Karl Barrett

"The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium – that is, of any extension of ourselves – result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology."

Marshall McLuhan

As an experienced conservationist and cartographer using both digital and analogue methods in reading and communicating landscape; I found myself capturing something between reality and the imagined within my sketch books, field notes and digital recording devices. The former processes of surveying landscapes led me towards a poetic communication of 'place' through artistic representation. My mediums are mixed, I will layer, destroy and recreate images from hand sketched, to collage, to digital and moveback and forth within the spectrum of mixed media. Much of my current collection of work encompasses an urban and ecological narratives.

Manchester School of Architecture. BA (Hons) Landscape Architecture (2013)
University of Central Lancashire. Cert He Horticulture. (2010)
Manchester College HNC Business. (2000)