The Arizona Suite: Encounters in the Desert

Donald Locke, The Arizona Suite: Encounters in the Desert (1993), 2026
Pigmented Print Hahnemuehle Museum Etching 350g
66 x 49.5 cm
Edition of 30
Signed and numbered certificate

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This edition has been produced on the occasion of Donald Locke exhibition Resistant Forms at Camden Art Centre, 10 April 2026/30 August 2026.

About the work
This pigmented print is a rare reproduction of Donald Locke’s work, produced and sold in support of the work of Camden Art Centre with kind permission from the artist’s estate.

The original mixed-media painting was produced following Locke’s move to Atlanta in 1990, where, following a decade focusing on bronze in Arizona, he returned to drawing and painting with a renewed intensity, exploring the layered identities of the American South. Described by artist, writer and curator Carl E. Hazlewood as constructed with ‘a sculptor’s sensibility,’ these paintings incorporated collaged imagery for the first time in Locke’s practice – including photographs of Locke himself, his earlier ceramic and sculptural works and archival imagery relating to history the region and the broader Black diaspora.

About the artist
Donald Locke (b.1930, Stewartville, Guyana; d. 2010 Atlanta, Georgia, USA) was a Guyanese painter, sculptor, and ceramicist, whose career was marked by its ambitious, interdisciplinary nature.

He grew up in Guyana and attended the Working People’s Art Class (WPAC) taught in Georgetown by Guyanese artist Edward Rupert Burrowes in 1947. He was awarded scholarships to study at Bath Academy of Art at Corsham from 1954–57 and Edinburgh School of Art from 1959–64, where he obtained an MA in Fine Art. Locke returned to Guyana in 1964 to become Art Master at Queen’s College in Georgetown, where he taught until 1969. He then received a bursary to return to Edinburgh School of Art to study ceramics, after which he moved to London, where he lived from 1970–78. In 1979, Locke was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Sculpture at Arizona State University. He lived in Phoenix, Arizona until 1990 and then moved to Atlanta, Georgia, where he lived until his death in 2010.

Prior UK solo exhibitions include: Pork Knocker Dreams, Nottingham Art Exchange and Wolverhampton Art Gallery (2009-2010) curated by Indra Khanna; and Commonwealth Institute, London (1975). Other solo exhibitions include: Atlanta Contemporary Art Center (2024–25); High Museum of Art, Atlanta (2016–17); Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art, Newark (2004); and City Hall Gallery East, Atlanta (2003). Group exhibitions include: Black Atlantic: People, Power, Resistance, The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (2023); Life Between Islands, Tate Britain, London (2021) and Art Gallery of Ontario (2023); Back to Black: Art, Cinema and the Racial Imaginary, Whitechapel Gallery, London (2005); The Other Story, Hayward Gallery, London (1989); FESTAC ‘77, Lagos (1977); and the 12th São Paulo Biennial (1971). Locke’s works have been acquired by institutions including Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC; Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Virginia Fine Art Museum, Virginia; and High Museum of Art, Atlanta.

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