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14/9/2006

Anna Barriball

Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh

We are delighted to announce Anna Barriball’s first exhibition at the Ingleby Gallery and her first solo show in Scotland. She has worked closely with the gallery spaces to create new works for the exhibition.

Anna Barriball’s work inhabits a fluid territory, somewhere betwixt and between the two disciplines of drawing and sculpture. Hers is an exquisitely patient and poetic process as she seeks, or waits, for the perfect collision of object and idea and medium. She works with various media, often the found and familiar, using objects from her own life and those of unknown others found by chance in markets or city streets. These are then deftly altered with simple materials and actions - some ephemeral and light, others intensely time consuming - to reveal subtle new layers of meaning and significance.

Heavy graphite rubbings of doors, windows and walls laboriously explore her immediate world and reveal a quiet beauty in our everyday surroundings whilst playfully negating their usual function. The graphite tracings of Untitled (Back Door) describe a large glass pane, placed on the wall exactly where the doorframe should offer substance and support, and a way in or out. Such visual puns continue in the series Windows, in which found photographs of buildings are re-presented with the lightest touch - the images are framed but entirely obscured by window-mounts cut to reveal just one isolated window looking out and for us to peer into. In another new work, Escape II, a trail of found ribbons is knotted together and suspended from the ceiling it falls coiling onto the floorboards. Transformed from useless scraps found in flea markets, they become a curiously substantial work which animates the space around it, and seems to defy gravity, suggesting perhaps we really could clamber up and away.

Anna Barriball’s work will not easily be pinned down and yet seen as a whole it forms a coherent, ongoing dialogue, exploring ideas of finding and making; interference and restraint; chance and intention; time and space (and their collapse into one another). The works in this exhibition encourage you to explore the space in which you find yourself, and trace the webs of physical, temporal and conceptual connections between them.

In the past two years, Barriball’s work has been seen at a number of important venues and exhibitions in the UK. In 2005 she held her first major solo exhibition at Gasworks Gallery, London, touring to Newlyn Art Gallery, and this summer, prior to her exhibition at the Ingleby Gallery, she had a solo show at the New Art Gallery Walsall. She was selected to take part in the British Art Show 6, the Hayward Gallery’s current touring exhibition 'You’ll Never Know: Drawing and Random Interference' and can also be seen in the Hayward Gallery's current exhibition 'How to Improve the World: 60 Years of British Art, Arts Council Collection'. Her work was last seen in Scotland at Inverleith House as part of New Contemporaries 2000 and this will be her first solo exhibition in Scotland. Anna Barriball was born in Plymouth in 1972. She studied at Winchester School of Art and Chelsea College of Art. She lives and works in London and is represented by Frith Street Gallery, London.

Ingleby Gallery
6 Carlton Terrace Edinburgh
Tues - Sat, 10am - 5pm or by appointment.

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