Art In The Ev Residency Exhibition: Ali Barker

Ali Barker’s work expresses music and sound in colour. She works with a fixed palette to represent the colours she perceives through her experiences of the phenomenon of sound-colour synaesthesia – when listening to music, she perceives notes of the musical scale as specific colours. These personal experiences are the inspiration and motivation for Ali’s artistic practice. Starting from her perceptions whilst listening to specific pieces, or working from sound recordings she has analysed, her translational processes develop excerpts into colourful abstract paintings.