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.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2011 Royal Academy Summer Show, Royal Academy of Arts, London 2010 Jeanette Barnes London sitesToto, London 2010 Royal Academy Summer Show, Royal Academy of Arts, London 2009 Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London 2009 Royal Academy Summer Show, Royal Academy of Arts, London 2008 Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London 2008 Art in Hospitals, Auction Bonhams, London 2007 Royal Academy Summer Show, Royal Academy of Arts, London 2007 Art London, Roman Black Gallery, London 2006 Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London 2006 Royal Academy Summer Show, Royal Academy of Arts, London 2006 Drawing Breath, 10 years of Jerwood Drawing, London and Tour 2006 Art London, Roman Black Gallery, London 2005 Drawn, Cecil Higgins Gallery, London 2005 Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Space, London and Tour 2004 Royal Academy Summer Show, Royal Academy of Arts, London 2004 Visions of London, Artspace, London 2003 Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Space, London and tour 2003 Hunting Group, Royal College of Art, London 2003 Royal Academy Summer Show, Royal Academy of Arts, London 2002 Hunting Group, Royal College of Art, London 2002 Royal Academy Summer Show, Royal Academy of Arts, London 2001 The City, Whitechapel Contemporaries, London 2001 Royal Academy Summer Show, Royal Academy of Arts, London 2000 Royal Academy Summer Show, Royal Academy of Arts, London
PROJECTS
1999 Limehouse Excavation, Docklands