Hard Ground

Sara Barker’s skeletal wall constructions, freestanding, and tabletop sculptures occupy the interstices between painting and sculpture, opening a space between abstraction and representation. Barker’s works articulate painting as a space to be inhabited, thus the titles of her works often draw from the tradition of modernist poetry and literature.

Sara Barker (b. 1980, Manchester) lives and works in Glasgow. Recent and upcoming solo exhibitions include the Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow; BALTIC, Gateshead; among others. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Saatchi Gallery, London; Tate Liverpool, Liverpool; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark; Mackintosh Museum, Glasgow School of Art; and Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen.