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Themes
Barclay's work often deals with themes related to the domestic. Situated within this context, her work juxtaposes the reified space of the gallery with that of the everyday. The forms present within her work balance between function and disfunction, the familiar and strange, imparting her installations with an elusory quality.

Style
Barclay creates large-scale installations, often made in situ and in response to the spaces in which they are shown. Her practice is also deeply rooted in process and craftsmanship; accordingly, her installations include an array of materials that oscillate between those associated with mechanization and those associated with the domestic: steel, cast-concrete, machined aluminium, rubber, brass mesh, ceramic, leather, canvas and printed fabric. These dualities further position her artistic process between the handcrafted and industrially produced, as well as the natural and man-made.