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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Wax sculpting workshop

‘Sculpting The line’  11th February  Wax Sculpting with

The Drawing Room and London Sculpture Workshop

In this hands-on workshop, participants used  wax sculpting to explore themes of the fantastical and grotesque inspired by Daniel Guzmán’s exhibition Chromosome Damage.

The evening began with a short guided introduction at the Drawing Room by Mary Doyle, the exhibition curator

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In Chromosome Damage each of the thirty drawings represents a single, mainly female, figure baring teeth and pop out eyes, which goes through mystic and troubling metamorphosis – feet become tree trunks and serpents coil round them, limbs are extended and breasts and other features multiply. These works are made in pastel, charcoal, ink and acrylic on a thin, brown paper that is generally used to serve street food.

The Drawing Room research facility exhibited all the books that inspired and were recommended by Guzman.

London Sculpture Workshop director and artist Giles Corby tutored an introduction to wax sculpting techniques, including water and heating to explore the special properties of the medium.

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Below paper dipped in wax left and liquid wax dripped into cold water.

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The combination of Guzman’s use of street food wrappers (in my case, Giles lunch bag) and the artists inspiration gleaned from Willem De Kooning’s ‘Women’ were the basis for my paper wax woman.

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