About the work

This is part of a series of drawings of giant, fruit-eating insects, made with Indian ink and chalk pastel. I often make many versions of the same idea for a drawing and only a few leave the studio, those with a certain energy and resoluteness.

Date and country of birth

1989, GB

Career Highlights

Amelia Barratt is an artist working with painting, writing and performance.
Exhibition highlights: A Folding Scene, Esplanade, Singapore (2023); Tableau, Outlier, Glasgow (2023); OUT NOW, Ufferhallen, Berlin (2021); Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana, Kendall Koppe, Glasgow (2021);  Annotations, Librarian Amelia Barratt, Drawing Room, London (2020/21); For Days for Gabriella Boyd, Seventeen, London (2020); Artists I Steal From, Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, London (2019); The Night Council, Museum of London (2018); Old Hair, Glasgow International (2018). Publication: Real Life (Charles Asprey, 2022).