British-Guyanese sculptor’s collage to be unveiled at British Academy with British Museum show in October
When the British-Guyanese sculptor Hew Locke was asked to create a work that would hang in the British Academy, in a building once owned by the former prime minister William Gladstone, it was an offer that was too good to refuse.
It was a rare commission from a prestigious British institution, but the setting itself made it particularly alluring. “That was interesting to me; you can’t say no to that,” he said. “I’m all about putting my work up against certain architectural structures.”
