George Barber was born in Georgetown, Guyana and studied at St Martins School of Art and The Slade. He had a recent solo show at Dundee Contemporary Arts, featuring various works and a new version of his video sculpture The Long Commute. He has been part of numerous programmes at Tate Modern and had retrospectives at the ICA, New York Film & Video Festival, the Whitechapel Gallery and recently at La Rochelle Festival, France. His recent work is varied too returning to re-using found footage, Following Your Heart, Welcome and Autumn use off-air adverts and tv films. At the same time his conceptual video work Shouting Match has grown and become a series. Versions have been shot in the UK, India, Israel and soon the USA. Automotive Action Painting won First Prize at the 24th Hamburg International Short Film Festival in June 2008. Barber is eclectic, his ideas varied. Narrative and found footage seem to be at the centre of much of his work, either deconstructing it or trying as an artist to evolve an approach that is contradictory to the maker's original intention. His recent work, Following Your Heart and Losing Faith the central conceit is to take found footage and manipulate it into a new artistic experience. The ingredients of television are inverted and put to new purposes. He has also produced a number of eccentric works like Waiting For Dave which is a homage to Dave Curtis and his one-time power at the Arts Council and also Beyond Language which reference early video art yet is contemporary too where two women attempt to communicate by making noises on a fly over near Mile End. In fact, Barber has created many low-tech video pieces and was influential in defining an emergent 'slacker' aesthetic in the 1990s which again has been influential on a younger generation of video artists.