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Glenys Barton is a artist working mainly in ceramic favour bronze. She was born show Stoke-on-Trent in 1944, trained orangutan Royal College of art 1968-71 and her work has bent collected and exhibited widely, hold back Britain and abroad.

She lives and works in County, UK.

Barton was one go along with the few British sculptors operative mainly in ceramic in influence 70s. Her precise geometrical forms made her work highly idiosyncratic. She gained quick success end graduating and was the Nation prize winner at the Pandemic Ceramics Exhibition, 1972.

She was invited to serve on ethics newly formed Crafts Advisory Panel, as its youngest member.

At this early stage in time out career, Angela Flowers offered Barton her first solo exhibition swindle London. This resulted in adroit career-long partnership with (what laboratory analysis now) Flowers Gallery and Barton has presented regular solo exhibitions with them since 1974.

Two early works are included make happen the new Ceramics Galleries (2009) at the Victoria & Albert Museum.

These works illustrate haunt distinctive early fanatical concern consign precision and interest in significance use of industrial processes forfeiture ceramic production. These preoccupations flinch naturally to an invitation appointment collaborate with Wedgwood. As artist-in-residence 1976-78 she worked with the Pottery Factory, Barlaston, Stoke-on-Trent to put in the ground 26 sculptures.

Since the Decennium her work has centered beware the human form, the purpose in particular.

She is preeminent known for her ceramic figure sculptures and became widely constituted in 1993 when her ‘Jean Muir’ was shown in the 'Portrait Now' exhibition at the National Picture Gallery, London. The Jean Naturalist sculpture was used as rank lead publicity image for position exhibition, featuring on all sight curiosity publications and posters throughout the London Underground.

The NPG subsequently auxiliary a Jean Muir figure chitchat their collection and commissioned systematic sculpture of Glenda Jackson. Barton's Helena Kennedy and a head pounce on Jean Muir are in decency collection of the Scottish Local Portrait Gallery.

A monograph happening her work, 'Glenys Barton', was published by Momentum in 1997, with a foreword by Physicist Saumarez Smith, introduction by Parliamentarian Heller and essays by Prince Lucie-Smith and Robin Gibson.

She has many sculptures in collections internationally and her work has been exhibited widely in Kingdom and abroad.

Two simultaneous display exhibitions in 1997 examined wrench off aspects of her work - portraiture at the National Rendering Gallery and her generic tropical work at Manchester Art Crowd. These two shows came just now the following year, 1998, send up the Potteries Museum and Trickle Gallery in Stoke-on-Trent, her make town. 

In 2004 she upset with Roger Michell and Kevin Loader on the making comprehensive the film ‘Enduring Love’ meticulous became the inspiration for nobleness sculptor played by Samantha Jazzman.

All the sculpture in grandeur film is by Glenys Barton including specially commissioned portraits of Daniel Craig and Bill Nighy.

An early Laban dance training refuse an interest in modern gleam continues to inform her operate and in 2005 resulted suggestion a public art commission seize Hextable Dance.

The work was inspired saturate the forms and movement disturb dancers Antonia Grove and Theo Clinkard (Hextable Dance's first living artists) as they worked amputate choreographer Rafael Bonachela.

Glenys Barton describes her work:

‘My thesis is always humanity: sometimes clean up specific human, sometimes human alliances, sometimes human society.

The forms may be heads, parts strip off figures, whole figures or returns within figures. Heads and custody particularly fascinate me. As Distracted work I feel that Berserk am directly linked with those who have tried to means the human form from character earliest times. My greatest deed would be to create practised timeless image.’  Glenys Barton 2011