Anna Barriball

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Anna Barriball (born 1972, Plymouth, UK){{cite news|author=Teri Pengilley |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/in-the-studio-anna-barriball-artist-8954829.html |title=In the studio: Anna Barriball, artist |work=The Independent |date=22 November 2013 |accessdate=5 January 2014}} is a British artist based in South London.

Education and career

Barriball received her BA from Winchester School of Art in 1995 and her MA from the Chelsea College of Art in 2000.{{cite news|author=Sarah Urwin Jones |url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/visual/anna-barriball-adds-another-dimension-to-her-art.1327720000 |title=Anna Barriball adds another dimension to her art |work=The Herald |place=Glasgow |date=28 January 2012 |accessdate=5 January 2014}}{{cite book|title=Great women artists |date=2019 |publisher=Phaidon Press |isbn=978-0714878775 |page=49}} Barriball used to work as an invigilator at the Serpentine Gallery.{{Cite web|url=http://1995-2015.undo.net/it/mostra/13319|title=Turpentine|website=Studio Voltaire|access-date=6 March 2018}}

Barriball works in a variety of media, including paint, pencil, ink, found photographs and video projections. Her talent was first spotted in the New Contemporaries exhibition in 2000, and she has had gallery representation from Frith Street Gallery, London since leaving college.

In 2008, Barriball launched a poster campaign on the escalators of the London Underground, encouraging acts of self-reflection.{{cite news|url=http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/anna_barriball/|title=Anna Barriball|author=Chris Fite-Wassilak|date=April 2009|work=Frieze|accessdate=5 January 2014|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140106041022/http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/anna_barriball/|archivedate=6 January 2014|url-status=dead|issue=122}}

Exhibitions

Barriball has shown work internationally, including a recent major retrospective of her work at Art Centre Pasquart in Biel, Switzerland (2018).{{Cite web|url=https://www.pasquart.ch/en/event/anna-barriball/|title=ANNA BARRIBALL|last=kunsthaus|website=Kunsthaus|language=en-US|access-date=16 August 2019}} Other solo exhibitions include Fade, Frith Street Gallery, London (2019), Anna Barriball & Hannelore van Dijck, Be-Part, Waregem (2017), New Works, Frith Street Gallery, London (2016), Museum Villa Stuck, Munich (2013), The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (2012), MK Gallery, Milton Keynes (2011), Frith Street Gallery, London (2009), The New Art Gallery, Walsall (2006), Gasworks, London (2005) and Recognition: Anna Barriball and David Musgrave, Arnolfini, Bristol (2003).

Her work has also featured in numerous group exhibitions including, most recently, Constellations: Highlights from the Nation's Collection of Modern Art, Tate Liverpool (2019), Summer Breeze: An Ensemble of Prints, Frith Street Gallery, London (2018), Find your world in ours, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (2018), Double Take, The Photographer's Gallery, London (2016), The Bottom Line, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (SMAK), Ghent (2015), Drawing Now, Albertina Museum, Vienna (2015), Silver, Frith Street Gallery, London and Slow Looking: contemporary drawing, Tate Collections (2012).

Collections

Barriball's work is held in numerous private and public collections including four works held in the collection of the Tate Gallery.[http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ArtistWorks?cgroupid=999999961&artistid=10168&page=1 Anna Barriball born 1972], Tate.org.uk. Retrieved 2014-01-05. Other collections include The Arts Council Collection, London, The British Council Collection, London, The Government Art Collection, UK, Herning Museum, Herning, Denmark Hiscox Collection, Kunstmuseum Basel, Leeds Museums and Galleries, Pasquart Art Centre, Biel/Bienne, RISD Museum, Rhode Island, USA, UBS Art Collection, Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation and The Whitworth, Manchester.

Publications

Iverson, Margaret, Felicity Lunn and Anna Barriball (2018), Anna Barriball, Art Centre Pasquart, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland, Verlag für moderne Kunst. {{ISBN|978-3-903228-76-4}}
Anna Barriball: Richochet #7 (2013) Villa Stuck, Germany. {{ISBN|978-3-923244-31-7}}
Anna Barriball (2012) The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh & MK Gallery, Milton Keynes. {{ISBN|978-1-908612-01-4}}

References

External links

[https://www.frithstreetgallery.com/artists/anna-barriball Frith Street Gallery | Anna Barriball]
[http://www.contemporaryartsociety.org/news/friday-dispatch-news/friday-dispatch-anna-barriball-fade-frith-street-gallery-golden-square-london/ Friday Dispatch – Anna Barriball: Fade at Frith Street Gallery, London | Contemporary Art Society]
[https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/in-the-studio-anna-barriball-artist-8954829.html In the studio: Anna Barriball, artist | The Independent]
[http://www.openartsarchive.org/archive/anna-barriball-and-briony-fer-conversation Video: Anna Barriball and Briony Fer in conversation | Open Arts Archive]