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Barnaby Hosking

"Snow Painting Once Removed",
2005,
DV projection on black canvas, 165 x 220 cm, 10 min looped;
painting: acrylic on canvas, 175 x 254 cm;
black mirror, 203 x 203 cm,
ed. 3/5 + 2 a.p.

There is a definite sense of beingness to Hosking’s installation, not only in its subject-matter, but also the way the work at one and the same time confronts itself and its viewers. To be caught in Snowpainting once removed is to be caught in a space where one is bombarded with experiences that are both foreign and yet entirely contingent upon oneself. The viewer becomes absorbed and yet once removed when caught in the light and indeed space created by the work itself- as Hosking makes his way through the snow storms of the North Cape we too are caught in the muted storm of presence that encircles us. All that marks the space is the impossible weight of darkness overlapped and intersected by the various intensities of light that brings Snowpainting once removed into being and into life. There is also a sense of voyeurism and distance within this zone, yet also of intimacy and reflection, both literally and metaphorically. We become self-aware that we are caught glancing in an experience that will never quite be ours, but which yet covers us in its presence. The yearning for understanding and exploration found within this situation and piece is symptomatic of the scenes unfolding themselves before us and in which we ourselves take centre-stage.

Barnaby Hosking

1976 born in Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom

Lives and works in London, United Kingdom

Education

2001-2003 MA Sculpture, Royal College of Art, London
1998-2001 BA Fine Art, City and Guilds of London Art School, London

Grants

2003 1st prize winner Credit Suisse Bank Prize
2001 1st prize winner Michael Kenny Memorial Prize

Solo Exhibitions

2006 Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford
2005 Max Wigram Gallery, London
2004 Night Painting, MWprojects, London

Group Exhibitions

(Selection)
2006
Solitude, upstairs berlin, Berlin

2005
Threshold, Max Wigram Gallery, London
Chambres à part, Hotel Sezz, Paris

2004
Northern Light, The Rubell Family Collection, Miami
Expander, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Selected Sculpture, MWprojects, London
New Blood, The Saatchi Gallery, County Hall

2003
A Tiny New Nation, Bowie Art, London
Cold Stew, VTO Gallery, London

Collections

Honart Museum, Tehran
Saatchi Collection, London
Cohen Collection, Manchester
Mexx Foundation, Bergen
Rubell Family Collection, Miami
Zabludowicz Trust, London
Goetz Collection, Munich

Bibliography

2005 Martin Herbert, Threshold, Time Out, London, 24-31 August, p. 57
Fisun Güner, Threshold, Metro, London, 4 August, p. 24
Neil Mulholland, Expander, Frieze, Issue 88, January/February, p. 125

2004 Gaynor Aaltonen, A View from Here, National Trust Magazine, September, p. 50
Tom Morton, Crude oil, Arse gratia artis: sex dominates modern art, Arena Magazine, Luxury Sex (supplement)
Sotris Kyriacou, London: MW projects, Contemporary, Issue 59, p. 61
Sarah Kent, Night Painting, Time Out, February, p. 52

2003 Barnaby Hosking, I.D. Magazine, July, p. 87

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