The Lock-Up is delighted to welcome Adam Norton to the AIR program where the artist will continue research and local investigations for upcoming projects.

Norton was born in the United Kingdom. He grew up in Lagos, Nigeria and Nairobi, Kenya. In 1984, he was awarded a BFA from The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford University. He has lived and worked in Gadigal/Sydney since 2002. Norton has exhibited widely in Australia and overseas and his work spans painting, installation, video and public art. Norton’s work has been included in the Daejeon Biennale, South Korea, in 2016, and the Canberra Art Biennial in 2022. His first survey exhibition, The Signs Are Good: 20 years of painting the future, was presented at Bathurst Regional Art Gallery in 2024-25.