Sara Barker

Sara Barker

BornNationalityBased In
1980BritishGlasgow
Biography

Sara Barker employs painted aluminum sheets, molded brass, and steel brazing, as well as commonplace materials like wood, cardboard, and wire to create three-dimensional sculptural paintings. Drawing on her background in painting, Barker treats metal sheets as a canvas to explore the limits of painted surfaces beyond cavases. By integrating gestural painting into her works, she creates a contrast with industrial forms, resulting in large scale, self-supporting sculptures and wall hangings that engage with composition, scale, and materiality in nuanced ways. Barker has included angular aluminum trays, or ‘trenches,’ as vessels for painting, which are fundamental and adaptable structures that can accommodate diverse forms, depths, configurations, and shapes. Her work highlights a shared language between painting and sculpture that is visceral, tangible, and fundamental to the act of creation, and these pieces create small, self-contained abstract landscapes composed of linear metal shapes. ...

Selected Artworks
climb
Sara Barkerclimb, 2020
13 x 8 x 4cm
PULL
Sara BarkerPULL, 2020
43 x 50 x 16cm
mouth
Sara Barkermouth, 2020
38 x 40 x 8.5cm
Split
Sara BarkerSplit, 2020
20 x 20 x 5cm
Hold
Sara BarkerHold, 2020
28 x 20 x 6cm
Reason
Sara BarkerReason, 2020
33.5 x 40 x 6.5cm
Bunker
Sara BarkerBunker, 2020
40 x 39.5 x 4.5cm
Winter receding
Saturnine night
Wild nature
Sara BarkerWild nature, 2018
77 x 107.5 x 23cm
Gallery Representation
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