Harmony Barr Exhibits White Noise in Barcelona

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Malaga based artist Harmony Barr has curated a selection of her work and will be exhibiting White Noise in Barcelona at 200CENT in the Eixample's art district. 

Join her as she showcases her work and explains the inspiration for her art while enjoying live music.

White noise is a collection of artworks she put together throughout her residency at 200CENT gallery, with the exception of her Painting Flowers Black piece—which she created while listening to a piece of music written and recorded by Breather (Ryan Smith).

Painting Flowers Black is, to some extent, what inspired this whole new series. Creating this painting was a hypnotic experience for Barr, she let the music in her headphones guide her body while her mind went through its creation process in a much freer way than she's used to.

Faceless figures in the foreground, with detailed objects, sitting, the background always being white. A void. Creatures taking up space in the void.

These creatures spill out of her brain without a thought; it’s second nature to Barr. Her sketchbooks are filled with different versions of these “naked ladies,” as she likes to call them. She can trace them back to at least five years ago. Of course, they have adapted immensely throughout the years and grown into what they are today—big paintings—and she knows they will grow and adapt even further, the more she deep dives into this concept of trying to get to know them and what they mean to her through the tip of her paint brush.

Barr grew up in Malaga to British parents and moved to the UK at at young age to study photography. She never took to College and University, even school for that matter. Harmony prefers learning through experiencing, learning people, observing, life is the biggest teacher. She left university and came to Barcelona where she stayed for a year, attended Metáfora art school for around four months, and that is where she rekindled her love for art. Barr's first real painting was about the colossal darkness she was experiencing in her life. It was debilitating. A purple portrait that she poured every inch of sadness she felt into Confession of a Mute.

Barr fell in love with painting, mainly because she's never been good at expressing herself and the way she feels. Being able to transcribe something so meaningful into a powerful piece of art, that people could take what they needed from, felt special and memorable, despite the vulnerability that comes with showing something so personal.

Almost three years later, Barr has her own studio in Malaga and she paints as often as she can. When she goes through periods where she's away from her paints and physically cannot paint, she feels like she's going to explode. Luckily, she can resort to drawing her "naked ladies" in her sketchbooks.

You can follow her on Facebook and on Instagram at @harmonyybarr.