Barry Cleavin: An Introspective (Nostalgia of a kind)
“This ‘introspective’, has formed and curated itself via an ‘old making life’ and a ‘new making life’. This ‘new making life’ has rather more visceral and elemental pleasures. The elements and geography that are so much part of being further ‘south’ are obvious in the workings I believe. Then there is chronology. I had a box that was filled with works from a past. These were shown in the Untied States a good number of years ago. I thought – why not let these be an entrance way from the past to the present? At Chambers 241 it seemed natural to lead an audience from the doorway down the gallery space, through the past and into the present. Thus Nemerosa, in its baroque arabesques, and translated as ‘Daughter of wind’ (etching / aquatint’, 1967) gets to meet For whom the wind blows (aquatints from 2013) and the digital Clothesline Diaries (2013 – 2014). Introspective –a time and space based exhibit so evolved”
–Barry Cleavin 2014
Barry Cleavin, This is not a gold fish (1984). Etching / aquatint, 95 x 145mm edition of 15 POA
Time Flies (U.S Surface to air missiles and skulls) (1984/64). Etching / aquatint, 310mm diameter, edition of 40, POA
U.S.S Nimitz and Peca Fluviatis (1985). Etching / aquatint, 510 x 480mm, Edition of 20, POA
Childsplay 5 (1981). Etching / aquatint, 195 x 625mm, Edition of 40 POA
Childsplay 3 (Zero population growth) (1984). Etching / aquatint, 195 x 420mm, Edition of 40, POA
Childsplay 2 (1984). Etching / aquatint, 290 x 490mm, Edition of 40, POA
Childsplay 1 (1984). Etching / aquatint, 420 x 320mm, Edition of 40, POA
Hanging Monument (1971). Etching / aquatint, 390 x 195mm, Edition of 30, POA
Coffee table etching (1981). Etching / aquatint, 390 x 250mm, Edition of 40, POA
The last dog (1981). Etching / aquatint, 240 x 450mm, Edition of 40, POA
Nemerosa (1967). Etching / aquatint, 490 x 345mm, Edition of 30, POA
The Clothesline diaries (2014). Fourteen digital prints – An assemblage (including clothes airer) An edition of 10, POA
The clothesline diaries (2014). Detail
For Whom the wind blows I – XIV (2013 / 14). Sugar-lift aquatints, 190 x 250mm, 1/1 unique impressions, POA
Barry Cleavin: An Introspective (Nostalgia of a kind) Installation shot
Barry Cleavin: An Introspective (Nostalgia of a kind) Installation shot
Barry Cleavin: An Introspective (Nostalgia of a kind) Installation shot
Barry Cleavin: An Introspective (Nostalgia of a kind) Installation shot
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