Hayley Lock

Incorporating drawing, collage, sculpture, sound and film, Hayley Lock's practice attempts to capture conversational dialogues across parallel time frames, identities and locations. Often re - staging found and imagined conversations and constructed histories Lock appropriates, re -imagines and mirrors back a pseudo fantastical world where visions are commonplace and imagination is rife, revealing a dark world in perpetual crisis. Lock is currently working with and under hypnosis in an attempt to re-engage with her practice as an altered self, looking at where the unconscious meets the conscious creating new systemic structures of belief.

Hayley Lock is a practicing artist and lecturer graduating from Goldsmiths College in 1989 and from The University of Essex in 2012. She had five solo shows spread across the UK in 2011/12 as part of her project (Now that would be) Telling and has exhibited both nationally and internationally in selected group shows and collaborations. Lock has recently collaborated with DJ and record producer Jamie Jones producing imagery and film for his world tour.

Education:
2011 - 12 MA (with distinction) Contemporary Art and Professional Practice, University of Essex

2004 - 5 PGCE (Art & Design) City College Norwich

1986 - 1989 BA (Hons) Fine Art/Textiles, University of London, Goldsmiths College

Solo Exhibitions

2016 Lone Pine Club, The Minories Gallery, Colchester, Essex, UK

2015 Passing through the mother hole, Testspace, Spike Island, Bristol, UK

2012 (Now that would be) Telling, Transition Gallery, London, UK

2011 (Now that would be) Telling, Ickworth House, Suffolk, UK

(Now that would be) Telling, Brantwood House, Cumbria, UK

(Now that would be) Telling, Dr Johnsons House, London, UK

(Now that would be) Telling, A La Ronde, Devon, UK

2010 None of Beauty's Daughters, CoExist, Southend on Sea, UK

To taste molten diamonds, Backlit Studios, Nottingham, UK

2009 If (Pray for me), g39, Cardiff



Group Exhibitions

2016 Vessels with Pestles and Chalices from Palaces, The Minories Gallery, Colchester, UK

Sound and Vision, PAPER Gallery, Manchester, UK

​2015 We shape out buildings, therefore they shape us , Art Fair London, ...