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How do we make sense of today's information overload, from post-truth politics to mind-boggling quantum physics and neuroscience? The Scientific Method showed how artists have revealed the structures and systems of knowledge that we consume daily, subverting the accepted and confounding the expected...

An exhibition that was focused on the legacy of Fine Art painting teaching. Although this exhibition was painting focused, because Barker's work has for many years been centred on image development he was chosen for his contribution to an understanding of the processes behind image generation, in pa...

This solo exhibition concentrated on three large drawings that were designed to be read as part of a series, all of which were created as allegorical reflections on contemporary society. The drawings were the result of several years of walking and drawing and talking with people that live in the Cha...

Inconvenient Bodies was an exhibition conceived and created specifically for Hošek Contemporary, a gallery in a converted goods barge. Research Process: The work consisted of three large chiffon panels printed with images of disused ladies’ public toilets from Manchester, Brighouse and Scarborough...

The output was a selection of 12 of Barker’s narrative etchings that were exhibited in an exhibition that was designed to explore various influential strands in relation to international contemporary sculpture. See pages of the catalogue/record of the exhibition. Research process: An allegorical vi...