Hew Locke Illustrator & Author

Hew Locke OBE RA is a leading contemporary artist and sculptor. Born in Edinburgh in 1959, he grew up in Guyana, returning to the UK with an ambition to study art. He completed his BA in 1988 at Falmouth School of Art and an MA in sculpture in 1994 at the Royal College of Art. He was elected to the Royal Academy in 2022 and awarded an OBE in the King’s Birthday Honours for services to art in 2023.

Isabel Seligman is the Monument Trust Curator of Modern and Contemporary Drawing in the Department of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum, and Curator of the exhibition Hew Locke, opening at the British Museum in October 2024.

Indra Khanna is an artist, author and Studio Curator for Hew Locke.