Anthony Barrow

Anthony is a member of the National Acrylic Painters Association. As well as being a professional artist and demonstrator he teaches art and runs his own classes throughout the Lancashire and south Manchester areas.

The context within which we experience an event will determined how that event is encoded and retained.(Oxford Companion to the Mind. - Richard L Gregory. -1987)

The media, with its appropriation of painted images from the past masters, has created a specific genre that provokes an audience into a stereotypical form of interpretation.
My work is concerned with the re-introduction of these images as paintings in a contemporary context, enhancing their ambiguity and giving them a true physical presence.

2007. Certificate in Education, Wigan and Leigh College.2005. BA (Hons) Fine Art, University of Central Lancashire, Preston.

Solo Exhibitions

2012 Memories of Beauty, Astley Hall, Astley Village, Chorley.

2006 Once More with Feeling, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, Reynolds Building, Sackville Street, Manchester.

2003 Solo Exhibition, Observer Gallery, Wigan.


Open Exhibitions.

2012 Turnpike Open Exhibition, Turnpike Gallery, Leigh.
2012 Ashton Art Group Annual Exhibition, St Thomas Church Hall, Ashton-in-Makerfield.
2012 Skarts Stockport Open Exhibition, Stockport Art Gallery, Stockport.
2011 National Acrylic Painters International Exhibition, Williamson Art Gallery, Birkenhead. (Prizewinner)
2011 Turnpike Open Exhibition, Turnpike Gallery, Leigh.
2011 Astley Hall Biennial Open Exhibition. Judges Choice Award Winner.
2011 SKarts, Stockport Open Art Exhibiton. 2nd prize winner best painting.
2011 Little White Cube Opening Exhibition, Ashton-in-Makerfield, Wigan
2010 The National Acrylic Painters' Association The Crypt, Gallery, St. Ives (prizewinner Daler Rowney Award)
2010 SAA Artist of the Year Competition, Business Design Centre Islington (winner 1st prize still life category)
2010 Revolve Gallery Open, Castle Street, Citheroe.
2010 Leigh and Wigan Artists Open, Turnpike Gallery, Leigh.
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