About the work
The parrot is the centre of the image, slightly centred but not. Everything else in the painting becomes irrelevant. The hands don't really look like hands because the parrot takes centre stage. When you get a bird out of the cage, everything else around you becomes not important you are just focusing on keeping the bird in your hands, the colour of the bird becomes the only thing you are focusing on when you are holding it in your hands.
-Sophie Barber, 28th March 2022
About the artist
SOPHIE BARBER (b.1996, St Leonards-On-Sea) is a graduate from the University of Brighton’s BA (Hons) Fine Art Practice at Sussex Coast College Hastings, 2014-2017. Barber has had solo shows at Alison Jacques, London (2021), Chris Sharp Gallery, Los Angeles (2021), Goldsmiths CCA, London (2020), and Project 78 Gallery, St Leonards-on-Sea (2018). Her work has been included in group shows at Lismore Castle, Ireland (2022); X Museum, Beijing (2021); La Maison de Rendez-vous, Brussels (2020); Flatland Projects, Hastings (2019); Phoenix Art Space, Brighton (2019); Niagara Falls Projects, Brighton (2019); Towner Gallery, Eastbourne (2018); and De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea (2017).
Sophie Barber
Photo: Courtesy Alison Jacques, London
Photographer credit: Ben Urban
