Nr Bailey’s Hard, The Beaulieu Estate, Hampshire

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5 July –  28 September 2008

ArtSway and Beaulieu are pleased to announce the public placing of Phyllida Barlow’s sculpture fence on the public walk by Bailey’s Hard, between Beaulieu and Buckler’s Hard in the New Forest.

Phyllida Barlow is one of the UK’s leading artists. fence was commissioned by the South Bank Centre as part of its Art on Site programme and its placement here in the New Forest fulfils Phyllida’s idea of the work being situated in a rural setting. Indeed fence resonates positively in the context of the New Forest, with its enclosures and commoning heritage, although it’s shocking pink painted surface may not be what is usually expected. fence will weather and degrade during its stay, reflecting its temporary nature and may be removed if it deteriorates badly.

Phyllida Barlow makes large-scale installations and single objects. The space in which the work is located determines its form and placement.  Materials are diverse but usually cheap and available in bulk. Colour is important and the surfaces can be left in their raw state or thickly covered in paint so that the work situates itself between sculpture and painting. Solo exhibitions in 2008 include a commission for Third Space Art Gallery at the Kilkenny Festival, Eire, and a solo exhibition STINT at the Mead Gallery, Warwick University. Previous solo exhibitions have been ‘Untitled: demo’: a nine sculpture installation: Studio 1.1, A Sense of Place: A Place of Sense, ‘Untitled: after’, a nine sculpture installation: Beacon Art project, The Maltings, Sleaford, Lincs; SCAPE: a nine sculpture installation, Spacex, Exeter; SKIT: a seven sculpture installation, Bloomberg Space, London;  Peninsula: a nine sculpture commission, Baltic, Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead. In 2007 she was awarded a Paul Hamlyn Award and an Arts Council Award to an Individual Artist for her project ‘What Do Artists Do?’. In 2005, a monograph on Phyllida Barlow’s work and writings, Objects for...and other things (ISBN: 978190103395) was published by Black Dog Publishing.  She lectures throughout the UK and recently in Sweden, Ireland, Switzerland, USA and Israel. Phyllida Barlow is Professor of Fine Art at the Slade School of Fine Art London.