Sukhi Barber - Albemarle Gallery London

Sukhi Barber

Sukhi Barber was born in Hertfordshire, England. From an early age she was drawn to the classical and ancient traditions of art and philosophy, which led her to undertake a traditional sculptural training at The City and Guilds of London Art School. There she gained a firm grasp of figurative clay modeling and life drawing, graduating in 1995 with the prize for sculpture, and a scholarship from Madame Tussauds.

After graduation Sukhi traveled to India, captivated by the timeless quality of peace and balance that she found in Asian art. Settling in Kathmandu, Nepal, she spent the next twelve years studying Buddhist philosophy and producing sculptures based on the traditional techniques of stone carving and lost-wax bronze casting.

Sukhi’s sculptures are intended to bridge the cultures of East and West. Embodying the peace and compositional balance of ancient devotional art, they represent complex philosophical ideas with a simplicity and clarity that renders them accessible on an intuitive level. Exploring themes of hidden potentials, and the transcendence of our limiting view of a solid reality, her work often represents the negative space as being as important as the material itself, implying the dance of form and spirit, a constant state of transformation.

cv / exhibition history / awards

Education

2000 - 2007	Studying, and working in, traditional techniques of lost-wax bronze casting Patan, Kathmandu. Nepal
1996	Apprenticeship in traditional soapstone carving, Mahabalipuram, India
1992 - 1995	City and Guilds of London Art School, Kennington, London
	Fine Art Sculpture Degree under Alan Sly
1990 - 1991	Cambridge Arts Tutors, Cambridge, Art Foundation Course

Selected Exhibitions

2013	BBK Kleinplastik, Stuttgart, Germany Albemarle Gallery, Piccadilly, London, UK (S)
2012	‘Art en Capital’, Le Salon des Artistes Français, Grand Palais, Paris, France Galerie Roy Sfeir, St.Germain, Paris, France BBK, ‘Sphäre der Leere’, Stuttgart, Germany (S) Eunique Art and Design Fair, Karlsruhe, Germany ‘The Nude’, Albemarle Gallery, Piccadilly, London, UK Art Karlsruhe (Galerie du Fleuve, Paris) Karlsruhe, Germany Galerie Mark Hachem, Place des Vosges, Paris, France
2011	Galerie Mona Lisa, Paris, France Albemarle Gallery Summer Collective, London, UK Galerie Kunsthalle St. Moritz, St. Moritz, Switzerland Eunique Art and Design Fair, Karlsruhe, Germany Salon d'art édition 2011, Saint-André des Eaux, France Broadway Gallery, Soho, New York, USA Royal Society of British Artists, Mall Galleries, London, UK Galerie Gottschick, Tübingen, Germany

2010	'Art en Capital', Le Salon des Artistes Français, Grand Palais des Champs-Elysées, Paris, France Albemarle Gallery, London, UK Natur-Mensch', Nationalpark Harz, Sankt Andreasberg, Germany Eunique Art and Design Fair, Karlsruhe, Germany GEDOK exhibition, Kulturhalle, Tuebingen, Germany Royal Society of British Artists, Mall Galleries, London, UK

2009	Albemarle Gallery, London, UK
	Life-drawings, Künstlerhof Rottenburg, Rottenburg, Germany
2008	Life-drawings, Künstlerhof Rottenburg, Rottenburg, Germany
2003	Atelierhaus 34, Tübingen, Germany
2002	Atelierhaus 34, Tübingen, Germany
1994	City and Guilds 1994 graduate exhibition, Waterloo train station London, (Invited to participate as a second-year student)

Awards

2008	Two sculptures short-listed for the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, London
1995	Scholarship prize from Madame Tussauds
	City and Guilds of London Art School, sculpture prize

Commissions

2009	Seed Syllables Private collection of Damon DeLaszlo, Hampshire, UK
2005	Duck commissioned by Victoria Schaffranek, Tuebingen, Germany
2002	Settled Clarity Private collection of Barber family, Buckinghamshire
2000	Conches Private collection of Damon DeLaszlo, Hampshire, UK
1999	A Stone Called Om Carved in 'Nepali black stone', Kathmandu, Nepal
	Private collection of Damon DeLaszlo, Hampshire, UK
1998	Bust portrait of Dr.Albert Hofmann, discoverer of LSD
	July 2000 Recast in bronze, at request of Dr.Albert Hofmann
	Private collection of Hofmann family, Basel, Switzerland
	Yeti Footprint Yak and Yeti Hotel (Hyatt Group) Kathmandu, Nepal
1997	Water Lingam Marble, quarried and carved in Udaipur, Rajasthan, India, Private collection of Damon DeLaszlo, Hampshire, UK

Residencies

2004 - 2007	Restoration and remodeling of the life-size statue of the goddess Lakshmi
	World Heritage Site "Garden of Dreams", Kathmandu, Nepal
	Commissioned by the Austrian NGO Eco Himal and funded by the British Government
2000 - 2003	Coordinator of traditional sculpture commissions
	Hotel Yak & Yeti - Hyatt, Kathmandu, Nepal