IRENE BARBERIS
Born London, United
Kingdom/ resides Australia
Qualifications/Studies
2006 Research,
Paris, Barcelona, London, Hong Kong, Korea
2005 Research, San Francisco, Berlin, Frankfurt, Paris
2004- Research / Installation. Paris, Germany, United Kingdom, China,
Hong Kong
2004 Residency, Cite Internationale des Arts
2003 Residency, Cite Internationale des Arts
2001 Doctor of Philosophy, Victoria University, Melbourne
2000 – 1996 Candidate for Doctor of Philosophy, Victoria University,
Melbourne
Overseas Research Trip. U.S.A., U.K. Europe
1992-94 Master of Fine Arts, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
University
1978-1982 Keith and Elizabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship, Victorian
College of the Arts, Paris, France. Travelled USA, Britain, Europe
1977-78 Postgraduate Diploma of Painting, Victorian College of the Arts,
Melbourne
1975-76 Diploma of Art and Design, Preston Institute of Technology
1974 Study tour of America, Britain and Europe
1972-73 Diploma of Fine Art, Prahran College of Advanced Education
Solo Exhibitions
2006
room of breath, Esa Jaske Gallery, Sydney
breath; skin; light, Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris
splats : four foil dresses and a pink cross /END frieze, Atelier show,
Cite Internationale des Arts.
2005
barberis from lewitt, Esa Jaske Gallery
set of verbs/ visions and dreams, faculty gallery, RMIT , City campus
Melbourne
2004
Lineage of Light: Reading Wheels, Esa Jaske Gallery
Lightlines; a Kinesthetic Experience: reflections from the Frankston
Public Art Project, in conjunction with Steve Wright, of Steensen Varming
Pty. Ltd. Span Gallery, Melbourne
Lineage of Light: Reading Wheel, Esa Jaske Gallery
Don't Take my Breath Away #6 plastique: Salle 3A, Cite Internationale
des Arts, Paris, France
Line of thought #2, Atelier 8113, Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris,
France
Cut it Out! It’s a Wonderful World, Salle B, Cite Internationale
des Arts, Paris, France
Continuing Installation Series:
Cross Situations #1, Twelve locations, Frankfurt, Germany
Cross Situations #2, Twelve locations, Paris, France
Cross Situations #3, Twelve locations, London, Brighton, United Kingdom
Cross Situations #4, Across the interior of China, China
Cross Situations #5, Twelve locations, Sydney
Crosses, Stars & Circles, Noosa Regional Gallery, QLD
2003
#4 plastique : pink, Helen Maxwell Gallery, ACT
#4 plastique: specula, Span Galleries, Melbourne
2002
Plastics-Pneumatics, Helen Maxwell Gallery, ACT
Plastique circulair, Cite International des Arts, Paris, France
Extended Vision, Span Galleries, Melbourne
Plastique with S!X designers, Span Galleries, Melbourne
Breath - Four Corners, Artists Commune, Contemporary Gallery, Hong Kong
2001
October Paintings - 2001, Gallery Three, SPAN Galleries, Melbourne
Breakdown of Space and the Build up of Colour 1978 - 2001, SPAN Galleries,
Melbourne
2000
Seven Exhibitions. Abstract and Figurative Elements of the Apocalypse
and its Representations, SPAN Galleries, Melbourne
Gallery One: Abstract and Figurative Elements of the Apocalypse
Gallery Two: Mosaics, Manuscripts, End Signs and Equations
Gallery Three: Windows and Wood Cuts
Gallery Four: Emblems and Allegories
Gallery Five: Reading Revelation and Glow in the Dark Wall Drawing
Factory / Studio Space: A:Polymerous Still Life
Front Space: Info – Overflow + Aftermath
Apocalypse Circles, St. John’s Southbank, Melbourne
1999
Star Painting, From the Apocalypse, Figurative and Abstract Elements,
Victoria University Gallery, Melbourne
Saying it with Flowers, (with Wilma Tabacco), R.M.I.T. Gallery, Storey
Hall, Melbourne, Albury Regional Art Gallery, Albury, N.S.W.
The University Gallery, University of Tasmania, Launceston, Tasmania,
Art Gallery, Geelong, Victoria, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat
Victoria, Contemporary Art Centre of South, Australia, Adelaide
Apocalypse Circle Series, and Ten Black Flowers, Linden Gallery, Melbourne
1997
Red Horse / Revealed Geometry, Westspace Gallery, Melbourne
1996
Charpentes, Latrobe Street Gallery, Melbourne
1994
Four Exhibitions The Spiritual and the Mundane - Aspects of Scripture
in the Modern World, Luba Bilu Gallery, Melbourne
Space One: Symbols and Types. Space Two: The Spiritual and the Mundane.
Space Three: Wheels Within Wheels. Space Four: Separated Gathering
Transitional Installation: Micrography / Ten Pieces, Luba Bilu Gallery
1992
These Women - Where Honour’s Due, Luba Bilu Gallery, Melbourne
1991
Recent Paintings, Luba Bilu Gallery, Melbourne
1990
2 No. Plans, Luba Bilu Gallery, Melbourne
Wall Drawing, Room Four, Linden, St Kilda Arts Centre, Melbourne
1988
Miniatures, Luba Bilu Gallery, Melbourne
1986
Transitions, United Artists, Melbourne
Pinacotheca Melbourne
Group
Exhibitions
2006
St Johns Luthern Church, Southbank, Melbourne
FLOAT, Project Space, RMIT, Melbourne
Summershow, Esa Jaske Gallery
2005
Selections from Sol Le Witt Personal Collection, LeWitt Gallery, Suffield
Acadamy, Connecticut,USA
Intersections - reading the space, San Francisco Jewish Museum, USA
.
Intersections - reading the space, Irene Barberis, Parstou Forouhar,
Jane Logemann, Jewish Museum of Australia, Melbourne (travelling)
Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize (finalist), Bendigo Regional Gallery,
Victoria
Metaspace, Gertrude Street Galleries, Studio 11, Irene Barberis/Parastou
Forouhar. (with performance piece and film).
Untitled: with DR. Elizabeth Presa, Lutheran Church, South Bank, Melbourne
2004
Selections from Sol Le Witt Personal Collection, LeWitt Gallery, Suffield
Acadamy, Connecticut,USA
Span Galleries for Melbourne Art Fair 2004
Precious Platters, Australian Jewish Museum, Melbourne
2003
Return to nature: Pastoral, Nanjing, China
Esa Jaske Gallery Inaugural Exhibition, Sydney
2001
Colour, curated by Professor Jenny Zimmer, Smyrnios Gallery, Melbourne
A Studio in Paris, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney (travelling to Paris,
France)
Death and Decoration, Glen Eira City Gallery, Melbourne; University
of Tasmania, Launceston University Gallery, Tasmania; Mildura Art Centre
Country Arts, South Australian tour
We are Australian, Canberra Museum and Art Gallery, Canberra, ACT; Tasmanian
Museum and Art Gallery, Tasmania; Glen Eira Art Gallery, Melbourne
2000
Death and Decoration, Plimsol Gallery, University of Tasmania, Tasmania
We Are Australian, Volvo Gallery, Sydney; venues Australia wide, Regional
and Commercial Galleries
Seventh Melbourne Art Fair 2000, SPAN Galleries Stand, Royal Exhibition
Buildings, Melbourne, Victoria
Exposure – Artists Portraits of Artists, Linden Gallery, Melbourne
Paper Works: Australian Artists, National University, Seoul University,
Korea
Overview, Linden Gallery, Melbourne
1998
Web, Warp, Weft, Woof, Manningham Gallery, Melbourne
Nature - Traditional and Contemporary Visions, Gympie Regional Gallery,
Queensland
Saying it with Flowers (with Wilma Tabacco), Centre for Contemporary
Art, Adelaide, South Australia
1997
Invitee, The 1997 John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize, National Gallery
of Victoria
Group Exhibition, Latrobe Street Gallery, Melbourne
Notations – 40 Artists, Victoria University Gallery, Melbourne
Cuts Irene Barberis and Wilma Tabacco, Victoria University Gallery,
Melbourne
The Embellished Egg, Mornington Peninsular Regional Art Gallery, Victoria
The Wandering Jew: Myth and Metaphor, Benalla Art Gallery, Benalla,
Victoria; Horsham Art Gallery; Migration Museum, Adelaide South Australia;
Shepparton Regional Art Gallery, Victoria
1996
The Wandering Jew: Myth and Metaphor, Australian Jewish Museum, Melbourne;
Warnambool Art Gallery; Noosa Regional Gallery, Qld; Albury Arts Centre,
Albury, NSW
The Art of Collecting #2, Linden Gallery, Melbourne
Mono Prints, selection of gallery artists, Latrobe Street Galleries,
Melbourne
1995
Best Face Value for Autumn, Wollongong City Art Gallery, NSW
‘9 x 5’ Invitation Exhibition, Robert Lindsey Gallery, Melbourne
Selections from the State Galleries, SBS Building, Sydney
The Wandering Jew: Myth and Metaphor, The Australian Jewish Museum,
Melbourne
1994
Unpeeled Art (Painting and Installation), Ballarat Fine Art Gallery,
Ballarat, Victoria
An Increase in Assets, Aquisitions over the Last Five Years, Ballarat
Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat, Victoria
Love and Ruin, St. Kilda Town Hall, Melbourne
Girls Own, Boys Own - Football Exposure, Linden Art Gallery, Melbourne
Who’s Who and Who’s Hot, Kirkaldy Davies Gallery, Melbourne
1993 –94
Arrangement, Australian Still Life 1973 - 1993, Museum of Modern Art
at Heidi, Melbourne
1994
Selections from the Heidi Collection, Heidi Park and Art Gallery, Melbourne
1993
One Flesh - Two, collaboration with Adrian Page, Launceston Museum and
Art Gallery, Tasmania
Vitae: A.I.P. #7’, Fifth Sculpture Triennial, R.M.I.T. Faculty
Gallery, Melbourne
1992
Food in Art, Gallery at Tolarno, Melbourne
Third Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Luba Bilu Stand, Royal Exhibition
Building, Melbourne
Conrad Jupiters Art Prize, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Qld
Inherited Absolute, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
Review 1992, Luba Bilu Gallery, Melbourne
One Flesh - One, collaboration with Adrian Page, Gallery at Tolarno,
Melbourne
1991
Freedom of Choice, Heidi Park and Art Gallery, Melbourne
Recent Lithographs, Muka Studios, Auckland, New Zealand
Mandorla Prize Exhibition, New Norcia, Western Australia
St Kilda Scapes, Council Chambers, City of St Kilda, Melbourne
Review 1991, Luba Bilu Gallery, Melbourne
Youth Prints, Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, New Zealand, Sydney,
Melbourne
1990
100 Artists Against Animal Experimentation, Deutscher Galleries, Melbourne
Between the Lines, an installation publication, No 2, The Lounge, Melbourne
1989
Artists, Trees and Toys, Australian Centre of Contemporary Art, Melbourne
Mandorla Prize Exhibition, New Norcia, Western Australia
1988-89
Images of Religion in Australian Art, Murdoch Court, National Gallery
of Victoria, Melbourne
1988
Two Australian Artists / Cultural Exchange, Pun Yu, China
Two Australian Artists / Cultural Exchange, Guangzhou, China
First Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Luba Bilu stand, Royal Exhibition
Buildings, Melbourne
1987
United Artists at Mori Galleries, Mori Galleries, Sydney
Young Australians, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1986
Portia Geach Portrait Prize Exhibition, Blaxland Gallery, Sydney
1985
6 Drawing, Tasmania School of Art Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania
1982
Spring Festival of Drawing, Mornington Peninsula Arts Centre, Victoria
1983
Figures and Faces Drawn from Life, Heidi Park and Art Gallery, Melbourne
New Art Selections from the Michelle Endowment, Victorian National Gallery,
Banyule Gallery, Melbourne
1982
Group Exhibition, members of the Cite’ Internationale des Artes,
Cite’ Internationale des Arte, Paris, France
1982
Placed Installation, collaboration with Gary Goldstein (Israel) Studio
111, Paris, France
Preston to Phillip, A survey, Reconnaissance Gallery, Melbourne
1981
Group Exhibition, Cite’ Internationale des Arte, Paris, France
1979
Still life Still Lives, Glenfiddich Company, Sydney Opera House, Sydney
Ballarat Regional Fine Art Gallery, Victoria
Keith and Elizabeth Travelling Fellowship Exhibition, Victorian College
of the Arts Gallery, Melbourne
1978
Graduate Exhibition, Victorian College of the Arts Gallery, Melbourne
Eight Women Realists, Victorian College of the Arts Gallery, Melbourne;
Coventry Gallery, Sydney; Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
1976
Drawing, Some Definitions, Ewing and George Paton Galleries, Melbourne
University, Melbourne
Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
Awards
and commissions
2006
Museums Australia, Jewish Museum – Honourable Mention, for Intersections
– Reading the Space.
Frankston “new circular lighting Project”.
2005
Frankston Bayside, new glass Sculpture work ”Ellipse”
Finalist. Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize. Bendigo Art Gallery. Australia
2004
Frankston Comission, Eight Works, major sculptural work, Pivot
2003
Arts Victoria, New Work Development Grant
Selection - finalist, Docklands Lighting Project, ARM architects (5
shortlist)
2002
Lighting Project, Geelong Arts Precinct, with Brecknock consulting
1999
Victoria University Postgraduate Research Fellowship Australian Postgraduate
Award, H.E.C.S Scholarship
1998
Victoria University Postgraduate Research Scholarship
Australian Postgraduate Award, H.E.C.S Scholarship
Airfare and Travel Grant; Victoria University
Nets Victoria, Exhibition Development Fund Grant, Saying it with Flowers
1997
Victoria University Postgraduate Research Scholarship
Australian Postgraduate Award H.E.C.S. Scholarship
1996
Australian Postgraduate Award, H.E.C.S. Scholarship
1995
Five Soft Sculptures, Art in Public Spaces, Melbourne City Council
Prepared Table, Lowther Hall, Anglican Girls Grammar School, Melbourne
Architect / Artist collaboration, Maggie Edmond (Edmond and Corrigan)
- presentation only - The Women’s Building, Londsdale Street,
Melbourne
Boxes, (design) Tokyo, Japan; Melbourne
Daniel Joles, portrait commission, Melbourne
Visual Production, Bartmitzvah, Mount Scopus College, Melbourne
Noel Counihan, Portrait purchase, Albury Regional Gallery, NSW
1994
Artist in Residence, Charles Sturt University, Albury, NSW
Esther; Concept and visual production collaboration with Alida Chase
(former member of the Australian Ballet Company, Netherlands Dance Theatre,
Frankfurt Ballet Company), Melbourne
Master of Fine Art: The Spiritual and the Mundane, Victorian College
of the Arts, Melbourne University
1993
H.E.C.S. Scholarship, Master of Fine Art, V.C.A. Melbourne University
Drina; A Modern Dance Piece, collaboration with Alida Chase, Studio
1. Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
Rubies and Carbuncles, a modern dance piece, collaboration with Alida
Chase
Greenmill Choreographic project, Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne
1992
H.E.C.S. Scholarship, Master of Fine Art, V.C.A. Melbourne University,
Melbourne
1991
Australia Council, Visual Arts / Craft Board, Artists Development Grant
Artist in Residence, (Lithographic), Muka Studios, Aukland, New Zealand
Prismatic Still Life (painting), Prism Paints, Melbourne
Eight Banners, collaboration with Elizabeth Gower, Melbourne Cricket
Club, Great Southern Stand Arts Commissions, architect, Daryl Jackson,
Melbourne
1990
Maggie and Mathew, portrait commission, Edmond and Corrigan
Artist in Residence, Mount Scopus College, Melbourne
Artist in Residence, Victoria College, Ceramic Department, Melbourne
Beltshazzar, costume drawing for Peter Corrigan, Theatre Works, Melbourne
1989
Children’s Workshops, (invitation) Australian Centre for Contemporary
Art, Melbourne
Dr. Henry Kranz, portrait commission
Visual Production, Richmond A.O.G. Theatre Production, Melbourne
1989
Playbox Panel Painting, Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne
1988
Artist in Residence (not taken up), Kyneton, Victoria
8’ X 28’, Factory work, commission for John Sands Collection,
Melbourne
1987
Visual production, Cultural Exchange, Pun Yu Province and Guangzou,
China
Andrew Barton, Portrait commission, Victoria
1985
Artist in Residence, Melbourne Boys Grammar, Melbourne
Sybil Craig, Selected Drawing Prize, Mornington Peninsula Art Centre,
Vic
1984
Two Billboards, Victoria’s 150th Anniversary, Victorian Ministry
for the Arts, Melbourne
1982
Portraits, commissions for subjects of Paris and Britain
Blue Print, blueprint for the British Embassy Church mural, Paris, France
Accepted for Master of Fine Arts, Chicago Institute of Art, Chicago,
USA
Scholastic scholarship, value $6,000 U.S.A. (not taken up), Chicago
Institute of Art, USA
1981
Sculpture Studio, six month residency, Cite’ Internationale des
Arte, Montmartre, Paris, France
1980
Dyson Grant, Art Gallery of NSW Sydney
1979
Glenfiddich Painting Aquisition, Sydney Opera House, Sydney
Australia Council, Visual Arts Board Project Grant
Keith and Elizabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship, Victorian College
of the Arts, Melbourne
1979
Power Studio, Residency, Cite’ Internationale des Artes, Paris,
France, Sydney University
Australia Council Visual Arts Board Residency, Vence, France
1978
N.S. Eckersley Scholarship, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
1977
Art in the Streets Project, Six Artists, Selected for installation in
City Square, Ministry for the Arts, Melbourne
1976
Glimpses, Visual Design, collaboration with Claire Robertson, Graeme
Murphy Australian Ballet Company, Melbourne
Glimpses, Visual Design, collaboration with Claire Robertson, Sydney
Dance Company, Sydney
Instigator and
Co-Curator, Intersections - reading the space, Jewish Museum of Australia.
2001-2005, Travelling Exhibition: Australian Jewish Museum, Melbourne,
Australia, San Francisco Jewish Museum, USA
Collections
Sol Le Witt Collection,
Chester, New York, U.S.A.
Le Witt Collection, Spoletto, Italy
Suffield Academy: Lewitt Gallery, U.S.A.
Murdoch Collection, New York, U.S.A., Australia
Western Mining Corporation Collection, Australia
Monash University Collection, Melbourne
Museum of Modern Art at Heidi Collection, Melbourne
Wollongong City Art Gallery, NSW
Jane Logemann, private collection
National Gallery of Victoria, Michell Endowment
Artbank, Australia wide
Mornington Peninsula Gallery Collection, Victoria
Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat, Victoria
B.H.P. Collection, Australia
Albury Regional Art Gallery, NSW
Art Purchase Program, Visual Arts Board, Australia
John Sands Collection, Melbourne
National Bank Collections, Melbourne and Interstate, Australia
Budget Collection
Banks Collections, Melbourne, Australia
Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
St Kilda City Collection, Melbourne
Muka Collection, Auckland, New Zealand
Private Collections, Australia
Private Collections, UK, France, USA, Europe, Africa
Bibliography
Current-1983 (selected)
2006
Dr Elizabeth Presa; breath light and skin, Cite Internationale des Artes,
Paris.
Dr Irene Barberis; skin and peel, artist statement.
Dr Louiseann Zahra; grow – a set of verbs, catalogue essay, Melbourne
2005
Dr. Irene Barberis; Intersections: reading the space. Co-introduction,
Artist Statement Jewish Museum of Australia
Dr. Irene Barberis; set of verbs, Catalogue of new inflatable, silicon
and latex works. 2005
2004
Dr. Christopher Heathcote, breath ,crosses stars + circles, Noosa Regional
Gallery, Queensland
Dr Irene Barberis Lineage of Light: Reading Wheels, Catalogue Essay,
Sydney
Cut it out! It's a wonderful World, Dr. Irene Barberis, Catalogue, Paris,
France
Line of thought #2, Dr. Irene Barberis, Paris, France
Precious Platters, Catalogue, Promotional material, Australia
2003
Fashion Infiltrates the Galleries, Artlink. Vol.22 #4
Art to Cling To, Canberra Times
Seductive, Creative and Potentially Toxic, Sonia Barron, Canberra Times,
July 21
Seeing through the Material, Wilma Tabacco, Canberra, Melbourne, Paris,
France
2002
Catalogue Essays
Breath: Doctor Christopher Heathcote.
Plastique: Anna Clabburn.
Four Corners: Tam Wai Ping, Hong Kong
Reviews/Articles
Robert Nelson, The Age 20.3.2002 Fashion Infiltrates the Arts Fashion
Sashays into Visual Arts
Juliet Peers, Fashion Infiltrates the Galleries, Artlink. Vol.22 # 4
Dr. Annette Van der Bosch, Unveiling the Apocalypse, Irene Barberis,
Art and Australia, vol.40 No 1
Presa Kevin, Imprint Magazine, Revelation/Apocalypse, Print Council
of Australia
Janet McKenzie, Studio International (e journal) forthcoming edition,
United Kingdom
Dr Christopher Heathcote: Australian Encyclopedia of Art
Bernard Smith, Terry Smith and Christopher Heathcote. C.Marshall, Interpreting
Art For Secondary Schools, Macmillan Art Publishing, Melbourne. Revelation
Apocalypse
2001
Alison Barclay, Backyard blitz, Herald sun, April 25, 2001
2000
Revelation Apocalypse 2000
The Art of Irene Barberis, Introduction: Dr.Michelle Brown, Curator
of Illuminated Manuscripts, The British Library, London, Texts: Anna
Clabburn, Melbourne writer and Critic, the Age and The Australian. Suzi
Gablick, American critic and author, Macmillan Art Publishing, Melbourne
Interview: Arts Today, Radio National, The Apocalypse Interview with
Lyn Gallahar, Irene Barberis and Anna Clabburn
Catherine Lambert, The Revelation of Installation, Sunday Herald, July
16.2000
Briony Rhodes, Death and Decoration, Art Monthly, 29.7.00
View Review. Anthony Lynch, Exhibition Proves a Revelation, Victoria
University, Nexus, July, Melbourne
1999
David Cross, Saying it with Flowers, Like Magazine, Millennial Issue
Summer 1999
Anna Clabburn, Saying it with Flowers, The Age. 17 February
Lara Ancilli, Interview: Saying it with Flowers, Irene Barberis and
Wilma Tabacco, SBS Radio, Italian Language Program, June 28, Melbourne
O.Cameron, Double Acts Flower Power, Herald Sun, July 16.1999
Dr. Annette Van der Bosch, Revelation / Apocalypse, Art and Australia,
Australia
Presa Kevin, Imprint Magazine, Revelation/Apocalypse, Print Council
of Australia
C.Marshall, Interpreting Art For Secondary Schools, Macmillan Art Publishing,
Melbourne
Janet McKenzie, Studio International (e-journal) (forthcoming article),
United Kingdom
Interview, Irene Barberis and Wilma Tabacco, Saying it with Flowers,
City Park Community F.M. Radio, Launceston, Tasmania April 10. 1999
Jo McIntyre, Saying it with Flowers,Tasmanian Examiner, April 17, 1999
Albury; Border Morning Mail, Saying it With Flowers
M. Stevenson Flowers Tell A Story, The Examiner, April 10, 1999
M. Stevenson Duo has blooming lovely art symbols, The Examiner, April
10, 1999
Exhibition Weaves a Rich Tapestry, Victoria University Nexus, Vol.9
March, 1999
Anthony Lynch, Gallery closes, vision remains, Victoria University,
Connections
May We Are Australian, Catalogue, Geoff La Gerche & David Thomas
1998
Rebecca Lancashire Creative Stocking Stuffers, The Age, 1.12.1998
Catalogue Essays Saying it with Flowers, Edward Collis, Dr. Sophia Errey
The Age, Sue Goss. 27th October VUT opens new doors in the conduct of
thesis research
1997
Gallery Catalogue, John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize Exhibition, 1997
Kevin Wilson, Nature: traditional and Contemporary Visions, Cooloola
Shire Pubic Gallery
Robin Usher, McCaughey Prize, Upbeat, The Age 2.12.1997
Rebecca Lancashire, Right Time for Bennett, The Age, 4.12.1997
Alison Barclay, $30,000 water work, Herald Sun, 5.12.1997
Peter Timms, An Assortment of Bits and Pieces, The Age 10.12.1997
Gallery Prize to Gordon, Bendigo Advertiser, 13.12.1997
Cliff Burtt, Prize Finds a Worthy Home, Herald Sun, 13.12.1997
Artist Statement Irene Barberis & Wilma Tabacco, Victoria University
Gallery, Melbourne.
Artists statement; Red Horse / Revealed Geometry catalogue
Nexus, Victoria University newspaper; article/photo (two issues)
The Mail, The Brimbank Times, The Moonee Valley Gazette; article/ photos
Exhibitions, Newsletter, Horsham Art Gallery, June 1997
Jenny Zimmer, Exhibition Catalogue Interview, Charpentes
1996
Justine Hill Myth Analysed, The Warrnambool Standard, March 13, 1996
The wandering Jew – Myth and Metaphor, Shepparton Advisor, 1996-97
1995
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of Australia, 1995
Susie Ashkenazi, Artists Tackle myth of wandering Jew, Visual Arts,
24.11.95
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1994
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Allen and Unwin
Anna Clabburn, ‘Faith’: Irene Barberis, Storm Magazine,
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Susan McCulloch, ‘The Spiritual and the Mundane’ Sun Herald.
June, 1996
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1993
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1988
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1987
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I986
Gary Catalano, Cluttered Realism Outshines the Transcendental Abstract’,
The Age, 17.9.1986
Financial Review, Ten Young Investment Artists, 1986
1985
Dawn Mendham, Refining Fire, Albatross Books, 1985, Australia
1984
Janet McKenzie, Drawing in Australia - Contemporary Images and Ideas,
Macmillan, Australia
1983
Elizabeth Cross, Figures and Faces Drawn from Life, Catalogue Essay,
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1982
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1980
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Melbourne
1979
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Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
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1978
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1977
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of the arts, Coventry Gallery, Sydney; Museum of Modern art, Queensland
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College of the Arts, Melbourne
1976
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Domenico De Clario, Drawing Some Definitions
Catalogue, George Paton Galleries, Melbourne University
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