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Desire and its construction is an enquiry central to David Lock’s artistic practice. He produces collages taking fragments from glossy magazine advertisements to images of film and music stars. With these fragments, Lock sets about constructing a new portrait, which is more awkward and troubling than
the idealized subjects they are derived from.
They seek to question the idea of the unified harmonic form being the only option for beauty. This investigation is expanded by using the medium of watercolour, allowing a consideration not only of the possibilities of new visual forms but also colour relationships, and a more
personal nature.
The collages and watercolours he produces are collectively
titled Misfits.
Lock’s use of the male exposes an underlying uncertainty about the place of the male in contemporary culture and the role he should fulfill within it.
Lock explores the possibilities of the male form and in doing so creates an often unsettling, body of work.
Sacha Craddock has commented ’The portraits are painted from collaged elements which, collectively handled in such a way, create a convincing sense of the particular. The use of collage to begin with, the painting of the broken, bringing it together to make it whole within the same surface, gives a recognition in art that also carries a sweet but sad touch’.
He has had solo shows at Fred, London, Leipzig and most recently he had a solo presentation at Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington Gardens in 2007, as a Prizewinner for the John Jones Art on Paper Prize in conjunction with Zoo Art Fair, London.
He lives and works in London.
