Jeanette Barnes
- Faculty
Biography
After completing a Fine Art degree at Liverpool Polytechnic, Jeanette Barnes studied Postgraduate courses in London, Fine Art at the Royal Academy Schools and Printmaking at the Royal College of Art. For the past thirty years, she has worked on large energetic drawings of the urban landscape and makes prints of the city. Jeanette has exhibited in many solo and group shows, including several times at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Jerwood Drawing Prize, & Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, and has work in corporate and private collections. She has been awarded various scholarships and prizes, including the Hugh Casson Drawing Prize 2013 – Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, The Working Drawing Award – TBW Drawing Prize 2019, and the TBW Drawing Prize in 2023. She taught drawing on the Royal Academy Outreach Programme and for the Royal Drawing School for many years. She has a studio in East London.
On drawing
Drawing is the entirety of my practice, whether working on a large scale at the studio, sketching outside, or fluidly capturing an image on a monotype plate. My practice engages with the constant development within the urban environment. I am fascinated by the way vast architectural projects are changing the nature and demography of given areas. I seek to explore the relationship between these built environments and those who inhabit them; sometimes figures are of central importance or of implied presence. I like to use their movement as a metaphor for energy within the city and passage of time. The large pieces take many months, changing and developing, content evolving and surprising conclusions being made, the monotypes are quick and decisive.
Specialism
Drawing
