• MFA in Fine Art

Barry Gibbons

FIGURES

The focus of my practice is on line, shape, gesture, and movement through drawing and looped animation, but it also extends to wider questions of still and moving images, linear and cyclical narratives, time and space. A central concern is the relation between the handmade analogue drawing and digital production, with a view to challenging linear conceptions of progress, according to which new technologies render previous forms (such as drawing by hand) obsolete. My current work, ‘FIGURES’, creates connections between indeterminate spaces and camouflaged entities, raising the prospect of hidden enemies in a Lockdown climate.