Sam Lock, 'Murmurations'

Anima Mundi is delighted to present ‘Murmurations’, Sam Lock’s second solo exhibition at Anima Mundi, consisting of a monumental body of work consisting of gestural and contemplative painting, sculpture and drawing, which oscillate between states of presence and absence. For Sam Lock, the laying down, or indeed with this body of work, the chiselling of an independent mark, is both a solitary event and part of a wider interconnected process. Lock is interested in the making of marks that communicate both instantly and slowly through a filling up and emptying of space and surface. The collective of these traces become a palimpsest. The making of marks is a meditation on the continual flow and movement that exists both around and within, transferred to material through gesture, which then becomes transferred once again into a poetic and meditative form of communication. Each mark is not made with a fixed system or process in mind, but through an energy that embraces both flux, chance and intuition, in a manner that is both organic and unscripted, following its own path until there is balance or unity. ABOUT THE ARTIST Sam Lock was born in London and now lives and works near Brighton with his studio in a converted industrial unit further up the coast. Lock studied at Edinburgh College of Art and Edinburgh University, graduating in 1997 with MA’s in both Fine Art and Art History. During his training, he won a scholarship to travel to Rome, and explore the relationship between history, archaeology and the processes of painting, a preoccupation which still forms the conceptual basis that underpins his practice.