As Barnaby Barford opens a new London show, revisit his Wallpaper* fashion takeover

In London, Barnaby Barford is marking 20 years of collaboration with David Gill gallery. The artist’s distinctive, subversive eye and sharp wit is evident in the exhibition ‘We Are Where We Are’, which unites 35 ceramic sculptures and large-scale drawings.

Barford’s sculptures using found porcelain figures put an absurdist spin on contemporary dialogue, considering everything from queueing to pharmaceuticals and rampant consumerism. ‘I’m interested in apathy and impotence in the face of chaos,’ he says, ‘and in the quiet nihilism of just carrying on, being swept along by forces larger than yourself.’