Provenance
Frith Street Gallery, London
Exhibited
Netherlands, De Hallen Haarlem, Lunar Distance, 12 September - 29 November 2009
Milton Keynes, MK Gallery, Anna Barriball, 30 September - 27 November 2011
London, The Saatchi Gallery, Newspeak: British Art Now II, 27 October - 30 April 2011
Edinburgh, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Anna Barriball, 20 January - 01 April 2012
Literature
Newspeak: British Art Now, Exh. Cat., The Saatchi Gallery, 2010, pg. 23
Catalogue Essay
Anna Barriball's works convey an intimacy with the overly familiar. She smothers the surfaces of everyday objects so they become seductively sinister husks of their former selves. Made by placing a large piece of paper over a door, and rubbing it with a pencil, Door is a drawing that assumes the qualities of a sculpture. Its burnished graphite surface captures every subtle detail of the original object, while the paper warps and fluxes through repetitive handling to gain a solidity of its own. Central to Barriball’s practice is the time and effort involved in the making; her process formulates as poetic meditation, finding a delicate fascination in the mundane and overlooked.

Anna Barriball

Door

2004
pencil on paper
208.4 x 87.9 x 6 cm. (82 x 34 5/8 x 2 3/8 in.)

Estimate
£7,000 - 9,000 ♠†

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