Ten Texts on Sculpture 3: Phyllida Barlow

The third of a series of reading group podcasts on sculpture. In this episode we talk about Phyllida Barlow’s proposal from 2012 for her Tate Britain Commission in 2014. We also talk about Barlow’s ‘The Hatred of the Object’ from 1997 and ‘Hearsay, Rumours, Bed-sit Dreamers and Art Begins Today’ from 2004. It’s basically a big love in for Barlow as an artist who writes towards making rather than theorising. Andrea and Matt talk about vitrines, art made for Instagram, and theatricality (again).Below are the three texts we looked at for this podcast. You can download them all from www.dekersaint.com/badvibesclubBarlow, Phyllida. ‘Artist Proposal’. Tate. Accessed 17 July 2023. Barlow, Phyllida. ‘The Hatred of the Object’, 1997. Barlow, Phyllida, Mark Godfrey, Alison Wilding, and Jon Wood. ‘Hearsay, Rumours, Bed-Sit Dreamers and Art Begins Today’. In Objects for --: And Other Things, 210–15. London: Black Dog, 2004.