Daniel Silver & Phyllida Barlow in conversation, 05/08/2022

Programmed alongside Daniel Silver: Looking at the Fruitmarket, Edinburgh (11 June - 25 Sep 2022), this conversation explores space, sculpture and the audience encounter. Silver was taught by Barlow at the Slade School of Fine Art, London, and this conversation emerged from their professional and artistic relationship. As Fruitmarket Director, Fiona Bradley says, ‘Daniel mentioned having bumped into Phyllida and having had a conversation and I thought, wouldn't that be nice if I could eavesdrop on that conversation? Wouldn't it be nice if we could all eavesdrop on that conversation?’
Daniel Silver (b.1972, London) lives and works in London. He studied at the Slade School of Fine Art (BA Fine Art, 1999) and the Royal College of Art (MA Sculpture, 2001). In 2002 he studied sculpture at the British School at Rome. Silver has exhibited in the UK and internationally, at venues including Fruitmarket, Edinburgh (2022); London Mithraeum Bloomberg SPACE (2019); Hepworth Wakefield (2015); Whitechapel Gallery, London (2014); Kunsthaus Glarus (2011); the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg (2010); and Camden Arts Centre, London (2007).
Phyllida Barlow (b.1944, Newcastle upon Tyne) lives and works in London. She studied at Chelsea College of Art, London (1960 - 1963) and the Slade School of Fine Art, London (1963 - 1966). In 2017 she represented Britain at the 57th Venice Biennale. Barlow has exhibited widely, most recently at Firstsite, Colchester (2020); Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh (2018); the High Line, New York (2018); Fruitmarket, Edinburgh (2015); Tate Britain, London (2014); Des Moines Art Center (2013); and the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds (2012).