Born in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK (b. 1944)

Phyllida Barlow

untitled: brokenshelf2015, 2015

Timber, plywood, steel, fabric, PVA, cement, tape, and plaster
© Phyllida Barlow; courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo by Alex Delfanne.

Phyllida Barlow in her north London studio. Photo by David Levene for The Guardian.

“I I like that sense of my own physicality being in competition with something that has no rational need to be in the world at all. And that is in itself just an expression of the human condition, of who we are and what we are.”

—Phyllida Barlow