Pete Locke (b.1983, Leicester, UK) lives and work in Glasgow. In his current research drawing drawing functions as both method and site of a practice‑led enquiry, proposing drawing, printmaking, and gesture as materially entangled modes of cognitive processing that both reflect and generate knowledge, before and beyond language. Alongside this material investigation, his writing analyses the shifting conditions of creative labour, tracing genealogies of technological disruption from nineteenth‑century wood engraving to contemporary debates around generative AI. Further writing positions this practice‑led inquiry as material storytelling—a latent hybrid‑language in which performative gestures make visible thinking that precedes verbal articulation. Collectively, his research reframes illustration as a critically situated, relational, and performative discipline that must continually assert its expressive autonomy.