Sam Lock (b. 1973, UK) through his gestural abstract practice engages with themes of memory, presence and absence, control and its loss. Lock’s paintings are physical and visceral, yielding tools such as blowtorches and sanders alongside brushes, his processes are certainly not fragile. Works are sanded, stained, scorched, and sealed, each piece becomes an artefact of his process of breaking down and building up. Sam says: “… in the liminal spaces in between, finding and losing at the same time, being present and absent, being author and non-author, reasoning and imagining, constructing and deconstructing, finding solace in the shared mystery and anticipation of roads that lead nowhere and everywhere.”
Exhibitions at the gallery:
Tomorrow or Tomorrow or Tomorrow, Brussels, 2026 (solo)
Tearing, Punching, Squeezing, Drilling, 2024 (group show)
Selected work
Of drifting lines
Mixed media on canvas
120 x 120 cm
2023
All ways, always
Mixed media on panel
150 x 150 cm
2023
The Boyhood of Raleigh
Mixed media on panel
120 x 120 cm
2023
Starting point
Mixed media on canvas
200 x 200 cm
2024