About

Selected Shows

2025: Ebb+Flow, Littleford+Adams, (documentary video installation), screening Towner Gallery, Eastbourne + Centre des arts et de la culture de Dieppe, France
2024: Ebb+Flow, Littleford+Adams, artists in residence, Newhaven Museum, Paradise Park
2024: Connections, Littleford+Adams, The Sidings, Newhaven. Supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund
2024: Connections: In the Footsteps of Ravilious, Supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund
2024: Sketchbook/Notebook, Beach Road site, Newhaven
2023: Sounds of the Year 2023, Cities and Memory, Oxford
2023: Border: After Ravilious, Littleford+Adams, Edgeland Modern at Marine Workshops: Newhaven. Funded by Arts Council, Chalk Cliff Trust & Lewes District Council
2023: Tasty: Edgeland Modern, Newhaven site
2023: Fort: In the Footsteps of Ravilious, Newhaven Fort, funded by Arts Council England
2023: Chalk: In the Footsteps of Ravilious, Edgeland Modern, Newhaven site, funded by Arts Council England
2023: Margin: Edgeland Modern, Newhaven, funded by Arts Council England
2023: Track: Edgeland Modern, Newhaven, funded by Arts Council England
2022: Pamphlet, Edgeland Modern, Newhaven
2022: Port: Edgeland Modern, Newhaven, funded by Arts Council England
2022: Back of an Envelope: Edgeland Modern, Newhaven
2021: Leftovers: Edgeland Modern, Woodingdean
2021: Corvid: Edgeland Modern, Woodingdean
2020: Stage: Edgeland Modern, Woodingdean
2019: Back of an Envelope: Edgeland Modern, Woodingdean
2019: Moon Gazing: Sarah O’Kane, Fitzroy House, Lewes
2018: Sussex Open: Towner Gallery, Eastbourne
2017: The Spinney: Landscapes of the Edgeland, Martyrs’ Gallery, Lewes
2017: Sussex Modernists and Transformations in the Twentieth-Century Landscape Conference: presentation, Sussex University
2016: The Spinney: Woodingdean, Brighton, supported by Arts Council
2016: Sussex Open: Towner Gallery, Eastbourne
2014: Stories they were yet to hear: Hammerson’s, 10 Grosvenor Street, London
2013: Wintergarden: Transition Gallery: Homerton High Street, Hackney
2013: Sussex Open: Towner Gallery, Eastbourne
2012: Fourteen Paintings: Hammerson’s Emerging Artist Initiative, The Former Stock Exchange, 125 Old Broad Street, London
2012: On The Map: Hastings Museum & Art Gallery, Hastings
2004: History & Preservation of St Pancras Station: animated film, commissioned by Channel Tunnel Rail Link Consortium

Publications

2022: The Distanced Observer. A two volume limited-edition study of testimony, excavation and interpretation by the painter and film-maker Barbara Loftus, with essays by art historian Dr. Deborah Schultz and Exile Studies specialist Prof.em Lutz Winckler. This deeply personal work of performative post-memory, the product of 25 years researching the lost world of her German-Jewish inheritance, is accompanied by the voices of writers who reflected on their experience of the darkest period of 20th century history.
Consisting of 272 pages in a slipcase, profusely illustrated with artworks, film-stills, photographs and contextual material.
Designed + Published in England, by Scrutineer Publishing
ISBN: 978-0-9534080-7-8

2013: The Bureaucracy of Terror – an exhumation, Scrutineer Publishing
By means of her artworks the English painter Barbara Loftus materializes the evidence she has exhumed in the State Archives to reconstruct the lost Berlin world of her German-Jewish mother, Hildegard Basch and her fate of her family…

2017: Presentation, Sussex Modernists and Transformations in the Twentieth-Century Landscape, Sussex University.
2017: The Scrutineer Squib: A Prospect of Arcadia
2016: The Scrutineer Squib: The Spinney
2016: The Scrutineer Squib: The Privileged View
2015: The Scrutineer Squib: The Emerging Arcadian
2013: The Bigger Picture: Work of Fiction
1998: Film Map for Scrutineers

Art Education

1995-1996: MA Sequential Art, University of Brighton
1993-1995: Postgraduate Diploma Narrative Art/Editorial Design, University of Brighton
1983-1986: BA (Hons) Fine Art (Painting), Brighton Polytechnic