Office Baroque is delighted to announce a two-person exhibition of new work by Keith Farquhar and the London based artist Sara MacKillop. The new bodies of work exhibited in Barbecue 2 began taking form in March 2020 when activity and access to resources and materials was vastly diminished. Throughout this period Farquhar and MacKillop were in dialogue with each other, sometimes discussing what they were making, sometimes not, sending images to each other as their work evolved.

Farquhar’s Barbecue works begin with the most basic act of collecting wooden sticks whilst walking in the woods and pathways around his studio in Edinburgh. In the studio the sticks are transformed into crudely-crafted bows before being framed by hanging them on found doors using simple robe-hooks. His other body of works are made by stapling found clothes onto found and sometimes eccentrically shaped boards, a method of working that the artist used to good effect in his Bastards series in the early 2000’s. This time however, the work is less planned, the clothes not so specifically chosen and the compositions improvised, resulting in works that are more ambiguous and avoid literal interpretation.