Bailey Barker and Sonabend

Bailey Barker and Sonabend are an artist collective who utilise different modes of storytelling to engage with communities and fuel inter-cultural exchange.

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Forms Shaped Through Time

Sol Bailey Barker’s sculptures ‘Forms Shaped Through Time’ are currently on display in the heart of London at Holborn Circus. Visit until 2nd January 2017

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Photos of my current exhibition ‘FROM MYTH TO EARTH’ at The Koppel Project Hive, 26 Holborn Viaduct, EC1A 2AT. Sculptures ‘FORMS SHAPED THROUGH TIME’ installed at Holborn Circus (a few minutes walk from the exhibition).

Read more about the exhibition: http://thisistomorrow.info/articles/mitologia-de-la-tierra http://www.foundsomepaper.com/the-koppel-project/ http://theprisma.co.uk/2016/10/17/from-myth-to-earth/ https://www.culturelabel.com/blogs/culturelabel-du-jour/from-myth-to-earth-exploring-colombia-through-art http://whatshotlondon.co.uk/from-myth-to-earth-exhibition/

Visit Tuesday - Saturday 11am - 7pm. The exhibition has just been extended until 10 November. 

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This September - November 2016, Bailey Barker and Sonabend exhibit ‘From Myth To Earth’ at The Koppel Project Hive in Holborn Viaduct. Read more on www.gabriellasonabend.com or www.solbaileybarker.com

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We’ve just moved into a new studio space in the City of London, a strange but exciting place overlooking a vast building site. Somewhere new to begin unravelling ideas and shaping new works .

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From Myth to Earth - Display Gallery

In 2014 artists Sol Bailey Barker and Gabriella Sonabend spent six months in Colombia exploring its landscapes, histories and mythologies. Beginning with a month long research residency at Lugar a Dudas Gallery in Cali the artists’ trip spanned the country. Travelling across vast landscapes, interviewing people of all backgrounds and walking the land; Sol …

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FROM MYTH TO EARTH; SEEKING ARCHETYPES IN GREED AND HEALING

In 2014 Bailey Barker and Sonabend travelled to Colombia to spend six months exploring it's landscapes and researching and responding to it's histories, mythologies and contemporary state.

Travelling across the vast landscapes of the country, walking the land; Sol created 15 sculptures, which engaged with the physical and ephemeral nature of place. These sculptural gestures were created using: axe, chisels and fire. The sculptures were photographed and then left in situ. These serve as monuments to particular events and myths some of, which are fleeting moments amongst a long history of upheaval.

Sonabend wrote a parallel narrative for each landscape, which offer an alternative window into these worlds. Bailey Barker & Sonabend’s works draw on a combination of interviews, research and observation.

Above are a series of images from the project. 

From Myth To Earth will be exhibited in July 2016 at Display Gallery London. This exhibition brings together this large body of research and work created over the past year. Inviting you into an immersive world of sculpture, sound installation, audio narrative, documentation, painting and elemental spatial interventions From Myth To Earth is a world in itself.The exhibition program will include the launch of ‘From Myth To Earth; Seeking Archetypes in Greed and Healing’ an artist book by Sol Bailey Barker; an artist talk about the project and the journey by Sol and Gabriella; a live reading by Gabriella and two workshops in Latin American storytelling in association with The International School of Storytelling.

Many thanks to Lugar A Dudas Gallery in Cali for providing a workspace to begin this project and a support network in Colombia. Special thanks to Ivan Castillo for introducing us to the wealth of Colombian culture.