The Apple Tree, 2019 Power Apple, 2019
The Apple Tree (detail), 2019 The Apple Tree (detail), 2019
Land of Hope & Glory, 2019 Land of Hope & Glory, 2019
More film, 2019 More (still), 2019
More Money More Power More Control, 2019 More Money More Power More Control, 2019
Over the last two years I have become obsessed with The Apple. It is Adam & Eve, the Judgement of Paris, Heracles, it is The Beatles, Steve Jobs and Newton, it is Cézanne, Magritte, Snow White and William Tell, it is even the American Frontier! Working across drawing, sculpture, film, installation and painting I am using the apple as a lens to explore fundamental questions driving human nature, especially our anxiety afflicted society and our incessant need for More.
More More More, 2019 >
Through sculptures and drawings, Barford uses his obsession with The Apple to explore our incessant need for MORE.
The Tower of Babel, 2015 >
A hugely successful project at the V&A in London. A 6 m tower comprising 3000 unique bone china London shops.
Selected Drawings 2016-2018 >
The energetic word drawings are abstract pictures made by repeating the same hand-written word until its meaning becomes warped.
Me Want Now, 2016 >
Have more, buy more, do better, move forward, grow, succeed, win. ME WANT NOW offers a metaphorical narrative on the dominance of this ideology and debates our values in an increasingly polarised political landscape.