Brett Lockwood studied at the Plymouth College of Art approximately three years ago.
Finite is a project that looks at the environment. Throughout this project he created multiple petri-dishes encompassing different items that were used to portray small parts of land and the effects that things such as climate change and human interference has on them. In total he created 20 of these miniature landscapes which he used to represent a dying rain forest (Deforestation).
After graduation from the Plymouth College of Art, Brett took a visual break and decided to travel to visit a rain forest; something which he had wanted to do for a long time.
After this he then spent some time working in order to make some money.
He then applied and began working with a company called 'Karst' - (Plymouth's leading independent contemporary visual arts space). Whilst working with 'Karst', they became interested in the work that Brett had been carrying out on the topic of deforestation using the petri dishes. A project that he thought he had finished in fact led him to extend on the work that he had been created.
Following on from this Brett decided to give his petri-dish series some exposure and decided to display them in a public space. This was almost like an experiment to see how individuals would treat these objects that represented the rain forest. He said surprisingly only one of the petri-dishes were completely destroyed, and the others thankfully remained untouched.
He was later approached by a bank to photograph some athletes that were doing a 24 hour event. He had become recognized from this company from his series of images that he had previously taken of contemporary dancers.
He has already shot and put together a music video for an artist called 'Carnady' and her song called 'Summer Love'.
Brett discussed how his personal work always goes back to theme of nature and topics such as deforestation and human interaction.
Within one of his projects he was also looking at how nature would react without any humans. "The sudden human departure".
Brett also discussed how some of his work was inspired by a game that he likes on 'Twitch'.
Brett has said that he finds shooting to be a source of primary research.
The methodology for editing his images is by making them fit the theme that he is going with. Initially he made the images beautiful and then changed them completely by turning the saturation right down, so it made the image quite depressing. He describes his work as 'symbolic'.
