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Born 1983, Perth, Australia

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

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2015 Glow, Free Range Gallery, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

2016 Illumine, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

2016 Illumine II, CASM Gallery, Mandurah, Western Australia

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

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2007 Altogether Wonderful, Rockingham Community Library, Rockingham

2009 Mandurah Stretch Festival (collaborative), Mandurah

2009 As We Are, Perth Town Hall, Perth

2009 Creative Journeys, Victoria Park Centre for the Arts, Victoria Park

2009 Altogether Wonderful, Rockingham Community Library, Rockingham

2010 Mandurah Stretch Festival (collaborative), Mandurah

2010 As We Are, Perth Town Hall, Perth

2010 Creative Journeys, Victoria Park Centre for the Arts, Victoria Park

2011 As We Are, Perth Town Hall, Perth

2012 HERE&NOW13 Works in Progress, Freight Gallery, Fremantle, Western Australia

2012 As We Are, Central Park Building, Perth

2012 Creative Connections Art and Poetry Exhibition, City Farm, Perth Mandurah Stretch Festival, Mandurah

2013 HERE&NOW13, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Crawley

2013 As We Are, Central Park Building Foyer, Perth

2014 ‘Drift’ sculpture walk, Mandurah Stretch Festival, Mandurah

2014 Articulate, Sir Charles Gardiner Hospital Art Gallery, Nedlands

2014 From the Outside, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria

2015 As We Are Exhibition, Central Park Building Foyer, Perth

2015 Tiny Treasures, CASM Gallery, Mandurah

2016 CathARTic, Sir Charles Gardiner Hospital Art Gallery, Nedlands

2016 Transformers, Forest Heritage Centre Gallery, Dwellingup

2016 Mixed Palette Inc. 10th Anniversary exhibition, Rockingham Arts Centre, Rockingham

2016 As We Are Exhibition, Central Park Building Foyer, Perth

2016 Tiny Treasures, CASM Gallery, Mandurah

2017 As We Are Exhibition, Central Park Building Foyer, Perth

2018 Mandjar Art Awards, Mandurah Performing Art Centre, Mandurah

2018 Creative Connections Art and Poetry Exhibition, Shop Front Gallery Central TAFE, Northbridge Perth

2019 Alternative Archive – Peel, CASM Gallery and Mandurah Community Museum, Mandurah

2020 As We Are Exhibition, Perth Exhibition Centre, Perth

2021 As We Are Exhibition, Perth Exhibition Centre, Perth

2021 Presence – Mixed Palette Inc, Rockingham Community Library, Rockingham

2021 counterpART, Goolugatup Heathcote, Applecross, Perth

2021 Transition, CASM Gallery, Mandurah

2021 Deep Winter, PS Art Space, Fremantle

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AWARDS/GRANTS/RESIDENCIES

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2012 As We Are Exhibition, Perth, Stephen Delower Memorial 3D Award for ‘Butterfly’, copper wire, beads, reclaimed chandelier and solar lights

2013 PICA open studio, PICA, Perth, Western Australia

2013 Artist in Residence, PICA, Perth, Western Australia

2013 Artist in Residence, Perth Central Institute of Technology

2014 Arts Development Grant, Department of Culture and the Arts, Western Australia

2015 As We Are Exhibition, David Guhl Award for Artistic Excellence for ‘Glow Series’, ink on Perspex with LED backlighting (2015)

2014-2015 Artist in Residence, CASM, Mandurah

2020 – present Art Studio Residency, City of Fremantle, 15 Mrs Trivett Place

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COMMUNITY EXHIBITIONS/PROJECTS/PRESENTATIONS

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The Sketchbook Project , global (2014), (2013)

As We Are Disability and the Arts Forum (2013), Artists and Arts Mentor Relationships Presentation

Mandurah Stretch Festival (2012), (2010), (2009), participated in workshops and produced group sculptures and installations

Sculpture in the Fields project (CAN WA) (2011), Ngulla Community Nursery, participated in workshops and produced various sculpture works

 

 

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

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2015

WWDA Youth Network, '5 YOUNG, SUCCESSFUL WOMEN WITH DISABILITIES', http://youth.wwda.org.au/young-successful-women-disabilities/

2015

Sue Grey-Smith, 'Katrina Barber and GLOW', https://casmchat.wordpress.com/2015/04/28/katrina-barber-and-glow/?blogsub=confirming#subscribe-blog

2013

Katherine Wilkinson,'Katrina Barber', Here & Now 13 - eleven contemporary Western Australian artists, ex. cat., p 10-13, p59, p71

Katherine Wilkinson,'Here & Now 13 Artists at the PICA open studio night', Here&Now13 Blog (online)

Lyn Diciero, 'A little help, big rewards', The West Australian, Today, July 24, p9

2012

'Two impress arts judges', Weekend Courier, November 2, p49

2011

Julianne Ryan, 'Artist Profile/Katrina Barber', As We Are (online) /Artists

 

COLLECTIONS

Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery

Nulsen Inc

Disability Services Commission

Various private collections

 

 

  

Artist CV

KATRINA
  
BARBER

Artist Profile.

 

The art of new media artist Katrina Barber illuminates, not only for the viewer, but in a most direct and intimate way the artist herself. Barber’s practice is directly informed by her experience as a Deaf artist, her artwork opening pathways for communication. Her paintings, watercolours and sculptures are self-reflective transient feelings as well as explorations and examinations of light that traverse the personal and innate to process driven theoretical creations.

Initially discovering her affinity for visual art 10 years ago through a local art group, Mixed Palette Inc., she was recognised for her artistic talent in the HERE&NOW13 project in conjunction with Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia. Barber has gone on to artist residencies, including  Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, and CASM Mandurah as well as exhibitions throughout West Australia and Melbourne.

 

Barber held her first solo exhibition, Glow, at free range Gallery, Perth in April 2015 and was artist in residence at Contemporary Art Spaces Mandurah (CASM) in 2015, followed by a solo exhibition at the gallery - Illumine II - in 2016. In 2014 Barber was included a prestigious exhibition at Alcaston Gallery  in Melbourne that ran in alignment with an International Outsider Art Conference- Contemporary Outsider Art: The Global Context held by the University of Melbourne, in conjunction with Arts Project Australia. Following on from this, Alcaston Gallery invited Katrina to have a solo exhibiton, Katrina Barber - Illumine, in 2016.

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Katrina was selected to be a part of the HERE&NOW13 Project and exhibition produced by DADAA and the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery. For the HERE&NOW13 exhibition at Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery (26 July – 28 September 2013) Katrina created ‘Light series’, a light installation along with panels of watercolour works reflecting her exploration of light as well as her inner emotions and feelings. The Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery purchased four of her watercolour works for their collection. Her work was selected to appear on the HERE&NOW13 exhibition publication’s cover as well as on the exhibition’s invitations

Images of artwork courtesy the artist

Produced by Julianne Ryan 2017 with Wix.com

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