Leman Locke

Designed for travellers for whom a bed and shower in a shoebox isn't enough, Leman Locke is a design-led aparthotel that immerses you in East London's creative culture with socially immersive public spaces and events that connect you to a community of like-minded locals and travellers.

Leman Locke is one of five Locke-properties by edyn that Artiq has developed the art strategy for. For this property, multi-disciplinary conceptual artist Jay Rechsteiner was selected.

Originally from Switzerland but living and working in London, Jay's work is anarchic and playful, creating impact through the process, incorporating aspects of change, new direction and abandonment to create each piece.

To create the work on show, Jay took a selection of his old paintings and created new artistic interventions on top of it. This process of building and altering gives the work a textural complexity to juxtapose with the minimalism of colour and shape.

With lines such as One day I'll be ready, Jay's work provides the perfect nod to the concept of dynamism and reinvention and is designed to speak to the modern traveller with a taste for play and exploration.

The two works created for Leman Locke were multiplied to be seen throughout all of the suites at Leman Locke.