Desire and its construction is an enquiry central to David Lock's artistic practice. Utilising collage and painting, his interest lies in the idea of the fragment and recombining the mediated body-in-pieces to expose notions of difference. The collage represents for Lock, a sense of contingency-a constantly shifting dynamic of the body in flux. In regard to his portraits, which combine parts of some prior identity hinged awkwardly together, they seek to question both beauty and the imperfect, whilst retaining a sensitivity, that is both vulnerable and uncanny.
Sacha Craddock has commented ’The portraits are painted from collaged elements which, collectively handled in such a way, create a convincing sense of the particular. The use of collage to begin with, the painting of the broken, bringing it together to make it whole within the same surface, gives a recognition in art that also carries a sweet but sad touch’.
Following a solo show at Fred, London, in 2007. Lock had a solo show at Zoo Art Fair, as a Prizewinner for the John Jones 'Art on Paper' acquisition Award in conjunction with Zoo Art Fair, London.
In 2011, Lock was awarded the Abbey Scholarship in Painting at The British School at Rome.
