Phyllida Barlow

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Artists embrace Studio Voltaire’s big birthday (whisper it—30)

The not-for-profit art space in south London has been pivotal for artists such as Phyllida Barlow and Charlotte Prodger

From Phyllida Barlow to Angela Flowers—remembering the artists, collectors, curators and gallerists who died in 2023

The artists Vivan Sundaram and Françoise Gilot, collectors Harald Falckenberg and Barry Humphries plus curator Vincent Honoré were also lost to the art world this year

Phyllida Barlow's final, irreverent public art project takes form in New York

At the time of her death in March, the British sculptor had been working on a major Public Art Fund exhibition

A brush with… Phyllida Barlow

We sat down with the late artist earlier this year to discuss her cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Louise Nevelson to Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Remembering Phyllida Barlow, one of the most significant, and original, British artists of recent years

The sculptor, erudite and irreverent, was known for the power and scale of her site-specific installations

Phyllida Barlow—British sculptor who found global fame after retiring from teaching—has died, aged 78

Artist who taught Rachel Whiteread and Tacita Dean during a decades-long career at London's Slade School of Art, won critical recognition in her mid-sixties for her massive, site-specific installations

Artist Phyllida Barlow pens a poem dedicated to Joseph Beuys drawings

The works are in a show at Thaddaeus Ropac gallery in London, which includes a room curated by Antony Gormley

Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend

From Adham Faramawy's contemplative film on the migration of plants to Abbas Akhavan's ancient Syrian colonnades

Phyllida Barlow sculpture to pop up in partially ruined, gothic chapel in London cemetery

Studio Voltaire’s ambitious off-site programme also includes commissions by Monster Chetwynd and Dawn Mellor

Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend

From exquisite Elizabethan portrait miniatures at the National Portrait Gallery to Franz West's playful sculptures at Tate Modern

Five must-see shows and events at Edinburgh Art Festival

From Shilpa Gupta's voices of silenced poets to Rembrandt in all his glory

Phyllida Barlow’s feat of engineering for Jupiter Artland’s tenth birthday

Joana Vasconcelos, who is showing a giant stiletto at the Edinburgh venue, will launch her on-site swimming pool next year

Phyllida Barlow: the artist working with the Tate collection to interrogate the essential nature of sculpture

Since retiring from teaching at the Slade school after 40 years, the sculptor has found her large, site-specific works in great demand—not least at Tate Britain