Artists Bio
Born London, UK. Grad. BA hons Fine Art University of Westminster.
Ian is an accomplished artist, being known moreso for his vivid illustrative style works. He is from South-East London now living between London and Catalonia, having worked extensively in the arts since the early 1990s, he has worked within Graphic Design, Haute Couture and Education .
His current muralist style influenced by American Graffiti and Street Art; centres on Hope and ascension, or falling to depths of disillusionment and despair. His segmented paintings illustrate different aspects and juxtaposed perspectives of the same journey, with a kitsch notion of life and death and fusing together social idealism and derailment, religious iconography from Buddhism to Christianity, together with modern culture, blended with reinventions of eons old scenes of joy, pain, freedom and fear.

My path of exploration into realms of heaven and hell constructs is a metaphor of what appears to be the end and beginning of a new era, the digital era has brought a cease of fable, mystery and innocence to a great extent and replaced with a world in meta-stasis seemingly built on instant gratification.

 

 contact: ibx2@hotmail.com or view more at ianbarringtonart.com

Exhibitions and Projects

 Little Summer Benefits, Cultivate Gallery, London E8

 Future Visionaries, St Marks Academy/ Juxtaposed Gallery 2013

 Urban Arts Live, Vibe Gallery, London July 2013.

 A Spot of Red, Menier Gallery, London. 7 - 11 May 2013

 Cities - All Dimensions, Tokarska Gallery, London. March 2013

 The Truman Brewery, Brick Lane, London 2013

 Showcase Cities, Richmix. London. February 2013

 Cycooldelic Revolution, London. December 2012

 Espacio Gallery, London December 2012
 Huddersfield, Festival of Light, Yorkshire. December 2012
 Unhinged Festival, Electric Brixton. London. November 2012
 Affordable Art Exhibition, Vibe Gallery, London. October 2012
 Barcelona Showcase, Casa Batllo, Spain. July 2012
 The Other Art Fair, Ambika P3, London. May 2012
 Luxury Goods, Courtyard Theatre, London. April 2012
 Showcase Cities, Richmix, London. April 2012
 Grey Area, Brighton. March 2012

 Greenwich Art Market. August 2011
 Candid Gallery, London. June 2011
 Merton Abbey Mills, London. April 2011

 Islington Contemporary Art and Design Fair, London. October 2010

 Bite, Islington, London. July 2003

 Marks, Harrow, London. July 2002

 Bromley Art Market, Kent. 2001-2002