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Emma Barrow
Born in Staffordshire, UK, 1977. Lives and works in London.

Barrow graduated with an MA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths in 2005. She has exhibited widely in the UK, including Zoo Art Fair, Five Years Gallery and Gone Tomorrow Gallery, London, WW Gallery, London, Colony Gallery, Birmingham and Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh. Recent London exhibitions include Tate Modern Live: Rob Pruitt's Flea Market, Guest Projects Christmas Market at Yinka Shonibare's Space and Present in Spirit, A12, Hackney Wicked Festival. For more information, please visit the artist's website http://www.emmabarrow.com

 

 

 

Barrow has exhibited twice with WW Gallery in 'Mink Schmink', January 2009 and in 'Travelling Light' in London and Venice for the 53rd Venice BIennale during May and June 2009.

Barrow's piece in Travelling Light (Testament, 2009) uses found materials that when juxtaposed, become imbued with new meanings. Testament serves as tangible evidence of this process as two opposing belief systems collide within it. Depending on the viewers’ stance, each belief either contradicts the other or itself in perpetual unison.

Barrow's work for Mink Schmink is alchemical. She has taken found, valueless materials such as cardboard and polystyrene and transformed them into golden objects of desire, imbuing them with an importance and preciousness that appeals to the magpie in all of us. Simper and Veneer have sumptuous, glistening surfaces that seduce all our senses. Each piece is unique, its outcome dependant on the properties of its base material. WW commissioned Barrow to produce a special series of three small works for the show: Simper 1, 2 & 3, 2008.

 

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