Christian Lock

New Paintings 2010

2 - 26 June 2010

“When I was a kid, surf shops were magical places, the old ‘guru’ surf shop owner was like some sort of shaman .He told mystical tales of times gone by, where local legends risked it all for a taste of glory. The shop walls were shrines covered with images of lone wave warriors riding giant moving mountains of water. The surfboards were sacred objects like ancient weapons from some lost civilization of futuristic beings. Covered in elaborate airbrushed art, they stood in rows, gleaming with polished surfaces. To us they were personalised rocket ships, each one created for a special voyage, a voyage into the unknown.

Working from a memory bank of visual information I adopt a strategy of sampling and remixing as a fluid means of developing aesthetic and conceptual frameworks. Chance and control bump together in a structured yet intuitive way. Forms, elements, images and impressions are reassembled and fused together. I often work on multiple canvases at once each image feeds into the next creating a continuous dialogue between individual works. For me it’s a process of decoding consciousness and allowing the intangibility and impermanence of that process to have some kind of physical representation".

- Christian Lock 2010

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