ABSTRACT

I HAVE BOTH enjoyed and admired Bobby Baker’s work for at least twenty years. Although it has always been a sumptuous fusion of the tactile, the sensuous, the humorous and the political, I have seen her work evolve, even metamorphose into something beyond both humour and art yet inclusive of both. Her latest work around mental health, courageously deploying her own personal experiences, provides an accessible yet light and sometimes downright funny insight into almost unexplored worlds. Bobby Baker starts us on journeys rooted in our own experience and then leads to destinations we never knew existed. Yet she does it so beguilingly, so irresistibly that her performances these days find every seat taken and more waiting outside.