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Personal Details
Member of the Royal Society of Sculptors
Email:
sally@sallybarker.org
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Date of Birth:
05/12/62
Education
1985-86
Manchester Polytechnic, M.A. Painting.
1982-85
Humberside College, Hull , B.A. (Hons), Fine Art.
1981-82
Percival Whitley College, Halifax.
1974-81
Bradford Girls Grammar School
Solo Exhibitions
2016
Breathe, exhibition of 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 – 2002
The Sally Barker Gallery , 291 gallery, London – after Tate Modern.
1993
Fort Custer, Archbishop Tenison School, London.
1990
Greenwich Theatre Gallery, London.
Group Exhibitions
2022
2022
2022
2020
2020
2019
Fresh Air Sculpture Show , Gloucestershire.
Assembly , Wakefield Cathedral, with YSG
Raw Edge, Sunny Bank Gallery, Bradford, with YSG
Passages , Old Parcel Office Gallery, Scarborough, with YSG
Invasive Species 2, Wentworth Castle Gardens & Cannon Hall Museum & Gardens
Invasive Species at RHS Harlow Carr Gardens, with Yorkshire Sculptors Group.
Im-Material Disarray, SNAParts, Wakefield, part of Yorkshire Sculpture International fringe
Temporal Terrain, with the Yorkshire Sculptors Group, Dean Clough. YSG at the West Yorkshire Print Workshop
Broken Ground, with the Yorkshire Sculptors Group, Patchings Art Centre, Notts
Prosaic – a show of painting, Coterie Gallery, Rotherham
Re-verse /Re-purpose, Studio 1.1, London
2016 – 2017
Sea Swim – Head Above Water, ACE funded touring exhibition: Peninsula Arts, Plymouth; Strange Cargo, Folkestone; Woodend Gallery, Scarborough.
2016
Flood Temporary public commission for Mytholmroyd Arts Festival in response to the Boxing Day flood
Counterpart Artist Interventions, Lytham Arts Festival
2014
The Egg, the Womb, the Head, the Moon, Artsmill Gallery.
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 Me The 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
2009
BITE, commission for cultural event and exhibition for City of Culture bid, Carlisle
Ice, Cuppola Gallery, Sheffield.
Sculpture show, South Square Gallery, Bradford
Salon, Temporary Artspace, Halifax
the drawing shed – ACE funded drawing project with artist Sally Labern
Pick & Mix, Leytonstone Woolworths, London
The Animal Gaze– symposium & exhibition, London Metropolitan University
2008
SCOPE art fair, London, with foldgallery
Realise, The Arthouse, Yorkshire
Fred 2008, Cumbria.
Window, foldgallery, Cumbria
2007
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
Saltburn Gallery, window.
2006
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.
2005
Snowcase, fold gallery, Cumbria.
Deptford X, London.
Fred 2005, art interventions in Cumbria.
Contemporary Prints 3, London Print Studio.
25, Exposure Gallery, Swansea
Drawing 200, The Drawing Room, London.
Catapults & High Jinx, comic show,The London Print Studio.
2004
Chaim Soutine, tattoo project, London & Tank Magazine.
Stuft, Red Gallery, Hull.
London Underground, Toomey Tourell Gallery, San Francisco.
The Straight & Crooked Way, RCA curators course show.
Not Always The Same, Hammersidi Gallery, London, then Mjelby Arts Centre, Halmstad, Sweden.
Cranes in Trees, Commission for Chiltern Sculpture Trail.
2002
Manchester v. London, LCCA, London.
2001 – 2003
Looking With/Out, Courtauld Institute, London.
2001
Century City, Tate Modern.
Art Mart, 291 Gallery, London.Work on britart.com site & in their touring multiples shop.
Adrift at Stubnitz, Rotterdam Harbour.
Record Collection, VTO Gallery, International 3, Manchester & the Forde Gallery, Geneva.
A Project, Milch gallery, London.
City Racing , a partial account 1988-1998, I.C.A. London.
1999
e/E residency @ backspace, video screenings.
1998
Real Life, Galleria S.A.L.E.S., Rome.
Showgirls, billboard poster project, Sheffield.
Internet project with ‘everything’ magazine.
Participating in eBC live multimedia channel, I.C.A.
1997
Shift, Cubitt Gallery, London.Teela visits Braziers workshop.
1996
Kiss This, Focal Point, Southend.
1995
Glass Shelf Show, multiples, ICA, London.
1994
Sally Barker, Paul Hodgson & James Pyman, City Racing, London.
Supastore Boutique, Laure Genillard, London.
City Racing, Gruppe Grun Gallery, Bremen.
Modern Art, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow.
1993
Identikit, Copenhagen Place, London.
Floccinauchinihilipilification, City Racing, London.
1992
Hit and Run, Tufton Street, London.
1990
Works, with Paul Noble and Emma Barker, Union St., London.
1988
Two painters, with Paul Noble, BICA Gallery, Brighton.
Commissions and Residencies
2018 – 2019
Commission for Pendle Sculpture Trail
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
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
2010 – 2011
Commissioned artist on Watershed Landscape Project, Pennine Prospects commissioned to make a body of work in response to the landscape of the South Pennines.
Several public sculpture commissions across London parks working with landscape architect.
Employment
Current
Visual Arts Lead & Internal Artist for Hoot Creative Arts: programming, curating exhibitions and events, mentoring, delivering sessions, running CPD & creative direction for the organisation.
Freelance artist for many organisations, galleries, museums, schools SEN schools, secure and residential mental health units etc Artist leading creative consultation for parks