NAME: PATRICK BARKER
ADDRESS: Shortcombe Lodge, Ridge Lane, West Harptree,
Bristol. BS40 6ES
Telephone:
01761 221671
EMail: patrick@shortcombe.freeserve.co.uk
BORN: 31/10/1959 Oswestry, Shropshire

  COLLEGES ATTENDED:
1978/79 Bristol Polytechnic, Faculty of Art and Design.
1979/82 Bath Academy of Art, Corsham Wiltshire. B.A.(Hons.) Fine Art.
1984/85 Cyprus College of Art, Postgraduate course.

NOVEMBER 1997:
Elected Associate of the Royal Society of British Sculptors (ARBS)

  SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
September 2007 New Academy Gallery, London
September 2004 New Beaux Arts Bath
June 2003 New Academy Gallery, Fitzrovia, London.
October 1999 City Gallery, London.
April 1997 Beaux Arts, Bath.
September 1995 Beaux Arts, Cork Street, London.
November 1994 Beaux Arts, Bath.
September 1993 New Academy Gallery, London.
February 1992 Beaux Arts, Bath.
June 1991 Andrew Usiskin Contemporary Art, London.

  PERMANENTLY REPRESENTED BY:
Since March 2001 Bohun Gallery Henley-on-Thames
Since November 1991 Beaux Arts, Bath and London.
Since November 1986 New Academy Gallery, London.

  SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
1st - 8th Dec 2007

Florence Biannale, Florence, Italy
April 2006 & 2007 Sarah Wiseman Gallery, Oxford
November 2005 Boston Arts Fair U.S.A
Summer 2005 Royal Society of British Sculptors Centenary Exhibition, Leicester.
Summer 2005 & 2006 Cunnamore Gallery, Skibbereen, Co. Cork, Ireland
May 2005 & 2006 Dublin Contemporary Arts Fair
Summer 2003 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Bohun Gallery, Henley-on-Thames.
October 2002 Rye Art Gallery, Rye, East Sussex.
Summer 2002 Artparks, Belvoir Castle, Lincolnshire.
Summer 2001 & 03 Art in the Garden. Beatrice Royal Gallery and Sir Harold Hillier Gardens, Romsey, Hampshire.
June 2000 Finsbury Circus, London EC4. City of London Festival.
April 1999 Sausmarez Manor Sculpture Trail, Guernsey. C.I.
February 1998 Great Britain Snow Sculpting Team, Winter Olympics,
Nagano, Japan.
July 1997 The Artful Garden. A Scottish Gallery exhibition at Greywalls, Gullane, East Lothian, Scotland.
June 1997 - July 1996 The Art Hotel, Broomhill, Barnstaple, Devon.
2nd British Open Sculpture Exhibition. Royal West of England Academy, Bristol. (Alec Tiranti prizewinner)
January 1995 Delinde Fine Art, Wilwaukee U.S.A.
November 1992 Ghent International Art Fair, Belgium, represented Beaux Arts.
June 1990 & 96 Millfield Open, Millfield School, Street, Somerset.
January 1989 - 2001 ‘Art London’, International Arts Fair, London.
November 1988 Warwick Arts Trust, London.
November 1987 & 97 Annual Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol.
April 1986 ‘Sculpture in the Garden’, Harlow Car, Harrogate, Yorkshire.
April 1985 Gloria Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus

  MAJOR COMMISSIONS:
Summer 2006 'Mavis and the Man' Portuguese Limestone. Placed on a low headland, by the sea, overlooking Roaringwater Bay, West Co.Cork, Ireland
May 2001 Series of relief carvings for Priors Court School, Newbury, Berkshire.
January 2000
Large sculptures for courtyards at the new Royal Glamorgan Hospital, Llantrisant, S. Wales.
April 1993 Medical Centre, New Basford, Nottingham.
June 1992 Trainload Freight (British Rail Freight Division), London. Sculptures for courtyard.
April 1992 Lord and Lady Carrington. Large sculptures for garden.

  PRIVATE COLLECTIONS:
Australia, Cyprus, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Singapore,
Thailand and U.S.A.
British collections include:
Lord Carrington, Michael Heseltine, Tom Stoppard, Pru Leith,
Neil Tennant, Don Foster M.P. Felix Dennis.

  PUBLICATIONS:




Several articles in ‘glossy’ Sunday Magazines inc. Sunday Express, Homes and Gardens etc.
‘The Art of Priors Court School’ limited edition book published by the Bohun Gallery, Henley-on-Thames. October 2002