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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2011 Apokrisis – A Hairy Story

 

Apokrisis (Response) – Museum Project for Kent County Council – 2011

  ‘A Hairy story…’

Museums give prestige to objects not venerated, objectified or valued in their own century and culture. Museums can contain the anomalous, the odd and the monstrous.  I am fascinated by what counts as worth preserving or archiving.

Hair is one of the defining characteristics of the mammalian class. Historically a lock of hair could be a memorial, adult love token or preservation of a snip of childhood innocence. 21st century hair is about image, group membership, culture, wealth, status, celebrity and science. Hair embellished, controlled and designed in life is one of the few human anatomical parts composed of dead tissue.

The Museum curator gives the everyday and the discarded, presence, position, and value. I have replicated this in choosing hair as my subject matter and medium, remnants collected weekly from central Sevenoaks hairdressers were preserved, archived and reinvented in ‘A Hairy Story…’

A Hairy Story...
A Hairy Story...
A Hairy Story... Installation View
A Hairy Story... Installation View
A Hairy Story... Chapter Three - A Hairy Childhood?
A Hairy Story... Chapter Three - A Hairy Childhood?
A Hairy Story... Chapter One - Cutting The Artist
A Hairy Story... Chapter One - Cutting The Artist
A Hairy Story... Chapter Four - Whose Hairy Story?
A Hairy Story... Chapter Four - Whose Hairy Story?
A Hairy Story... Chapter Five - Hairy Castles
A Hairy Story... Chapter Five - Hairy Castles