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Anna Barriball's work hinges on minimal interactions with objects and often steps between the parallel languages of drawing and sculpture. Much of her practice explores and depicts the accretion of time from the length of time it takes for a candle to burn down to the repetitious activity of taking graphite rubbings from objects that bare the traces of their use or function. In her hands a map of the world is transformed into a strange expanse of shimmering substance, or the bounce of a rubber ball on a piece of paper creates the effect of a cosmic explosion. Her interventions produce objects that combine a minimalistic rigour and the seemingly endless endeavour to make sense of the world of objects by empirical study.

Anna Barriball lives and works in London and Berlin. She has had solo exhibitions at the Arnolfini, Bristol in 2003 and Gasworks Gallery, London and Newlyn' Art Gallery in 2005. Barriball's work was included in the British Art Show 6, which is on show at various venues in Manchester and is also featured in Phaidon's major publication Vitamin D, a survey of contemporary drawing. Barriball's work is in many international collections including Tate.

BIOGRAPHY

Born 1972 in Plymouth, England

1999-2000
Chelsea College of Art MA Fine Art

1992-1995
Winchester School of Art Ba (Hons) Fine Art

1991-1992
Falmouth School of Art Foundation Studies

Lives and works in London and Berlin

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2007
Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen

2006
Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
The New Art Gallery, Walsall

2005
Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall
Gasworks, London

2004
Frith Street Gallery, London press release

2003
Recognition: Part One, Arnolfini, Bristol

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2007
Echo Room, Alcala 31, Madrid
Scary Movie, Contemporary Art Centre of SA

2006
Resonance, Frith Street Gallery, London
How to Improve the World: 60 Years of British Art, Hayward Gallery, London
I Walk the Lines, Barbara Thumm, Berlin
Until It Makes Sense, Seventeen Gallery, London
You'll Never Know, Hayward Gallery National touring exhibition

2005 - 2006
British Art Show 6 (BAS 6) touring exhibition, curated by Alex Farquharson and Andrea Schlieker

2003
Frequencies, Frith Street Gallery, London press release
Turpentine, Studio Voltaire, London
Bonobos, Niels Borch Jenson Galerie, Berlin
Not Always The Same, hammer sidi, London
Mjellby Art Centre, Halmstad, Sweden

2002 - 2003
STILL LIFE in contemporary British art, curated by Ann Gallagher British Council Touring Exhibition

2002
Superfluity: British Artists at Latvijas Makslas Akademija Latvijas Makslas Akademija, Riga, Latvia
Prospects 2002 contemporary drawing exhibition Essor Gallery Project Space, London
Giardino Studio d'Arte Raffaelli, Trento/Galleria Del Tasso Arte Contemporanea, Bergamo, Italy

2001
Centro Culturale Paggeria del Commune di Sassuolo, Sassuolo, (Modena), Italy
The (Ideal) Home Show, Gimpel Fils, London
Drawings, Frith Street Gallery, London
Rewind, Glassbox, Paris

2000
Felt-tip, Zwemmer Gallery, London
Oeuvre d'etre/Works of being, Temple Gallery, Rome
New Contemporaries 2000 Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes
Cornerhouse, Manchester
Inverleith House, Edinburgh
The Armchair Project, Cinch, London
Here Comes the Night, 15c St Charles Square, London
Living With the Dutch, 89a Erlanger Road, London

1999
The Office of Misplaced Events, curated by Simon Morrissey, Lotta Hammer Gallery, London
Brainstorm, Goldsmiths College, London
The Equinox, Cairn Gallery, Gloucestershire

1997
ne me quitte pas, Glassbox, Paris

1995
Works on Paper, The Brooks Centre, Winchester

CATALOGUES/PUBLICATIONS

British Art Show 6, with introduction by curators Alex Farquharson and Andrea Schlieker, Cornerhouse Publlications, 2005.

Anna Barriball, with an essay by Ian Hunt, Gasworks Gallery, London and Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall, 2005

Recognition, Edited by Simon Morrissey and Lucy Steeds, Arnolfini, Bristol, 2003

Still Life, Text by Ann Gallagher, The British Council, London, 2002

Giardino, Associazione Culturale Betta Frigieri, Sassuolo/Studio d'Arte Raffaelli, Trento/Galleria Del Tasso Arte Contemporanea, Bergamo, 2001

Newcontemporaries 2000, New Contemporaries (1988) Ltd, 2000

Oeuvre d'etre works of being opera d'essere, Temple Gallery, Temple University, Rome, 2000

REVIEWS

Adrian Searle, State of the art, The Guardian, 27 September 2005
The Five Best Shows Around the Country, The Independent, The Information, 8-14 October 2005
Martin Holman, Anna Barriball, Newlyn Art Gallery, Galleries, September 2005
Craig Burnett, Anna Barriball, Gasworks Gallery, Time Out, 1-8 June 2005
The five best exhibitions, the Independent, May, 2005
The five best exhibitions, the Independent, March, 2004
Anna Barriball and David Musgrave, Bristol, the Guide, May, 2003
Five best shows around the country, Information, The Independent, May, 2003
Frequencies, London, the Guide, May, 2003
As seen by...Anna Barriball discusses Constable's 'Weymouth Bay', Time Out, June, 2003
Frequencies, London, Time Out, June, 2003
Anna Barriball & David Musgrave, Bristol, Art Preview, June, 2003
Sally O'Reilly, Anna Barriball 'Living and Breathing', Art Monthly, July/August, 2003
Martin Herbert, Not Always the Same, Time Out, September, 2003
Sally O'Reilly, Not Always the Same, Art Monthly, October, 2003
Paul Hedge, Hard Labour, Art Review, December/January 2002
Alex Coles, Drawings, Art Monthly, May 2001
Louise Coysh, New Contemporaries 2000, AN Magazine, August 2000
Deborah Schultz, The Office of Misplaced Events (Temporary Annexe), Art Monthly, February 2000
Sophie Berrebi, ne me quitte pas, Frieze, January-February 1998

COLLECTIONS

The Arts Council Collection, London
The British Council Collection, London
The Government Art Collection, UK
Leeds Museums and Galleries
Tate Museum
Private Collections, London
Private Collection, Madrid
Saatchi Collection, London

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