Background
Doing so he was following a number of his relatives including his father, his uncle who was a Director at Vauxhall Motors, two of his older brothers and his two brothers in law.
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Clive Barker
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Whilst at Vauxhall Motors Clive realised the potential of sculptural qualities of industrially finished objects, particularly in leather and chrome plated metal.
Career
He has been exhibited in galleries around the world during his career and has works in permanent collections including the Tate collection and the National Portrait Gallery. Clive was a student at Luton College of Technology and Art from 1957. However, he left the course in 1959 and went to work on the assembly-line of the Vauxhall Motors car factory in Luton for 18 months.
As well as being an artist, Clive is the subject of two photographic portraits in the National Portrait Gallery collection.
