When parallel worlds meet
City Press, 22 September 2012 When parallel worlds meet Two creative luminaries on parallel life paths found their work speaking in a singular voice at Circa on Jellicoe last week....
Whooping it up with Wayne Barker
Mail & Guardian, Arts & Culture, 31.08.2012, Charles Leonard The wild child of the local art scene enjoys his whisky and also works damned hard. Wayne Barker has been the...
Wayne Barker: Love Land
art south africa, News, 2012 Wayne Barker: Love land FROM THE 30TH OF AUGUST TO THE 6TH OF OCTOBER 2012 THE CIRCA ON JELLICOE, ROSEBANK, JOHANNESBURG WILL SHOWCASE A SOLO...
Barking up a blind alley
Mail & Guardian, Simon Njami, 14 Feb 2011. When I met Wayne Barker for the first time almost 20 years ago he was one of the angry kids on the...
A patricidal imperative
City Press, Feb 2011, Wayne Barker‘s art is all about challenging past masters in a contemporary context, writes Percy Mabandu
In the wake of a passage of rites
Mail & Guardian 11 Feb 2011, Matthew Partridge Contemporary South African art is full of mythological beasts with a long and increasingly involved and complicated history. One of those preeminent...
A streak of madness and a lick of paint
Mail & Guardian, 11 Feb 2011, Matthew Krouse: WAYNE BARKER’s retrospective recalls a wild child who ‘inscribed something rich and mysterious’ on empty landscapes.
Barker not so “Super boring”
Article on WAYNE BARKER, The Times, Feb 4, 2011, by Andrea Nagel: ‘I had people fighting over one of my works. I used to beg people to buy my work,...
Rebel with a cause
CitiVibe, Art, 3 Feb 2011, WAYNE BARKER‘s retrospective exhibition “Super Boring” shines brightly
Scratch the surface
Business Day (South Africa), September 01, 2006, Byline: Braam Kruger: Scratch the surface STILL unsteady from a two-day binge of booze, women and song, a dishevelled Wayne Barker pitches late...
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