The Hands Up Foundation Fundraiser Curated by Cramer & Bell

Born in 1973 in London, Sam Lock now lives and works near Brighton with his studio in a converted industrial unit further up the coast.  Lock studied at Edinburgh College of Art and Edinburgh University, graduating in 1997 with MA’s in both Fine Art and Art History. 

During his training, he won a scholarship to travel to Rome, and explore the relationship between history, archaeology and the processes of painting, a preoccupation which still forms the conceptual basis that underpins his practice.  

Change is a process not an event, there is a continual flow and movement around us and in us, a constant conversion of what is happening now into the past. Locks works are made in that space, their appearance is created by it and the way they communicate relies upon it.  They are not made with a system or fixed process but through an energy that is built on Change and Chance, organic and unscripted. Each painting or sculpture or space follows its own path until there is a balance between presence and absence; where there are silences and hiding places that are both poetic and activating.