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Ty Locke: Kitchen Sink Drama / 23 June - 5 August 2023

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Same Shit Diff Day, 2022, Cigarette filters, nylon thread, plywood
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Holes Punched into a Kettle to Fill a Colander, 2023, Plastic kettle, stainless steel colander
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Shelf Life, 2023, Kitchen cupboard, shopping from Lidl
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Kitchen Sink Drama, installation view
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Full English, 2021, Plasma cut cooking pot
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Full English, installation view
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Circle Ladder, 2020, Steel scaffolding ladder, weld
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P.S Keep Smiling with Suns, 2023, Etched mirror
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Kitchen Sink Drama, installation view
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Hanging tasseled lamp, 2023, Lamp, 540 meters of tassel
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Hanging tasseled lamp, detail
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Rizla Net Curtains, 2023, Rizla papers, saliva
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Rizla Net Curtains, detail
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Kitchen Sink Drama, 2023, Sink plug, c.220 meters of plug chain
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Fridge Magnet, installation view
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Fridge Magnet, 2023, Fridge magnet
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Kitchen Sink Drama, installation view
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It's a Shithole Doormat, 2021, Doormat
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Nail in a Nail, in a Nail, in a Nail, 2023, Nails
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.



The exhibition runs Wed - Sat, 12 - 6pm
23 June until 5 August 2023






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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



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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
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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
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Funded Projects
2019

Margate NOW Festival: '23p Beans', Margate, UK

2018
Margate NOW Festival: 'Main Sands', Margate, UK