For over half a century now, Clive Barker has cast or fabricated sculptures in bronze and other metals largely from found objects and finished them impeccably in a variety of surfaces, sometimes polished or plated in gold or silver so that they gleam like luxury commodities, sometimes painted or given a more traditionally artistic patina. The final sculptures 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. With Mickey Mouse, Barker revisited a long-standing interest in cartoon figures and children's toys dating back to the early 1960's.

Barker's work features in the following museum collections: Tate, London; British Museum, London; National Portrait Gallery, London; Staedtische Kunsthalle Mannheim, Museum für Modern Kunst, Frankfurt; National Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; Museu Coleção Berardo, Modern and Contemporary Art Museum, Lisbon; The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia.