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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Nadia Khomami Arts and culture correspondent

Hew Locke’s Procession brings colour and conflict to Tate Britain

a colourful procession of life-sized figures
Tate Britain unveils a commission by artist Hew Locke. The work is the latest response to the architecture of the neoclassical Duveen galleries. Photograph: Guy Bell/Rex/Shutterstock

Travelling from one end of Tate Britain to the other, bright, multicoloured figures are on parade as part of a major new public installation that addresses urgent contemporary issues including the climate emergency, Black Lives Matter and the invasion of Ukraine.

Unveiled on Monday, The Procession by Hew Locke is made up of 150 life-sized figures staging a powerful and unsettling procession.

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