[2] She was the British prize winner at the International Ceramics Exhibition in 1972 and was invited to serve on the newly formed Crafts Advisory Committee, as its youngest member from 1974-76.
The NPG subsequently added a Jean Muir figure to their collection and commissioned a sculpture of Glenda Jackson.
Barton's Helena Kennedy and a head of Jean Muir are in the collection of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.
[5] In 2004 she worked with Roger Michell and Kevin Loader on the making of the film Enduring Love and became the inspiration for the sculptor played by Samantha Morton.
All the sculpture in the film is by Barton including specially commissioned portraits of Daniel Craig and Bill Nighy.