Sukhi Barber

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 to the Western viewer. 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.

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

 

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