Glenn Barkley is a Sydney-based artist, writer, curator, and gardener. His practice sits between gardening and ceramics history, moving through natural observation, popular song, and conversations about art and the internet.
He works with deep ceramic traditions while bending them through process and source material: slip-casting, sprig-molding, and direct cutting from rolled clay. Barkley often incorporates found molds of flora and fauna, including inexpensive reclaimed materials, and he intentionally limits firings to earthenware to keep the colors vivid—sometimes luxuriantly tacky rather than restrained.
His gardens are not background; they are a formal language. Cacti and succulents appear as sculptural intensity, and the work frequently carries humor with a meditation on memory and loss, drawing on literature and on the physical evidence of making.
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