The Prize

Hew Locke (1959 - )

Digital images with silkscreen cut into 43 pieces and re-collaged onto a three-dimensional object, with plastic and metal trinkets

2006

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  • About the work
    Location
    Country: USA
    City: Washington DC
    Place: British Embassy
  • About the artist
    Hew Locke was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He spent much of his childhood in Georgetown, Guyana, before returning to the UK to study, settling in London where he continues to live and work. His work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout the world and in 2022, he was awarded Tate Britain’s Duveen Hall Commission where he presented The Procession and, later that year, unveiled Gilt, the Façade Commission at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. He has recently been commissioned by the British Museum to explore how the Museum Collection reflects the legacies of the British Empire (2024-25). Locke’s work is in the permanent collections of the Tate and the British Museum, Brooklyn Museum (New York) and Pérez Art Museum (Miami), among many others. He was elected a member of the Royal Academy of Arts in 2022 and awarded an OBE for Services to Art in 2023.
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  • Details
    Title
    The Prize
    Edition
    16/50
    Date
    2006
    Medium
    Digital images with silkscreen cut into 43 pieces and re-collaged onto a three-dimensional object, with plastic and metal trinkets
    Dimensions
    height: 76.30 cm, width: 51.00 cm, depth: 12.50 cm
    Acquisition
    Purchased from Autograph ABP, October 2007
    Inscription
    lr on image: 16/50 Hew Locke 07 ; verso bl: [stamp] BRODSKY / CENTER 07-328
    Provenance
    Autograph ABP, London
    GAC number
    18146/4