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
