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var stat = '<b>Statement by Sam Lock</b> <br />August 2009<br /><br />I studied for an MA in Fine Art specialising in Painting and History of Art at Edinburgh University and Edinburgh College of Art, graduating in 1997.  Living in Edinburgh gives you an all-pervading sense of history and awareness that you are merely the latest layer; it is a city of hidden stories that seem to whisper to you and dark corners full of lost information.  It has an identity that is both dark and beautiful, playful and sober, wild and solid; the duplicity of the city makes it hard to define, forcing you to live in the margins, the spaces in-between.  Since leaving Edinburgh, my practice has been a pursuit of a visual language that explores this dichotomy; I have tried to find a tone of voice for my paintings that tells yet conceals, imagery that is both inviting and elusive, physical yet spatial, open and closed, warm yet melancholic.<br /><br />My paintings are accumulations of materials and decisions; artefacts of thinking and doing, an attempt to locate poetry in the relationships, combinations and interactions between materials and physical elements. These paintings are informed by natural process, explorations of geography/archaeology, physicality, cause and effect. Their intent is to create space and surface that snags, tangles and holds the viewer. My work aims to explore, express and animate the painted space – alternating between freedom and expanse and the constricted and dense - like forest and sky.<br /><br />My aim is to create an emotional sense of space and place, where time ravages, wind blows, seas swell, places are found, days dwindle, moments are present then past.';


var educ = '<b>Education </b><br />MA Fine Art(Hons), MA History of Art<br />University of Edinburgh 1997<br /><br />PGCE Art  &amp; Design (Secondary)<br />University of Brighton 1999<br /><br /><b>Teaching </b><br />GNVQ Intermediate, GCSE, AS, A2, Art &amp; Design<br />Croydon College<br />1999-2000<br /><br />Lecturer in Fine Art, Graphics/Illustration/VisCom/Mixed Media<br />Croydon College<br />2000-05<br /><br />Course Team Leader <br />BTEC Foundation Studies Art &amp; Design <br />Croydon College <br />2005-06<br /><br />Curriculum Coordinator <br />Visual + Performing Arts and Media<br />Croydon College<br />2006 - current<br /><br />';


var exhi = '<table width="510" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td><strong>Selected Exhibitions</strong></td><td><img src="images/spacer.gif" width="20" height="16" /></td><td width="20" height="16">&nbsp;</td></tr><tr><td width="20" height="16">&nbsp;</td><td><img src="images/spacer.gif" width="20" height="16" /></td><td width="20" height="16">&nbsp;</td></tr><tr><td>Mile of Art (369 Gallery) Royal Mile, Edinburgh</td><td><img src="images/spacer.gif" width="20" height="16" /></td><td>1996</td></tr><tr><td>Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh</td><td><img src="images/spacer.gif" width="20" height="16" /></td><td>1997</td></tr><tr><td>Undercurrents, Phoenix Gallery, Brighton</td><td><img src="images/spacer.gif" width="20" height="16" /></td><td>1999</td></tr><tr>  <td>Parfitt Gallery, Croydon</td>  <td width="20" height="16">&nbsp;</td>  <td>2000-4</td></tr><tr>  <td>Art Auction, Brighton Media Centre</td>  <td width="20" height="16">&nbsp;</td>  <td>2001</td></tr><tr>  <td>Chichester Open Art Exhibition</td>  <td width="20" height="16">&nbsp;</td>  <td>2002-4</td></tr><tr>  <td>Art at Amberley Museum</td>  <td width="20" height="16">&nbsp;</td>  <td>2003-5</td></tr><tr>  <td>O2 Brasserie, London</td>  <td width="20" height="16">&nbsp;</td>  <td>2003</td></tr><tr>  <td>London Artists Book Fair, ICA, London</td>  <td width="20" height="16">&nbsp;</td>  <td>2004</td></tr><tr>  <td>Group Show, Xavier Gallery, Brighton</td>  <td width="20" height="16">&nbsp;</td>  <td>2004</td></tr><tr>  <td>Solo Show, Xavier Gallery, Brighton </td>  <td width="20" height="16">&nbsp;</td>  <td>2004</td></tr><tr>  <td>ConTemporary Gallery 1, Queens Rd, Brighton</td>  <td width="20" height="16">&nbsp;</td>  <td>2005</td></tr><tr>  <td>ConTemporary Gallery 3, Queens Rd, Brighton</td>  <td width="20" height="16">&nbsp;</td>  <td>2005</td></tr><tr>  <td>Art @ The Claremont Hotel, Brighton </td>  <td width="20" height="16">&nbsp;</td>  <td>2005</td></tr><tr>  <td>Art @ The Oriental Hotel, Brighton</td>  <td width="20" height="16">&nbsp;</td>  <td>2005</td></tr><tr>  <td>Art @ The Brightonwave Hotel, Brighton</td>  <td width="20" height="16">&nbsp;</td>  <td>2005</td></tr><tr>  <td>Brighton Art Fair 2</td>  <td width="20" height="16">&nbsp;</td>  <td>2006</td></tr><tr>  <td>Gallery 100, Brighton</td>  <td width="20" height="16">&nbsp;</td>  <td>2006</td></tr><tr>  <td>Arts &amp; Business, Brighton</td>  <td width="20" height="16">&nbsp;</td>  <td>2007</td></tr><tr>  <td>Gallery 73, Crawley</td>  <td width="20" height="16">&nbsp;</td>  <td>2007</td></tr><tr>  <td>Brighton Art Fair 3</td>  <td width="20" height="16">&nbsp;</td>  <td>2007</td></tr><tr>  <td>Liberty Gallery, Kings Hill, Kent</td>  <td width="20" height="16">&nbsp;</td>  <td>2007</td></tr><tr>  <td>Xmas Show, Gallery 100, Brighton</td>  <td width="20" height="16">&nbsp;</td>  <td>2008</td></tr><tr>  <td>DMH Gallery, Crawley</td>  <td width="20" height="16">&nbsp;</td>  <td>2008</td></tr><tr>  <td>Brighton Festival Show, Gallery 100, Brighton</td>  <td width="20" height="16">&nbsp;</td>  <td>2008</td></tr><tr>  <td>Brighton Art Fair 4</td>  <td width="20" height="16">&nbsp;</td>  <td>2008</td></tr><tr>  <td>Affordable Art Fair, London</td>  <td width="20" height="16">&nbsp;</td>  <td>2008</td></tr><tr><td>Cambridge Art Fair</td>  <td width="20" height="16">&nbsp;</td>  <td>2009</td></tr><tr>  <td width="20" height="16">&nbsp;</td>  <td width="20" height="16">&nbsp;</td>  <td width="20" height="16">&nbsp;</td></tr><tr>  <td><strong>Forthcoming Shows</strong></td>  <td width="20" height="16">&nbsp;</td>  <td width="20" height="16">&nbsp;</td></tr><tr>  <td width="20" height="16">&nbsp;</td>  <td width="20" height="16">&nbsp;</td>  <td width="20" height="16">&nbsp;</td></tr><tr>  <td>Brighton Art Fair 5</td>  <td width="20" height="16">&nbsp;</td>  <td>Oct 2009</td></tr><tr>  <td>Affordable Art Fair, London</td>  <td width="20" height="16">&nbsp;</td>  <td>Oct 2009</td></tr><tr>  <td>Northern Art Show</td>  <td width="20" height="16">&nbsp;</td>  <td>Nov 2009</td></tr><tr>  <td>Edinburgh Art Fair</td>  <td width="20" height="16">&nbsp;</td>  <td>Nov 2009</td></tr><tr>  <td width="20" height="16">&nbsp;</td>  <td width="20" height="16">&nbsp;</td>  <td width="20" height="16">&nbsp;</td></tr><tr>  <td width="20" height="16">&nbsp;</td>  <td width="20" height="16">&nbsp;</td>  <td width="20" height="16">&nbsp;</td></tr></table>';