John Barbour is an Australian artist who uses embroidery in his work - as he says in the video on his piece Inherent Vice, his level of technical skill is not great. This work incorporates not only applique, but traces of stitches, as well as staining with inks. The museum that bought it sees it as a drawing, and its display and conservation needs are those of a drawing - low light, etc. (The term "inherent vice" refers to the extent of the tendency of materials to degrade.)He has been described as "an artist, academic and writer - in that order. Unable to conceive of permanence, he persists in making and exhibiting works of art which perhaps might best be described as 'curiously satisfying'. He is also janitor of the International Corporation of Lost Structures (department of dislocated memory)."
His recent work consists of the embroidered drawings; before that his installations included Stills from the Liquid Plain (1995)
and Poor Box (2001)
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