#Reminder: Join us online or in person for a special #talk at the Royal Academy of Arts in London with the amazing Guyanese British #artist #HewLocke!
We’ll be discussing art and connection, inspired by the RA’s Summer Exhibition 2023 theme ‘Only Connect’.
Wed 5 July, 6.30 - 7.30pm.
Book your tickets below ⤵️
https://roy.ac/nbx1xd
Hew Locke RA spent his formative years in Guyana before returning to the UK to study art, later completing an MA in Sculpture at the Royal College of Art. His work explores the languages of colonial and post-colonial power, and how cultures fashion identities through visual symbols of authority. In 2022, Hew was awarded Tate Britain’s Duveen Hall commission (culminating in his work The Procession) and The Metropolitan Museum of Art Facade Commission, as well as becoming a Royal Academician. His work is held in numerous collections, including the Government Art Collection, the V&A and the British Museum.
Melissa Chemam is a journalist, broadcaster and writer on art, music, social change, multiculturalism, African affairs, North/South relations, and activism. She is the author of the book Massive Attack - Out of the Comfort Zone (2019), and has been published by BBC Culture, Al Jazeera, RFI English, Art UK, CIRCA Art Magazine, the Public Art Review, the New Arab, The Independent, Reader’s Digest, UP Mag and Skin Deep. She also worked as a journalism lecturer and as the writer in residence at the Arnolfini art centre, in Bristol, from 2019 to 2022.
The event will be accompanied by speech to text transcription courtesy of Stagetext.
This event is supported by the Natalia Cola Foundation.
