Jeanette Barnes

ARTIST STATEMENT
I use drawing to document the development of urban environments. Over the years I have worked mainly in London from the City and Docklands sites. Working on the spot, I gather sufficient information to develop major pieces back in the studio. Although I enjoy drawing architecture and excavation works, it is people that bring these settings to life. Sometimes they are a focal point or of implied presence. I like to use their movement as a metaphor for energy within the city and passage of time. Over a number of years, my work has changed, moving from intense and claustrophobic pieces, the charcoal used atmospherically giving richness and depth, to airier pieces taking on larger areas concerned with spatial depth and evolution. Recently I have begun to work on a series of drawings of New York, I have become fascinated with the energy and architecture there. Working mainly from drawings, but also through necessity from photographs, which is a new departure for me and has taken my work in a somewhat different direction, I have enjoyed immersing myself in the vibrancy of a new city.

INFLUENCES
Titian, Poussin, Auerbach, Tapies, Rembrandt, Soutine, Piranesi, Rubens, Twombly, Kollwitz, Knowles, Kossoff, Sickert ,Bomberg, Dubuffet.

CAREER PATH
1980-83 BA Hons Fine Art, Liverpool Polytechnic
1984 John Moores Scholarship
1984-87 Post Graduate Painting, Royal Academy Schools 1987- Young Printmaker of the Year Award
1987 Richard Ford Spanish Scholarship
1987-89 MA Printmaking Royal College of Art
1987-89 Henry Moore Scholarship
1997 Hunting Group - prize winner
1990-Present day - Outreach Tutor for Royal Academy of Arts
2002-Present day - Tutor - Prince's Drawing school - London
2004 Jerwood Drawing - prize winner
Freelance lecturer, works on commissions. Studio in Bow, London.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007 Royal Academy Summer Show, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2007 Art London, Roman Black Gallery, Business Design Centre - London
2006 Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
2006 Mixed Show, Roman Black Gallery, London
2006 Royal Academy Summer Show, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2006 Drawing Breath 10 Years of Jerwood Drawing Prizes, Wimbledon School of Art, London & Australia
2006 London Art Fair, Business Design Centre, London
2005 Drawn, Cecil Higgins Gallery, Bedford
2005 Jerwood Drawing Prize 2005, Jerwood Space & Tour, London
2004 Visions of London, Artspace Gallery, London
2004 Royal Academy Summer Show, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2003 Hunting Group, Royal College of Art, London
2003 Royal Academy Summer show, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2003 Jerwood Drawing Prizes, Jerwood Space , London & Tour
2002 Drawings for all, Gainsborough's House, Suffolk
2002 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
2002 Hunting Group, Royal College of Art, London
2001 London Chamber of Commerce, London
2001 The City, Whitechapel Contemporaries, London
2001 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
2000 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
1999 Art for the Oracle, 100 Park Lane, Hammerson, London and Reading
1999 Hunting Group, Royal College of Art, London and Touring
1998 Cheltenham Open Drawing, Cheltenham; Hull; Berlin
1998 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
1998 Black and White, Museum of Modern Art, Machynlleth, Wales

PROJECTS
1999 Limehouse Excavation, Docklands