Sol Bailey Barker (b. 1987) is a British sculptor and installation artist. Informed by technologies once seen as shamanic for their transformative power over landscapes, life, and death. Bailey Barker forges hybrid creatures, threshold figures existing in fluid spaces between worlds, hovering between ancient totems, unborn spirits, and extraterrestrial beings.
Bailey Barker’s abstract sculptures and immersive installations trace the Transhuman augmentation arc, from sacred axes to contemporary tools driving ecological and industrial change. These beings inhabit ancient–futuristic, post-apocalyptic utopias: landscapes where ruins and technologies coexist and myth and ecology fold into one continuous field of time. Using materials tied to agriculture and industry, wood, metal, clay, stone and ballistic detritus they bridge symbolic histories embedded in the land, revealing ancient spiritual origins within modern transformation.
Functioning as living portals, part guardian, part witness, these works hold catastrophe and regeneration in tension, proposing new modes of ecological consciousness that connect ephemeral past, volatile present, and speculative future.
Recent solo shows include Pansentient Arboriculture (proposition studios) Exhibitions span Europe and the Americas, including the Museum of Contemporary Art Bogotá (Colombia), Bold Tendencies, Lamb Gallery, Alice Black and Beaux Arts (London) Tuleste Gallery (NYC), Impakto, Now Gallery and Pinta art fair (Lima ), almanaque fotográfica and Zona Maco (Mexico City), Mahala Berlin Art Week (Berlin)
