Barlow’s playful approach turned found objects into composites that shone, while nodding to the artists she loved. Following her death last year, the curator here has attempted...
This exhibition of new work is more pared back than we have come to expect from Barlow. Her aim, she says, is ‘to come back to what is essential’
Royal Academy of Arts, Lond...
As her first permanent artwork, Quarry is unveiled at Jupiter Artland, outside Edinburgh, Barlow talks about its conception and creation, its location in the woods surrounding th...
Barlow’s art is genuinely challenging. The stacks of timber and cemented detritus spattered with paint, frozen between creation and destruction, fulfil her aim of turning the g...
Michael Dean – Government Phyllida Barlow – Bad Copies Henry Moore Institute, Leeds 12 April–17 June 2012
by ANNE BLOOD
If we’ve learned anything about British sculptur...
... the underdog, and that in itself is funny. Phyllida Barlow talked about this, too. She said that the subject’s strength is that it is useless and absurd and silly. I thi...
... something different from the still lives of the past.
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Phyllida Barlow’s Untitled (Bottle Rack) (2006), a cylindrical construction dripping with green paint ...
... sculptures from contemporary artists including Hew Locke and Phyllida Barlow
Royal West of England Academy, Bristol 3 February – 12 May 2024
by DAVID TRIGG
“I e...
... the sculpture almost seems to gyrate with the vibrations.
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Two large sculptures by the late Phyllida Barlow (2019-22, 2022) use a range of industrial materials...
This apposite pairing of two conceptually rigorous artists provokes myriad questions about process, composition and the materiality of paper
Amelie A Wallace Gallery, SUNY Colle...
... a small exhibition featuring work by her friends and peers, called: the other side of the coin. It features new and existing work by Phyllida Barlow, Laura Ford, Carol McN...
... to be heard. Within the art scene, this decade has been like a sense of redemption. Many of the older women – such as Phyllida Barlow – who were totally unknown are fi...
... pedigree: Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth both grew up around Wakefield, before meeting at Leeds College of Art. In 2018, the institutions’ curators asked (the otherwis...
... mature artists who have triumphed at previous biennales (it was the septuagenarian Phyllida Barlow’s first outing for the UK and nonagenarian Geta Brătescu’s first fo...
... selection process with a voluntary committee of Academicians, comprising Phyllida Barlow, Piers Gough, Allen Jones, David Mach, Humphrey Ocean, Chris Orr, Cornelia Parker,...
... equally explosive but very different female talents. Phyllida Barlow’s newly commissioned work, Quarry (2018) offers three permanent monumental structures – two loomin...
... the clustered shapes of Phyllida Barlow’s untitled: upturned (2017) in acrylic on paper above 2006 graduate Akiko Ban’s equally polychromatic but flowing, semi-figurat...
... – 21 April 2017
by VERONICA SIMPSON
An impressive cast-list has been assembled for this group exhibition of artists from the UK, Germany and Holland - among them Ric...
... talk to each other about our work. The other important thing about my friendship with Sarah is that the people whose work we talked about when we met were artists like Mar...