About

Sarah Barrett

b.1982 Salford        

Lives and works in London                                                      

sarah_dee_barrett@hotmail.co.uk

 

I investigate systems and ways of living that run counter or offer an alternative to capitalist economics. Previous work has included the renovation of a Social Club back yard into a homely domestic space, a curated show where the works were traded for free, an archive encouraging DIY activity and objects made from ‘granny shopper’ bags. Influences are as diverse as Marx, Bob and Roberta Smith, Jeremy Deller and the Manic Street Preachers.

Current work uses the process of oil painting to refine aesthetics associated with cheap and budget items. Painstaking recreations of laundry bags found in pound shops and used widely by market traders, reveal on closer inspection the biro lines and smudged marks which betray their slick varnished appearance.

Coming up…

25 Jan 2010: ‘As is painting, so is poetry (group exhibition),” Norman Rae Gallery, York’