George Barber is a British video artist.
Early life and education
Barber was born and grew up in British Guyana, which he considers to be his most important education.
He received his BA in Sculpture 'A' (conceptual department) from St Martins School of Art in 1980 and his MA in Experimental Department from The Slade, in 1984.
Art career
Barber first gained acclaim through his low-tech video pieces composed of found footage which he deconstructed in an effort to display them as contradicting their intended purposes, many of which become a 'deft reworking of cinematic narrative and cliché'. Barber rose to prominence with these works, establishing the Scratch-video movement in the 1980s. Many of Barber's Scratch works including Absence of Satan, 1985 and Yes Frank Don't Smoke, 1986 are seminal to the history of British video art.
