Portrait of the artist, London 1966
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"Barry Martin seems the most accomplished here, with an excellent blue and red undulating painting and three more recent moving constructions"
The Times - 1966 |
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Has works in many public, corporate and private collections.
Some Public and Corporate collections include: The Tate Gallery; Museum of Modern Art, Paris; Science Museum; British Museum; Arts Council of England; Northern Arts Association; National Portrait Gallery; London Borough of Bromley; De Beers Diamonds; ICI; London Hospital Arts Trust; Zaragoza Museum of Fine Art, Spain; The Fuba Collection, South Africa; Hastings Museum; The Savoy Group, London; University of London, Goldsmiths' College; The City University, etc.
Has taught in many art colleges including: The Royal College of Art, London; The Slade School; The Royal Academy Schools; Goldsmiths' College; St. Martins School of Art; Kingston University; Croydon College; etc.
Movement, both real and imaginery has formed the basis of much of the artist's work.
This has been realised in both 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional works some of which are in major museum, corporate and private collections.
Time based activities have included performance; installation; moving sculptures, film and video; paintings; prints and drawings some, of which are shown on this website.
The artist has also pursued ideas of movement and meaning in the activities of games, notably chess.
He has written about art and given major lectures at the Tate Gallery to coincide with a number of their major exhibitions, for example Jackson Pollock; Piet Mondrian; John Singer Sargent, Hans Hofmann, and the Chess and Art Symposiums 1991, 1993.
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"Martin explores sequentially overlaying images on a central, archetypal one"
International Herald Tribune |
Statements by the artist:
"To Witness the Formulation and Construction of the /a Space - Time Era".
Catalogue statement by the artist for an exhibition at the ICA London, 1966, October.
"Everything that lives is born of movement, as is everything we can think of and thought itself. Without movement existence is nullified, but this is as incomprehensible to my thinking as is the notion of infinity, or how black holes in space operate!".
2002. From the forthcoming book 'Movement, Meaaning, Movement'.
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