Phyllida Barlow

"I use low-tech and ostensibly mundane materials, and my installations insist upon the dynamics of the location of the work in relationship to the viewer. Recently, I have applied this to more discrete, free standing and wall-based sculptures, which condense the disparity and diversity of the installations…"

Phyllida Barlow makes large-scale work from what she describes as ‘low-tech, mundane materials’, such as house paint, Plaster of Paris, discarded plastic and wood. She applies these materials to the traditional craft of sculpture, where she interrogates the possibilities of form, mass, volume, space and scale…

Phyllida Barlow’s strikingly bold paintings echo the surfaces of her better known sculptures, but in a sense go further…

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