8th February 2009 Things are now gearing up and into shape. A day before the show starts, and almost all i’s are dotted (the t’s crossed yesterday). All print-outs of project documentation for visitors have been printed/bound, the gallery sandwich board designed and created, the exhibition gift sky-blue usb sticks have arrived, the secret website […]
2nd February 2009 The week before the exhibition at Greyfriars Art Space, and I’m panicking. Not about the show, in and of itself (I’m not nervous in that respect at all – not sure why). No, I’m actually panicking about the bloody dead insects I need to create the gallery window display. It is nigh […]
31st January 2009 A freelance journalist from Venue Magazine (an art-based quarterly) came to my lair for an interview today. A sea of positivity and interesting insight about my work came forth from him, explanations for individual works often articulated better than my own (which was a bonus) and a fun time was had by […]
[podcast/trailer coming soon] 24th January 2009 Picked up the remaining 21 pieces of framed work from the framing studio today (24th January), way ahead of schedule – which is nice. Was informed by the staff there that a member of the public wandered into the studio a few days ago, saw one of my works […]
Brutal landscapes and works of industrial decay at Greyfriars Art Space gallery from Monday February 9th 2009. Barrington Arts and the Greyfriars Art Space gallery invite you to Phil Barrington’s new show ‘Cracktown v1.0’. Known for his stark, oppressive landscapes and figures with obscured faces, Phil produces and near-destroys stunning contemporary photographic works (and ‘other […]
View the above trailer and/or download Vodcast #1; Distressing Methods from the Downloads section of barringtonarts.com now. Cheers, pb.
My experiences at the Tate Britain’s Francis Bacon retrospective Waiting at the Entrance. 29th November 2008 I found myself shivering and staring at the formidable, Bosch-esque doors at the Tate Britain far too early last Saturday morning, after being the unexpected recipient of an early Christmas gift from my better half; a ticket to the […]
One sunny Winter day, towards the end of January 2009, an old man approached the White House from Across Pennsylvania Avenue, where he’d been sitting on a park bench. He spoke to the U.S. Marine standing guard and said “I would like to go in and meet with President Bush.”The Marine looked at the man […]
I am not going to bore you by explaining at any kind of great length as to why Kings Lynn, the cheeky little town stuffed into the wet crack of West Norfolk England, is a major influence on my Cracktown v1.0 work. Instead, as a life-long resident myself, I thought it’d be more entertaining to […]