Caio Locke

November 2009 - January 2010

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From an advanced school background in dry-point and aquatint etching, Caio moved predominantly to painting during Art Foundation. Initially, he focused on transferring his technical ability to working in oils and acrylics. His earlier work includes figurative oil paintings of landscapes, cityscapes and seascapes in Brazil, where he has longstanding family connections.

His recent work is fuelled by incursions into the imagination and towards the essence of, and behind, existence. He creates metaphysical cityscapes, merging the ancestral and mythical past with visions of future utopias. The paintings invite viewers to contemplate the suggested possibilities within the paintings to find an individual perception of synthesis between reality and dream. His pieces simultaneously disavow and confirm reality.

Much of his recent work was inspired by a trip to Cambodia in late 2006, the majestic beauty and haunting atmosphere of the temples and colonial architecture prompting large oil paintings and graphic work.  He incorporates experiences from travel into his work, which ranges from the vast and panoramic, to ethereal dimensional collisions within crowded interior spaces.

Time, light, energy, atmosphere, and human existence within this matrix, are themes that connect the paintings. The frequent use of architectural perspective allows for a compositional depth in which these elements can interact, whilst balance is retained in the compositions as a whole and within their constituent sections. Together, the paintings form an evolving journal of consciousness.

Caio has studied fine art (painting/printmaking), history (First Class) and law. He is a qualified lawyer, having specialising in Intellectual Property. He applies his intellectual grounding to his work, which also contains historical visual references and strong symbolic motifs. He works principally from his studio in West London although he has exhibited in both West and East London, particularly in the Shoreditch area.

Solo Exhibitions

2006 Open Studio
2007 FLUK Factory
2008 Pure Evil Gallery, Shoreditch 2008
2009 No ID Gallery, Whitechapel (December)
2010 Landmark Art Centre, Teddington (tbc)
2010 Pebbledash Gallery (tbc)
2010 Gallery 32, Notting Hill (tbc)

Group Exhibitions

2003 JB Studios, Rio de Janeiro
2007 FLUK Factory
2008 Decima Gallery
2008 Pure Evil Gallery
2009 Printspace, Shoreditch
2009 Chancery Lane Gallery
2009 Pebbledash Gallery
2009 Landmark Art Centre
2010 Louise Blouin Institute, Art after Dark (tbc)
2010 Guy Hilton Gallery (tbc) 

Citadel
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Solipsist
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Yellow Gate Water Door
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