Biography:

Caroline Locke has been described as one of the UK’s most innovative interdisciplinary artists. She has exhibited nationally and internationally and is widely known for her large-scale installation works. Working with water, sculptural devices, new and old technology, sound, video and live elements, Locke makes works that are often sited in public spaces as well as in galleries and performance venues. Water and vibration are recurrent themes within her recent practice.

Locke received an award for excellence in research for a live performance where musician’s instruments were connected to water tanks so that the sound waves were visible on the water surface. The audience was able to watch and listen to sonic compositions based on the sight of the sound.

Locke installed permanent sculptures – ‘The Maastricht Sound Fountains’ within the New International school of Governance at the University Of Maastricht. For this site-specific work, the artist recorded student voices and sounds from the environment around the building. These sounds were processed and combined within synthesized tracks, which are amplified through the surface of the water to create waveforms and fountains.

Sound Fountain II has recently been installed on the steps of the Town Hall in Neerpelt, Belgium in connection with the Klankenbos sound sculpture collection and Musica Impulse Centre for Music.

In 2005 She completed a term as 'Visiting Academic' working within the Centre for Electronic Media at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. The residency culminated with a live web cast performance where she sent live video and audio streams across the Internet to connect two performances in the UK and In Australia simultaneously.

Locke has performed and exhibited in Prague, Berlin, Chicago and also in the UK, Denmark, Belgium, Ireland, Holland, Japan and Australia.

Previous exhibitions include:

• Sound Fountain II – kinetic sculpture – Musica Impulse Center for Music, Belgium - 2010
• The Inventory of Sound and Sound fountain II - photography and kinetic sculpture - The University of Derby, Faculty of Arts - 2010.
• Bad Noise – a sonic and video installation - Raw Space Gallery, Brisbane, Australia - 2006.
• Bad Noise – ARC Biennial, Brisbane, Australia -2005.
• Fear Factor Seven – 7 screen video installation – The Bourgie Gallery, Melbourne, Australia – 2004.
• Breath – kinetic sculpture - The World Water Conference, Kyoto, Japan - 2003
• Breath - Toyota Museum of Modern Art , Japan - 2003.
• Breath - The Mile End Art Pavilion, London – 2002.
• Bad Noise - Podewil, Center for Contemporary Arts, Berlin - 2002.
• Maelstrom - kinetic water sculpture - Vandskel Watershed Festival, Silkeborg Bad,Denmark - 2002.
• Maelstrom - The International Conference of the art and science of water at the Hotbath Gallery, Bath, UK - 2001.
• Pelleas and Melisande – a sonic and video installation - The Bonington Gallery, Nottingham, UK - 2001.
• Loop – kinetic, sonic and video installations - The Site Gallery, Sheffield, as part of their 2000 ‘Immediate’ exhibition.
• Maelstrom – kinetic water sculptures - The Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery – 1998.

Caroline Locke is a Senior Lecturer in Fine Art and currently teaches at The University of Derby UK.

“Caroline Locke is a fine artist with a radical take on affairs - she makes art that acknowledges and exercises the sensitivity of the senses. She recognizes that the imagination can be triggered by the most ephemeral and intimate of creative provocations and allows us to momentarily stop and look and listen and think and dream.” Robert Clark, visual arts writer for The Guardian.

“Hydrophonics is truly stunning” John Newling March 2005

“If there is a work that reflects more than any other the mood of the late 1990’s, the current debate leading up to the new millennium, then Caroline Locke’s series of projects titled ‘loop’ which combine an eclectic choice of materials and processes must be a good choice… It must be seen to be believed.” Carol Maund – director Site Gallery, Sheffield.

“Caroline Locke is obviously one on her own and one to look out for” Robert Clark, Artists News letter.

‘Caroline Locke is one of the UK’s most innovative interdisciplinary artists. Breath is a revolutionary installation.’ The City Gallery, Leicester.

“Breath is an oceanic dream of an installation’” The Guardian. April 2002.