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Eclipse 2
56cm x 86cm x 2cm
Mixed Media
Etched Slate
Framed
£850.00
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Artist profile
Born
Birtley, Co. Durham. Following studies at Sunderland College of Art, the bulk of Barron’s working life, apart from periods in Australia, Cornwall and London, has been spent in the North East of England.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2006 The Wonderful World of Crystals, St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh Arts Festival
2005 The Riverside Gallery, Richmond on Thames
2004 TheBiscuit Factory, Newcastle upon Tyne
2001 Witnesses, installation,St Martin's in the BullRing Birmingham
2001 Witnesses, installation,Ely Cathedral
2000 Witnesses, installation, Durham Cathedral
2000 The Mall Galleries, London
1998 Traces,installation, Durham Art Gallery
1998 Collingwood CollegeDurhamUniversity
1994 Exhibition Hall, Durham Arts Festival
1990 Washington Arts Centre, Tyne And Wear
1987 Whitehaven Museum and Art Gallery, Cumbria
1986 Bury Art Gallery
1986 Hereford Art Gallery
1986 Wolverhampton Art Gallery
1985 Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery
1985 Chelmsford And Essex Art Gallery
1984 Buddle Arts Centre, North Tyneside
1983 Sunderland Arts Centre
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007 Sheridan Russell
Gallery, London W1
2006 Northcote Gallery,
London SW3
2002 Circle Gallery, Edinburgh
2002 The Unicorn Gallery, London SW10
2002 Queen’s Hall
Arts Centre, Hexham
2001 Paperworks, Bury Art Gallery
1998 The Music Room, London E1
1998 Atlantis Gallery, London E1
1996 Visual Arts’96, Brancepeth Castle, Co. Durham
1994 Middlesbrough Open - Prizewinner
1992 Richmond Gallery, London W1
1988 Pride Gallery, London W8
1988 Piccadilly Gallery, London W1
1984 Darlington Arts Centre
1980 Durham Art Gallery
1978 Northern Artists Travelling Exhibition
COMMISSIONS AND COLLECTIONS
Bury Art Gallery & Museum.
Wolverhampton Art Gallery.
Northern Arts.
Goldman Sachs International, London EC4.
Colchester General Hospital.
Sunderland Postgraduate Medical Centre.
J.D. Wetherspoon PLC, Watford.
Northern Rock Building Society, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Ernst & Young, London SE1.
Reed International, London W1.
Barclays Development Capital Limited, London SE1.
Investors in Industry, Solihull.
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About my work
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
CONCEPTS
I am interested in taking discarded materials and making them into art. I have no idea when I begin as to what is going to happen. The material itself dictates what is going to emerge. Colour is kept minimal as an alternative to the high gloss of most modern advertising imagery and also to emphasise the surface and texture of the work.
PROCESSES AND TECHNIQUES
Much of my work is made from waste card which I collect from local outlets, then cut and tear and paint the various pieces. Sometimes I will attempt to remove this fresh paint to reveal parts of the text on the card or I will score and scratch the surface or perhaps sand it down to reveal the corrugations beneath. Texture is important to the work. These various pieces of card are then shuffled around on a workbench to create the finished piece. When I am satisfied with the arrangement they are carefully glued onto plywood and then glazed and framed
I have further used this interest in the use of discarded materials by drawing into old and broken slates that have lain on rooves for years before being replaced and cast aside. I wash the slates clean from years of soot and grime and etch into the surface with a sharp point.
INFLUENCES
My work is essentially about communicating a certain aesthetic. There are some lines which Robert Hughes wrote about Richard Diebenkorn’s ‘Ocean Park’ series of paintings which are pinned up in my studio: -
“One hears neither the chant of surging millions, nor even the chorus of a movement, but one measured voice, quietly and tersely explaining why this light, this colour, this intrusion of a 30 degree angle into a glazed and modulated field might be valuable in the life of the mind and of feeling.”
I would hope my art engaged in a contemplative manner and is seen as work which demands thought and investigation rather than some instant appraisal.
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