Guy Barkley-Smith – portfolio

Contact the artist

https://www.barkley-smith.co.uk
07732 508991
gbarkleysmith@gmail.com

Exhibition information

I mainly paint.  The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) agreed at the UN in 2015 contribute to the ethos of my art practice which is inspired by observing the world around us, and the way we are.

Group Exhibitions 

2024: Second Floor Studio & Arts Painting Open, No Format Gallery, London

2023: Artweeks Open Studios, The Charter, Abingdon

2021: MA Summer Show, Plymouth College of Art

2019:  Rhizome CE 2019 – Cube 3 Gallery, Plymouth University

2018:  Rhizome CE 2018 – Cube 3 Gallery Plymouth University

Cornucopia – The Clay Factory, Ivybridge, Devon

Cornucopia – Hamilton House, Stokes Croft, Bristol

Cornucopia – No Format Gallery, London

2017:  Print Exchange – Alfred University, New York

Crisis of Brilliance – Artmill Gallery, Plymouth

The Justice Project – Plymouth Combined Courts

Awards & Residences

2018:  Devon Artist Network Award for Excellence in Painting, Drawing and Printmaking

The Coombe Futures Prize

Writing

2016:  New Art Examiner, Youki Hirakawa: Secret Fire, Anima Mundi, St. Ives (review), Penwith Gallery, St. Ives (review)

2017:  New Art Examiner, Yves Klein, Tate Liverpool (review)

Publications

2018: CORNUCOPIA, Plymouth College of Art, sub:text, ISBN: 978- 1 -9997199- 1 -3

 

Artist information

I was born in Exeter in 1956 and have lived mainly in London, Devon, and on the Isle of Wight.  I entered higher education aged 59, to study art.  At Plymouth College of Art (now Arts University Plymouth) I studied under Stephen Felmingham and gained a BA (Hons) Painting, Drawing and Printmaking (1st); followed by an MA Fine Art.   I now live in Oxfordshire.