5 October 2006 - Ruth Barker & Niall MacDonald - podcast now available to download

Ruth Barker is an artist based in Glasgow. Not bound to a specific discipline her work investigates narrative construction and the balance between the written word and a visual image. Recent exhibitions include The Self As Knower Does Not Know The Self As Known, Glasgow Projects Rooms. Along with her invited guest, Niall MacDonald, both artists recently published Placed Upon the Horizon; A Permanent Public Artwork,  a collections of transcripts of interviews between the artists and specialists in the public art arena. The piece is indicative of their collaborative practice and explores the written word as documentation of the spoken word, a shift in context, authorship and communication. McDonald's recent exhibition includes As Kingfishers Catch Fire, Glasgow Sculpture Studios. Both were also founding members of the collective Something Haptic, whose recent exhibitions include Siege and Counter Siege, Hotel Mariakapel, Hoorn, Netherlands, Faktura, Market Gallery for the Glasgow International 2006.

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