This exhibition aims to present the range of Scottish artist Claire Barclay’s practice. It presents new work commissioned by The Fruitmarket Gallery and made with its spaces in mind, alongside selected sculptures she has made throughout her career and which are recognisable from previous showings. This is the first time that Barclay has shown new and existing work together, and the exhibition looks backwards as well as forwards, dramatising the artist’s resistance to the idea that anything the artist makes, may ever actually be finished – that the work is still, conceptually at least, wide open.
A new catalogue has been produced to accompany the exhibition, it documents significant installations made throughout her career, and includes a chronology tracing her mature artistic activity back to 1990. There are new texts by Fiona Bradley, Penelope Curtis and Claire Doherty, and a conversation between Claire Barclay and Francis McKee.
Exhibition supported by Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and The Henry Moore Foundation
