Oliver Barratt
Based in Kent, England, for the past 25 years Oliver has been creating work for exhibition as well as working on both private commissions and public projects. He shows regularly in the UK and around the world, including Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice; Cass Sculpture Foundation, Sussex; New Art Cen-tre, Roche Court and Royal Academy, London. His commissions range from the Everest Memorial at Base Camp of Mount Everest, Nepal; to Skyline to celebrate Liverpool as European City of Culture. Born in 1962, Oliver studied sculpture at Falmouth School of Art graduating in 1985. He was awarded the Henry Moore Fellowship in 1990. Recent solo and dual exhibitions include; One and Other, Encounter, London (2018), ‘At Every Turn, Beardsmore Gallery, London (2014), ‘Making the Point’, Beardsmore Gallery, London (2011). Notable Group exhibitions include; ‘Passages’, Encounter, Lisbon (2024), ‘Making it’, Contemporary Art Society, London (2015), Thinking Models’, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester (2013), ‘Sculptors Drawings’, Pangolin London, London (2012), ‘Oliver Barratt’, Cass Sculpture Foundation, Sussex (2011), ‘Thinking Big: Concepts for Twenty-first Century British Sculpture’, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice (2002). Barratt’s work can be found in important public and private collections including; Hepworth Wakefield, The Sainsbury Collection, Rothschild Collection, Pallant House Museum, British Land, Unilever Plc.
“Images flicker in and out of focus in a perpetual conundrum, a playful puzzle, and a game too serious to be serious. The raw material of steel or brass give way to modelled and painted surfaces, as if the bone had protruded out of flesh, simultaneously sensual and painful. Lines are thrown into space and return another way.”
