Hew Locke – The Procession

A striking, free-to-see large scale installation artwork called “The Procession” is on show in Tate Britain’s elegant Duveen Galleries until January 2023. This dramatic exhibit presents 150 life-size masked figures clothed in a kaleidoscope of colourful and bizarre costumes in an apparent procession – whether in protest, revolution or religious ritual is left to the viewer to decide. The figures, no too identical, are constructed largely from cardboard, but this is barely visible beneath the abundance of hand-stitched clothing, masks, jewellery and all manner of headwear, footwear, banners and intriguing cultural paraphernalia.