Biography

Christina Barton is an artist from the South West of England, now based in Scotland. She is a graduate of the Masters in Drawing at Arts University Plymouth, achieving a Merit in the MA after receiving a 1:0 in the Painting, Drawing and Printmaking Bachelors at the same institution.

Christina Barton is a multidisciplinary drawing, painting and printmaking artist based in Scotland, specialising in a walking/drawing practice. Barton utilises her multimedia practice to engage her audience with an embodied experience of the landscape. She aims to find the relationship between the drawn mark, tacit knowledge and the body as an active agent in the landscape.

Inspired by phenomenological and philosophical concepts of landscape and tacit experience, Barton has developed a nature-based drawing practice that aims to explore the possibilities of drawing as a way of expressing lived experience. Through spending time in nature and creating art works in situ, Barton allows herself to become entirely immersed in nature, expressing her lived experience in the wild and edge land landscapes of Britain through making.

She has exhibited in shows at no format gallery in London (2019), The Brownston Gallery in Modbury (2019), RIBA North in Liverpool (2019) and The Strand Gallery in London (2017).

She has also been involved in projects such as Plymouth Brick Project in 2021 and the British Council’s Venice Fellowships Programme for the Biennale di Architettura Venezia in 2018.

For further information on exhibitions and past projects, see Christina’s artist CV.