Fe29 have a collection of Clive Barker drawings, pastels, watercolours and acrylics, including a number of signed pieces. Several of the works have been published in Illustrator. The two largest works are ‘Confessional’ (pastel) and ‘Abarat’ (acrylic). Barker often uses scraps of paper with lines, holes and marks for his works. Because of the way that he works, you often find his works have splashes of paint, coffee or other unidentifiable materials.
Clive Barker has been described variously as a film maker, poet, painter, novelist, director, screenwriter and dramatist. His early creative journey began in Liverpool, England as he ran the Dog Company performing plays and theatre productions. He moved into writing and drawing and painting and this also became his form of expression. He has been described as a polymath in the same manner as the artist, director, and poet, Jean Cocteau.
Barker depicts fantastic characters who inhabit worlds which are strangely familiar. His books and films start with ordinary lives, but ultimately his characters are transformed beyond the original state of the flesh and are always altered physically as well as mentally. Barker’s work explores the idea of the secret self through motifs established in the Gothic fiction tradition, using a framework of horror, fantasy and sexuality.
Frequently in Barker’s work, people or places are not what they appear on the surface. False appearances mask the good and evil that lie beneath the surface. Clive Barker’s love of the metaphor manifests itself in this thematic device. Clive Barker is an imaginer; he is a creative force, not limited to one medium or style. Barker does not want to be known as a horror writer, he does not want to be known only as the creator of Hellraiser. His goal is for us to explore our secret selves and to transform.
The film director Quentin Tarantino sums up Clive Barker’s work:
‘”To call Clive Barker a horror novelist would be like calling the Beatles a garage band. Always creating and always pushing into the farthest reaches of the human mind, he is an artist in every sense of the word. He is the great imaginer of our time. He knows not only our greatest fears, but also (what) delights us, what turns us on, and what is truly holy in the world. Haunting, bizarre, beautiful. These are the words we can use to describe Clive Barker only until we invent new, more fitting adjectives.’ ” Q Tarantino, Clive Barker Coldheart Canyon, Harper Collins, London, 2001, p.678.
Clive Barker Credit are many and significant and cover a broad spectrum
NOVELS
The Damnation Game (1985), Weaveworld (1987), The Great And Secret Show (1989), Imajica (1991), The Thief Of Always (1992), Everville (1994), Sacrament (1996), Galilee (1998), Coldheart Canyon (2001), Abarat (2002), Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War (2004), Mister B. Gone (2007), Abarat: Absolute Midnight (2011), The Scarlet Gospels (2015),
SHORT STORIES / NOVELLAS/ COLLECTIONS
Books of Blood volumes 1-3 (1984), Books of Blood volumes 4-6 (1985), Lost Souls (1985), The Hellbound Heart (1986), Cabal: The Nightbreed (1988), Coming to Grief (1988), Whose Line is it Anyway? (1988), On Amen’s Shore (1992), The Departed / Hermione and the Moon (1992), Pidgin And Theresa (1993), Animal Life (1994), A Story With No Title, A Street With No Name (1995), Chiliad: A Meditation (1997), Six Destinies / Tortured Souls (2001), The Wood On The Hill (2001), The Infernal Parade (2004), Jump Tribe (2005), Haeckel’s Tale (2005), The Adventures of Mr. Maximillian Bacchus and His Travelling Circus (2009), They’re Mad, They Are (2012), The Candle in the Cloud (2013), A Night’s Work (2013), Dollie (2013), Afraid (2015), Tonight, Again (2015),
NON-FICTION
The Painter, The Creature and The Father of Lies (2011)
ART – Illustrator volume 1 (1990), Illustrator volume 2 (1993), Visions of Heaven and Hell (2005), Imaginer volume 1 (2014), Imaginer volume 2 (2015), Imaginer volume 3 (2016), Imaginer volume 4 (forthcoming, 2017)
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Bess Cutler Gallery, New York (1993), Laguna Art Museum, CA (1995), La Luz de Jesus, Los Angeles (1997, 1998), Pacific Design Centre, Los Angeles (2002), MCA Chicago (2004), Bert Green Fine Art, Los Angeles (2005 – 2011), Packer Schopf, Chicago (2008), Sloan Fine Art, New York (2008), Otis, Los Angeles, (2008), Crown Gallery, Carlisle (2011), Century Guild, Los Angeles (2013, 2014), Alexander Salazar, San Diego (2014), Galleri Oxholm, Copenhagen (2015)
GAMES – Nightbreed: The Action Game (1990), Nightbreed: The Interactive Movie (1990), Undying (2001), Jericho (2007)
GRAPHIC NOVELS AND COMICS
Primal (1992), Night of the Living Dead (1993), Deady: The Waiting Room (2004), Field (2006), Seduth (2009), Next Testament (2013 – 2014)
Tapping the Vein (1989 – 1992), Hellraiser series (1989 – 1994 and 2011 – 2015), Nightbreed series (1990 – 1993 and 2014 – 2015), Jihad (1991), Weaveworld (1991 – 1992), The Yattering and Jack (1991), Dread (1992), Son of Celluloid (1991), Revelations ([1992]), The Life of Death (1993), Rawhead Rex ([1993]), Razorline: The First Cut (1993), Ectokid (1993 – 1994), Saint Sinner (1993 – 1994), Hokum & Hex (1993 – 1994), Hyperkind (1993 – 1994), Pinhead (1993 – 1994), The Harrowers (1993 – 1994), The Thief of Always (2005), The Great and Secret Show (2005 – 2006), Age of Desire (2009), The Book of Blood (2014)
POETRY – Rare Flesh (2003)
ANTHOLOGY – The Essential Clive Barker (1999)
THEATRE
Voodoo (1967), Inferno (1967), Neongonebony (1968), The Holly And The Ivy (1970), Is There Anybody There? (1972), Hunters In The Snow (1973), Salome (c.1973), A Private Apocalypse (c.1973), The Scream Of The Ape (1974), The Fish Bride (1974), Poe (1974), The Egg (1974), Grunewald’s Crucifixion (1974), A Dream (1974), The Wolfman (1974), A Clowns’ Sodom (1976), Day Of The Dog (1977), The Sack (1978), The Magician (1978), Dog (1979), Nightlives (1979), The Comedy of Comedies (unstaged, 1980), The History Of The Devil (1980), Dangerous World (1981), Paradise Street (1981), Frankenstein In Love (1982), The Secret Life Of Cartoons (1982), Crazyface (1982), Subtle Bodies (1983), Colossus (1983)
FILM/ TELEVISION
Salome (1973), The Forbidden (1978), Hellraiser (1987), Nightbreed (1990), Lord Of Illusions (1995), Nightbreed – Director’s Cut (2014)
Hellraiser II: Hellbound (1988), Hellraiser III: Hell On Earth (1992), Hellraiser IV: Bloodline (1996), Candyman (1992)
Hellraiser franchise, Candyman franchise
Underworld (Transmutations) (1985), Rawhead Rex (1986), The Yattering and Jack (1986), The Body Politic (1997), The A-Z of Horror (1997), Saint Sinner (2002), Haeckel’s Tale (2006), Valerie On The Stairs (2006), The Midnight Meat Train (2008), Book of Blood (2009), Dread (2009)
Motorhead – Hellraiser music video (1992)
Gods And Monsters (1998), The Plague (2006)