Sara Barker (co-commissioned with Edinburgh Art Festival)

Sara Barker has been attracting increasing attention for her delicate constructions in wire, metal and canvas. Her new work for Parley is her most ambitious to date and marks a significant departure for the artist, as the first time she has worked outdoors.

If previous works have established an intensely intimate conversation with the surrounding architecture, here Barker initiates a direct dialogue with the woodland landscape of Jupiter Artland, who have co-commissioned this work. Set in the landscape, her glass pavilion encircles and incorporates a painted metal structure. Made from interlocking forms in brass, aluminium and steel, the sculpture mirrors and reflects the ever-changing light, weather and temperature of the landscape.

In tune with Miralles and Tagliabue’s desire to create ‘not a building... but a form for gathering’, Barker conceives of her structure as providing a place to gather and pause. Windows, apertures, openings, are a recurring motif in her work. Her newest work, like a three dimensional drawing, articulates a space in the landscape for us to enter and inhabit with our mind’s eye.