Barrow works in projection performance, installation, video, sculpture, printmaking and drawing to present cinematic narratives. Since 1993, he has adapted comic book narratives to « manual » forms of animation by projecting and manipulating drawings on overhead projectors. Barrow’s performances and installations aim to collide imagery from the cultural and digital past with emotional, usually melancholic, content; in doing so, he returns to a former or nostalgic experience of stimulus. All of his work expands upon dualistic, universal themes: good vs. evil, shame vs. pride, experience vs. innocence, and awareness of the present moment vs. an increasingly bleak, and rapidly advancing future.
Read more » Barrow is the winner of the 2010 Sobey Art Award – Canada’s largest prize for young Canadian artists – and the 2013 Glenfiddich Artist-In-Residence Prize. His work is included in a number of public and private collections such as: National Gallery of Canada Private collections in Canada. Less »
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec