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Wood, canvas, anchovy packet, glue, sand, mud, oil paint, oil pastel, biro, nails, pencil, wood, leather
30 x 38 x 3 cm
2025
Interweaving images of everyday domesticity, female wrestling, and goblin trickery, you never know what you’re going to find in the work of artist Phoebe Barnicoat. And neither does she. Whether through paint, digital animation or bricolage, her work is a colourful summoning of otherworldliness, alongside life’s absurd banalities. Hard fought, her images morph restlessly, avoiding a single recognisable style. Through extensive editing, reworking, and often outright destruction, forms and body parts emerge in awkward fragments. Her claustrophobic visions take shape with fervour, raw and aggression, but are streaked through with hints of cheeky humour and tenderness. Barnicoat has been exhibited at the Royal Watercolour Society (2026), Tate St Ives (2025), The Centre for Recent Drawing (2022), Christies (2019) and the Fleming Collection (2013) amongst others. She is a graduate of the Royal Drawing School and Glasgow School of Art. She is director of Co-Motion, a CIC that connects artists with learning disabilities with creative technology.
Wood, canvas, anchovy packet, glue, sand, mud, oil paint, oil pastel, biro, nails, pencil, wood, leather
30 x 38 x 3 cm
2025
Interweaving images of everyday domesticity, female wrestling, and goblin trickery, you never know what you’re going to find in the work of artist Phoebe Barnicoat. And neither does she. Whether through paint, digital animation or bricolage, her work is a colourful summoning of otherworldliness, alongside life’s absurd banalities. Hard fought, her images morph restlessly, avoiding a single recognisable style. Through extensive editing, reworking, and often outright destruction, forms and body parts emerge in awkward fragments. Her claustrophobic visions take shape with fervour, raw and aggression, but are streaked through with hints of cheeky humour and tenderness. Barnicoat has been exhibited at the Royal Watercolour Society (2026), Tate St Ives (2025), The Centre for Recent Drawing (2022), Christies (2019) and the Fleming Collection (2013) amongst others. She is a graduate of the Royal Drawing School and Glasgow School of Art. She is director of Co-Motion, a CIC that connects artists with learning disabilities with creative technology.