Clack Clack is inspired by the surrealist hand silhouettes that adorned Diane von Furstenberg’s Fall/Winter 2012 couture collection. Barclay takes this motif producing a graphic signature that whilst suggesting movement, playfully references the mixologist, recalling their physical relationship to the cocktail shaker and the act of Cocktail making. This mixing action is also alluded to in the title of the design Clack Clack which suggests the rattling sound of the ice in the process of chilling and dilution.

The artist’s chosen cocktail is the ‘Last Word’, a gin-based cocktail originating at the Detroit Athletic Club in the 1910s, shortly before the start of Prohibition. 

Simeon Barclay (b. 1975, Huddersfield, UK) received his BA from Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds in 2010 and an MFA from Goldsmiths College, London in 2014. In 2022 Barclay received the Ares Art Award; in 2021 he accepted an Art Fund Commission as part of his selection for British Art Show 9. Barclay was awarded the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Visual Artists and a Henry Moore Foundation award in 2020. His work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally and has work in public collections including the Arts Council Collection.  

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40 Years of the Future: Editions

In collaboration with Ryan Gander OBE RA (Castlefield Gallery Artist Patron), to mark Castlefield Gallery’s 40 year anniversary, we are delighted to present a new collection of limited-edition artworks. 

40 Years of the Future: Editions are a limited series of beautifully engraved cocktail shakers, created with a group of celebrated, award-winning artists, who at the invitation of Ryan Gander have donated their designs in support of Castlefield Gallery.