CHANGE-THE-SETTING

An exhibition of the work of Glasgow-based APT 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 a 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. It will be supported by a new publication, designed by Fruitmarket Gallery Depute Director Elizabeth McLean in close conversation with Sara Barker. The book will present an overview of Sara Barker’s work from 2008 to 2016, and will feature not only an insightful essay from the ICA’s Head of Programme Katherine Stout, but also a new piece of writing by acclaimed Scottish author Ali Smith.

In collaboration with Ikon Gallery, Birmingham