Using her installations as a point of departure, Barker has translated the labour of
hand-embroidery into a unique font. The desire to produce a cypher to her own stitch has manifested in a selection of process artefacts and limited edition prints. The pieces are born from experimentation with a variety of techniques. The line and sculpture works represent the hours of intimacy Barker has spent with this inquiry.

The relics explore themes of (mis)translation/communication/understanding in personal and communal narrative and history. The questioning process is increasingly
important in the post-truth era in which reality can be subjective and news may not always be a teller of truth.

Barker’s work exists in a space of discussion in which representations of honesty, trust and reality are to be pried apart. Producing her meaning in stark black and white
linework, the majority of which is illegible, provokes the questioning of duality and re-evaluation of boundary and reason. The viewer is encouraged to try to decipher the text and in so doing, indirectly consider their connection to it.

Sacha Barker has a Bachelor of Design with First-class Honours in Fine Art from the
University of Western Australia (UWA) (2018). Her suspended textile work Mindfield: the Sewing Seeds was selected for Hatched 2018, the national graduate show at the Perth
Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA) in 2018.

Barker is currently working towards her Masters by Research at UWA on the subject ‘the maker and the made’. She will be exhibiting a new suspended work this year at
Select 2019 in the Heathcote Museum and Gallery.