Ingrid Barber

An artist and maker, Ingrid has put the focus of her recent works on the surreal, fantasy, repetition and absurdity. The thread of the narrative conversation is a constant in her work.
 
 
Recently commended by Red Line Artwork for producing art that engages with global concerns, Ingrid’s creative process begins with exploratory work in collage, leading to ink drawings, often large-scale, and the final outcome is a canvas oil painting.
 
Regularly showing in UK and Europe, Ingrid’s large oil, ‘Afternoon Tea at the RAC Club’ was exhibited at Hauser&Wirth, Black Swan Open in Somerset in 2019. In the same year a large scale ink drawing “Cheese on the door, where’s my stew?” was featured at the Mall Gallery, at the Royal Society of British Artists exhibition. Her ink drawing ‘After the Berlin Holocaust Memorial’ was shown at Landmark Arts and her depiction of the Battle of Waterloo, a large mixed media work featuring lead toy soldiers and earth from the battleground, was shown at the Fine Art Society.

Frequently adopting a historical narrative in exhibitions about The Somme, The Russian Revolution , Waterloo and Auschwitz , (working in mixed media , wax and 3D) Ingrid’s work this year turns, in addition, to issues surroundin...

Education

2012-14 Foundation Degree in Art and Design: Distinction Kingston University

2011 Art Foundation diploma: Distinctio Kingston University

2009-10 Oil painting, drawing and ceramics 2 years Ateliers Rue Voot, Brussels

1997 Metalwork level 2 10 credits Bridgewater College Somerset

1980-1983 BA Hons Russian Language and Literature with French 2:1. S.E.E.S. London University

1973-8. A levels French, Russian, History. International School Japan And Manchester High School for Girls

2020 Landmark Arts
“After the Berlin Holocaust Memorial” ink drawings

2019 Black Swan Open Frome
“Afternoon tea at the R.A.C. Club, oil

2019 Fronteer Arts Sheffield
“There is no planet B” drawing

2019 Royal Society of British Artists, Mall gallery, London
“Cheese on the door, where’s my stew” large scale ink drawing

2019 Carshalton Open Artists studios
Human dysfunction series

2018 Stash gallery, Vout-O-Reenees , London Bridge
Acid Drop Copse : The Russian Revolution
Series of works about the death of the Romanovs

2017 Riverside gallery Orleans House, Richmond
“Into the light” exhibition

2016 ArtMoorHouse, Moorgate, London

Honeywood Museum, Surrey

Curator and artist for group exhibition “Acid Drop Copse” : The Somme

2015 Fine Art Society Contemporary, New Bond Street, London
“The Other Side of the Hill” Waterloo 200

2015 ...