About Barry Herbert

I have been producing drawings, prints and sculpture since the late 1950’s.  My pictorial work follows two related avenues of enquiry. One of these involves the selection, isolation and manipulation by photographic means, of tonal information and the production of prints which use these manipulations. The other involves the activity of pen drawing, informed by my experience in visualisation gained in the first. The subjects of my prints and drawings change frequently, but follow certain themes which either consciously or sub-consciously occupy my mind. One common factor which they possess is a lack of deep seriousness. another (except in the case of the early movie subjects, which represent little more than a personal indulgence in nostalgia) might be identified as a dream-like or even surrealist quality. As hints to my dreams, I shall provide alongside individual pictures, a few facts, or fictions, about their sources, along with some thoughts, or fantasies, which occupied my mind during their making.

I was Head of the Department of Fine Art at The University of Leeds, until l992. I am now a freelance artist with the following exhibition and print publication record:

ONE-ARTIST EXHIBITIONS:

1965 The Manor House Gallery, Ilkley, England

1968 Nahal-Oz, Israel

1969 The University of Leeds, England

1969 Gevim, Israel

1971 The Serpentine Gallery, London, England

1971 The University Gallery, Leeds, England

1972 Galerie Brechbuhl, Grenchen, Switzerland

1972 The Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, England

1973 Northern Artists' Gallery, Leeds, England

1974 Park Square Gallery, Leeds, England

1974 Victoria Gallery, Harrogate, England

1975 Chapel Gallery, York, England

1976 The University Gallery, Leeds, England

1976 Victoria Gallery, Harrogate, England

1976 Rochdale City Art Gallery, England

1976 Galerie Brechbuhl, Switzerland

1977 3rd International Pigments School, Leeds, England

1979 Galerie Sondermann, Essen, Germany

1979 The Goosewell Gallery, Menston, England

I 979 Galerie Brechbuhl, Switzerland

1979 Galerie Domus Petri, Ortenberg, Germany

1979 Galene Steinmetz, Bonn, Germany

1980 Galerie Regio, Freiburg, Germany

1980 Karl-Marx-Universitat, Leipzig, German Democratic Republic

1981 Galerie Wagerad, Munsingen, Switzerland

1982 The University Gallery, Leeds, England

1982 The Gilbert-Parr Gallery, London, England

1982 Galerie Brechbuhl, Switzerland

1982 Galerie Domus Petri, Germany

1983 Galerie Sondermann, Essen, Germany

1983 Galerie Gilbert, Remetschwiel, Germany

1984 Galerie Wagerad, Munsingen, Switzerland

1984 Galerie Brechbuhl, Switzerland

1985 Galerie Steinmetz, Bonn, Germany

1986 The University Gallery, Leeds, England

1988 The Hawkesworth Gallery, Ilkley, England

1992 Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

1993 Galerie Bernhard Steinmetz, Bonn, Germany

2004 SteinmetzKunst - Deutsche Internet Galerie, Berlin, Germany

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

Numerous Group and Open Exhibitions in Switzerland, Germany, Israel, Canada,

Britain and the USA

INTERNATIONAL PRINT EXHIBITIONS:

1968 First International Print Biennale, Bradford, England

1970 Fifth International Triennale, Switzerland

1973 Photography into Art, Camden Arts Centre, London, England

1973 Sixth International Triennale, Switzerland

1974 Pratt Graphics Center Gallery, New York, USA

1976 Seventh International Triennale, Switzerland

1977 Art 8'77, Internationale Kunstmesse, Basel, Switzerland

1979 Eighth International Triennale, Switzerland

1980 Hull International Print Exhibition, England, England

1980 Fourth Miami International Biennale, Florida, USA

1980 World Print III, San Francisco, USA

1982 Ninth International Triennale, Switzerland

1985 Tenth lnternational Triennale, Switzerland

1988 'Grafische Kunst unserer Zeit', Switzerland

1997 Fourteenth International Triennale, Switzerland

PRINT COMMISSIONS:

In addition to the editions published by the artist himself, numerous print editions have been specially commissioned: