Anna Barratt: Another Side
dal 2/10/2008 al 19/11/2008
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2/10/2008
Anna Barratt: Another Side
Chapter Gallery, Cardiff
Assembly: Art in the Bar. Her work quietly examines a realm of absurdity and unknown territory and her figures and characters reveal a darker side to day-to-day life. It draws extensively on personal and autobiographical details and unites the everyday with the carnivalesque. Curated by Elena Schmitz.
Curated by Elena Schmitz
Anna Barratt’s work quietly examines a realm of absurdity and unknown territory and her figures and characters reveal a darker side to day-to-day life. "My drawings spring from tensions and the isolation of being in a domestic setting" says Barratt.
Images that appear innocent and sweet at first sight — children flying kites or riding on horseback — reveal something more sinister on closer inspection: strange tubes are growing from the children’s heads; the horse has no head. Figures in Barratt’s work are often disembodied, heads appear in cages and eyes are wide open in terror or fear. Her drawings are delicately executed in fine pen lines giving them an emotional rawness and naivety while maintaining an ambiguity in their interpretation. Barratt’s use of watercolour in her drawings adds a vibrancy that makes her figures seem to float and dance on the page.
Her work draws extensively on personal and autobiographical details and unites the everyday with the carnivalesque. People are woven into a world that owes as much to Celtic or medieval mythology as it does to contemporary life in all its messy and differentiated forms.
Barratt has also produced simple animations of her drawings. Cut In Half draws from her notebook and appears similar to a ’flickbook’. The animations have given her an opportunity to be "looking outside myself, looking objectively at my drawings". For Assembly Barratt has made a new animation, shown here for the first time.
Anna Barratt graduated in 1999 with an MA in Fine Art and Printmaking from the Wimbledon School of Art. Her work has been featured in recent group exhibitions including ‘RE -Drawing, Oriel Davies Open’, Newtown, 2008; ‘If You Build It They Will Come’, g39, Cardiff, 2008; ‘Spector vs Rector’, The Residence Gallery, London, 2007 and ‘Celf a Chrefft’, National Eisteddfod, Swansea, 2006. Her first solo exhibition ‘Anna Barratt’ took place at g39, Cardiff earlier this year.
Image: Anna Barratt, Untitled. Watercolour and felt pen on A4 paper, 2007. Courtesy the artist.
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Chapter Gallery
Market Road, CF5 - Cardiff
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