14th Feb 2011

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...

11th Feb 2011

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...

11th Feb 2011

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.