Disillusion Series I-IV

Sukhi Barber was born in 1971, in Hertfordshire, England. From an early age she was drawn to the classical and ancient traditions of art and philosophy, which led her to undertake traditional sculpture training at The City and Guilds of London Art School. She acquired a solid knowledge of figurative clay modelling and life drawing, graduating in 1995 with a sculpture award and a scholarship from Madame Tussauds. After graduation, Sukhi travelled to India, fascinated by the timeless quality of peace and balance found in art in Asia. Settling in Kathmandu, Nepal, she spent the next twelve years studying Buddhist philosophy and the production of sculptures using the traditional techniques of stone carving and lost-wax casting in bronze. Sukhi's sculptures are intended to bridge the cultures of East and West. Embodying the peace and compositional balance of ancient devotional art, they represent complex philosophical ideas with simplicity and clarity that makes them accessible on an intuitive level. Exploring themes of hidden potential, and the transcendence of our limited view of a solid reality, her work often places as much importance on space as on the material itself, implying a dance of form and in spirit, a constant state of transformation.