LONDON.- Hales Gallery, London, presents 'How Do You Want Me?', on view 29 February – 5 April 2008. Hew Locke is best known for his sculptures and installations, but three years ago he started work in a medium new to him, photography, resulting in a spectacular gallery of six studio portraits – How Do You Want Me?

His perennial themes of power, spin and national cultural identity are raised to a new intensity. The photographs are life-sized, echoing the portraits of aristocratic ancestors that stare down at us from the walls of the stately homes of England. The demonic central figure is a type of evil or threat to the State made flesh. Locke has conjured up a parade of inherently sinister figures - corrupt kings, generals, tyrants and bandits.