Rosalind Barker

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Current work

  • we should have stayed here....contour drawings.
  • us - future for ROOTED 2022
  • Puzzled Token Women Series 2021
  • ‘nobody’ Artist gallery residency Jan 2020

Exhibition Archive

  • 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
  • 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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we should have stayed here….contour drawings.

we should have stayed here…. is a series of sharp pencil linear contour drawings reflecting an archeologic trip through my families archived mobile phones, now viewed as curios. 

It is 50 years since the first handheld cellular mobile phone call was made. Spring 1973 by Motorola engineer Martin Cooper on the streets of New York. They were huge, heavy and rare as they cost the equivalent of £10,000. You could talk for 35 minutes but the charge time was 10 hours. I was 18 and unaffected.

As mobile technology increased the mobiles shrank, reflected in this series of contour drawings. As they became a co-host to other technical achievements, cameras, computers, apps they slimmed down but scaled up.
In 2023 they are ‘smartphones’, magical devices, addictive and demanding. Few people on the planet remain unaffected including me.

‘A smart phone in itself is not dangerous, but a smartphone loaded with apps becomes a portal to God knows what’ Jonathan Haidt Psychological Prof. New York University’ 

‘we should have stayed here … 1st draft’ is a flattened contour drawing of an early brick type mobile with antennae.

‘we should have stayed here …’  Contour drawing series detail Pencil, acrylic, Skizzen No1 paper 30 x 29 x 4 Each will be named individually

‘we should have stayed here …’  Contour drawing series Pencil, acrylic, Skizzen No1 paper 30 x 29 x 4 Named individually. Rosalind Barker
‘we should have stayed here …’  Contour drawing series Pencil, acrylic, Skizzen No1 paper 30 x 29 x 4 Named individually. Rosalind Barker
‘we should have stayed here … 1st draft’. March 2023. Contour drawing series. HB Staedtler sharp Pencil. paint on 70gsm London Graphic Centre Marker pad. H60 x W42cm
‘we should have stayed here … 1st draft’. March 2023. Contour drawing series. HB Staedtler sharp Pencil. paint on 70gsm London Graphic Centre Marker pad. H60 x W42cm