Glenn Barkley is an artist, writer, curator and gardener based in Sydney and Berry, NSW, Australia. His work operates in the space between these interests drawing upon the history of ceramics, popular song, the garden and conversations about art and the internet.
Selected Works
Selected Works
Assorted works, 2021.
Earthenware, dimensions variable.
Photography by Aaron Anderson.
earthenware
27 x 11 x 10 cm
earthenware
43 x 21 x 14 cm
Photography by Aaron Anderson
earthernware
39 x 14 x 6.5 cm
photo by Aaron Anderson
earthernware
30 x 13 x 6 cm
Photography by Aaron Anderson
earthernware
18.5 x 10 x 7 cm
Photography by Aaron Anderson
earthernware
23.5 x 16 x 9 cm
Photography by Aaron Anderson
earthenware
47 x 20 x 10 cm
Photography by Aaron Anderson
denim jeans and jacket with earthenware embellishment
dimensions variable
Photography by Aaron Anderson
Glenn Barkley, imightimayimust, 2018.
Exhibitions
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About
Glenn Barkley
Biography
Glenn Barkley is an artist, writer, curator and gardener based in Sydney and Berry, NSW, Australia. His work operates in the space between these interests drawing upon the history of ceramics, popular song, the garden and conversations about art and the internet.
Major exhibitions include ‘Plant Your Feet’, Shoalhaven Regional Gallery (2022), ‘The Urn of Bitter Prophecy’, Sullivan + Strumpf (2021); ‘Regarding George Ohr’, Boca Raton Musuem of Art, Florida USA (2017); ‘yetmorecontemporaryart’, Artspace, Sydney (2017); the Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: ‘Magic Object’, Art Gallery of South Australia (2016); ‘The Garden of Earthly Delights’, Westspace, Melbourne (with Angela Brennan) (2016); ‘Watching Clouds Pass the Moon’, Lake Macquarie Regional Gallery, NSW (2016); and ‘Glazed and Confused: Ceramics in Contemporary Art Practice’, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, NSW (2014).
Barkley was previously senior curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (2008–14) and curator of the University of Wollongong Art Collection (1996–2007).
In 2023, Barkley launched his book Ceramics: An Atlas of Forms, a global cultural study of the history of ceramics, sharing the stories of over 100 objects, honouring the artists who have left their mark on this timeless practice. This coincided with the curation of brick vase clay cup jug, a look at the Art Gallery of New South Wales’s collection.
He was a finalist in the 2017 Sidney Myer Ceramics Award and is held in numerous collections both nationally and internationally, including the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Shepparton Art Museum and Artbank, Sydney.
Glenn Barkley at his installation at Open Field 2023. Photographed by Ainslie.Co Photography.
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