Hayley Lock
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Lives: Suffolk
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1986 - 89 BA Fine Art Textiles, Goldsmiths College, London
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None of beauty’s daughters CoExist, Southend on Sea
Post, CoExist, Southend on Sea
Post, TROVE, Birmingham UK
Narratives, Landscapes and Myths, Harrington Mill Studios, Nottingham UK
Small Moments of Fantastic Things, Galerie Antje Wachs, Berlin, Germany
Eco 09, Exeter, UK
Sale on tour, Liverpool UK
Selected Group Exhibitions
2009
The Manchester Contemporary, Buy Art Fair, Manchester, UK
If (‘Pray for me’), g39, Cardiff, Wales UK
Salon09, Vyner Street, London UK
Plot Summary for a Proposed Novel', Outpost Gallery, Norwich UK
Suffolk Showcase, Bury St Edmunds Gallery, Suffolk UK
Sisters of Lady Pamphlet, London UK
‘Neither Here Nor There’, Retreat, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambs UK
Flash Company, Cecil Sharp House, London UK
Resolve, Framers Workshop, Ipswich UK
Here’s Looking at You, Town Hall Gallery, Ipswich, UK
SALE, The Royal Standard, Liverpool UK
Group Show, Framers Workshop, Ipswich UK
Kunstwerk Bazaar, Outpost Gallery, Norwich UK
Future50, PSL, Leeds UK
2008
Kunstwerk Bazaar, Outpost Gallery, Norwich
Future50, PSL, Leeds UK
Surface Gallery, Nottingham UK
These Living Walls of Jet, Ceri Hand Gallery, Liverpool UK
Suffolk Showcase, Bury St Edmunds Gallery, Suffolk UK
Members Show, Key Arts, Suffolk UK
2007
I came, I saw, Town Hall Galleries, Ipswich UK
Autumn Exhibition, Corn Hall, Diss UK
Eyestorm Open, Eyestorm Gallery, Ipswich
UK
Pin Mill Gallery, Chelmondiston, Suffolk UK
Suffolk Showcase, Bury St Edmunds Gallery, Suffolk UK
The Factory, Norwich Fringe , Norfolk UK
Triptych, Key Arts, Ipswich, Suffolk UK
2006
Forefront Gallery, Ipswich, Suffolk UK
Town Hall Gallery, Ipswich, Suffolk UK
The Factory, Norwich Fringe, Norfolk UK
Suffolk Showcase, Bury St Edmunds Gallery, Suffolk UK
Forefront Gallery, Ipswich, Suffolk UK
Another Product, Cornerhouse, Manchester UK
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My practice is based on reproduction, reconfiguration and souvenirs. The reproductions I create focus on entwining existing works and objects with aspects of life in modern day society. My work recently has focused my interests towards hierarchical and fantastical subjects of monarchy and noble folk.
The work is derived globally from a cross cultural mix of folklore, slang and imaginary alternative secret societies with its roots to date based alongside traditional Dutch, Spanish, English, French, Swedish and Japanese portraiture. The intention is for my work to become extensively global in terms of the physical and the non – physical. In the physical world I collate imagery from places and stories discovered, by using cyber - space, I collate existing images from the Internet, reworking and remixing cultural identities as I travel. All of my work will be documented in a variety of new ways from country to country. I intend to travel extensively worldwide.
The adaptation of each piece comes to light through the mediums of drawing, collage, paint and 3D by translating them into the modern day, depicting current iconography and superficiality of status with a huge dollop of humour. My practice questions taste and how it is formed socially through high and low culture as well as through popular and unpopular routes of viewing. I admire the serenity of beauty; I take pleasure in raising a subject to questionable greatness through representation and embellishment as well as working with subtle subjects that can be considered taboo. My practice has a tendency to be figurative within its subject of reworking old works, suggesting a darker side to the seductiveness of beauty whilst disrupting the real.
The mediums that are used are also a deliberate mix of high and low - brow. The mix of good quality and everyday cheap materials sit awkwardly or perhaps comfortably alongside the glitz of sequins and glitter. The titles of the works are also symbolic. These are reworked versions of overheard snippets of everyday conversations. The language used has been deliberately selected and translated for hierarchical ‘taste’ referencing and the texts chosen to title the pieces are amalgamated within the narrative also. Layering is prevalent and deliberate throughout the work from the gestation of an idea through to the finished piece.
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DNA Advertising Award for New media Artwork, Exeter Contemporary Open 2009
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If (‘Pray for me’), g39, Cardiff, Wales UK
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Metro Newspaper February 2009
Metro Newspaper 5 July 2008
Metro Newspaper 3 July 2008
The Big Issue 26 June 08
The Art Newspaper No. 193 July/August 2008
69 magazine
Art Monthly (September issue)
Liverpool Daily Post 10 June 08 page 3
Lifestyle Monthly page 33
Liverpool.com magazine page 39
Liverpool Lifestyle
Online
http://sistersoflady.wordpress.com/
http://www.axisweb.org/Future50Artist.aspx?ARTISTID=11422
http://www.artinliverpool.com/blog/2009/02/royal-standard-store-closing-sale-28-feb-09/
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/blogon/art_news/future50_at_project_space_leeds_uk/5150
http://www.culture24.org.uk/art/sculpture/installation/art62421
http://www.artinliverpool.com/index.php/maingalleries/ceri-hand/268-ceri-hand/594-ceri-wallsofjet
http://www.how-do.co.uk/north-west-media-news/north-west-marketing-services/uniform-for-ceri-hand-gallery-200807072974/
http://www.8453.org/content/?p=18
http://www.yqnorthwest.com/
http://www.axisweb.org/atATCL.aspx?AID=2109
http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-life-features/capital-of-culture/2008/06/10/liverpool-gallery-with-an-eye-for-the-global-market-64375-21047875/
http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/business/business-local/2008/07/03/gallery-will-help-artists-put-work-on-international-stage-64375-21219498/
http://www.artfacts.net/index.php/pageType/instInfo/inst/17405
http://www.metro.co.uk/metrolife/article.html?in_article_id=204278&in_page_id=9&in_a_source
http://sites.a-n.co.uk/interface/articles/single/443529
http://dragonflyeffect.wordpress.com/2008/07/16/gallery-to-help-artists-get-onto-international-stage/
http://www.urbis.org.uk/page.asp?id=3140 http://www.merseysideacme.com/external/featuredbusiness.asp?business=40
http://www.69-247.com/
http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/leeds/news/ART62421.html
http://wwww.axisweb.org/Future50Catalogue.aspx?ARTISTID=11422&WORKID=61909
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/blogon/2008/11/future50_at_project_space_leed.php
http://www.projectspaceleeds.org.uk/future50_unid1A1F_page.aspx
http://www.artrabbit.com/events/event/8395/kunstwerk_bazaar
http://www.citylife.co.uk/arts/news/11600_manchester_artists_head_for_leeds
Articles
http://www.axisweb.org/atATCL.aspx?AID=2362
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