Frith Street Gallery

b. 1972, Plymouth, England

Anna Barriball’s work hinges on minimal interactions with objects and often steps between the parallel languages of drawing and sculpture. Much of her practice explores and depicts the accretion of time – from the length of time it takes for a candle to burn down to the repetitious activity of taking graphite rubbings from objects that bare the traces of their use or function. In her hands a map of the world is transformed into a strange expanse of shimmering substance, or the bounce of a rubber ball on a piece of paper creates the effect of a cosmic explosion. Her interventions produce objects that combine a minimalistic rigour and the seemingly endless endeavour to make sense of the world of objects by empirical study.

Selected Exhibitions

• 2011 – 2012 touring solo exhibition at MK Gallery, Milton Keynes; Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
• 2010 Newspeak: British Art Now: Part Two, a group exhibition at Saatchi Gallery, London
• 2010 GAM, a group exhibition at Galleria civica d’arte moderna e contemporanea, Turin
• 2009 a solo exhibition at Frith Street Gallery
• 2005 – 2006 a touring solo exhibition at The New Art Gallery, Walsall; Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall

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