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Barry Reigate — Two works: i) Bikes Up Knives Down; ii) Claw Skyline
Barry Reigate

Two works: i) Bikes Up Knives Down; ii) Claw Skyline

2019

Barry Reigate transforms salvaged wooden doors into richly layered surfaces, combining enamel and household paint with collaged varnished paper, pen, coloured pencil, and oil pastel to build up densely atmospheric compositions. The two works, *Bikes Up Knives Down* and *Claw Skyline*, carry the energy of street culture and urban mythology, their titles hinting at coded gestures of community and defiance. Reigate's intuitive mark-making and accumulation of humble, everyday materials give the pieces a raw, textural vitality that blurs the boundary between painting, drawing, and found-object sculpture.

Medium
each enamel paint, metallic enamel paint, varnished paper collage, household paint, pen, coloured pencil and oil pastel on wooden door with wooden struts

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Barry Reigate, Two works: i) Bikes Up Knives Down; ii) Claw Skyline, 2019

Barry Reigate transforms salvaged wooden doors into richly layered surfaces, combining enamel and household paint with collaged varnished paper, pen, coloured pencil, and oil pastel to build up densely atmospheric compositions. The two works, *Bikes Up Knives Down* and *Claw Skyline*, carry the energy of street culture and urban mythology, their titles hinting at coded gestures of community and defiance. Reigate's intuitive mark-making and accumulation of humble, everyday materials give the pieces a raw, textural vitality that blurs the boundary between painting, drawing, and found-object sculpture.

Medium
each enamel paint, metallic enamel paint, varnished paper collage, household paint, pen, coloured pencil and oil pastel on wooden door with wooden struts
Year
2019
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Outsider Art Influence, Gestural Mark-Making, Street Culture, Mixed Media, Emerging Artist, British Artist, Collage, Muted Tones, Raw Aesthetic, Urban Themes, Contemporary Art, Found Objects

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