Cassey Locke

Cassey Locke is a photographic artist based in Whāingaroa/Raglan, New Zealand. Her work is a meditation on the ephemerality of people and things. She is influenced by philosophy and psychoanalysis and uses her creative practice to engage in an ongoing dialogue with death.

In 2022 she completed her Master of Creative Practice with First Class Honours at Unitec in Auckland. During her undergraduate degree, Cassey was awarded Contemporary Arts Excellence in Photography and Moving Image and was a finalist in the Eden Art Schools Award.

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Black-and-white portrait of a smiling photographic artist based in Whāingaroa (Raglan), holding a camera, co-founder of Halide Studios, photographed in studio lighting

Works

Works

Works

Two human arms emerging through sheer curtains, creating a surreal, minimal composition in the photographic artwork “Threshold” (2021)

Threshold, 2021

Soft-focus landscape photograph of Western Springs in Auckland, showing still water and surrounding trees in a quiet, atmospheric scene from “Untitled (Western Springs)” (2019) by Cassey Locke.

Untitled (Western Springs), 2019

Multiple pale octopus bodies draped and hanging over a metal grid, their tentacles slipping through the bars in an unsettling, sculptural arrangement in “Corollary” (2021) by Cassey Locke.

Corolloary, 2021

A softly lit, partially obscured human figure draped in translucent fabric, emerging from darkness in the photographic work “Veil” (2019), where folds of cloth blur the boundary between body and shadow.

Tufts of green reeds emerge from shallow, ochre-coloured water in “Quarry Lake” (2019), their submerged roots and soft reflections creating a quiet, layered study of stillness and depth.

Quarry Lake, 2019

A rolling ocean swell rises beneath a pale, cloud-washed sky in “Crest” (2018), its dark green wave capped with misty white spray that softens the boundary between sea and air.

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A white gallery wall displaying a series of photographic works in the exhibition “Harbinger” at Gallery One, Unitec, Auckland, including images of organic forms, human gestures, and abstracted surfaces arranged in a quiet, spatial dialogue.

Harbinger, Gallery One, Unitec, Auckland

Visitors stand and talk inside a white-walled gallery during the exhibition “INTER” at Gradfest, Unitec, Auckland, viewing a series of small-scale photographic works arranged in an open, informal installation across the space.

INTER, Gradfest, Unitec, Auckland

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Harbinger, Gallery One, Unitec, Auckland

INTER, Gradfest, Unitec, Auckland

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