Barrington Tobin | New Paintings

New Paintings charts a course through three bodies of work (in chronological order): Roundels, Circumambulations and Trees I Have Known comprising over thirty canvases, panels and pastels. Inevitably, this process results in a condensed overview of two years of work and yet a reassuring feature when curating the selection is the fluid progression of ideas from one body of work to the next. There is an established coherence to the intellectual underpinning of these works and yet, importantly, this does not preclude the breaking of exciting new ground. More accurately perhaps, for anyone who has already encountered Barrington's work, a circuit around this show will find them on familiar ground but the mode of travel is sometimes different. So, what has remained the same in New Paintings and what can we discern as having changed?

- Vincent Eames, Autumn 2018