To celebrate this year’s Edinburgh Art Festival, EAF and Jupiter are delighted to be co-commissioners of Sara Barker’s first sculpture to be sited in a landscape. Barker, a Glasgow-based artist who is fast gaining international prominence, creates exquisite structures that echo architectural forms. Made of interlocking forms in glass, brass and stretches of aluminium painted by Barker, Patterns cascades over a plinth of polished concrete fleckled with marble. Its title Patterns, is taken from a poem by the early 20th century American writer, Amy Lowell.

Biography

Sara Barker (born Manchester 1980, studied Glasgow School of Art and lives and works in Glasgow). Recent shows include Woman at a Window, Modern Art / Stuart Shave, London; Tracing the Century, Tate Liverpool and Drawing : Sculpture, Leeds City Art Gallery and The Drawing Room, London (2013). Future solo exhibitions include Mary Mary, Glasgow; a commission for Baltic, Gateshead (2013); Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow (2014); Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (2015) and The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (2016). Future group shows include The Best is Yet to Come, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2013).