Several people from the art world were given awards as part of the Queen’s birthday honours, including Phyllida Barlow (top), Veronica Ryan (middle) and Sadie Coles (bottom)
Queen: Ralph_PH; Barlow: David Levene; Ryan: Max McClure; Coles: Sadie Coles, courtesy Sadie Coles HQ
The sculptor Phyllida Barlow has been awarded a damehood in the Queen’s birthday honours list that recognises the “outstanding achievements of people across the United Kingdom”.
Barlow has long been respected among British artists, having taught at London’s Slade School of Fine Art for more than 45 years. However, she came to international prominence relatively late in her career.
In 2014, her large-scale installation, dock (2014), filled the Duveen Galleries at Tate Britain in London. She told The Art Newspaper at the time: “I have been asked, ‘Why is your work so big?’ And I think the answer is to do with reach and stretch and going to spaces where I can’t get to and where we don’t usually…
