Garry Barker is involved in several overlapping ventures including publishing, performance, drawing and exhibition curation, and has also a long history of engagement with the pedagogy of art practice. Making objects both realises for him what is arriving in a drawing and provides him with something concrete to draw from.
Hybrid Forms is an attempt to resuscitate old cardboard boxes, bits of ceramic, a child’s playpen and empty plastic bottles, in turn finding old forms in new materials. ‘Not being one thing or another used to be a problem, but as we reach global meltdown it would seem that hybrids are the best survivors; neither fish nor fowl, they are non-binary, neither animal, vegetable or mineral but capable of extremely flexible conjunctions with others of a similar nature.’
