A book doesn’t entirely exist in one place – it overlaps past and present, linking otherwise separate times, places and people.  I am drawn to their paper, full of yesterdays and memory, yellowed, marked and thumbed. Not in a nostalgic way, but more as a means for time travel – to tie myself to the object and its’ accumulative contexts.

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My work is not always authored only by me, I seek opportunities to lose control over decisions – book paper already come with an absent presence; writer, publisher, binder, owner, reader – who have already left their mark, my marks follow on and add my moments in time to the palimpsest.

Born in 1973 in London, he now lives and works near Brighton with his spacious 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, to explore the relationship between history, archaeology and the processes of painting, a preoccupation which still forms the conceptual basis that underpins his practice.