Biography
Barbara Beyer is a Sculptor living and working in London. She was recently elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Sculptors and is Member of The London Group.
Beyer’s work is process driven, using elemental materials to explore states of change, weight, motion and form. It shows a huge fervour for experimentation and engagement with the materiality of source material, its qualities and creative possibilities. Central themes are balance and precarity, human interference with the material world, landscape and environment. The language is minimal, avoids narrative detail, and openly embraces chance, risk and consequence. Her work includes site-specific installations, indoors and outdoors, interaction with landscape and geology, collaborative work and performance. She is maintaining a regular studio practice investigating the sculptural object in its contemporary context and her practise encompasses Drawing and Printmaking.
Beyer holds a first class degree in Fine Art from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany, having specialised in sculpture in the class of Prof Ansgar Nierhoff 1993 -1997. She has shown widely and taken up residencies nationally and internationally. Her latest exhibition include: 2026 What's left What's gone, Hypha Studios London, 2025 One Island Many Visions Portland, THISS 2025, 2024 what it is North House Gallery, Vessel Art Trail Wales, Schatten haschen Swiss Cottage Library Gallery, 2023 London Group Open, Copeland Gallery; WAC 23 and WAC 22 site-specific installations Wells Cathedral, Wander_land Tremenheere Sculpture Garden, On the Edge, Espacio Gallery, Catch your Breath Waterloo Park; Together We Rise, Chichester Cathedral. Barbara was recently shortlisted for On The Record - National Memorial to Journalists on the Frontline for her joint proposal with Tobias O’Connor.