The Good, The Bad, The Belle
27th February - 5th April '09
Spring Projects
Spring House, 10 Spring Place, London
London-based designer Barnaby Barford presents a new body of work at Spring Projects, which combines a series of ceramic sculptures and his film, Damaged Goods.
Working primarily with found, mass-produced ceramic figurines and objects, Barford chops and changes them, adding pieces on and gluing them together to create sinister and deeply sardonic narrative sculptures.
Set in contrast to his co-exhibitor Alice Hawkins, Barford’s new work raises questions of lost childhood and family values in today’s society.
Damaged Goods, Barnaby’s ambitious first film, tells the sinister tale of two china figurines who meet in a china shop and fall in love. Inevitably, the course of true love – between a cut-price boy figure and an upmarket porcelain beauty – does not run smoothly, and there are breakages along the way.
'Ring-a-Ring-a-Roses' by Barnaby Barford 2009 – Porcelain, Earthenware, Enamel Paint, Painted Wooden Base, Other Media
