John Barry
John Barry is an artist now working and looking for collaborations in Glasgow. We all have our stories of belonging, or not and stories where a chance encounter with a stranger prevents a slight mishap, potential calamity or even loss of citizenship. I am interested human stories and wish to collect the stories you live.
My research intends to investigate the theme of these liminal metaphysical landscapes defined by chasms, rips, power imbalance and imagined space between individuals which are non pictorial but suggest naturalistic barriers: mountains, walls, rivers and how forms fragment and butt up against each other. The texts are process driven through often repetitive mark making, frottage, print, collage and performance entailing chance discoveries and acts of risk taking and altruism.
John collaborated with Kalli, is a sound scientist from Manchester, currently based in Brighton. His interests are between rave music producing, researching and label running. His experimental practice involves creating sound collages from field recordings, with a focus on repurposing abandoned spaces to give them new life.