Staff Profile

Co-I Turning Fylingdales Inside Out: making practice visible at the UK’s ballistic missile early warning and space monitoring station - 2020-2023.

For this project my focus is developing ways to engage non specialist audiences in the archive material and raise questions regarding nuclear deterrence and its cultural legacy.

Before this project I worked closely with Michael Mulvihill (Co-I) on developing exhibitions making public for the first time materiality from the Fylingdales Archive. Before this, I have ten years of professional experience at cultural organisations; Turner Contemporary and BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art. I have an MRes in Exhibition Studies from Central Saint Martins UAL having originally studied BA Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art and Design UAL.

Previous projects include: The Four Minute Warning Drawing Machine, The Unblinking Eye: 55 Years of Space operations on Fylingdales Moor, A British Guide to the End of the World BBC Four Arena. Public programmes: Caribbean Diaspora research symposium in association with Durham and Northumbria universities, What’s Left? A Century in Revolution 10 day public programme of live performance, screenings, exhibition and talks in partnership with Durham University School of Modern Languages & Cultures. Production for Artist commissions by Dr Andrea Luka Zimmerman and Dr Sandra Johnson. Curated exhibitions: Avant-garde Cinema (Marie Menken, Mary Ellen Bute, Marcel Duchamp and Len Lye), John Adams, David Haines and Ming Wong.

 Public Programmes: Documenta 10 and 11 - 2014 -2016

Turning Fylingdales Inside Out: making practice visible at the UK’s ballistic missile early warning and space monitoring station - 2020-2023

Co - convener Military, War and Security Research Group 

• Barker C, Mulvihill M. Returned to Ground. The Modernist Magazine 2021, (39).
• Barker C, Mulvihill M. Written Evidence Submitted to UK space strategy and UK satellite infrastructure Inquiry by Dr. Michael Mulvihill and Chloë Barker, School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle University, UK. London: UK Parliament HM Government, 2021. UK space strategy and UK satellite infrastructure Inquiry SPA0038.
• Barker C, Mulvihill M. The Four Minute Warning Drawing Machine. 2019. RAF Fylingdales, Pickering: RAF Fylingdales, SSPAR radar building.
• Barker C, Mulvihill M. The Unblinking Eye: 55 years of space monitoring on Fylingdales Moor. 2019. Whitby: Whitby Museum.