Painter, artist in ceramics, sculptor and teacher, born in Stewartville, Guyana. His initial art education was obtained in a working people’s art class, a British Council Scholarship taking him to Bath Academy of Art, in 1954, to study painting, sculpture and ceramics. Five years later a Guyana government grant enabled Locke to attend Edinburgh University, where he took a degree in fine art. From 1964–71 he taught at Queen’s College, Georgetown, in Guyana, where he gradually began to concentrate on ceramics. In 1971 he set up a studio in London and also taught, in Chester and London. Exhibited widely internationally and eventually moved to teach and work at Arizona State University, living in Phoenix. Locke’s work has been said to scan Modernism and his personal history, with strong sexual allusion.