Ty Locke: Kitchen Sink Drama / 23 June - 5 August 2023
Same Shit Diff Day, 2022, Cigarette filters, nylon thread, plywood
Holes Punched into a Kettle to Fill a Colander, 2023, Plastic kettle, stainless steel colander
Cut Clock, 2023, Plastic clock
Playing With my Food, 2023,
Kitchen cupboard, shopping from Aldi
Full English, 2021, Pan
Circle Ladder, 2020, Steel scaffolding ladder, weld
P.S Keep Smiling with Suns, 2023, Etched mirror
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For his first London solo exhibition with Copperfield titled Kitchen Sink Drama, Ty Locke has taken over the gallery’s back office and kitchenette, working with the walls, surfaces, sink and cupboards. Locke’s works often deal with domestic breakdown, reflecting on his own childhood as one of 7 siblings growing up in working class Kent with a good helping of bad luck. Entering the office and kitchenette area into the exhibition, visitors will push their way through Same Shit Diff Day, a bead curtain executed in strung together self-roll cigarette filters.
Lifting the text "Same shit diff day" from an entry scrawled across 2 empty pages of his mum’s diary Locke found while she was in prison, he subtly unloads his dark humor across the objects that make up the room. Mirrors are inscribed with positive little marks like smiling suns and wiggles, while the cryptic ID tag number carved into the corner is the only reference to the origin of these marks found in the margins of his mums’ letters sent to him from HMP Bronzefield. Other works are preoccupied with transforming useful domestic objects, rendering them useless in the conventional sense through processes which are incredibly labour intensive and tragicomic. The masochistic processes involved in filling all holes in a colander with circles of plastic removed from a nearby kettle, meticulously fabricating net curtains from hundreds of Rizla Papers, or welding a ladder into a circle, become a sort of therapy for Locke. Talking about dysfunction by causing dysfunction. Press preview Mon 19 June 10:00 - 13:00 Private View: Thursday 22 June 18:00 - 20:30 The exhibition runs Wed - Sat, 12 - 6pm 23 June until 5 August 2023 Please email for further information and images Artist CV
Ty Locke b.1996, Maidstone, UK Lives and works in London, UK Education 2019-2023 Slade School of Art, University College London, MFA Sculpture 2015-2018 University for the Creative Arts, Canterbury, BA (Hons) Fine Art: First Class Degree Solo Exhibitions 2021 Domestic Bliss (Solo show) My Flat, Margate, UK 2019 23p Beans, Margate, UK 38 Code, The Brewery Tap Project Space, Folkestone, UK Group Exhibitions 2022 Adult By Nature, Quench, Margate, UK MOCA WE (Digital exhibition) MOCA London, UK Deconstructing, National Liberty Museum, Philadelphia, USA 2021 Hung On A Minute, Platform Southwark, London, UK Dysfunctional Pleasures, DODO, Brighton, UK Turner Contemporary Open, Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK 2020 Burger Van, London, UK Stage, RCA, London, UK 2019 House Meeting, Crate, Margate, UK LOVE-IN, Limbo, Margate, UK Platform Graduate Show, Turner 2018 Contemporary, Margate, UK Anxiety of Time, UCA, Canterbury, UK Mr Sandman, Crate, Margate, UK Domino, Crate, Margate UK [Insert Title Here] Fine Art Degree Show, UCA, Canterbury, UK There are no Outlaws in the Gender Galaxy, UCA, Canterbury, UK 2017 Meze, Cyprus College of Art, Lemba, Paphos, Cyprus Found object, Cyprus College of Art, Lemba, Paphos, Cyprus Selected collections LAM Museum, the Netherlands Ingar Dragset, Norway Maarten Baas, the Netherlands S. Davíðsdóttir, UK Press 2022 Next Gen, radio podcast, Ramsgate Radio http://www.ramsgateradio.com/nextgen/episode/4faf7e2a/ty-locke 2021 Art of Tomorrow, Artist talk https://www.artoftmrw.com/ty-locke Awards 2018 Platform Graduate Award: Turner Contemporary, Margate UCA & Crate Graduate Award Crate, Margate Shortlisted - DAD, New Graduate Award/ Art in the Park: Kearsney Abbey, Dover Funded Projects 2019 Margate NOW Festival: '23p Beans', Margate, UK 2018 Margate NOW Festival: 'Main Sands', Margate, UK |