As one of the few Pop artists to work primarily with sculpture for over sixty years, Barker forms a particularly important part of the Pop Art story. His replications of factory-made consumer goods in gleaming metals and permutations of found objects have been linked to the exotic, the unattainable, the erotic and the romantic and deserved their place on the glamorous centre stage of the art world of the 'Swinging Sixties'. Today, his art continues to surprise with its immediacy and sense of fun that had made it so accessible from the start. In questioning the privileged status of art, Barker's sculpture investigates the fundamentals of the traditional and modernist movements, yet at the same time reveals a passionate commitment to the history of art. With his metal casts of found objects by means of divided labour, Barker is firmly inscribed in art history as the heir of Marcel Duchamp and the forerunner of Jeff Koons.

The work of Clive Barker is in museum collections worldwide including: National Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; British Museum, London; Tate, London; National Portrait Gallery, London; Museum für moderne Kunst, Frankfurt; Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim; Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon; The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Philadelphia Museum of Art.