 Fragments of a Lost Future, White Conduit Projects, London
2024 Undoing, Redoing, Revolting, A Feminist Response to the Special
Collections at Chelsea College of Arts Library, London
2024 The Garden of Delights on Earth, Gallery 46, London
2023-24 An eXhibition of SMALL things with BIG ideas’, White Conduit
Projects, London
2023 New Contemporaries x Hospitalfield residency award, Scotland
2023 Lead Artist, Grenfell Health & Wellbeing Centre community artwork
2023 The Amber Room, Matt’s Gallery, London
2023 Can I Steal Your Body? ADH Gallery, London
2023 Saucisson, Shtager&Shch Gallery, London
2023 Relic Garden (solo), Lungley Gallery, London
2022 Zero Gravity: A Landing, The Occasionale, East Sussex
2022 Duckin’ and Divin’, D Contemporary, London
2022 Stand with Ukraine, Hales Gallery, London
2022 Aint I a Womxn: Feminism for Everyone, a cabaret to celebrate the
life of bell hooks (event convenor), Chelsea College of Arts
2021 Urban Landscape, 10th International Fine Arts Festival, Kranj, Slovenia
2021 Womxn’s Work, the Broca, London
2021 Balls, OOF Gallery, London
2021 175 Wardour Street, LUNGLEY Gallery, London
2021 Equality Video Club –A video art exhibition about Social Equality,
National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying), Taiwan
2021 The Unseen I, LUNGLEY Gallery, London
2020 Mettle, The Function Suite, London
2020 The Whole Nine Yards (online, Twitch) curated by Harley Kuyck-Cohen.
2020 Lana Locke: Making (Babies), (solo), LUNGLEY Gallery, London
2020 You Burn Me, the Freud Museum, London
2020 Unsheltered as it is, D Contemporary, London
2019 Lana Locke: I never could drink like Francis Bacon (solo), LUNGLEY
Gallery, London
2019 Another Land, Kingston Museum
2018 Sand and Silt, The Stone Space, London
2018 Visions in the Nunnery, Programme 1: Tina Keane, Bow Arts Nunnery
Gallery, London
2018 I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I
want goodness. I want sin. MOCA Taipei, Taiwan
2018 Lana Locke: Grenfell Cabinet, Wunderkammer Space, Chelsea College
of Arts, London
2018 Material, Social, Tidal____Drift (solo), Liddicoat & Goldhill Project
Space, Margate
2018 Refusing to Play: A Caberet, Feminism and Subjectivities Working
Group performance evening, Chelsea College of Arts, London
2017 The Feral (solo), Lana Locke PhD exhibition, the Cookhouse Gallery,
Chelsea College of Arts, London
2017 Bare Cheek, Concertina, Aerobyte Gallery, London
2017 Seasons II, Maxilla Space, London
2017 Creekside Open 2017 selected by Jordan Baseman, APT Gallery,
London
2016 Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2016, Bluecoat, Liverpool
2016 Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2016, ICA, London
2016 Lana Locke (solo project exhibition), Dolph Projects, London
2015 Carnival Glass, Block 336, London
2015 In the Dark, A-side B-side Gallery, London
2015 Dolph Projects, Sluice Art Fair, London
2015 The Young Ladies' Treasure Book, Chelsea College of Arts, London
2015 The Other Side, Chelsea Arts Club, London, UK
2015 Strange Attraction, ATP Gallery, London
2015 So Many Shadows, Bermondsey Project Space, Bow Arts, London
2015 A Festival of Disobedience event, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
2014 Things that don’t breathe, Chelsea Arts Club, London
2014 Damaging Objects (solo exhibition), Schwartz Gallery, London
2014 Passport to Pimlico (event creator), Churchill Gardens Estate, London
2013 Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2013, ICA, London
2013 Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2013, Spike Island, Bristol
2013 ex-ca-vate-site-one, Schwartz Gallery, London
2013 neo:artprize 2013, neo:gallery, Bolton
2013 Fack! West London Art Prize, Griffin Gallery, London
2013 Punk Salon, Schwartz Gallery, London
2013 Creekside Open 2013 Selected by Paul Noble, APT Gallery, London
2013 Shift, Hanmi Gallery, London
2012 3 Cases and a Carry On, The Dianich Gallery, Brattleboro, Vermont,
USA
2012 Summer Exhibition, The Royal Academy, London
2011 ING Discerning Eye exhibition, the Mall Galleries, London
2010 Postgraduate Diploma final show, Chelsea College of Art & Design,
London
2010 Shaping Sculpture installation, Rootstein Hopkins Parade Ground,
Chelsea College of Art and Design, London
2008 Being and Nothingness, The Bar Council, London, UK
2007 The Blind Swimmer, A Celebration of the Life of George Melly, East
West Gallery, London, UK
Conferences/Talks
2024 Panelist: Pandemic Precarity and Care, ADPRex 2024, ‘Precarious Art:
How Do We Make Art in a World on Fire?’, NAFA, Singapore
2024 Panelist: Modern Sculpture, Essence, and Difference: Reflections on
the Work of Constantin Brâncuşi, Henry Moore Foundation, the
Courtauld, London
2023 No Room? There's Plenty of Room! Conference paper (alternative
format: performance/workshop/lecture) UAL Education Conference
2023 Embodied Writing conference paper, Gentle Gestures panel, London
Conference in Critical Thought, London Metropolitan University.
2023 The Haptic and the Domestic. Touch-Space: The Tactile Imagination
in Contemporary Sculpture Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
2019 Panelist: New Contemporaries 70th anniversary symposium, Henry
Moore Institute, Leeds
2019 Invited speaker, Revolt, She Said, International Women’s Day Long
Table, Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London, UK
2017 Artist panelist: Materials of Pregnancy, The Pregnant Archive:
Materialising Conception to Birth, Birkbeck, University of London, UK
2017 Panelist: Wild Mattering, Critical Art, Radical Democracy Conference,
The New School, New York, USA
2017 Panelist: Revisiting the Gaze: Feminism, Fashion and the Female
Body, Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London, UK
2016 Panelist: The Social in Visual Culture, THE SOCIAL, 4th International
Association for Visual Culture Biennial Conference, Boston University,
USA
2015 Panelist: Agonism: Using Art to Requisition Control, Fifth Annual
Radical Democracy Conference, The New School, New York, USA
2013 Panelist: Practice Based PhDs, The ICA, London
2013 Panelist: Materials and Materiality in Contemporary Art Practice,
The Griffin Gallery, London
Articles/Press
2023 Lana Locke’s ‘Relic Garden’ at Lungley Gallery review and
interview by Joshua Y’Barbo, Third Text online
2023 Top 5 Exhibitions to see after Easter, Tabish Khan, FAD Magazine
2021 What can art inspired by 'the beautiful game' tell us about society?
Review/mention. Alistair Sooke, The Telegraph
2021 An art gallery in a football stadium? OOF! Spurs kick off a new era:
It’s not balls. Review/mention. Ben Luke, The Evening Standard.
2021 Journeys of a Laundry Mountain: Lana Locke, Sabine Casparie blog
2021 Journeys of a Laundry Mountain, Interview and video showcase,
Christiana Spens, Studio International, Read article
2020 Lana Locke, Artist Chats in Lockdown, podcast by Emma Cousin,
Anchor FM Listen here.
2020 Article mention and image, The Lungley Gallery: the contemporary art
gallery in an east-end pub, Zoë Apostolides, The Telegraph, 2 April
2020.
2018 Material, Social, Tidal____Drift by Lana Locke at Liddicoat and Goldhill
Project Space, interview and images, Cloud CT9 blog. Read article.
2016 Review and image, Seven best things to see at Bloomberg New
Contemporaries at the ICA, Eddy Frankel, Time Out London online and
in print, 12 December 2016. Read article.
2014 A different perspective – artist Lana Locke on taking time out for a
PhD, interview, University of the Arts London, 16 January 2014.
2013 Review and image, Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2013, Studio
International, 5 December 2013. Read article.
2013 Selective mention Exhibition of the week: Bloomberg New
Contemporaries, Jonathan Jones, The Guardian, 22 November 2013.
2013 One to watch: Lana Locke, article and image, The Independent,
21 September 2013. Read article.
2013 An Interview with Lana Locke, Christiana Spens, Art Wednesday, 26
August 2013.
2013 Interview, review and image, Paul Noble announces his Creekside Open
winners, a-n News Read article.
2013 Review and image, The Page, Creekside Open 2013, Selected by Paul
Noble, A.P.T Gallery, London. 2-26 May 2013.
2012 Heart & Brambles (2012) featured on BBC2’s Culture Show programme
about the Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition.
2011 Two Figures (2008) at the Ivy Club mentioned in London's sexiest
places... for illicit liaisons, Evening Standard.
2008 Louise Jury, Ivy venture features host of works by leading artists,
Evening Standard.
Publications
2024 No room! Of course there’s room, Cultural Commons,
European Journal of Cultural Studies (Sage)
2019 OOF (Volume 4) (first person article author)
2019 Island, JGM Gallery exhibition catalogue (interview with Alice Wilson)
2016 Where Theory Belongs: Four Ways to Experience a Seminar in
Contemporary Art, Tate Research Centre Working Papers, Autumn
2016 (contributor)
2016 Art Riot: Aftercare (co-author and introduction)
2014 Passport to Pimlico: May Day Art Day in Churchill Gardens Estate,
Nielson, London (editor/designer/creator)
2014 Process, Practice, Play (contributor/creator)
2012 Untitled 2011-12, London (editor/designer/creator)
2012 Scraps, On Demand Books, New York, USA (contributing artist)
Awards
2014-17 University of the Arts London Research Studentship 2014-17
2013 Chelsea Arts Club Trust Postgraduate Bursary 2013-14
2013 Selector’s prize, Creekside Open 2013 selected by Paul Noble
Selected commissions
2014-16 KL Photo Awards (for a series of bronze trophies)
2008 The Club at The Ivy, London (for a smoking terrace sculpture)
2007/8 The Club at The Ivy, London (for an edition of ice bucket stands)
2006 Tall Stories Ltd (for 3 figures for the film adaptation of “Puffball” by
Fay Weldon, directed by Nicolas Roeg)
Public Collections
Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Trust
Teaching
2023-present Senior Lecturer, BA Fine Art Drawing, Camberwell College of Arts
2022-2023 Senior Lecturer, BA Painting, Camberwell College of Arts
2019-21 Associate Lecturer, BA Fine Art, Camberwell College of Arts
2014-19 Visiting Practitioner, BA Fine Art, Chelsea and Camberwell Colleges
of Arts