Education
2009 PG Cert Higher Education Professional Practice, Coventry University
2004 MA Painting, Winchester School of Art
2003 BA(Hons)- Fine Art, painting, Winchester School of Art
2000 Art & Design Foundation, Stourbridge College
Exhibitions
Solo shows
2013
MAC, Birmingham (Barber and Spackman 'The Habsburgs')
2009
Francis Kyle Gallery, London
2006
Fairfields Arts Centre, Basingstoke
Group shows
2022
(forthcoming) Colours, The Stone Space, London
On paper, The Paper Gallery, Manchester 2021
Chalk, Clay, Sand, Salt, Cromer Artspace
2017
Outpost Members' Show, Outpost Gallery, Norwich (selected by Andy Holden)
Human Interfaces, Norwich University of the Arts
Outpost Studio Holders, Outpost Studios, Norwich
Fountain'17, The Habsburgs, Hull, London, Stoke, York
2016
Outpost Members' Show, Outpost Gallery, Norwich (selected by Lynda Morris and Chris Rawcliffe)
2014-2015
(detail), H-Project Space, Bangkok; Transition Gallery, London; The Usher Gallery, Lincoln
2014
Peplexia, Through the Wall Projects, Bishop Street Gallery, Coventry
2013
Jumping for Joyce, Francis Kyle Gallery, London
2012
OHMMM, Bruit de Fond, LGP, Coventry
OHMMM, London Short Film Festival, The Horse Hospital, London
2011
This twittering world - T S Eliot's Four Quartets, Francis Kyle Gallery, London
Unruly Object, Lanchester Gallery, Coventry
OHMMM at The Art of Noise, The Public, West Bromwich
OHMMM at Intime Symposium, Coventry University
OHMMM at Artsfest, MAC, Birmingham
OHMMM at Anticurate, MAC, Birmingham
OHMMM at Coventry Airport, Jaguar anniversary
OHMMM at Memory B(l)anks, Apex, Crewe
OHMMM at Unruly Object, LGP, Coventry
2010
400 Women, Shoreditch Town Hall basement, London and touring
2009
That gong tormented sea - Byzantium, Francis Kyle Gallery, London
2008
ReCognition, The Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry
Rodina - Motherland, Francis Kyle Gallery, London
2007
ING Discerning Eye 2007, Mall Galleries, London
Passage, Wolverhampton
2006
Everyone Sang, Francis Kyle Gallery, London
2005
Memory, Clarion Contemporary Art, London
Lennox Gallery, London
Redundancy, Group show, Aspex Gallery , Portsmouth
2004
New Contemporaries, Fairfields Arts Centre, Basingstoke
Published work and conferences
'The Habsburgs: Alternative Facts', 2017, http://www.blurb.co.uk/b/7813898-the-habsburgs-alternative-facts
Barber, C. Spackman, A. 'The Habsburgs: Cross-disciplinary sidesteps' in Message Journal edition 3, Plymouth University, July 2016, available: https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/handle/10026.1/5117
“Engagement with #3CityLink”, conference paper, presented at the ‘International Conference of the Arts in Society’, Imperial College, London, July 2015
'Pictorial Slippage' in The International Journal of Arts Theory and History, Volume 8, Issue 2, July 2014, pp.69-78. Article: Print (Spiral Bound). Published online: July 3, 2014, available:
http://ijath.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.231/prod.54
“Pictorial Slippage”, conference paper, presented at the ‘International Conference of the Arts in Society’, Budapest, Hungary, June 2013
'Fragmentation' in Tracey- Contemporary Drawing Research, Loughborough University, 09.2009, available:
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/sota/tracey/journal/frag1.html
Lectureships
Since 10.2015- Norwich University of the Arts, Senior Lecturer: Fine Art (painting)
06.2007-09.2015- Coventry University, Course Director: Foundation Art & Design and Senior Lecturer: Fine Art (promoted from lecturer 01.2012)
Reviews
19.04.2008
Jackie Wullschlager, Financial Times, p18, Critics choice
01.11.2006The Times (UK), Times 2, arts, p15 (The end of England, feature image)
2009 PG Cert Higher Education Professional Practice, Coventry University
2004 MA Painting, Winchester School of Art
2003 BA(Hons)- Fine Art, painting, Winchester School of Art
2000 Art & Design Foundation, Stourbridge College
Exhibitions
Solo shows
2013
MAC, Birmingham (Barber and Spackman 'The Habsburgs')
2009
Francis Kyle Gallery, London
2006
Fairfields Arts Centre, Basingstoke
Group shows
2022
(forthcoming) Colours, The Stone Space, London
On paper, The Paper Gallery, Manchester 2021
Chalk, Clay, Sand, Salt, Cromer Artspace
2017
Outpost Members' Show, Outpost Gallery, Norwich (selected by Andy Holden)
Human Interfaces, Norwich University of the Arts
Outpost Studio Holders, Outpost Studios, Norwich
Fountain'17, The Habsburgs, Hull, London, Stoke, York
2016
Outpost Members' Show, Outpost Gallery, Norwich (selected by Lynda Morris and Chris Rawcliffe)
2014-2015
(detail), H-Project Space, Bangkok; Transition Gallery, London; The Usher Gallery, Lincoln
2014
Peplexia, Through the Wall Projects, Bishop Street Gallery, Coventry
2013
Jumping for Joyce, Francis Kyle Gallery, London
2012
OHMMM, Bruit de Fond, LGP, Coventry
OHMMM, London Short Film Festival, The Horse Hospital, London
2011
This twittering world - T S Eliot's Four Quartets, Francis Kyle Gallery, London
Unruly Object, Lanchester Gallery, Coventry
OHMMM at The Art of Noise, The Public, West Bromwich
OHMMM at Intime Symposium, Coventry University
OHMMM at Artsfest, MAC, Birmingham
OHMMM at Anticurate, MAC, Birmingham
OHMMM at Coventry Airport, Jaguar anniversary
OHMMM at Memory B(l)anks, Apex, Crewe
OHMMM at Unruly Object, LGP, Coventry
2010
400 Women, Shoreditch Town Hall basement, London and touring
2009
That gong tormented sea - Byzantium, Francis Kyle Gallery, London
2008
ReCognition, The Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry
Rodina - Motherland, Francis Kyle Gallery, London
2007
ING Discerning Eye 2007, Mall Galleries, London
Passage, Wolverhampton
2006
Everyone Sang, Francis Kyle Gallery, London
2005
Memory, Clarion Contemporary Art, London
Lennox Gallery, London
Redundancy, Group show, Aspex Gallery , Portsmouth
2004
New Contemporaries, Fairfields Arts Centre, Basingstoke
Published work and conferences
'The Habsburgs: Alternative Facts', 2017, http://www.blurb.co.uk/b/7813898-the-habsburgs-alternative-facts
Barber, C. Spackman, A. 'The Habsburgs: Cross-disciplinary sidesteps' in Message Journal edition 3, Plymouth University, July 2016, available: https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/handle/10026.1/5117
“Engagement with #3CityLink”, conference paper, presented at the ‘International Conference of the Arts in Society’, Imperial College, London, July 2015
'Pictorial Slippage' in The International Journal of Arts Theory and History, Volume 8, Issue 2, July 2014, pp.69-78. Article: Print (Spiral Bound). Published online: July 3, 2014, available:
http://ijath.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.231/prod.54
“Pictorial Slippage”, conference paper, presented at the ‘International Conference of the Arts in Society’, Budapest, Hungary, June 2013
'Fragmentation' in Tracey- Contemporary Drawing Research, Loughborough University, 09.2009, available:
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/sota/tracey/journal/frag1.html
Lectureships
Since 10.2015- Norwich University of the Arts, Senior Lecturer: Fine Art (painting)
06.2007-09.2015- Coventry University, Course Director: Foundation Art & Design and Senior Lecturer: Fine Art (promoted from lecturer 01.2012)
Reviews
19.04.2008
Jackie Wullschlager, Financial Times, p18, Critics choice
01.11.2006The Times (UK), Times 2, arts, p15 (The end of England, feature image)