Rosalind Barker

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  • 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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2018 Rhinoceros Domesticus

Rhinoceros Domesticus 2018 Compressed graphite domestic rubbings on Japanese paper

The British Museum Drawing and Print Archive, a postgraduate MA drawing collaboration project.

Artists Rosalind Barker, Su Bonfanti, Ali Christie, Nic Clarke, Janine Hall, Caroline Holt-Wilson, Ruth Richmond

 

British Museum Ref: Albrecht Durer ‘Rhinoceron’ 1515 Drawing and woodcut.

 

Exhibition at Sevenoaks Kaleidoscope Gallery 2018. Installation view.

Albrecht Durer  ‘Rhinoceron’ is an instantly recognisable iconic, durable image. Forty five thousand copies were made in his lifetime and the 21stCentury Internet is rife with online booty bearing this woodcut image.

No rhinoceros was available to be seen in early 16thcentury Europe. People had written descriptions from as early as Plinny the Elder (AD 23-79) in ‘Natural History’. Durer had never seen the animal when he made the works in 1515. He worked from descriptions in letters and oral accounts. Studying the drawing reveals its amalgamation of imaginative marks. The final woodcut while incorrect is a chimera of multiple horns and marks ‘like’ reptiles, shells, bone, scales, etc as described to him.

My ‘Rhinoceros Domesticus’ 2018 is composed of rubbed domestic objects. Each selected for their  ‘likeness’ to the original mark making.

Now 500 years later, future Europeans may only ever imagine this increasingly rare and threatened species.

http://rosalindbarker.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/IMG_8463-1.m4v

Full details of the 2018 exhibition Here

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Domesticus Rhinoceros 2018
Domesticus Rhinoceros 2018