Rosalind Barker

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Current work

  • Influences from my residency at Viraco Pencil Factory Portugal 2023

Exhibition Archive

  • Don’t eat the Pomegranate? Free Painters and Sculptors 2024
  • we should have stayed here....contour drawings 2023
  • us - future for ROOTED 2022
  • Puzzled Token Women Series 2021
  • ‘nobody’ Artist gallery residency Jan 2020
  • Token Women Drawings 2019 - 2020
  • 2019 'us' CA+R The Crypt Gallery and The London Ultra
  • 2019 EX LIBRIS
  • OVERDRAWN Drawing Prize 2019
  • 2018 Rhinoceros Domesticus
  • 2018 'us' The London Group and Friends
  • 2017 'Home' The London Group and Friends
  • 2014 'The Send Off' Knole House The National Trust
  • 2013 Ko-ax Drawing Prize
  • 2013 'Objects Of Desire'
  • 2012 Memory Box Drawings
  • 2012 AiRM - Art in Romney Marsh
  • 2011 Apokrisis - A Hairy Story
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2013 Ko-ax Drawing Prize

Ko-ax Drawing Prize 2013

The memory box and pillow drawings 2013 are focused and have evolved around drawing from contemporaneous cultural magazine photographs. Devoted to a linear expression of mark making, the drawing tool has been a needle with graphite thread as medium. Focusing on replicating the repetitive hand movements of sewing to achieve the marks. In the final stage of the process minimal marks with acrylic and pencil are applied.

The pillow drawings link the strange world we all inhabit in our dreams, where synchronously we experience fact and fantasy. The dreams are interweaved with the familiar domesticity of the pillows connections to birth, sex, illness, comfort and we hope, our death.

‘Barker’s memory boxes and pillow drawings of 2012 are based on the artist’s family’s small faded photographs. The artist’s choice to create works out of pillows and needlework immediately links us to dreams and domesticity.

Drawing becomes both an output for dreaming as well as being a very familiar form of expression. The familiarity of the media immediately brings the viewer into the art works. Despite the fact that the initial photographs are autobiographical, the artist leaves the faces blank and invites the viewer to engage in a dialogue about the fragile nature of life, memory, experience and loss.’

Nathaniel  Hepburn Curator  Ko-ax Drawing Prize 2013

Ko-ax Drawing - Installation View
Ko-ax Drawing - Installation View
'Dreams of 1959' - Detail 2012
'Dreams of 1959' - Detail 2012
Ko-ax Drawing
Ko-ax Drawing
Ko-ax Drawing
Ko-ax Drawing