About the work

Different tactile processes of drawing are at the heart of Anna Barriball’s practice. Working across a range of mediums the artist has an ongoing interest in how temporality, memory and the mechanics of sight all interact. To make this drawing the artist placed her left hand’s fingertips and thumb on to a piece of paper and with her right hand applied pastel dust to the sheet. Recently referencing photographic processes in her drawings this piece brings to mind a photogram where an object has been placed on photographic paper and exposed to light. Once taking her left hand off the surface she worked further with the pastel dust to create an image of her hand reaching out towards the viewer.

Date and country of birth

1972, GB

Career Highlights

Anna Barriball has had solo and two-person exhibitions internationally including New Dawings, Frith Street Gallery, London (2024); KINDL Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2020); Anna Barriball and Susan Hiller, Galería MPA, Madrid (2019); Art Centre Pasquart, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland (2018); Be-Part, Waregem, Belgium (2017); Museum Villa Stuck, Munich (2013); Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (2012) and MK Gallery, Milton Keynes (2011). Collections include: Arts Council Collection, London; Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel; Kunsthaus Pasquart, Biel; Tate Collection, London; Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles.