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Glenn Barkley’s work operates in the space between these interests drawing upon ceramics deep history, to popular song, the garden and conversations about art and the internet.
About Glenn Barkley
Glenn Barkley is an artist, writer, curator and gardener based in Sydney and Berry NSW, Australia. His work operates in the space between these interests drawing upon ceramics deep history, to popular song, the garden and conversations about art and the internet. He was previously senior curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (2008–14) and curator of the University of Wollongong Art Collection (1996–2007).
He is co-founder of Kilnit Experimental Ceramics Studio Glebe and Co-Director of The Curators Department an independent curatorial agency based in Sydney. He has work in the Art Gallery of South Australia, National Gallery of Australia and Artbank Sydney.
Glenn Barkley CV
EDUCATION
2014
Certificate II Horticulture, Ryde Institute of TAFE, Sydney, NSW
1993
Bachelor of Creative Arts, University of Wollongong, NSW
SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
The electrical experience, Sullivan + Strumpf, Melbourne, Australia
Garden, Open Field Art Festival, Berry, New South Wales
2022
Plant your feet, Shoalhaven Regional Gallery, New South Wales
2021
The Urn of Bitter Prophecy, Sullivan + Strumpf, Sydney, Australia
2020
I contain multitudes, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL
What do the birds say?, Sullivan + Strumpf, Sydney, Australia
Higher beings reveal mystic truths, Jhana Millers Gallery, Wellington, NZ
2019
Doyouremembermylove, Sullivan+Strumpf, Singapore
2018
imayimightimust, Sullivan+Strumpf Sydney, Australia
iknowitsjustnouse, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL
2017
doitdoit, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
yetmorecontemporaryart, Artspace, Sydney, Australia
2016
itsallright, Utopia Art, Sydney, Australia
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
REPOST, Mailbox Art, Melbourne, Australia
A Gentle Response, Wollongong Art Gallery, New South Wales
The Portland Vase: Mania and Muse, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
2023
Design Miami, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL
Jugs, Craft Victoria, Melbourne, VIC
Summer Exhibition, Sullivan + Strumpf, Melbourne, Australia
Group Show, Sullivan + Strumpf, Melbourne, Australia
Sydney Contemporary 2023, Carriageworks
2022
Composition & Layout: Contemporary Design & Objects, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL
Ceramic pipes, socks & globular, bumpy, suggestive objects, Conners Conners Gallery, Fitzroy, Australia
2019
Brisbane Brief, Festival House, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane
Annual Group Show, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney
Sydney Contemporary, Carriageworks
2018
Sydney Contemporary, Sullivan+Strumpf, Carriageworks, Sydney, Australia
PAIRED, Firstdraft, Sydney, Australia
Auckland Art Fair, The Cloud/AKL Waterfront, New Zealand
Group Show, Sullivan+Strumpf Sydney, Australia
2017
Sydney Contemporary, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney, Australia
Collective Design Fair, New York (with Mindy Solomon Gallery)
15 Artists, Redcliffe City Art Gallery, Redcliffe, Queensland
MUSEUM III, Utopia Art,Sydney
Nine Lives: A Cat’s Tale, Heiser Gallery, Brisbane
Double A Side, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney
Earth & Fire, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane
Sidney Myer Fund Australian Ceramic Award, (Finalist) Shepparton Art Museum, Victoria
2016
KIAF 2016, Art Seoul, Seoul
The Last Hurrah, Utopia Art Sydney
Weird Ceramic, Gippsland Art Gallery, Victoria
Out of Earth and Flame, Shoalhaven City Arts Centre & Regional Gallery, Nowra, NSW
Stuck in the Mud, Verge Gallery, University of Sydney
Watching Clouds Pass the Moon,Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery,NSW
The Garden of Earthly Delights, Westspace, Melbourne
Return to Beauty, Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane
Magic Object, Adelaide Biennial, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Clay 3, Utopia Art, Sydney
2015
Sydney Contemporary, Carriageworks, Sydney
Clay 2, Utopia Art, Sydney
2014
Glazed and Confused, Hazelhurst Regional Art Gallery, NSW
Compassionate Voices’, Koskela, Sydney
Clay, Utopia Art, Sydney
CURATORIAL
2023
Curator, brick vase clay cup jug, AGNSW, Sydney, NSW
2015
Co-Founder, The Curators Department, Sydney, NSW
Artistic Director Art Month Sydney
2014
Independent Curator Sydney, NSW
2012 – 2014
Senior Curator Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, NSW
2008 – 2012
Curator Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, NSW
2008
CEO, Ergas Collection, Sydney, NSW
2007
Consultant Curator, Ergas Collection Sydney/Canberra
1996 – 2008
Curator, University of Wollongong Art Collection, NSW
1995 – 1998
Co-Director, Project, Centre for Contemporary Art, Wollongong, NSW
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY & PUBLICATIONS
2023
Edgar, Ray. “Functional and fantastic: 5000 years of artworks with meaning” The Sydney Morning Herald July 2023
2022
Barkley, Glenn, “CERAMICS: An Atlas of Forms”, Thames & Hudson
2021
Russel, Stephen A. “Glenn Barkley: The Urn of Bitter Prophecy” Time Out April 2021
2018
McDonald, John. ‘Glenn Barkley’, Good Weekend, 16 June
Murrell, Elle. ‘Glenn Barkley’s Great Clay Composts of History’,The Design Files, 4 June
Mitsuji, Tai. ‘Glenn Barkley: imayimightimust’,Art Almanac, 29 May
2017
Nithiyendran, Ramesh. “You’ll want to poke your fingers into this ceramicist’s holes”, TimeOutSydney, 11 August.
“Glenn Barkley’s ‘Yetmorecontemporaryart’ at Artspace Sydney”, BLOUIN ARTINFO, 19 July.
2016
Barkley, Glenn, “itsallright”, Utopia Art Sydney
Bryant, Marie Claire, “Whats Hot right now”, C-File.Capsule
Clark, Garth, “Is Glenn Barkley Really the Worst Studio Potter in Australia?” C-File.Capsule
Wolff, Sharne, “Six and a Half Questions | Glenn Barkley”, The Art Life
Gouriotis, Kon. “Artist Profile: Glenn Barkley”, Artist Profile, 1 March
“Icanhardlywaittilmorning”, Art Link
COLLECTIONS
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Artbank, Sydney, New South Wales
Artbank, Sydney, NSW
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Shepparton Art Museum, Victoria
Wollongong City Art Gallery, New South Wales
University of Queensland Art Museum, Queensland
University of Wollongong, New South Wales
Queensland University of Technology, QLD
Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, VIC
Composition & Layout: Contemporary Design & Objects
September 17 - October 22, 2022
Glenn Barkley: I Contain Multitudes
October 24-November 28, 2020
Glenn Barkley:iknowitsjustnouse
January 20 – March 10, 2018
Front Gallery
Front Gallery
Glenn Barkley in Boca Raton Museum of Art Exhibition
November 7, 2017/by FulanoSeattle Art Fair
August 3 - 6, 2017
Mindy Solomon artists featured in cfile.org
May 18, 2017/by Frances TromblyMindy Solomon Gallery in Wallpaper*
May 12, 2017/by Frances Trombly7 Stunning Objects You Might Have Missed at Collective Design
May 5, 2017/by FulanoCollective Design Fair
May 3 - 7, 2017
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