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Phyllida Barlow

May 2024

  • Playful spirit … one of the seven sculptures from Prank, in Phyllida Barlow: Unscripted.

    Phyllida Barlow: Unscripted review – exhilarating glimpses of a colossal talent

    This is the retrospective the artist never had in her lifetime, including her last sculpture series. Despite the skilful curation, visitors will yearn for Barlow’s special touch

14 March 2023

  • Dale Berning Sawa

    We all have one teacher who really made the difference – Phyllida Barlow was mine

    Dale Berning Sawa
  • Charlotte Higgins

    What I learned watching Phyllida Barlow create a funny, majestic work for morally shabby Brexit Britain

    Charlotte Higgins

13 March 2023

  • Phyllida Barlow viewing her Cul-de-Sac installation at the Royal Academy of Arts, London.

    ‘In every sense tremendous’: the epic life and art of Phyllida Barlow – in pictures

  • Installation View, 'quarry', Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh, UK, 2018 © Phyllida Barlow Courtesy the artist and Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh Photo: Anna Kunst

    ‘Going big suited her. Going very big’ – the uncontainable brilliance of sculptor Phyllida Barlow

  • Phyllida Barlow photographed amongst her work 'Dock' at Tate Britain, London Photograph by David Levene For ARTS dock 2014 comprises seven interrelated works: untitled: dock: 5hungblocks 2013 Steel, polystyrene, plywood, cable ties, cement, PVA, polyurethane foam; Dimensions variable untitled: dock: crushedtower 2014 Steel, timber, cardboard, tape, polyurethane foam; 12 x 2 x 2 m untitled: dock: hungcontainer 2014 Timber, steel, hardboard, foam board; Dimensions variable untitled: dock: hungprongsplastercoils 2014 Steel, wire, wadding, foam board, scrim, plaster, plywood, polystyrene; 5 x 2 x 4 m untitled: dock: crashedlintel/brokensculpture/paintedtarps 2014 Timber, plywood, steel, canvas, polystyrene, felt, fabric, paint, wire, plaster, scrim, cement, polyurethane foam; Dimensions variable untitled: dock: 5stockadecrates 2014 Steel, timber, rope, polystyrene, tape, cardboard, fabric, canvas, foam, plywood, paper, corrugated card; 7 x 6 x 5 m untitled: dock: hungcowledtubes 2014 Steel, polystyrene, polyurethane foam, felt, foam, underlay, fabric; 3.5 x 3 x 4 m untitled: dock: emptystaircasehoarding 2014 Timber, paint, plywood; 9 x 4 x 10 m

    Dame Phyllida Barlow obituary

  • Phyllida Barlow

    Phyllida Barlow, British sculptor, dies aged 78

July 2021

  • ‘We were two-thirds of the way there when we suddenly had to find another venue’ … Barlow with her new work.

    Rocket from the crypt! Phyllida Barlow on her Highgate cemetery sculpture

    The sedate graveyard, full of classical colonnades, has been given an injection of colour and fun by art’s great late starter. She talks about her new installation – and using the pandemic to reflect

June 2021

  • Phyllida Barlow at the British Pavilion during the 2017 Venice Biennale

    Phyllida Barlow to unveil five-metre-tall sculpture at Highgate cemetery

    The artist hopes the work, called Act, will challenge visitors to reappraise the famous site and its monuments

August 2020

  • Detail from To See and To Know; Future Lovers from A Countervailing Theory (2019).

    Art Weekly newsletter
    New myths, Manet and an intimate guide to the Amazon – the week in art

    Toyin Ojih Odutola’s powerful drawings are like a graphic novel brought to life, while rare Renoir and Gauguin are at the Royal Academy and Colombia’s Abel Rodríguez heads to Gateshead

May 2019

  • William Morris runs amok … part of Jeremy Deller’s Venice show in 2013.

    ‘So beautiful I cried’: Rachel Whiteread, Jeremy Deller and more on the thrill of the Venice Biennale

    Jeremy Deller unleashed a yacht-throwing colossus and Rachel Whiteread hit the streets with a vacuum cleaner … six leading artists recall representing Britain at the arts extravaganza

September 2018

  • Antony Gormley’s Lost Horizon

    Royal Academy to be flooded with water and mud for Gormley exhibit

    Details of 2019 programme include Phyllida Barlow show and Lucian Freud self-portraits

June 2018

  • Tony Cragg

    Cast of characters: encounters with British sculptors – in pictures

    Cornelia Parker, Elisabeth Frink, Damien Hirst and Grayson Perry are among the artists Anne-Katrin Purkiss captures in striking portraits

May 2018

  • Self Portrait in Crouching Position (1913) by Egon Schiele, on show at Tate Liverpool.

    Art Weekly newsletter
    Incendiary Schiele, swaggering Schnabel and dynamic Dean – the week in art

    Egon hits Merseyside, Julian reveals some splashy daubs and Phyllida Barlow celebrates 10 glorious years of Jupiter Artland sculpture park

March 2018

  • Preponderance of women artists … Victoria Crowe’s Ronald Stevenson (1983).

    Tacita Dean and Jenny Saville lead strong female presence at Edinburgh art festival

    Phyllida Barlow, Lucy Skaer and Victoria Crowe also feature in the lineup alongside old masters including Canaletto and Rembrandt

October 2017

  • Soul-searching … a work by Maryam Jafri at Frieze.

    Frieze 2017 review – Judas, Bourgeois and Mary Beard storm the hyper-capitalist hothouse

    Jeff Koons rips off Giotto, Mary Beard opens a fake museum and Lucy and Jorge Orta peddle Antarctica passports. But is this Frieze fairground really the best in new art?

June 2017

  • Full House by Sean Scully at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition in London

    Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition showcases the world

    Annual show includes works by Tracey Emin and Cornelia Parker, with emerging artists from DRC, Peru, Spain and India

May 2017

  • Phyllida Barlow. folly. British Pavilion. Venice Biennale. Venice. Italy. Photograph by David Levene 9/5/17

    The Audio Long Read
    Bish-bash-bosh: how Phyllida Barlow conquered the art world at 73 – podcast

    After overlooking her for decades, the art world has woken up to Phyllida Barlow’s audacious, gargantuan sculptures. Now she is representing Britain at the Venice Biennale – but why did it take so long for her to be “discovered”?
  • Hokusai: Beyond the Great Wave

    Five of the best… new art shows
    Hokusai and Graham Fagen: this week’s best UK exhibitions

    The British Museum goes beyond the Japanese artist’s famous wave print, while slavery is considered from the point of view of an 18th-century African
  • Pink Floyd, pictured in 1967.

    Art Weekly newsletter
    Pink Floyd, Jane Austen and virtual reality – the week in art

    The V&A’s blockbuster Pink Floyd show opens, along with Mat Collishaw’s recreation of an 1839 photography exhibition – all in your weekly dispatch
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