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Clive Barker Biography
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1940 Born Luton
1957-1959 Studied painting at Luton College of Technology and Art
1960-1961 Worked Vuxhall Motors, Luton
1961 Married Rosemary Bruen; moved to London; made first sculptures
1961-1963 made objects using cardboard and found objects
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163-1965 Made series of Zip Boxes
1964 Made first bornze sculpture<1965> Tutor at Maidsotne School of Art
1966 Visited Nw York.
Birth of first son Tad; made first version of the Coke bottle sculptures
Made Van Gogh's Chair
1966-1968 Represented by the Robert Fraser Gallery, London
1968-1969 Made series of Homages, Coke Bottles and Jam Tarts
1968-1971 Represented by the Hanover Gallery, London
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1971 Tutor at Croydon School of Art
Travelled through twenty-two American states making a series of drawings of America
Made Cremated Paintings, a project involving David Hockney, Richard Hamilton and Joe Tilson
Preoccupied with themes from Classical sculpture
1972-1974 Represented by Anthony d'Offay
Made Heads of Francis Bacon series
1978-1985 Lived in Malvern, Worcestershire; retained studio in London
1979-1991 Years of creative abundance alternated with years of very little or no output.
1983-1986 Represented by the Robert Fraser Gallery
1985 Separation from Ro; moved back to London
Travelled to Arizona; made a series of very personal works, referring to his girlfriend Linda Kilgore and her home in Arizona
1989 Break-up with Linda
1992-1995 Made a series of tables
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1993 Commission for a monument for Luton (not executed)
1998 Made the Helmets series
1999 Combined the themes of Marilyn Monroe and the coke bottle in the MM series.
2000 Working on larger scale works. Clive Barker lives and works in London. A catalogue raisonné of his sculptures is currently in preparation
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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1968 Robert Fraser Gallery, London
1969 Hanover Gallery, London
1974 Heads and Chariots, Anthony d'Offay, London
1978 Clive Barker. 12 Studies of Francis Bacon - Francis Bacon. 3 Studies of Clive Barker, Felicity Samuel Gallery in collaboration with Robert Fraser, London
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1981-1982 Clive Barker. Sculpure, Drawings and Prints, Retrospective Exhibition, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, touring Stoke, Eastbourne and Cheltenham
1983-1984 War Heads, Imperial War Museum, London
1985 Boxes, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton
1987 Clive Barker. Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, London
1994 Works on Paper, Independent Gallery, London
2000 Recent Sculpture, Whitford Fine Art, London
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