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BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art presents collaborative commission by artist Sara Barker and Ryder Architecture

The BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art presents a site-specific collaborative commission by artist Sara Barker and Ryder Architecture. On view now through 2 MARCH 2014.

Sara Barker and Ryder Architecture, The subtle knife 2013. Installation view BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art. Photo: Colin Davison© Sara Barker, Ryder Architecture and BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art.
Sara Barker and Ryder Architecture, The subtle knife 2013. Installation view BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art. Photo: Colin Davison© Sara Barker, Ryder Architecture and BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art.

Working with a combination of painting, welding and jewellery-making techniques, Barker (born Manchester, 1980) draws out unexpected properties in material with a sculptural fluidity and lightness. Founded in 1953 as Ryder and Yates, Ryder Architecture is a leading architectural practice based in Newcastle upon Tyne, Liverpool, Glasgow and London. With its early achievements rooted in the European Modernism of Le Corbusier and Berthold Lubetkin, the practice has an integrated approach, designing buildings which elegantly fuse form with function.

Barker and Ryder will collaborate to produce an ambitious new sculptural work for BALTIC’s remodelled Level 2 gallery which will explore and respond to the volume and architecture of the space. www.balticmill.com