Rosalind Barker

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Current work

  • us - future for ROOTED 2022
  • Puzzled Token Women Series 2021
  • ‘nobody’ Artist gallery residency Jan 2020
  • Token Women Drawings 2019 - 2020
  • OVERDRAWN Drawing Prize 2019

Exhibition Archive

  • 2019 'us' CA+R The Crypt Gallery and The London Ultra
  • 2019 EX LIBRIS
  • 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
  • 2010 'Ask Freud' for 'Eidos'
  • 2010 Accident & Emergance - 'Pistols & Pollinators 1'
  • 2010 'Fowle Hall Features IV'
  • 2008 BA Fine Art (Hons) Degree Show
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2014 ‘The Send Off’ Knole House The National Trust

‘The Send Off’ – contemporary artists forge new conversations with Wilfred Owen, Carol Ann Duffy and the Great War.

Knole House, The National Trust, Sevenoaks, Kent

July 28th – August 29th 2014

Eighteen contemporary artist’s responses to two texts. One is a contemporaneous WW1 poem by Wilfrid Owen called ‘The Send Off’, the other a response to it by the current Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy called ‘Unseen’

‘An Unseen’ takes its title from and responds to Carol Ann Duffy’s poem, while also reflecting on Wilfred Owens ‘The Send Off’. Owens potential at the tender age of 25 was abruptly curtailed in the trenches during the final week of the war. He joined the lost hundreds of thousands of British soldiers.

‘An Unseen’ represents the lost individual memories, personalities, emotions, dreams and intellects destroyed by the First World War and a Century of time. The artist’s thoughts were of how to make this unseen internal, intangible essence of humanity physical.

‘An Unseen’

Each graphite dot or circle denotes 100 British soldiers, each square 1000 creating the total loss of 660,000 men in the drawn graph. (War Office statistics 1921)

'An Unseen' Detail Drawing: graphite on tissue paper. Plaster cast of a human cranium. Archive box.
'An Unseen' Detail Drawing: graphite on tissue paper. Plaster cast of a human cranium. Archive box.