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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Puzzled Token Women Series 2021

Puzzled, Token Woman Series 2021 0.05 Pigment liner dots on translucent paper.

This series of 24 drawings that make up a full puzzle is currently unframed. Each drawing is 23 x 23 cm square. Framed together 1 metre by 1. 50cm, the 24 drawings framed separately will give greater curiatorial flexibility

The Token Woman Series (2018 – ongoing)

I replicate original illustrations from a set of 1892 Encyclopaedias bought at my school jumble sale and cherished for a lifetime. The original tiny engravings reflect the absence of females in these tomes of knowledge aimed at celebrating and storing historical fame and success.

My ‘dot’ drawings echo both the engravers mark and contemporary issues of women’s status and acknowledgement in our society. The shape and title of each drawing reflects what 21st Century women still must do to ‘succeed’ be ‘acknowledged’ and ‘worthy’ of recording for posterity.

‘Puzzled’ mirrors both this idea and women’s increased constraints and occupations during 2020- 2021.

Puzzled

Puzzled (Token Women Series) 2021 0.05 dot pigment liner on translucent paper 100 x 150 cm Rosalind Barker
Puzzled (Token Women Series) 2021 0.05 dot pigment liner on translucent paper 100 x 150 cm Rosalind Barker
Detail Puzzled 24 individual 23 x 23 cm drawings 0.05 pigment liner dots on translucent paper.
Detail Puzzled 24 individual 23 x 23 cm drawings 0.05 pigment liner dots on translucent paper.