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"What I admired about Caio Locke’s work was that, while it is very precise in handling, this freedom to dream was what it offered. " 


Edward Lucie-Smith for Artlyst 28/10/2018 on Meridian Skylines at Embassy of Brazil, London.

Parallel Realities C21 - Art Futuro by Caio Locke


A background in etching influenced the early development of my detailed painting style as I sought to revisit and revive the colours of childhood, including travels between London and Rio. Art has been central to my life but it was only with the emergence of this distinctive painting style that it became my calling.    


These environments are as much cities as visualisations of collective consciousness, parallel worlds from which we can detach from, and reimagine, our own. In the words of seminal art critic Edward Lucie-Smith on Meridian Skylines show at Embassy of Brazil, London, "Every now and then a show comes along that knocks one’s preconceptions sideways" (Edward Lucie-Smith, Artlyst 28/10/2018).


Working in acrylics or oils, the process allows creative intuition to be harnessed by rationality. Optical layering and perspective depth combine to deepen the spatial illusion, merging the worlds of abstraction and realism within multi-dimensional urban landscapes. These are the metaphorical forests of man where structures move between rigid geometries and echoing natural forms, as though seeking a prelapsarian dawn with the benefit of conscious hindsight. It is within these settings that personal and universal perspectives unite in a Hegelian synthesis of subjective and objective.    


If the word ‘utopia’, upon its translation of ‘no place’, simply masks a false optimism, what is the endgame of civilisation? Instead, the paintings look for clues in the present that could point towards such possible futures, creating parallel worlds from these disparate vantage points.  Moving between the real and imagined, the works seek to reinvent places through the mind's eye, or conjure unknown cities as awakened, dream-like nuclei where projections of a post-fragmentary world might be realised.   


My paintings and commissions are exhibited and collected internationally, and my work is included in corporate collections. Commissions include sculpture designs, music covers and fashion designs. My 3D designs received public attention through participation in major public art projects including London Elephant Parade (2010), Edinburgh Jungle City (2011), Fabergé Big Egg Hunt (2012), Stand Tall, Colchester (2013), the Chakravarty Cup and the BFG Spielberg Dream Jar project (2016).   

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"Every now and then a show comes along that knocks one’s preconceptions sideways" 


(Edward Lucie-Smith, Artlyst 28/10/2018).


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Solo Shows

Commissions

Commissions

Eclectic Gallery, 17 May - 4 June (2022)

HKS Architects, Fitzrovia (2018)  

Brazilian Embassy (2018)  

Oaktree and Tiger Gallery (2014)  

Hoxton Gallery (2013) 

La Groovy (2013)

Painshill Park (2013)

Rook and Raven Gallery (2012)  

Inverness Terrace (2012)

Cobden Club (2009)  

Pure Evil Gallery (2008)  

FLUK Factory (2007)   


Commissions

Commissions

Commissions

Corpi Vivendi, book cover (2022)

Hachette, Oil and Progress (2021)

Metropolis Rio Jigsaw set (2018)

Pomegranite 1000 piece jigsaw (2018)

Editions Belins, Yellow Gate Water Door (2015)

Purling London, Art chess (2015-2021)  

Marlow Guitars, Queen of Diamonds (2015) 

The Coolness, Album Cover (2013/2014)

Painshill Park (2013)

Chakravarty Polo Cup (2013) 

Far Rockaway mural (2013)  

Frescobol Carioca, beachwear range (2010-12)

Peppermill Studios 2999 project  (2010)   

Public Art

Commissions

Group Shows

BFG Dream Jar/Spielberg (2016)  

Painshill Park, Living Memory (2013)

Chakravarty Polo Cup (2013) 

Stand Tall, Essex (2013)  

Fabergé Egg Hunt, x 3 eggs (2012)  

Jungle City, Edinburgh (2011)  

Elephant Parade (2010)  

Group Shows

Group Shows

Group Shows

Koppel Project, New Bond Street (17-30/10/22)

Start Art Fair, Saatchi Art Gallery (12-16/10/22)

Palazzo Bembo, Venice (2022)

Fresh, Cheltenham Art Fair (2022)

Eclectic Gallery, King's Road (2021) 

EG, Let the Imagination Flow (2021) 

EG, Battersea AAF (2021) 

Ashurst Art Collection (2019-22) 

Christies with Purling London (2019)

Art on a Postcard, Workspace (2019) 

World Chess Hall of Fame, USA (2018) 

Children in Need Gala (2016)  

Ashurst 3-man show (2016) 

Buro Four (2015) 

National Theatre (2015)  

Sala Brasil, Brazil Embassy (2015) 

Muse Gallery (Dec 2014)  

Metropolitan University (2014)  

Wet Fish (2014)  

Harrods Games Room (2014-2021)  

Stoke Newington Studios (April 2014) 

Cuckoo Club (2014) 

West London Art Factory (2014) 

Chakravarty Cup, Mistero (2014) 

Red Desert/Mindscape Manifesto, Cinema & Lectures (2013) 

Far Rockaway mural (2013)  

Colchester Zoo (2013)

More London (2013)  

Burlington Arcade - Faberge Egg Hunt (2012)  

Royal Museum of Scotland - Jungle City (2011) 

Edinburgh Zoo  - Jungle City (2011) 

Chelsea Royal Hospital Chelsea -Elephant Parade (2010) 

Unique Gallery (2010)

Landmark Art Centre (2009) 

Printspace, Hoxton (2009)


Features

Group Shows

Galleries

Jackson's Art Prize winner, interview (2019) 

The London Economic (2019)

Artlyst, Edward Lucie-Smith review (2018)

Fad Magazine review (2018)

Bossa Brasil, Meridian Skylines (2018) 

Fusion TV, interview (2017) 

Visit London,  BFG Dream Jar (2016) 

Finbuzz (2015)  

The Times, Art Stars of Tomorrow (2015)  

Brasil Observer (2014)  

Pillars of Wisdom Catalogue (2014) 

Marlow Art Guitars catalogue (2014) 

Rooms Magazine (2013)  

Avenir Magazine (2013)  

Praveremlondres (2013)  

Marlow Art Guitars catalogue (2014) 

Elephant Family commission catalogue (2012)

Artist a Day (2011)

Born in Brazil (beachwear, 2011)  

New York Times (beachwear, 2011)  

Drapers Online (beachwear, 2011)  

Square Mile (beachwear 2012) 

Classic Car Magazine (2010)  

Deshojar Ciudades (2009)  

Galleries

Group Shows

Galleries

Oaktree and Tiger Gallery


Pillars of Wisdom:

https://www.emergingartistgallery.com/pillars-of-wisdom---caio-locke.html


Meridian Skylines:

https://www.emergingartistgallery.com/store/c47/Meridian_Skylines_-_Caio_Locke.html


Ashurst Art Collection:

https://www.ashurstart.com/caio-locke.html



Eclectic Gallery


https://eclecticgallery.co.uk/70_caio-locke


AAF:

https://affordableart.com/artists/caio-locke


Artsy:

https://www.artsy.net/partner/eclectic-gallery/artists/caio-locke


Artland:

https://www.artland.com/artworks/inside-window-c7v9mlqtmucs722t54pg


Eclectic Gallery in dialogue with Caio Locke:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kgzr4VdCXSg


Singulart


https://www.singulart.com/en/artist/caio-locke-32519



Contact

For all enquiries about the work, whether to price or availability, please don't hesitate to reach out to me. I am also open to professional collaborations with galleries or commission ideas because I believe art is meant to be shared.

If you find yourself interested in such a collaboration, do not stall, and reach out to me.

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