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Nasty Women Wigan
I am proud to be showing my wire piece, “Matrilinear”, tomorrow, 9.8.17, in the Nasty Women exhibition in Wigan, part of the global, feminist, Nasty Woman campaign. Matrilinear is a celebration of the strengths, vulnerabilities and inherent connectivity of generations of  motherhood, details of the exhibition below, all welcome. Nasty Women Wigan exhibition at Cross … Read more
mark, print, place
This body of ceramic work looks at the mark we make, our print , more than just a trace, and our relationship to the natural world, our environmental and psychological impact, using the intimate to reflect a global perspective. The red and black ceramic “fingerprint” work involves thousands of pieces of squeezed clay, each capturing a fingerprint, a 3D … Read more
Head Above Water, 2016-2017
an exhibition touring 3 coastal venues. curated by Lara Goodband The transformative effects of sea bathing that inspire artists and writers are captured in an exhibition that explores its sensations, stories and psychological impact. Head Above Water reveals the embodied imagination of the swimmer’s experience through film, photography, sculpture, drawing and poetry. Artists: Sally Barker, … Read more
We Only Print in Blood Red
glazed ceramic pieces installed on a tree “We Only Print in Blood Red” was a site specific sculptural piece, installed on a tree in Lytham ,as part of Counterpart. The piece explores the complex and often destructive relationship we have with the natural environment. Counterpart involved 12 artists work installed throughout Lytham. The piece is fired and … Read more
breathe, inflate, deflate
An ongoing series of work looking at breathing, exchange of gases, our relationship with trees, destruction of the rainforest. Materials : latex, stone, trees and branches as site and material. Fossilised tree, created by the volume of material weighing down, creating stone through time.The delicacy and intimacy of latex, made in silky sheets, cut, stitched , stretched … Read more
2015: artist residency at FUSE Artspace, Bradford, 2015.
This week long residency at FUSE in November 2015, was part of a series of residencies exploring environmental issues, leading up to the COP21 conference in Paris in December. The residency offered the space and freedom to explore process, with no outcomes, restrictions and very little limitation. My initial preconceived ideas for the work were to make some kind of shelter, … Read more
drawing with trees
this is current work, digital sketches.I have been working with this tree,with its huge bump- it seems both a benign pregnant- like bulge, and a more sinister, tumorous growth. Some of these ideas may become “real”, real painted and manipulated barbed wire swarming out of the belly button type hole in the bulge, real latex … Read more
Tate Modern Bird Feeder
This piece was commissioned for “Upstaging Nature”, a group exhibition of site responsive work in Sydenham Woods, S. London.The wood and perspex box contains a model scale Tate Modern, cast in bird seed and lard. The box has various holes drilled into it: access for the birds, over the 3 weeks they devoured Tate Modern, whilst being themselves on display.
Young Ambassadors, Bradford
As part of The Watershed Project- artists inspired by landscape- for which I was commissioned as the first year artist, I worked with the Young Ambassadors-a group of young adults. We explored the wild and very windswept landscape of the moors around The Bridestones, looked at some examples of my work and then made model … Read more
The Watershed Project – final exhibition
“Inspired by Landscape” Bradford 1 Gallery , Centenary Square, Bradford Saturday 22nd June – Saturday 24th August Sally Barker, Andrew McMillan, Char March, Angie Rogers, Anna Turner, Simon Warner
body and the landscape
initially made for installation at Contemporary Sedimentary, my solo show at South Square Gallery, Thornton in 2014. Recently the piece has been part of the Seaswim, Head Above Water, an ACE touring exhibition at Peninsula Arts , Plymouth ; Strange Cargo , Folkestone and Crescent Art Gallery, Scarborough.
Contemporary Sedimentary
Solo show at South Square Gallery, Thornton
Friday 7th June – Sunday 28th July
