Sculptor, draughtsman and teacher who obtained his bachelor’s degree with honours in sculpture at Falmouth School of Art, 1983–5. He then taught at a Care home for mentally handicapped adults from 1986, at Streete Court School in Surrey, 1988–90, pre-foundation sculpture at Canterbury College, 1991–2, then first-year sculpture at Kent Institute of Art and Design, Canterbury, from 1992. He was Henry Moore Fellow there in 1991–2 and had an exhibition of his work in 1992. Barratt had a two-man show at The Pine Gallery in Tunbridge Wells, 1988; at Winchester Cathedral, 1989, King’s Walk Gallery, 1991; Economist Building Plaza in 1992, represented by the New Art Centre; and in the same year at Roche Court, Salisbury. Solo exhibition at Beardsmore Gallery, 2000 and 2003.
Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)