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Represented by Waterside Contemporary, Pierre d'Alancaisez and Olga Ovenden.

‘TILT’ Victoria & Albert Museum, Leighton Staircase..  ‘TILT’ Chisenhale Gallery, part of ‘Infermental’  Introduced by James Richards and Dan Kidner.

‘India Shouting Match’ shown at Kassel, 28th Documentary and Video Festival, Germany.

Chair and discussion panel member at Hay on Wye Festival. ‘Howthelightgetsin’ Philosophy and Music Festival. 

New work at OPEN GALLERY, Shoreditch Old Town Hall.

Gibberish shown at VIENNA ART FAIR and at Whitechapel Gallery, Withdrawal at Video Zone, Automotive Action Painting shown at Stuttgarter Filmwinter and South London Gallery, Shouting Match shown at Chicago Filmmakers.  Interviewed on London’s Resonance FM Oct 29th

2010 Mediations Biennial in Posnan, Poland  Group Show  Part of the International Project ‘Erazed Walls’ in Berlin. WATERSIDE PROJECTS London ‘Empty Sets’.  Group Show featuring ‘Gibberish’.

Solo Show Dundee Contemporary Arts, 15th Oct 15 Nov 2010

Solo Show at Split Film & Video Festival Croatia.   Sept 11-20. 2010

UK Distributors LUX have placed my work in 20 festivals from Sept 09-10 including
ICA, Frac Basse Normandie, BFI, Glasgow Film Theatre, Kill Your Timid Notion, Phoenix Cinema Leicester Square, Les Yeux De L’Oule-Nancy and Milton Keynes.

“There is no solution because there is no problem” An Evening of Artists' Film & Sound | Saturday 13th March, 18 The Moor, Sheffield.  Selection of works by George Barber, William Basinski & James Elaine, Theo Burt, Roc Jimenez de Cisneros, Simon Cryan, Joe Gilmore & Paul Emery, Oliver Laric, and Guy Sherwin.

FormContent Gallery, Ridley Market. “Misty Boundaries Fades and Dissolves”
George Barber, Stewart Home, Linder, Clunie Reid, James Richards, Eva Weinmayr
Group Show curated by Daniella Saul    25 February – 28 March 2010

“Mob Remedies”  Gallery Primo Alonso  George Barber, Lothar Götz, Natasha Kidd, Piers Secunda 12th March - 25th April Group Show curated by Piers Secunda.

Solo Show in Basel, Switzerland, at Marc De Puchredon Gallery 25th Sept 31st Oct 09 www.marcdepuchredon.com Showing 4 works.

Premiere of "GIBBERISH" new video art work, and showing 4 others pieces, including video sculpture "Long Commute".

Group Show PAINT CAN Travelling Gallery, Scotland. Automotive Action Painting 24 August - 23rd December, over 30 locations. http://www.travellinggallery.com

Reviews April : ART FORUM by Ed Halter August  www.artforum.com

ART MONTHLY by Martin Herbert, July-August edition

The Daily Telegraph (London) March 21, 2009 by Sukhdev Sandhu

Also, review www.dotcrawl.org

www.expcinema.com by Marcos Ortega     Feb 07 09  

George Barber screening and talk Picture This Bristol June 17th 09

George Barber screening and talk Street Level Glasgow, 2nd April 09

George Barber screening and talk VIVID Birmingham 4th April 09

George Barber screening and talk Star & Shadow Cinema, Newcastle 29th April 09

George Barber at Light Industry at X-initiative’s NO SOUL FOR SALE June 23-28, 2009
548 West 22nd Street, New York.

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.  8 June-16 August.  Automotive Action Painting.

Jury member for the 25th International ShortFilmFestival Hamburg.  June 2-9th.

European Media Art Festival Osnabrueck 22. - 26. April 09 “Welcome” shown.

Street Level Gallery, Glasgow and VIVID, Beyond Language prog shown..

Launch by LUX of new DVD of George Barber’s complete works.  The DVD on sale in most art shops across UK, the US and Europe and on Amazon.  March 14th 09.

'Figuring Landscapes’ Tate Modern.  7th Feb 09.  Work featured and part of book ‘Landscapes in Moving Image’ by Catherine Elwes.  Art & Ecology Magazine Feb 26 09, cited by David Berridge writing on Figuring Landscapes

“Following Your Heart” Arouca Film Festival Portugal.  Premiere of work. www.aroucafilmfestival.com  23 Nov 08.

“Colour Field Film and Video” TATE MODERN “TILT”. Simon Payne curator.

Friday 21 November – Saturday 22 Nov 08 http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/film/colourfieldfilmandvideo.htm

24th Hamburg International Short Film Festival    4 - 9 June 2008.  First Prize “Automotive Action Painting”.