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Craig Barber is the Course Leader of Fine Art, who teaches studio content across the three years of the Fine Art course. He graduated with an MA in Painting from Winchester School of Art in 2004 and was previously Senior Lecturer at Coventry University. Barber specializes in painting but also uses a variety of media and methods including sound and performance within collaborative practice.

I have used many methods to make work both collaboratively and individually including sound and performance and yet consistently return to painting as my primary method. Within my current body of work I am making paintings which consider the way that civilisations build physical constructions, and social and political systems which may aim for some form of coherence or unity but are likely to be stricken, fragment or rupture. An equivalent narrative is delivered within the works which, through the pictorial systems they deploy, such as layering and physical gestures, such as cutting and removing areas, seem to exist in a moment of tension between construction and collapse.

I have held group and solo exhibitions and performances at venues in the UK and overseas including MAC, Birmingham; Lanchester gallery, Coventry; H-Project Space, Bangkok; the London Short Film Festival and The Public, West Bromwich and for some years was represented by Francis Kyle Gallery in central London.

Craig’s work is available to view on his website.

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