Plant is nature Pattern is human

Sara Barker

Plant is nature Pattern is human, 2016112 x 91 x 30cmSign in to view price
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painted & folded aluminium tray, mirrored steel, steel rod, automotive paintThe approach
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The artwork features a bold, abstract composition of intersecting planes and vibrant colors. The canvas is divided into geometric sections, creating a dynamic, fragmented visual effect. The color palette incorporates various shades of blue, green, and purple, with subtle hints of peach and yellow. The overall impression is one of movement and energy, achieved through the interplay of angular lines and expressive brushstrokes. The artwork appears to be a contemporary mixed-media piece, combining painting and sculptural elements to explore themes of space, structure, and the relationship between form and surface. ...

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Sara Barker
Artist
Sara Barker
B.1980, British

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. ...

Sara Barker: Artworks
mouth
Sara Barker
mouth, 2020
38 x 40 x 8.5cm
Split
Sara Barker
Split, 2020
20 x 20 x 5cm
Hold
Sara Barker
Hold, 2020
28 x 20 x 6cm
Bunker
Sara Barker
Bunker, 2020
40 x 39.5 x 4.5cm
a child slippinga man losing his hatin the natural weather
Sara Barker
a child slippinga man losing his hatin the natural weather, 2017
99 x 134 x 27cm
Plant is nature Pattern is human
Sara Barker
Plant is nature Pattern is human, 2016
112 x 91 x 30cm
climb
Sara Barker
climb, 2020
13 x 8 x 4cm
PULL
Sara Barker
PULL, 2020
43 x 50 x 16cm
Reason
Sara Barker
Reason, 2020
33.5 x 40 x 6.5cm
Winter receding
Sara Barker
Winter receding, 2020
120 x 240 x 19cm
Ensemble (on Steinway’s back)
Sara Barker
Ensemble (on Steinway’s back), 2020
170 x 142 x 26cm
Crushed to powder returned to earth
Sara Barker
Crushed to powder returned to earth, 2020
190 x 112 x 47cm
Geographies of dust and air
Sara Barker
Geographies of dust and air, 2020
128 x 155 x 70cm
Saturnine night
Sara Barker
Saturnine night, 2018
72 x 74 x 22cm
Wild nature
Sara Barker
Wild nature, 2018
77 x 107.5 x 23cm
hour-watching silver and exact water is in water within within within
Sara Barker
hour-watching silver and exact water is in water within within within, 2017
136 x 174 x 42cm
unnatural councilhands in cold looked blue
Sara Barker
unnatural councilhands in cold looked blue, 2017
211 x 73 x 67cm
the letters F & M are characters
Sara Barker
the letters F & M are characters, 2016
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metamorphosis of friends disappeared subtle structures
Sara Barker
metamorphosis of friends disappeared subtle structures, 2016
330 x 162 x 167cm
irradiations across hemispheres
Sara Barker
irradiations across hemispheres, 2016
240 x 185 x 110cm
The approach
Gallery
The approach
London

The Approach is co-directed by Jake Miller and Emma Robertson. Located in Bethnal Green above The Approach Tavern, for over twenty years it has operated an internationally recognised programme from its East London base. The gallery is known for discovering artists and establishing their careers as well as making inter-generational curated group shows a strong focus. The list of represented artists includes the Estates of important overlooked female artists Heidi Bucher and Maria Pinińska Bereś, as well as seminal British collage artist John Stezaker, together with established and emerging artists including Magali Reus, Peter Davies, Lisa Oppenheim, Sandra Mujinga, Pam Evelyn, Sara Cwynar, Sam Windett and Caitlin Keogh. Over the years the gallery has operated parallel programmes in additional gallery spaces in London’s West End (The Approach W1) and in Shoreditch (The Reliance). The gallery is currently based solely in its original East End location and continues to expand its programme, showcasing its represented artists in the main gallery space, and both represented and non-represented artists in The Annexe, a smaller, more experimental space at the back of the building. ...

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