Locke Jean-Luc Unhold

Locke Jean-Luc Unhold, originally from the United States, is a ceramic artist living and working in Ōtepoti, Aotearoa. He lecturers on the New Zealand Diploma of Art and Design ceramics programme at the Dunedin School of Art, teaching glaze chemistry and visual literacy. He is currently pursuing his MFA at the same.

Unhold’s work explores the tension of the transgender experience from the framework of queer phenomenology and new materialism. This manifests in work that subverts the cis gaze. It is sensual and glossy. It is uncomfortable, yet you still want to reach out and touch. The fleshy, undulating sculptures might be a limb, an organ, a fungal growth, or something else.

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