Hilary Barry
My paintings are inclined to be about the inner and outer world, and my mind often focusses on recollections of the past and I am haunted still by some of the images I have seen on TV and social media. My language is painting, there is something primal about it. In my latest work the mark making has become more spontaneous, there is no initial drawing, although I usually return to a painting and repaint, building up the marks with more layers of glazes or paint. The layering in the painting is about memory, life and painting time.
Education
MA Fine Art Middlesex University (2006)
BA Fine Art Byam Shaw, London
Foundation Bournville, Birmingham
Selected Group
2023 “Old and New Traces”. Bell Gallery. Bungay, Suffolk
2022 “Art for all Seasons”, Easterly Artists, Ferini Gallery, Lowestoft
“Summer Show”, George Farnham Gallery, Saxmundham
“Art Now!”, Easterly Artists, Lowestoft
“Circus”, Yare Gallery, Great Yarmouth
2021 “Art from the Heart”, Zuleika Gallery, London
“Making our Mark”, Easterly Artists, Ferini Gallery, Lowestoft
Winter Show, Suffolk Open Studios, Printroom Studio, Saxmundham
“Heritage!”, Easterly Artists, Lowestoft
Autumn Show, George Farnham Gallery, Saxmundham
“Figurative Art Now”, Mall Galleries, London
“Moving On”, Easterly Artists, Anteros Gallery, Norwich
2020 “Hidden Nature”, Easterly Artists, virtual exhibition
“In Isolation”, Easterly Artists, virtual exhibition
2019 “People Power”, Easterly Artists, Lowestoft
Britten Centre, Easterly Artists, Lowestoft
2018 Summer Exhibition, Suffolk Art Circle, Southwold, Suffolk
Court Cupboard Gallery, Abergavenny
“Change”, Easterly Artists, Gallery Upstairs, Bungay
2016 “Autumn”, Boundary Arts, Cardiff Bay
“Breath of Nature”, Boundary Arts, Cardiff
Summer Show, Abergavenny Art Gallery
“Y Not”, Espacio Gallery, London E2
2014 “Borders”, Bernard Weatheril House, Croydon
Brynmawr Heritage Festival, Brynmawr, Wales
2013 “Feminist Times”, Online
2012 “It Is Green”, Cultivate Gallery, Vyner St, London E2
2011 “Oh Open”, People & Portraiture, Bethnal Green
2010 “BRICK”, The Gallery in Redchurch Street,
2009 Cork Street Open, Cork Street, London W1
“CRAC”, Hackney Empire, London E8
2008 “Artandaid”, Red Cross Exhibition, The Hague
2007 “New Art”, Birmingham
“Women’s Work”, Arts Centre, Basingstoke
Historic Dockyard, Portsmouth
Solo
2023 “Solo” George Farnham Gallery, Saxmumdum
2020 “Pit Girls – Forgotten Women”, Cyfarthfa Castle Museum, Merthyr Tydfil
2014 “Landscape and Memory”, Psychotherapy Centre, London NW5
2010 “Sanctuary”, Tavistock Centre, 120 Belsize Lane, London NW3
2009 “Figures in a World”, London Psychotherapy Centre, London NW5
2008 “Change”, Cloisters, Pump Court, Inner Temple, London WC1
2007 “What Lies Beneath”, Pittstudio & Gallery, Worcester
Annual
2017–23 Suffolk Open Studio, Kessingland, Suffolk
2017–22 “Cut Open”, The New Cut, Halesworth, Suffolk
2007–14 Chocolate Factory Open Studio, London N22
2007–12 Barnet Open, Artsdepot, London
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