Daniel Silver & Phyllida Barlow

Fruitmarket Segments

Programmed alongside Daniel Silver: Looking at the Fruitmarket, Edinburgh (11 June – 25 Sep 2022), this conversation explores space, sculpture and the audience encounter.

Silver was taught by Barlow at the Slade School of Fine Art, London, and this conversation emerged from their professional and artistic relationship. As Fruitmarket Director, Fiona Bradley says, ‘Daniel mentioned having bumped into Phyllida and having had a conversation and I thought, wouldn't that be nice if I could eavesdrop on that conversation? Wouldn't it be nice if we could all eavesdrop on that conversation?’

More detail on Daniel’s show, Looking, can be found at the Fruitmarket online archive. The book which accompanied the show can be ordered online.

Phyllida Barlow: set showed at Fruitmarket in 2015. Find out more about the show on the digital archive.

An updated edition of the book which accompanied the show will be published in October 2024. Phyllida Barlow: Sculpture, 1963–2023 is the indispensable guide to the British artist Phyllida Barlow’s sculptural oeuvre across 6 decades, and charts the progression of the artist’s extraordinary and influential career.

A film of this event is available on the Fruitmarket YouTube channel.

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