Ali Barker
Music is a major influence on Ali Barker’s work. She creates visual representations of music and sound in colour, inspired by her sound-colour synaesthesia – when she listens to music, each note of the musical scale is perceived as a different colour.
Many of Ali’s paintings are based on geometric forms, ranging from transcribed music to patterns derived from recorded sounds. Other paintings are instinctive synaesthetic responses made by directly applying the colours to the paper or canvas whilst listening to the music, or a combination of these styles. The music can be Ali’s choice, or chosen by a client for a commission.
In 2011 Ali Barker won Merseytravel’s Art on the Network competition ‘Design a New Skyline’, for the Queensway (Birkenhead) Tunnel. Her ‘Liverpool Composition’ and ‘Wirral Composition’ designs were made into murals on the new cladding, approximately 5m high and 22m wide, and are public artworks on permanent display at each end of the tunnel.
Originally from Sheffield, Ali moved to Merseyside in 1995. In her spare time, she plays violin and viola in several local amateur orchestras.
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Mersey Composition (Synaesthesia 114)
£30.00 – £75.00 -
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto (Synaesthesia 99)
£225.00 -
Dvorak: Symphony No. 9, ‘From The New World’, Largo (Synaesthesia 106)
£90.00 -
Take Five (Synaesthesia 108)
£125.00 -
Bach: Toccata and Fugue in D minor – Toccata (Synaesthesia 109)
£150.00 -
Bach: Toccata and Fugue in D minor – Fugue (Synaesthesia 110)
£150.00 -
Rossini: Italian Girl in Algiers (Synaesthesia 51)
£75.00 -
Adele: Skyfall (Synaesthesia 101)
£75.00 -
Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1, ‘Land of Hope and Glory’ (Synaesthesia 111)
£250.00 -
Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture (Synaesthesia 112)
£250.00 -
The Year 2016 (Synaesthesia 97)
£650.00 -
September 2016 (Synaesthesia 88)
£150.00 -
Wirral Composition (Synaesthesia 3)
£30.00 -
Liverpool Composition (Synaesthesia 2)
£30.00 -
July 2016 (Synaesthesia 82)
£150.00 -
August 2016 (Synaesthesia 84)
£150.00 -
Mahler: Symphony No. 2, Resurrection (Synaesthesia 79)
£75.00 -
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 ‘Eroica’ (Synaesthesia 87)
£175.00 -
February 2016 (Synaesthesia 72)
£150.00 -
Tchaikovsky: Andante Cantabile (Synaesthesia 71)
£75.00 -
May 2016 (Synaesthesia 78)
£150.00 -
January 2016 (Synaesthesia 70)
£150.00 -
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto 6 (Synaesthesia 85)
£75.00 -
April 2016 (Synaesthesia 76)
£150.00 -
Grieg: Peer Gynt, In the Hall of the Mountain King (Synaesthesia 69)
£75.00
