![]() Balfour’s work will be included in the upcoming Graphica Creativa Triennale 2022 (Jyväskylä Art Museum, Jyväskylä, Finland). Balfour’s most recent curatorial project, as Between Collectives, is Knowledge Garden Seed Exchange, a participatory art project concurrent with the Gudskul Collective’s Knowledge Garden Festival exhibition (Art Gallery of York University, Toronto). Recent group exhibitions include (all in 2021): Caution: Artists! Text messages in art (curated by Jürgen Olbrich Kunsttempel, Kassel, Germany), the International Mail Art Exhibition, Echigo Tsumari Art Triennale 2021 (Nunagawa Museum, Tokamachi, Niigata, Japan), Imprints: Art Editing Modernism (curated by Jane Hyslop Shandy Hall, The Laurence Sterne Trust, Coxwold, UK). Her critical writing includes the essay “The What and the Why of Print” in Perspectives on Contemporary Printmaking: critical writing since 1986 (edited by Ruth Pelzer-Montada Manchester University Press, 2018). Her work looks at the contemporary translation of photographic aura and our perceptions of memory in landscapes of disappearance through tactile print installations and videos.īarbara Balfour’s art practice involves textual/visual relationships, with research into text-based artmaking and print’s multiplicity informing her artists’ books and print installation. ![]() She founded the print collective ‘Geographies of Print’ with Carol Wyss and Victoria Arney in 2020. She has received numerous awards, including the Celeste Photography Prize and the Clifford Chance Purchase Prize for print, and was a finalist of the Glover Raynor Prize for sustainable photography in 2021. Her work features in private and public collections in the UK, France, Italy and China. She has exhibited extensively in the UK and Internationally, notably at NiMAC in Cyprus as part of Ar(t)chaeology, at Julio Gallery and Balzac’s Print rooms in Paris as part of the Paris Tangible Photography Biennial, TJ Boulting Gallery, and the Peltz Gallery in London and her solo show at Enter Artspace in Aarhus, Denmark last year. She holds an MA and PHD in Photographic Theory and Practice from Birkbeck College, University of London, and a BA and MA in Fine Art /Printmaking from Camberwell College of Art and Central St Martins, University of the Arts London. ![]() Victoria is an artist, writer and researcher who grew up in Argentina, and now lives and works in London.
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