Two years ago, Hew Locke was invited by the British Museum to create an exhibition combining his work with a personal selection drawn from the museum collection. It was a dream project for Locke, the realisation of a decades-long fascination with the myriad wonders of the museum. In 1987, as a student at Falmouth Art School, he had rescued two reproduction models of Benin Bronze plaques held at the British Museum, that were due to be thrown out, and placed them on his wall. Now he was being invited to delve into the collection for real.