Richard Lockett (b. 1983) is a multidisciplinary artist working across various media

including drawing, digital, video, collage, installation and sound. The works attempt

to record sensorial experiences in a sculptural and spatial manner. Areas of interest

include the arrangement, potentiality and psychology of interior spaces;

neurodivergence through recording and drawing/mark making; mapping as aesthetic

tool for finding different connections between subject and object. Richard also works

as a teaching assistant with adults with learning disabilities and has volunteered in

the art class of Share Community.

Richard's most recent project includes Personnel at Classwaroom in Stratford

(2022), which engaged with the geographical layers and the layering of memories

personal, familial and public of the Lower Lea Valley area. It was a multimedia

project, comprising of wall hangings, two videos and a performance. In collaboration

with Dr Anna Stenning (University of Durham), who works on space, geography and

neurodiversity, Richard also edited a book titled Channelling, Sod and Ley: A

Personnel Companion (2023).

In 2021 Richard organised another project, as part of a residency at Art in the Docks.

Titled Have you seen the vistas from the top of Beckton Alps? it used the waste heap

of the Beckton Alps, formerly a dry ski slope, as a metaphor to reflect on the

formation of a ‘place’ where sounds, histories, stories, images, memories and nature

accumulate. The project comprised of a multimedia installation and involved the local

community through a Sound Walk workshop recorded via geolocation software.