Wayne Barker

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South African | 1963

Wayne Barker is a South African Postwar & Contemporary painter who was born in 1963. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Everard Read/ CIRCA, Cape Town have featured Wayne Barker's work in the past.Wayne Barker's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 44 USD to 13,967 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2007 the record price for this artist at auction is 13,967 USD for The Church Lady in Blue, sold at Strauss & Co., Cape Town in 2022. Wayne Barker has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for Artthrob in June 2024.

Artist's alternative names: Wayne Cahill Barker

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Notable Lots

Golden Memory ,2016

By Wayne Barker

Castle ,1995

By Wayne Barker

Ghost City ,2020

By Wayne Barker

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Gender Responsibility ,22

By Wayne Barker

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Hat, skull & 3D Glasses ,2011

By Wayne Barker

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Self Portrait

By Wayne Barker

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Past Exhibitions

Winter 2025

Everard Read/ CIRCA, Cape Town

Cape Town | South Africa

04 Jun, 2025 - 28 Jun, 2025

Wayne Barker: Migration Through Borderless Light

Everard Read/ CIRCA, Johannesburg

Johannesburg | South Africa

22 Jan, 2025 - 28 Feb, 2025

Things I Would Like To Remember

Everard Read/ CIRCA, Cape Town

Cape Town | South Africa

08 Jun, 2022 - 15 Jul, 2022

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Articles

Between Worlds and the Sea: A Reflection on KZN Artists at the RMB Latitudes Art Fair 2024

Artthrob 24 Jun, 2024

As a cultural practitioner hailing from the eastern shores of KwaZulu-Natal, there is, for me, a certain triumph in seeing familiar names and artworks on exhibit at the RMB Latitudes Art Fair.

Spring 18 Auction

Art South Africa 26 Oct, 2018

Aspire anticipates significant market shift with forthcoming Spring Auction

Aspiring to be "international"

Incorrigible Corrigall 13 Mar, 2015

It appears as if we are in the grip of an age of expositions. Well, at least this is the conclusion you might have drawn if you happened to be in Cape Town last week when the Cape Town Art Fair (CTAF), Design Indaba Expo, That Art Fair and the Guild Design Fair were all being...

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鈥� ..Barker, throughout his career, has worked with appropriated and borrowed images as a critique of the world around him... 鈥�
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Fried Contemporary

鈥� ..Barker is a colourful, provocative and rebellious persona and artist who lives a life of seemingly endless outrageous incidents... 鈥�
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Standard Bank Gallery

鈥� ..Barker explores the power of the image, the way in which the world has produced images and how they are reproduced... 鈥�
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Fried Contemporary

鈥� ..Through referencing the magazine covers and stories, both tabloid and deeply political, Barker draws on the country鈥檚 history to look ahead... 鈥�
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Everard Read/ CIRCA, Cape Town

Wayne Barker

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