Barry Martin

Barry Martin
Born	(1943-02-20)February 20, 1943 Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England
Died	December 12, 2025(2025-12-12) (aged 82)
Education	Goldsmith's College St Martin's School of Art
Movement	Kinetic art

Barry Martin (1943 - 2025) ^[1] was a British artist associated with the kinetic art movement of the 1960s, in which physical movement was incorporated into art. Martin also explored ideas of movement in the activities of games: among artists whose work has explored chess, Martin was described as "perhaps the most important". ^[2] His work appears in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, ^[3] Tate, ^[4] and British Council, ^[5] among others. According to the Victoria and Albert Museum:

[Martin] has worked in various media - including kinetic sculpture, film, performance, and the making of environments - but the constant in his work has been drawing, either as a working tool, as a means of recording and observing, or as an end in itself. For Martin, drawing is a system of signs analogous to those of language, and also an intellectual process of enquiry, analysis and proposition. ^[6]

References

1. "Barry Martin (b.1943) | Art UK". www.artuk.org.
2. Bryant, J. (2008). The Tomorrow of My Yesterday: The Complete Works of Barry Martin. Veenman Publishers. ISBN   9789086901159.
3. "Your Search Results | Search the Collections | Victoria and Albert Museum". collections.vam.ac.uk.
4. "Barry Martin born 1943 | Tate". Tate.
5. Council, British. "Barry Martin | Artists | Collection | British Council − Visual Arts". visualarts.britishcouncil.org.
6. Museum, Victoria and Albert. "Jigger Jagger | Martin, Barry | V&A Explore The Collections". Victoria and Albert Museum: Explore the Collections.