LOCUST JONES ‘The green dream’ at The Lock-Up, Newcastle

February 26, 2025

Locust Jones’ major solo exhibition ‘The green dream’ will be featured at The Lock-Up from 01.03. – 25.05.25. The exhibition surveys the artist’s intimate and internal lens through which he has interpreted global politics throughout his distinguished career, to capture the tension between international events and the immediate, tangible realities of daily life across ink drawings, large-scale paintings, and ceramic sculptures.

“Diaristic drawings, rendered in ink on paper, entangle fragments of world news with reflections on the artist’s personal—and tumultuous—lived experiences, offering a raw, unfiltered experience of how the contemporary chaos of the infosphere, or hypermodernity, intersect with psychological experience. Each work is product of a moment in time, layered with the immediacy of his chosen material to reflect both permanence and fragility … ‘The green dream’ invites viewers to wander through this interplay of thought and artefact, grappling with the fluid boundary between the public and the private, the ephemeral and the eternal.”

The opening event will be on Friday 28th February 2025.

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Image caption: Locust Jones, ‘The Listening Post’ (detail), 2018, ink on paper