Barry Martin

Barry Martin (20 February 1943 – 12 December 2025) was a British artist associated with the kinetic art movement of the 1960s, in which physical movement was incorporated into art.^[1] Martin also explored ideas of movement in the activities of games: among artists whose work has explored chess, Martin was described as "perhaps the most important".^[2] His work appears in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum,^[3] Tate,^[4] and British Council,^[5] among others. According to the Victoria and Albert Museum:

[Martin] has worked in various media - including kinetic sculpture, film, performance, and the making of environments - but the constant in his work has been drawing, either as a working tool, as a means of recording and observing, or as an end in itself. For Martin, drawing is a system of signs analogous to those of language, and also an intellectual process of enquiry, analysis and proposition.^[6]

Martin died on 12 December 2025, at the age of 82.^[7]