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current practice and teaching/ socially engaged practise
| Email: | sally@sallybarker.org |
| Social media | www.instagram.com/sallyjbarker https://facebook.com/sallyjbarker https://vimeo.com/user8590934 |
| Website: | http://www.sallybarker.org |
| Lives in Hebden Bridge, W.Yorkshire | |
| Member of the Royal Society of Sculptors and the Yorkshire Sculptors Group | |
| Education | |
| 1974-81 | Bradford Girls Grammar School |
| 1981-82 | Percival Whitley College, Halifax. Art Foundation |
| 1982-85 | Humberside College, Hull, B.A. (Hons), Fine Art. |
| 1985-86 | Manchester Polytechnic, M.A. Painting. |
| Solo Exhibitions | |
| 2016 | Breathe, exhibition & residency at FUSE ArtSpace, Bradford, responding to COP-21 Paris, conference on climate change |
| 2014 | Contemporary Sedimentary, South Square Gallery, Bradford |
| 2011 | Inspired by Landscape 1, Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford -work from the Watershed Landscape Project commission. |
| 2001-2012 | The Sally Barker Empire |
| 2001-2 | The Sally Barker Gallery, 291 gallery, London- after Tate Modern |
| 1993 | Fort Custer, Archbishop Tenison School, London |
| 1990 | Greenwich Theatre Gallery, London |
| Group Exhibitions | |
| 2024 | Omnipotence of Dream, Salford Museum & Art Gallery. With Universities of Leeds & Salford |
| 2024 | Material Truths, Old Parcel Office, Scarborough. With Royal Society of Sculptors |
| 2023 | Total Recall, Mercer Gallery, Harrogate Borrow Pit, Huddersfield Art Gallery, with YSG |
| 2022 | Assembly at Wakefield Cathedral, with YSG Raw Edge at Sunny Bank Gallery, with YSG |
| 2022 | Fresh Air Sculpture Show, Gloucester |
| 2021 | Passages, Yorkshire Sculptors Group, The Old Parcel Office, Scarborough. |
| Invasive Species 2, Wentworth Castle Gardens & Cannon Hall Museum Gardens, with the Yorkshire Sculptors Group | |
| 2020 | Invasive Species, RHS Harlow Carr, with the Yorkshire Sculptors Group |
| 2019 | Group show, 9a projects, Todmorden |
| Temporal Terrain, Dean Clough Gallery, with the Yorkshire Sculptors Group, | |
| Im-Material Disarray, SNAParts, Wakefield, part of Yorkshire Sculpture International fringe | |
| Object/Image West Yorkshire Print Workshop, with YSG | |
| Broken Ground, with YSG, Patchings Art Centre, Notts | |
| Re-verse /Re-purpose, Studio 1.1, London | |
| Prosaic- a show of painting, Coterie Gallery, Rotherham | |
| 2016-17 | Sea Swim-Head Above Water, ACE funded touring exh: Peninsula Arts, Plymouth; Strange Cargo, Folkestone; Woodend Gallery, Scarborough |
| Flood, temporary public commission for Mytholmroyd Arts Festival in response to the Boxing Day flood | |
| 2016 | Counterpart, Artist Interventions, Lytham Arts Festival |
| 2014 | The Egg, the Womb, the Head, the Moon, Artsmill Gallery |
| 2014 | The Watershed Landscape, final exhibition, Gallery One, Bradford |
| 2012 | This is Not an Empty Space, Melbourne Works, Hebden Bridge. Landmarks, Water St Gallery, Todmorden. Sculpture show at South Square Gallery, Bradford Structures, Rose and Brown, Saltaire, Bradford |
| 2011 | Artsmill Open, Artsmill Gallery, Hebden Bridge Six Inch Cube, South Square Gallery. Finalist BBC series 2 Show MeThe Monet with exhibition at RCA Bradford Open, Cartwright Hall Judge for The Young Open, Cartright Hall |
| 2010 | Nexus, Exeter Phoenix Gallery Urban Fragments, Collier Bristow Gallery, London |
| 2006-8 | Artgene Open, Barrow in Furness Fred 2007, Cumbria. Upstaging Nature, Lookout Post, London c.art.ed in Ansdell, Lancashire. Artists Books, John Holden Gallery, MMU, Manchester A-mart,Ale & Porter Arts, Bradford on Avon Plinths & Pedestals, South Central, Bath Fred 2006, Cumbria Britishness, Another Product Show, Cornerhouse, Manchester. Contemporary Prints 4, London Print Studio. |
| Commissions- residencies | |
| 2024 | Artist in residence at Ogden Water Nature Reserve, Halifax, for Calderdale Year of Culture Commission for Everybody Arts, creating Boxes for Well-being |
| 2023 | Commission for South West Yorkshire NHS Foundation Trust |
| Pendle Sculpture Trail at Barnoldswick Park (5 year installation of work suspended in the trees and embedded in the wall) | |
| 2018 | Co-delivering the Walking Lab with the drawing shed & Studio Polpo, part of Social Arts Summit, Sheffield. Including co-design of the drawing shed 2 |
| 2016 | Mytholmroyd Arts Festival, outdoor ceramic installation exploring local & global flooding issues |
| 2012 | Artist in residence for Exploring Landscapes Pennine Lancashire. One of six artists forming a residential hub for creative consultation, engagement of residents at Foxhill Bank Nature Reserve & Urban Park, Oswaldtwistle Commissioned artist on Watershed Landscape Project, Pennine Prospects commissioned to make a new body of work in response to the landscape of the South Pennines and run sessions to engage a new audience. |
| 2010- 2011 | 5 public sculpture commissions across London parks working with landscape architect and local communities |
| Employment (short version) | |
| Currently | Visual Arts Lead & Internal Artist for Hoot Creative Arts, working with adults to improve mental health and well-being. Delivered CPD at Huddersfield University Delivered a Creative Space project with CAMHS Artist working on Breathing Space project with people experiencing dementia & their carers Previously project manager for Hoot’s Going Sane project, placing artists across Kirklees businesses & organisations. Also co-ordinated Inside AiM project, working with residential units & prisons Project lead for “Build Up”, a mens woodworking project at Platform 1 & the Mens Shed, Huddersfield |
| Currently | Freelance artist for Super Slow Way, E. Lancashire. Working on various projects connecting people to place and their environment. |
| Currently | Tutor at Northlight Studios – teaching sculpture and painting courses |
| 2022 | Regular work as freelance artist in schools and with regional organisations eg Super Slow Way, Northlight Studios, Studio Polpo |
| Recent & previous | Many public & private commissions and residencies Visiting artist in art colleges/ Uni’s across England- inc New College, Huddersfield Freelance artist for organisations, galleries, museums, schools SEN schools, secure and residential mental health units , PRU etc Artist leading creative consultation for parks, with families & school groups. |