Sara Barker: Change The Setting

A new exhibition of the work of Glasgow-based artist Sara Barker whose sculptures trace delicate lines in space. Operating on the boundary between sculpture, painting and drawing, her works incorporate rods of steel and aluminium, sheets of glass and painted sections which draw the viewer into Barker’s curiously spatial imagination. Sometimes wall based, sometimes floor based, and sometimes moving from floor to wall and back again, Barker’s works inhabit space and also describe it. She is interested in how space may be imagined – in novels, in memory – and there is a quiet eloquence to her work which seems to hint at this kind of spatial envisioning.

This exhibition will offer a unique insight into Sara Barker’s sculptural language, presenting a careful selection of existing work in dialogue with a group of ambitious new sculptures made with the spaces of The Fruitmarket Gallery specifically in mind.

Sara Barker was born in Manchester in 1980, she studied at Glasgow School of Art and lives and works in Glasgow. She is represented by Mary Mary, Glasgow. A major new monograph will be published on for the exhibition, presenting work from 2008 to 2015, which includes an essay by curator and writer Katharine Stout, and a new piece of writing by the author Ali Smith. Designed in close collaboration with the artist, it offers an insight into her practice.