Artist statement
My practice is primarily concerned with painting but has also included video and collaborative projects. I am currently working with images from the website of institutional buildings which relate to my own autobiography. I am interested in the locations both virtual and real where private and cultural memory coincide. Although these are not my images they depict places of common experience which are at once intimately known and totally other. The buidings are of camps, barracks, living quarters and prisons which structure and contain the lives of the inhabitants. Through the painting process the image is stripped back and barely rendered which implies both the fragility of memory and the spaces of forgetting. Past projects have involved collaboration with a weaver 'Techniques of Memory', curatorship 'Fabrications, Painting and the Decorative', and inclusion in artist research, 'Pearl Street Projects' in New York.
Solo exhibitions
- 2007 Techniques of Memory, Pearl Street Gallery, New York
- 2005 Techniques of Memory, Outpost Gallery, Norwich
- 2005 Techniques of Memory - Touring Exhibition, Huddersfield Art Gallery, Huddersfield
Group exhibitions
- 2012 New East Anglian Painting, Ipswich Art School Gallery, Ipswich
- 2012 Regrouping/ BendIn the River, Workstation, Sheffield
- 2012 TimePlace, Minories Gallery, Colchester
- 2011 MEMORY B(L)ANKS, Axis Arts Centre Manchester Metropolitan Univ., Crewe
- 2011 Wunderland, TactileBosch, Cardiff
Artist talks
- 2012 Barbara Howey in conversation with Marcus Harvey and Peter Ashton Jones, Firstsite, Colchester
Residencies
- 2011 Orford Ness, National Trust, Orford Ness Suffolk
- 2011 Escalator Retreat, Wysing Art Centre, Cambridgeshire
Competitions, prizes and awards
- 2013 Paint Club East - Grants for the Arts awarded, Firstsite/Minories Galleries, East Anglia
- 2010 Exeter Contemporary Open, Exeter Phoenix Gallery, Exeter
Publications
- 2010 Art Practice as Research - Inquiry in Visual arts, Sage Publication pp85-88, Review by Graeme Sullivan
- 2006 Celeste Art Prize Publication, Goldsmith University, Vestry Road, London
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