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Published in Art Monthly, December 2011
Most of Barriball’s pieces in this thoughtfully installed show work on a poetic, conceptual level that, like the slow shadow photographs of Uta Barth or the charcoal night sky drawings by Vija Celmins, reward long looking. In a superb diptych called Shutters II, 2011, she has taken a graphite rubbing of two arched shutters. There is a terrifi c play of shade, shading and shadow, as the work moves from the shutters’ purpose of darkening a room to the act of blackening the page through shading.....Simple and striking, Light drawing, 2000, meets the challenge artists have faced for centuries: how to draw light. Barriball has coloured every inch of the metal surface of an angle-poise lamp with yellow marker pen and then drawn a circle of tungsten yellow on a card on the wall as if the yellow is pouring itself onto the lit surface.
Published in Photomonitor, December, 2011
As with her work in other media, with photography Barriball works with the objects and architecture that surround her, appropriating what already exists, breathing life into something that was already there.
http://www.photomonitor.co.uk/2011/12/anna-barriball-reviewed-by-sophy-rickett/
Published in Frieze, April 2009
Barriball’s work hovers between states, playfully bouncing between documentation and transformation, detachment and intimacy. In her recent exhibition at London’s Frith Street Gallery, the floor was seemingly scattered with leaves, a serene autumnal scene for a pleasant stroll. Each leaf in Untitled (2008), however, was a piece of cloth cut from the patterns of second hand curtains; countless inane floral draperies and vegetal patterns given a new, theatrical life that was neither natural nor domestic, though still relying on both.
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Published in Modern Painters, April 2009
Anna Barriball employs minimalist and conceptualist strategies with a rigor that suggests empirical propriety, yet her experiments with found objects and materials are rife with phenomenological paradoxes concerning art, matter, and the passage of time.
Related Exhibitions: Anna Barriball
Published in Flash Art, March April 2009
On the walls of the space, Barriball has hung a series of delicate works that play with the concept of drawing. Created by covering sheets of fine cotton paper with silver-coloured ink, which are then left to dry against various brick walls, the resulting works are subtle portraits of surfaces ofter ignored or overlooked, with the unique lines of the walls penetrating the paper and forming marks and occasionally tears and holes.
Related Exhibitions: Anna Barriball
Published in Art Monthly, March 2009
...Sunset/Sunrise V, a final work in this show which is a pencil rubbing of a sunshaped stained-glass window design. The surface of this bumpy glass is richly seductive in texture, like microscopic skin, and the symbol of a cold grey graphite sun is another example of a stylised natural form that is beckoned forth into a building’s threshold.
Related Exhibitions: Anna Barriball
Published in Londonist, 12 June 2008
Artist Anna Barriball has been commissioned to design a series of posters for the underground, and the result is an enigmatic exercise in the art of typographic seduction.
http://londonist.com/2008/06/oh_boy_new_art_on_the_underground.php
Published in Galleries, September 2005
Being inconclusive is one potent quality, not to deceive but to attract; a second is to materialise, but not to describe. Drawing the texture and surface of a brick wall, her dense graphite and clay pencil-marks travel across the paper like a computer printer head, resubstantiating the original as a flat simulacrum in grey black that emits a silver sheen in real light like an early photograph.
Published in The Independent, May 2005
Published in The Guardian, May 2004
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