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Barry Martin was born in 1943 and grew up in Hertfordshire and Kent before commencing his studies at Goldsmith’s in London in 1961. After leaving Goldsmith’s in 1966, he embarked enrolled on the Advance Sculpture course at St Martin’s but he found himself constantly frustrated with the environment there, staying for just the one year. He was very much a product of the art schools during the ‘swinging sixties’. In keeping with the wild experimentation of the time, during his early career he produced works in a diverse array of media. Bryan Robertson, writing in Art Monthly in 1978, noted that “he tackled everything with vigorous intelligence: art for Martin has been divided into practice and not so much theory as intellectual debate, spoken or written, but this range of activity has probably clouded any accurate public view of his identity as an artist.”

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