This mixed-media artwork features a vibrant abstract composition with a combination of painted and collaged elements. The central panel showcases a bold, expressive brushwork in various hues of green, yellow, and blue, creating a sense of movement and depth. Surrounding this central panel are irregularly shaped, torn pieces of canvas or paper, adding a textural quality to the work. The outer edges are adorned with small, hand-sculpted ceramic animal figures, lending a whimsical and playful touch to the overall piece. The artist's unique approach blends painting, collage, and sculpture, reflecting a dynamic and experimental contemporary art practice. ...
Sophie Barber’s paintings, ranging from large to tiny, depict that which she finds around herself. Natural and manmade imagery, like tents, houses, birds, and people, are painted against block-colour backgrounds. The simplicity of the composition alludes to folk art, with subject matter presenting itself as illusive visions rather than literal representations. Curiously and humorously, Barber works with existing images, like sculptures of Franz West, Giotto or Annie Leibovitz’s photographs of Kendrick Lamar, sometimes painting directly on magazine covers. The artist’s depictions are chunky, atmospheric, homely, yet secretive. In Barber’s hands, the mundane is continuously reimagined and recontextualised through the lens of abundance. ...
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