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For the past six decades, John Loker has produced rigorously conceived and visually mesmerising works of art across media. Known as a photographer, sculptor, assemblage-collagist and above all painter, he is one of modern Britain's most original and category-defying artists. Lewis traces Loker's unusual artistic journey from Bradford College alongside fellow students David Hockney, Peter Kaye, David Oxtoby, Norman Stevens, and Michael Vaughn, his education at the Royal College of Art, rise to international attention in the 1970s and recent focus on space and the horizon of our planet.
Horizons, Zones and Outer Spaces is published by Elephant in association with Flowers Gallery.
About the author
Ben Lewis is an art critic, author, documentary filmmaker and television presenter. He has written about art and culture leading newspapers from the Evening Standard to The Observer, Sunday Telegraph and The Times in Britain, and Libération and Die Welt. His award-winning documentary films, including The Great Contemporary Art Bubble, Google and the World Brain and The Beatles, Hippies and Hells Angels have been shown on the BBC, Arte, PBS, Sky Arts, and other channels around the world.
Summary
For the past six decades, John Loker has produced rigorously conceived and visually mesmerising works of art across media. Known as a photographer, sculptor, assemblage-collagist and above all painter, he is one of modern Britain’s most original and category-defying artists. Lewis traces Loker's unusual artistic journey from Bradford College alongside fellow students David Hockney, Peter Kaye, David Oxtoby, Norman Stevens and Michael Vaughn, his education at the Royal College of Art, rise to international attention in the 1970s and recent focus on space and the horizon of our planet.
Horizons, Zones and Outer Spaces is published by Elephant in association with Flowers Gallery.
Foreword
For the past six decades, John Loker has produced rigorously conceived and visually mesmerising works of art across media. Known as a photographer, sculptor, assemblage-collagist and above all painter, he is one of modern Britain’s most original and category-defying artists. Lewis traces Loker's unusual artistic journey from Bradford College alongside fellow students David Hockney, Peter Kaye, David Oxtoby, Norman Stevens and Michael Vaughn, his education at the Royal College of Art, rise to international attention in the 1970s and recent focus on space and the horizon of our planet.
