Guest Editor
Orla Barry
For each issue, GLEAN invites a Guest Editor to curate a section of the magazine. We interview them and ask them to invite writers and artists who have influenced their practice (or who otherwise deserve our attention) to take up space in these pages.
Orla Barry was born in 1969 in Wexford, Ireland, where she currently lives and works. She previously lived in Brussels for sixteen years.
As an artist and a shepherd, you could say Orla Barry is ‘between fields’. In her daily life among the sheep, she has learned her agricultural trade while continuing to pursue her artistic practice. Her hybrid status as an artist-shepherd is expressed in her work through the materials (raw wool, felt), objects (crooks) and situations (auctions, pedigree c (…)
