A new solo exhibition of work by Clio Barnard presents recent film and video works, including her 2003 LAFVA-funded Road Race, which explores the transitory nature of semi-legal horse races on motorways. The exhibition, at the Herbert Read Gallery in Canterbury runs from 8 October until 17 November.

Barnard examines the relationship between fiction and documentary, between the imagined and the real, by constructing fictional images around verbatim audio and visa versa, questioning the aspiration of documentary to collapse the distance between reality and representation.

"Clio Barnard's work explores what is involved in our return and repeating, and the remembering this provokes is an emotional as well as cognitive encounter. It is 'found' material that is central to these works; they document a reality, but at the same time address the status of documentary's account of its recording of reality."
                                                                                                                                         Elizabeth Cowie, 2007

Clio Barnard is an artist film-maker, whose work has shown in cinemas, international film festivals and galleries, including Tate Modern and Tate Britain. Her work has screened on Channel 4 and had several international broadcasts. Barnard was one of the winners of the 2005 Paul Hamlyn Award for Artists. In 2007 she was awarded a major commission through Art Angel, which will involve an ambitious live performance and feature-length film.

For further information visit the Herbert Read Gallery website.