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Hew Locke: The Ambassadors
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The Lowry is delighted to present Hew Locke’s The Ambassadors. Originally commissioned by The Lowry in 2019, this is the first opportunity to present this major new work by the acclaimed Guyanese-British artist in Salford. Locke’s sculptural installation consists of four Black figures on horseback, acting as envoys, bringing messages from the past to the future. Their animals are weighed down with baggage, and they them themselves are festooned with glittering symbols that echo our real past and real cultures. There is a cascade of stuff; Benin bronzes, portraits of Toussaint Louverture, colonial medals, six-guns, slave pennies, symbols of justice. With these figures, Locke offers a counterpoint to traditional statues and monuments, subverting their symbols of colonial power, and questioning who our society chooses to memorialise and celebrate.
Visitors to the exhibition will have an opportunity to create their own response to The Ambassadors. In an adjacent gallery space transformed to look like an artists’ studio or workshop, visitors have access to a range of craft materials and guidance to make their own mini monuments, medals and coins, or to design the embellishments for an equestrian statue, and to be displayed in the gallery space.
© Hew Locke. Photo by Anna Arca
Venue: Lowry Gallery
