Timothy Barnes, Ephemeral Marks VII, 2022, 120 x 155 cm

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Artist: Timothy Barnes
Title: Ephemeral Marks II
Size: W 120 x H 155 cm
Dated: 2022
Series: Ephemeral Marks
Signature: Hand-signed and dated in pencil
Numbered: This is a unique work
Edition: /
Availability: 1
Medium/Materials: Vinyl on Canvas
Certificate of authenticity: Included
Frame: Not framed, optional
Publisher: Muetos
Image rights: Timothy Barnes

Condition: Excellent condition

Ephemeral Marks
The paintings represented in EM not only reflect the abstract idea of mark making in a broader sense
but also grapple with more conceptual notions of time and space. Everything flows nothing is constant.

Provenance: From the artists studio

Biography / About:

“Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.”

William Shakespeare
Macbeth

I was born in Morocco and raised half in England half in Germany. At the age of 22 I picked up a camera and after absolving an internship at the Pinewood Studios in London, I went on to study at the ICP ( International Center of Photography ) in New York. After various residencies in England, Scotland and Germany, I currently live in Hamburg.

My artistic development arises from an uprooting since I grew up in two worlds. In no world truly accepted ( in England I was German and vice versa) I started looking at my environment from a different angle. In my early years as a photographer, I depicted people in a disconnected manner from each other and from their surroundings. Later, I removed these individuals even further by leaving them out completely. The result would be somewhat empty and otherworldly. I had transferred my detachment to my observed environment and in return I was asking about its and my own meaning and existence.

As a working fashion photographer the depiction of disengaged people is hard to sell. Year after year my photography became a hybrid of what I wanted and what my clients wanted. Again I found myself in a situation where I was in two worlds. Since I had A-levels in art, I picked up a pencil again and begann going to life drawing classes.

A tragic loss made me rethink my position.

This is what I do now.

1996 London / Julie Bramwell Agency, Fashion Photographer
1998 Residency in Cullen/ Scotland Photography Project on Childhood
2001 Reportage in Iraq
2002 @KlausStiegemeyer Photographers , Hamburg

Publications:

Elle, Style & the Family Tunes, SZ Magazine, 7th Man, Gala, GQ, Amica
Clients
Mercedes, Valisere, Zero, Rodenstock, New Yorker, Tom Tailor, JOOP!, Belly Button

Exhibitions:

2010 “Untitled” Friday Rewind at Play Rent Studios Hamburg
2017 “Selfie Saints” Luna Studios Hamburg
2021 “Walk tall and always carry a lightbulb” Farbwerke M6 Hamburg
( cancelled due to covid)
2021 “Walk tall and always carry a lightbulb” Online Virtual Gallery (Kunstmatrix)
2022 “now I can see the moon” Paintings & Sculpture M6 Galle
2022 17.06-26.06 Re:Claim Kultur Festival , “Freedom” , Groupexhibition

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