Dave Lock
Lock is an artist navigating the delicate terrain between the primal and the obsessive. Working across drawing, painting, and modified found objects, his practice delves into the subconscious through intricate, surreal portraits and sculptural forms. Lock's work embodies a paradox: the collision of obsessive attention to detail with a raw, almost primitive urgency.
Driven by a fascination with unseen systems—the clockwork mechanisms of organisms, memories, and emotions—Lock captures slivers of the surreal that inhabit our waking lives. His portraits become vessels for dreams, anxieties, and inner narratives that elude language, offering viewers a mirror into a world both alien and intimately familiar.
Through his obsessive craft, Lock invites us to confront what lies just beneath the surface: the primal hum of existence, and the intricate architectures of thought we carry unseen.



