Andy Lock is an internationally recognised practising artist, working with photography. His work is held in major photographic collections in both the US and the UK.
Andy's practice forms the basis of his research. Often preoccupied with the revelatory potential of exhausted or disregarded things and places, his work is aesthetically diverse: it encompasses both conventional and innovative photographic processes and materials.
Andy Lock's work is characterised by extended photographic enquiries, which are concerned both with the latent possibilities of everyday sites and artefacts, and with how photography itself is implicated in their depiction. His images typically transcend their deceptively quotidian subjects to create depictions of a complexity and drama that belies the apparent simplicity of the work.
Lock's work has repeatedly featured such subjects as domestic and institutional interiors, household ornaments and toys. It is of interest to those engaged in art photographic practice, and also to architects and designers. His work is also relevant to those whose interest in history focuses on the cultural legacies of society’s material production.
