Barton Hargreaves is an artist and printmaker whose diverse practice has developed simultaneously with the technological developments within digital print.
He makes indoor and outdoor installations and fine art prints using digital and more traditional processes such as etching and screen print, often mixing them all up together. The figure or indeed the absence of the figure through means such as the silhouette and cut out is used to explore themes of time and space, being and non-being; issues which he sees as central to the experience of being human.
Barton studied at the Royal College of Art and is currently Digital Print Tutor at the Royal Academy Schools. He regularly exhibits at the RA Summer Show, and has been commissioned to create large-scale works for the Jerwood Space, and Northern Print Biennale.
Awards and prizes:
Brook Gallery Print Prize, Originals 10, 2010
Glasgow Print Studios and Wasp Residency Prize
Northern Print Biennale, 2009
St Barnabas Publishing Prize, Originals 09, 2009
Print Fellowship, Royal Academy Schools, 2007
Tim Mara, Print Prize awarded for work in the MA degree show, RCA 2007
Tom Bendhem drawing prize, RCA, 2007
20/21 Century Art Prize, RCA, 2006
BITE Artists Making Prints, Mall Galleries, London
The Summer Show,Royal Academy of Art, London 2011
Solo Show,Brook Gallery, Budleigh Salterton 2010
…and then again… Museu da Cidade, Lisbon 2010
The Summer Show,Royal Academy of Art, London 2010
Originals 10, Mall Galleries, London, 2009
RWA Print Open, Bristol, 2009
Northern Print Biennial, Newcastle, 2009
The Summer Show, Royal Academy of Art, London, 2009
In Situ, Jerwood Space, London, 2009
Originals 09, Guest Artist, Mall Galleries, London, 2008
Selected Works Solo show in the Café Gallery at the Royal Academy of Arts, London
Postgraduate Printmaking in London, Selected Show, Clifford Chance Gallery, London, 2008
Postgraduate Printmaking in London, Selected Show, Clifford Chance Gallery, London, 2007
The Great Exhibition, MA Show, Royal College of Art, London, 2007
Kunstwurst, Royal College of Art, Printmaking Group Show, Café Gallery, London, 2007
Unnamed and Unfinished, Interim show, Royal College of Art, London, 2006
Unnamed and Unfinished, solo show, The Little Gallery, Calgary, Canada, 2006
Passing Through, Queens Hall Arts, Hexham, 2002
Passing Through, The Gallery, Gateshead Central Library, 2002
Paper Suits, selected group show- R.K.Burt Gallery, London, 2000
Maquette, group show, 19 Princes Street, Norwich, 2000
Collusion, Printmakers collaboration, large-scale print works, Victoria College of the Arts, Melbourne, 1999
Poco Noco Meets Arthur Boyd, collaborative video installation, T.V.P. Gallery, Melbourne, 1999
