Fabio BARRACLOUGH Valls

b. 1924

Paintings, drawings, sculptures, arts editor and Professor of Fine Arts

 

 

Eduardo Joel Fabio Barraclough in 1977

Eduardo Joel Fabio Barraclough in 1977

 

 

Brief Curriculum to 1977

Fabio Barraclough Valls at Gallery 21 Johannesburg 1977 - part of invitation card

Further personal details:

Volunteered for the British Royal Navy, trained in the Royal Navy's Special Division: Naval Intelligence in 1942, serving actively from 1943 to 1946, in Reserve until 1956.

 

 

See also:

 

"The Citizen", Johannesburg - 3rd October, 1977 (PDF) (giving background information on Fabio)

In 1974, Prof. Fabio Barraclough was a member of the three-man judging panel for the Southern Cross Stainless Steel competition for the Transvaal House, Pretoria (won by Zoltan Borbereki) (the other members being James Fitzsimmons, Editor of Art International and Don Maxwell (Southern Cross).

In 1974, Prof. Fabio Barraclough was one of the 5 judges for a Mural Competition launched by Nestlé SA, Johannesburg.

As at August, 1975, Prof. Fabio Barraclough was Hon. Director of the Gertrude Posel Gallery, Director of Exhibitions, at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

In 1978, Prof. Fabio Barraclough organised a Study Tour of Spain, as recorded in "The Dictionary of South African Painters and Sculptors" (Ogilvie) (Read) 1988 p.494 - ISBN 0 620 12663 9

 

He is also referred to as "Edmund Geoffrey Fabio Barraclough"; his paintings/graphics/drawings back to his surrealist period were signed "F.y Valls" or "y VALLS"

 

 

Selected Books Published by Fabio Barraclough

 

"Exhibition of British sculpture", Coventry Cathedral, June-August, 1968: Souvenir catalogue (Pergamon Press, 1968) (Fabio Barraclough) (see p.2) - extract

 

"Exhibition of British sculpture", Coventry Cathedral, June-August, 1968: Souvenir catalogue (Pergamon Press, 1968) publ. by Fabio Barraclough

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"Los orígenes de la cultura contemporánea en Inglaterra" (Arbor Madrid - Special edition) (Barraclough Valls, Fabio), May 1971

"Los orígenes de la cultura contemporánea en Inglaterra" (Arbor) Revista Tomo 79 no. 305, Imp. Dioana, Madrid, 1971 123pp.

"A Sculptor's Manual" (Pergamon Press Oxford), 1971 (Barraclough, Fabio - General Editor)

"A Sculptor's Manual: The Commonwealth and International Library: Painting, Sculpture and Fine Arts" - E-book published 17th May, 2014 by Pergamon - ISBN-13: 9781483151779

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"Sailor, Sculptor, Schoolmaster Spy" (Barraclough), 2016  (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform) (638 pp.) (available from Amazon.com)

 

 

Images from the Coventry Cathedral "Exhibition of British Sculpture", June/August, 1968

 

Anthony Benjamin, Fabio Barraclough, John Lennon, Yoko Ono - Coventry Cathedral Exhibition of British Sculpture, 1968 © Fabio Barraclough

Fabio Barraclough (top right) and Anthony Benjamin behind his perspex sculpture, John Lennon and Yoko Ono inside it (pic. taken by Anthony Fawcett), (as illustrated in Sculpture International Vol. 3 no. 2/3, Summer 1970, p. 36) of which Fabio Barraclough was its Editor and joint publisher with Pergamon Press.

 

Coventry Cathedral in June/August, 1968: "Exhibition of British Sculpture" - view of some major sculptures (Chief Exhibition Organiser: Fabio Barraclough)

Coventry Cathedral in June/August, 1968: "Exhibition of British Sculpture" - view of some major sculptures.

The exhibition was presented by chief organiser Fabio Barraclough and Right Rev. Canon Stephen Verney.

 

 

 

Selected Art editorials and criticism listed in

 

Fabio Barraclough, 'Editorial', Sculpture International, no.4, 1967, p.10

Fabio Barraclough, 'Editorial', Sculpture International, no.5, 1967

Sculpture International Magazine. Published 1968 Volume 1, No 3 "Editorial", p. 12

BARRACLOUGH, Fabio: "Sculpture in Argentina: Martin Blaszko". Sculpture International, vol 2 n°2, Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1968, pp. 26-30

"Contradiction and Blaszko’s sensuality" written by Fabio Barraclough, Oxford, 1968 in Sculpture International

Quoted from: http://www.scribd.com/doc/20727899/Art-Periodicals-1945-75 is the following:

"In the mid 1960s sculpture achieved a temporary ascendancy over painting and this fact was confirmed by the emergence of "Sculpture International". Its editor, Fabio Barraclough, claimed in the first issue that art had entered the 'Age of sculpture'......."

 

See also:

Fabio Barraclough interviewed by Gillian Statham, 1967 (PDF)

 

As then Editor of "The Annual Review" of The Royal Society of British Sculptors", Fabio Barraclough was a delegate to the Fifth International Congress of Aesthetics in Amsterdam (August, 1964); later he founded "Sculpture International" and was its Editor until 1975.

 

 

Contributor to:

 

Arte Madi - Martin Blaszko - Esculturas Urbanas:  J.A. García Martínez, Jacqueline Barnitz, Fabio Barraclough, Martín Blaszko, Tomás Alva Negri, Germaine Derbecq - ISBN: 9879828518

“Blaszko and Vardánega: MADI Museum, Dallas, September 15, 2006 – January, 2007” (MADI Museum, 2006)(Ed.:Fabio Barraclough, Gregorio Vardánega, Martin de Vries Eitler)

 

 

Web references to his teaching activities in the U.K. and South Africa

 

Rugby School (http://www.bradshawfoundation.com) pp. 58, 62

"A time of Renewal" (Philip Snow), pp. 172, 282, xv - ISBN 1860641490

ISBN 0-9549833-0-0 John Robinson (Edition Limitée, Geneva, 2005) Vol. 1, p. 63

"People association with the University of the Witwatersrand: Anthony Traill, Charles Kimberlin Brain, John Dugard, Fabio Barraclough" (Books LLC), 2010 -  ISBN-13: 9781156562390

 

 

Public Collections include:

 

Doncaster Art Gallery and Museum, Doncaster U.K. 

Fabio BARRACLOUGH (Img © Sheffield Hallam University)

Fabio Barraclough "Muse & Artist", 1963-64 - fibreglass (img ©) (click on image for site view)

(Two figures protruding from the side wall of the gallery; holding an empty picture frame) commissioned after a public competition in 1963-64)

 

 

Other works

 

Two sculptures in the Memorial Chapel, Rugby School, Warwickshire, U.K. (PDF)

 

Fabio Barraclough "Orion", bronze - 93x94 cm - priv. Coll. (Herbert Read Award)

"Orion", bronze - 93x94 cm - priv. Coll. (Herbert Read Award)

 

 

The RMS Queen Mary commission for 32 wood panels - collaboration with Edward Bainbridge Copnall (1903-1973) and others

 

Work in progress at Clareville Studio (l.t.r.: Edward Bainbridge Copnall, Joxe Alberdi, Fabio Barraclough)

1947 Edward Bainbridge Copnall, Joxe Alberdi, Fabio Barraclough (l.t.r.) - Clareville Grove Studio, Kensington SW7

 

Record of Fabio Barraclough's early life and his involvement with the RMS Queen Mary panel commission with various illustrations

Another collaboration with Edward Bainbridge Copnall was working on parts of Copnall's huge "Stag", together with Bernard Ball.

 

 

Selected Shows in South Africa

 

Gallery 21, Johannesburg - 27th September, 1977 - exhibition of portraits and paintings - opened by Molly Sklaar

Lidchi Gallery, Johannesburg - 21st November, 1977 - "Packages and Flowers" (ref.)

 

Included in "Exhibition of Works of Art by Immigrants and New South Africans", M.E.I., Provincial Building, Pretoria (25th to 28th October, 1977) (cat. 2.4)

 

 

Selected Articles and Reviews in South Africa

 

Habitat, Johannesburg 1975, no. 13, p. 39

Scenaria, Johannesburg - August/September, 1977, pp. 32/33, ill.

The Star, Johannesburg - 29th September, 1977, ill.

Sunday Times, Johannesburg - 2nd October, 1977, ill.

The Citizen, Johannesburg - 3rd October 1977, p. 16, ill.

Die Beeld, Johannesburg - 3rd October, 1977 (image of Armando Baldinelli, Stephanie Mitchell, Edoardo Villa)

The Citizen, Johannesburg - 4th October, 1977, p. 20 ("Superlative works by Fabio Barraclough")

Die Beeld, Johannesburg - 8th October, 1977

Rand Daily Mail, Johannesburg - 10th October, 1977 ("Emphasis is on the face")

Sunday Times, Johannesburg - 23rd October, 1977, ill.

 

 

Web references mainly to the artist's later political background of which Gallery 21 was not aware at the time!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabio_Barraclough

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2000/feb/06/theobserver

http://terrybellwrites.wordpress.com/2011/01/02/how-anti-apartheid-money-funded-the-apartheid-police/

http://terrybellwrites.wordpress.com/2011/03/07/operation-daisy-and-the-art-prof-spy/

 

 

Note:

Acknowledgment: Lidchi 1977 card per archives of the Johannesburg Art Gallery

Fabio Barraclough was one of 5 judges in the Golden Rugantino Award in Johannesburg in October, 1974, together with Michael Coulson, Nils Burwitz, George Boys and Natalie Knight

Fabio Barraclough was one of 5 judges in the Golden Rugantino Award in Johannesburg in October, 1974, together with Michael Coulson, Nils Burwitz, George Boys and Natalie Knight (ill. Communicat, Johannesburg, Nov. 1974)

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