

CHRISTIAN LOCK
b. 1969
Lives and works in Adelaide, Australia.
Christian Lock was born in 1969. He completed an Advanced Diploma of Art, Applied & Visual, North Adelaide School of Art, Adelaide (1999); Bachelor Visual Arts, SA School of Art, University of South Australia, Adelaide (2000); Honours, Bachelor Visual Arts, SA School of Art, University of South Australia, Adelaide (2001); Masters Visual Arts, SA School of Art, University of South Australia, Adelaide (2006). Exhibitions include The Substation Contemporary Art Prize, The Substation Centre for Art & Culture, Victoria (2011); CACSA Contemporary 2010: THE NEW NEW, Contemporary Art Centre of SA, Adelaide (2010); Wynne Prize for landscape painting, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (2008). Collections include Artbank, Sydney; Art Gallery of South Australia & private collections.
Exhibitions include The Substation Contemporary Art Prize, The Substation Centre for Art & Culture, Victoria (2011); CACSA Contemporary 2010: THE NEW NEW, Contemporary Art Centre of SA, Adelaide (2010); Wynne Prize for landscape painting, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (2008). Collections include Artbank, Sydney; Art Gallery of South Australia & private collections. Christian currently lives and works in Adelaide, South Australia
"The unifying through-line of the work has been Lock’s ongoing interest in the status of the painting and its component parts, both as signifiers of the language of the form, but also as a dialogue with its history. Lock has referred to himself as a ‘sampler’ and ‘remixer’, someone who creates new songs from the fragments of the old, but the most compelling aspect of the work is its rich psychological implications. Lock provides the viewer with a frame and a template to let the imagination loose – and the apophenic delights within are hypnotic."
- Andrew Frost, 2012.
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Best, A. 'Christian Lock New Work', Greenaway Art Gallery Catalogue Essay, 2011 Bilske, M & Newall, M. 'A New Gesture', Christain Lock Greenaway Art Gallery Catalogue Essay, 2002 Bolton, K. 'Weird or What - to go Bodiddley', 2011, http://aeaf.org.au/events/critical-writing.html Bolton, K. 'Mentor Mentored 3', Exhibition Catalogue CACSA, 2007 Frost, A. 'Christian Lock 2013 Samstag Scholars, 2012 Harms, L. 'Christain Lock, Greenaway Art Gallery', Artlink Vol 27 No 4, 2007 Hosseini, V. 'Christian Lock, Greenaway Art Gallery', Australian Art Collector, July-Sept, Issue 33, 2005 Hosseini, V. 'Schizophrenic Venture', Exhibition Catalogue Greenaway Art Gallery, 2005 Lock - Weir, T. & Freak, E. 'Deep Space' - New Acquisitions from the Australian Art Collection, Articulate Magazine, Autumn, 2012 Lock, C. Exhibition Catalogue Essay, Greenaway Art Gallery, 2008 McKay, P. Exhibition Catalogue Essay, THE NEW NEW, CACSA, 2010 Neylon, J. 'Standing on the Outside Looking In', Adelaide Review, January, 2005 Raddock, S. 'Push Me Pull You', Christian Lock, Light Square Gallery, Adelaide Review, June, 2002 Raddock, S. 'Spacey', Adelaide Review, October, 2011 Sanders, C. 'Locked in', Adelaide Review, November, 2012 Smee, S. 'Disoriented in the Great Outdoors', The Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, The Australian, March, 2008 Walker, W. 'Christian Lock', Exhibition Catalogue, John Buckley Gallery, June, 2008 Walker, W. 'Some Digressions on Ornament, Abstraction and the Stowaway, Artlink, Vol 20, No. 2, 2008 Woodburn, J. 'All that Shimmers', Real Time, April - May, No. 66, 2005 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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