Alison Jacques Gallery Adds Sophie Barber to Roster
Claire Selvin, Tessa Solomon, Maximiliano Durón, ARTnews
November 2020
London’s Alison Jacques Gallery now represents artist Sophie Barber, who was born in 1996 and is currently based in Hasting, England. The gallery will mount a solo show of the artist’s work next September. Earlier this year, Barber had her first institutional show, titled ‘The Greatest Song a Songbird Ever Sung’ and curated by Sarah McCrory, at Goldsmiths CCA in London.
Barber works primarily in painting and is known for depictions of circus tents, bird hides, and dens on unstretched canvas that reference the Sussex coastline where she lives and works. In a statement, gallery founder Alison Jacques said, ‘Sophie is a young, ambitious artist with a distinctive visual language. She has the unique ability to distil her interests and immediate surroundings into paintings that communicate with their art historical precedents while also feeling joyously contemporary.’ […]