DR IRENE BARBERIS
Born London, United Kingdom; resides London / Melbourne
ARTIST, RESEARCHER, ACADEMIC,
CURATOR, DIRECTOR
http://rmit.edu.au/staff/IreneBarberis
www.thetapestroflightproject.com
www.globalcentrefordrawing.com
Co DIRECTOR [WITH WILMA TABACCO]: GALERY LANGFORD120,
DIRECTOR: GLOBAL CENTRE FOR DRAWING, METASENTA PUBLICATIONS, METASENTA ®
SENIOR LECTURER: RMIT UNIVERSITY, SOA, MELBOURNE, HONG KONG
CRITIC AND FACULTY, ROME ART PROGRAM, NY/ROME
VISITING FACULTY MEMBER, SACI INSTITUTE, FLORENCE, ITALY/NY
INVITATIONAL MEMBER, ARTISTS AND DESIGNERS COUNCIL SACI INSTITUTE, FLORENCE.
INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR: CTL EXHIBITIONS AND CONFERENCES: DUBAI, FLORENCE, BRAZIL
RESEARCH
2018 Washington DC. New York, Rome, Florence, Hong Kong.
2017 Brussels, London, Canterbury, Rome, Paris
2016 Hong Kong, Brussels, Weilsbeke, Angers, Paris, London, Manchester
2015 Hong Kong, Brussels, Rome, Florence, Weilsbeke, London.
2014 Kerala, Southern India, London, Brussels, Rome, Hong Kong, Dubai, UAE.
2013 Hong Kong, Rome, New York, Southern India.
2012 London, Dubai, Rome, Hong Kong
2011 New York, Manchester, London, Rome, Dubai.
2010 Hong Kong, Guangzhou, London.
2009 Bahrain, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, London, Hong Kong, Venice, Rome, Basel, Berlin, London, Guangzhou, China, Tibet.
Zurich, Lucerne, London.
2008-09 Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Bahrain, Dubai, London, Belfast, Ireland, Edinburgh, Manchester, Chicago, New Harmony,
New York, Los Angeles.
2007 Hong Kong, Guangzhou China, London, Belfast, Edinburgh, Dundee, Glasgow, Manchester, United Kingdom. Chicago, San Francisco, San Diego, Los Angeles, USA
2006 Research: Paris (residency), Barcelona, London, Hong Kong, Korea, Tokyo, Japan, Shanghai
2005 Research, San Francisco, Berlin, Frankfurt, Paris
2004 Research / Installation. Paris, Germany, United Kingdom, China, Hong Kong.
2003-04 Residency, Cite Internationale des Arts
2001 Doctor of Philosophy: Victoria University, Melbourne.
2000-96 Candidate for Doctor of Philosophy, Victoria University, Melbourne
Research Field Trip: New York, London, Oxford, Cambridge. Belgium, Paris, Chartres, Angers, Bourge, Le Man,
Avignon, Ravenna, Venice, Perugia, Spoleto, Florence, Rome
1992-94 Master of Fine Arts, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne University
1979-82 Keith and Elizabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship, Victorian College of the Arts, taken up in Paris, France.
Research, atelier installations; USA, Britain, Europe. Resided Paris – 1980 -1983.
1977-78 Postgraduate Diploma of Painting, Victorian College of the Arts. Melbourne.
1975-76 Graduate Diploma of Art and Design, Preston Institute of Technology.
1974 Study tour, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, Edinburgh, Dusseldorf, Basel, Milan,
Rome, Amsterdam (with Australian Artist Robert Hunter).
1972-73 Diploma of Fine Art, Prahran College of Advanced Education.
THESES
2001 Abstract and Figurative Elements of the Apocalypse and its Representations,
1996 - 01 PhD. Victoria, University, Melbourne.
1994 The Spiritual and the Mundane: Aspects of Scripture in the Modern World,
1992 - 94 Master of Fine Art, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne University
1978 Breakdown of Space / Build up of Colour, 1978-79 VCA. PG. Dip. Melbourne University
INNOVATION 2005 – 2009 – 2017
Metasenta Pty. Ltd® Founder and Managing Executive Director: Dr Irene Barberis Founding Benefactor: Mr Po Chung: Founder; Po and Helen Chung Foundation, Hong Kong. Metasenta® is an international research satellite which links Universities and the wider Global Arts Community. The Metasenta Projects are instigated by Dr Irene Barberis and are in collaboration with International artists and Universities.
120 Langford Street: Gallery complex:
Langford120 Directors: Dr Wilma Tabacco & Dr Irene Barberis
The Global Centre for Drawing: Director: Dr Irene Barberis,
Metaspace International: Curatorial Space, Director: Dr Irene Barberis
Global Centre for Drawing; Founder and Director (formally the International Centre for Drawing RMIT)
Metasenta Publications; Founder and Publisher
Global Art Intensive and Education Series
The Tapestry of Light Project
CURRENT PROJECTS, 2014 – 2019
EXHIBITIONS
2018-19 Tapestry of Light, Museum of the Bible, Washington DC, I
Two international Residencies, USA, Italy.
Exhibition and Lecture SACI Gallery, New York, New York, USA
2018 Irene Barberis, Psychochoreography: A Confluence of Thinking; Adrian L Page & Irene Barberis (Curator),
AbstractionTwentyEighteen, Irene Barberis & Wilma Tabacco, Langford120,Melbourne, Australia
2017 Tapestry of Light Project. Brussels Cathedral, Belgium, Canterbury Cathedral, United Kingdom
2016 Contemporary Australian Drawing#6
2015 Contemporary Australian Drawing #5m SACI Art Institute, Florence.
2014 Lines of Thought #3, Crossforms x2, Langford120, Melbourne, Australia
Apocalypse Re Looking/Tapestry of Light, installation, Visual Arts Centre, Latrobe University, Bendigo.
Bower Bird:chairpouftablebagbookbinbottleblue, installation, Blue on Blue curated by Dr. Wilma Tabacco, Gallery Langford120,
Melbourne, Australia
Nature Mort. 'Dust 2012 - August18, 2014, Museum of Abject Sentimentality curated by Dr Philip Edwards, RMIT SOA Gallery,
Melbourne.
CURATOR (2018-2013)
2018 On Drawing’ Invitational: Chinese University, in collaboration with Zurich University of the Arts, CUHK, Hong Kong.
EDGE (40 Artists), Langford120,
Passage Gallery; Langford120 GCfD International Program: Carole Robb (NY/Rome), Sarah Duyshart (RCA, London), Louise Lee,
(Hong Kong), Janet Passehl (USA)
Global Centre for Drawing Space: ‘…AND THEN…’ 14 International Artists, HK, Germany, USA, UK, Aust.
2017 Contemporary Australian Drawing #7 (100 Artists), Four Drawings: Barberis, Bradbeer, Southall, Tabacco, Langford 120
2016 Contemporary Australian Drawing #6: Spatial Kinetics: The body and memory, somatics, transformation and change, The Bury Art Museum, Manchester, United Kingdom.
2015 Contemporary Australian Drawing#5: Facsimilies, SACI Gallery, SACI, Florence
Global Drawing Audit#1: Five Countries, 36 students, 6 Regional Editors/Curators, SACI
Institute, Florence, Italy
2014 ‘Location’, 32 International Artists, Dubai/Melbourne; Jam Jar Gallery, Dubai, Langford120, Melbourne
‘On Location’, Rome Art Program, American University in Dubai
2013 Five Places, collaboration with Bury Museum, Bury, UK, Langford120, Melbourne
Thirteen, 17 Artists: [Australia 8, UK 4, USA 2, Hong Kong 3], Langford120, Melbourne, Australia.
Portraiture in Focus: Anita Taylor (UK) Irene Barberis (Australia) Helen Sturgess (UK), Janet McKenzie Langford120, Melbourne,
Australia,
Contemporary Australian Drawing #4: Reading the Space, New York Studio School, Main Gallery, N Y, NY
Re the Body #1, Bernhard Sachs, Wendy Stavrianos, Todd Fuller, Carl Scriberras of Flatline Dance Co., Langford120, Melbourne,
Australia.
2012 Re: The Body 2: An exploration of the body - any body, Irene Barberis, Sarina Lirosi, Amie Oliver, Elizabeth Presa, Langford120,
Melbourne 2012
Bartlett, Byrt, Dall’Ava, Langford120, Melbourne
A Selection from Crossing the Line#2: Drawing in the Middle East exhibition, Gallery
Contemporary Australian Drawing #, Langford120
2011 Lines Of Thinking, Langford120, Melbourne.
PUBLICATIONS
2016/19 Barberis, I. 2016, Tapestry of Light: Intersections of Illumination, with Michelle. P. Brown (UK),
David E. Mainwaring (Aust) W Tabacco (Aust), J McKenzie (UK), Museum of the Bible, USA
Le Witt /Barberis Project, Ed J. Zimmer, Melbourne, Australia.
2014 Barberis, I. 2014, 'A parallel paper: Blurring edges', in The Drawn Word: 'Even if I write my name I am drawing', Studio
International and the Studio Trust, New York, NY, USA, pp. 106-111 ISBN: 9780983259954
Barberis, I. 2014 Tapestry of Light: Intersections Across the Gulf, in Design Research Institute Publication, Designs on the
Future, Urban Technology Nexus, Melbourne Books. ISBN9781922129536.
Barberis, I. Issue “Now Drawing…”. 6 invited International Writer/Artists [Brett Littman [The Drawing Centre New York,
Domenico de Clario – Australia, Jane Dyer - China, Janet McKenzie - Scotland, Stephen Farthing, UK, Marcelo Guimeres Lima,
Brazil, Godwin Bradbeer, Australia], Guest Editor, Imprint Journal, Drawing Edition, June 2014; Article: pp.6, 8.
2013 Barberis, I 2012 What is a good drawing? Irene Barberis (response) in the Good Drawing, Chelsea College of Art and Design,
London, UK, pp.78 – 80. ISBN 9781908339010
Barberis, I. 2012, Apocalypse /Revelation: Re Looking, RMIT with Metasenta Publications, Michelle P. Brown, David E.
Mainwaring, Virginia Fraser, Bernard Muir. pp. 710 – 15 ISBN 9780987272447
Barberis, I. 2013, Portraiture in Focus, & Drawing on Two Worlds: Embarkation. Anita Taylor, Irene Barberis, Helen Sturgess,
Janet McKenzie, Sophia Errey, Chapter: Interstices: Personal musings on the portrait. Metasenta Small Book Publication #4,
Hong Kong. Pp49 – 67 ISBN9780987272447
OTHER RESEARCH PROJECTS/UNIVERSITY WORKS.
2018-19 Preparation research/International Residencies, USA / Italy
Exhibition and lecture, SACI Gallery, New York City, New York, USA
Preparation research/Lecture series and floor talks, Museum of the Bible, Washington, DC. USA
2017 Keynote Address, Tapestry of Light Project, RMIT University, Melbourne (Tapestry of Light in Europe)
2016 Symposium Paper: Crossing the Line#3: Global Drawing: Intersections in Firenze, Clayton Hubbs Lecture Hall (Palazzo dei
Cartelloni), SACI Institute, Florence, Italy
Elected International Director: Crossing the Line#3, Global Drawing, Firenze, Symposium SACI Institute, Florence, Italy.
International Critic and Faculty Lecture: Apocalypse and the Church X2 (Lecture), Rome Art Program, Rome, Italy.
2015 International Critic and Faculty Lecture: Apocalypse and the Church (Lecture), Rome Art Program, Rome, Italy.
Master Drawing Workshop, SACI Institute, Florence Italy.
2014 Artist Residency, Tasara Center, Southern India. Tapestry of Light weaving/thread research.
Apocalypse: Re Looking (Lecture) Latrobe University, Bendigo/Midura link up, Bendigo Campus.
Elected International Chair for the Crossing the Line #2: Drawing in the Middle East Conference. Editorial board for CTL#2
International Critic and Faculty Lecture, Rome Art program, Rome
Scholar’s residency, British School in Rome, Rome, Italy.
Crossing the Line #2: Drawing in the Middle East; Paper; Location: Tracing the Lineage: Deconstructing the title, American
University in Dubai.
Master Drawing Workshop, American University in Dubai. United Arab Emirates
2013: Collaborative project: 5 Places #2, with Tony Trehy, Director, Bury Art Museum: Tony Trehy, Curator, Magnus Quaife (UK),
Stephen Millar
UK), Langford120, Melbourne, Australia
Chair; Morning Session, Drawn Out Conference, RMIT/UAL. Melbourne, Australia
Invitation: International Critic and International Faculty for the The Rome Art Program: The Apocalypse in Church Art in Rome, a
focus on the Maria Maggiore Cathedral, and Maria Trastevere
‘Reading the Space’, Curator’s Paper for CAD#4, New York Studio School, New York New York.
SELECTED INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS
2018 On Drawing, collaboration Chinese University, Hong Kong, Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland.
RMIT University, Florence Global Intensive (11 students), Florence Italy.
2017 Tapestry of Light Project, Brussels Cathedral, Belgium, Canterbury Cathedral, UK.
2016 Tapestry of Light Project, Weilsbeke, Flanders Belgium (process works)
2015 International Director/Chair, Crossing the Line#3, SACI, Florence, Italy (ten countries participating)
2014 The Tapestry of Light; Lux, Lumen and Illumination: Dr I. Barberis, Professor D. Mainwarring, Emerita Professor M.P. Brown,
Professor B. Muir. Dr Janet McKenzie, RMIT University, Melbourne/UK
Crossing the Line: Drawing in the Middle East 2, International Conference and exhibition program Global Centre for Drawing,
American University in Dubai.
2013 The Art and Science of Illumination: Tapestry of Light; intersections across the gulf; CI, Dr. I. Barberis, Professor D. Mainwarring,
Emerita Professor M. P. Brown, Professor B. Muir. Artist Residency, Tasara Experimental Weaving, Sth. India
The Global Centre for Drawing: Reading the Space: Contemporary Australian Drawing #2, New York Studio School, New York.
Metasenta Publishing: Portraits in Focus, Sopha Errey, Anita Taylor, Irene Barberis, Helen Sturgess, Janet McKenzie. (Crossing
the Line: Drawing in the Middle East (Exec. Ed. I Barberis. Ed. J Mckenzie), Tapestry Of Light, Executive Editor I Barberis. Editor.
J. Mckenzie)).
2012 The Art and Science of Illumination: Tapestry of Light; Intersections Across the Gulf; CI, Dr I. Barberis, Professor D. Mainwarring,
Professor M. Brown, Professor B. Muir. (exhibitions, publication: Apocalypse: Re Looking)
Metaspace International: Gallery, 120 Langford Street, Melbourne. Curator, Crossing the Line: Drawing n the Middle East,
Australian component.
The Global Centre for Drawing; The DrawingSpace, Melbourne; 120 Langford Street, Melbourne.
Montana Group (formerly Artists in Leadership Project) Dialogue #2.
Metasenta : a new Paradigm in Arts Education © Palgrave Macmillan/Metasenta Publication. 2011 (TBC)
3 small Publications; Metasenta Publications, 2011/2012 (S. Farthing, T. Trehy, M. Lima)
Contemporary Australian Drawing#1, Metasenta Commission, Palgrave Macmillan Publication; Author; Dr Janet McKenzie,
contextualising essay, Dr Christopher Heathcote, Coda Dr. Irene Barberis
2011 International Chair, Crossing the Line: Drawing in the Middle East, International Drawing Conference. RMIT University
collaboration American University in Dubai.
Metaspace International: National and International Curatorial Gallery, 120 Langford Street, Melbourne.
The Global Centre for Drawing; The DrawingSpace, Melbourne; 120 Langford Street, Melbourne.
Montana Group (formerly Artists in Leadership Project) Dialogue 2.
5 Places Project, Bury UK, Finland, Melbourne, Hong Kong.
Curated “ 5 Places – Chinese Artists, Bury Museum and Art Gallery, Manchester, United Kingdom, in tandem with the Asia Triennial,
Manchester2.
Collaborative Drawing Project: Global Drawing: Irene Barberis & Stephen Farthing (in process).
Metasenta: a new Paradigm in Arts education © Macmillan/Metasenta Publication. 2011
5 small Publications; Metasenta Publications, 2011/2012
Contemporary Australian Drawing, Macmillan/Metasenta Publication (in process) Metasenta Commissioned, Dr Irene Barberis;
Author; Dr Janet McKenzie, contextualising essay, Christopher Heathcote
2010 Metasenta Hong Kong: the DrawingSpace, Hong Kong, The Drawing Space, Dubai
5 Places Collaboration: Irene Barberis & Tony Trehy; Bury, Melbourne, Hong Kong.
International Centre for Drawing: Directors: Dr Irene Barberis, Melbourne; Professor Stephen Farthing, London: 3 exhibitions.
2009 Across the Gulf, Bahrain, Dubai, Abu Dhabi.
Venice Agendas, 53rd Venice Bienniale, Wimbledon College of Art
Moving Cultures: Intercultural Dialogue, Tibet-Guangzhou – Western Team/10 Eastern team/7.
Across the Gulf: 22 Artists Collaboration with The 2009 Arc Biennale, Brisbane
Across the Gulf 2009 – Publication Metasenta Publishing.
Artists in Leadership – The Montana Group Lucerne Switzerland.
2008 The Chicago Project, Chicago. Publication; The Chicago Project: Fold-out Futures, Volume 1+2
RMIT Publishing, RMIT University, Edinburgh College of Art, Design Institute, RMIT, University
Co -Project Leader, with Professor Karen Forbes, Head ECA Painting and Drawing, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Moving Cultures: 2007 -2009. China, Australia, UK, Ireland, USA. (Twelve Universities, Four Associates)
Global Cities Institute RMIT University. Western Project Leader, Eastern Project Leader, Prof. Isadora Jiang
The DrawingSpace, Melbourne, International and National Artists, Activating Dormant Spaces, The Design Institute, RMIT
University. Instigator and Director: Dr Irene Barberis
The Centres Project, 2008-2009: Co Curator Irene Barberis and Steven Ball RMIT University, Central Saint
Martins, The University of Arts, London.
Across the Gulf: Bahrain, Dubai Abu Dhabi, Metasenta Projects, American University in Dubai.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 …andthen… three works, Langford120, Melbourne
Psychochoreography: a confluence of thinking, Irene Barberis & Adrian L Page (curator I Barberis), Langford120, Melbourne
Who’s afraid…? /Wilma Tabacco, Ellipsis Gallery, Langford120, Melbourne
2017 Tapestry of Light: Intersections of Illumination, Brussels Cathedral, Belgium
Tapestry Of Light: Intersections of Illumination, Canterbury Cathedral, Canterbury, UK
Wall Drawing –Langford120, Melbourne
2016 Re Forming the Line: blow, cut, melt, Langford120, Melbourne.
Illuminating configurations, The Bury Art Museum, United Kingdom.
2015 All I wanted was the cut space pinned to the wall, Langford120, Melbourne
Vision du Ciel, Langford120, Melbourne
2014 Lines of Thought #3
Revelation /Apocalypse< Visual Arts Centre, Latrobe University, Bendigo Victoria
2013 Possibility Drawings: Cut it out! It’s a wonderful world, Exhibition, Thirteen, Langford120, Melbourne, Aust.
Portraiture in Focus: a selection, Langford120, Melbourne, Australia
Tapestry of Light Lux, Lumen and Illumination. Convergence exhibition, curator, Fleur Watson, RMIT Design Research Institute, RMIT, Melbourne Australia
Silhouettes and coloured threads: Re the body #2: An exploration of the body – any body, Langford120, Melbourne, Australia
2012 Apocalypse/ Re Looking 1996 – 2012. Langford120, Melbourne, Australia.
2011 First Breath Last Breath’; Breathe, installation with Mike Parr, Bury Museum and Art Gallery, Manchester, UK.
The Tapestry of Light; The Art & Science of Illumination and the Photon; an installation with Professor David Mainwaring, Gallery
Tashkeel, Dubai & Sharjah UAE.
2009 Apocalypse: Seven Histories in Futures, International Arc Biennale, Brisbane, 2009
Apocalypse: Room of Light, SOAG RMIT University, Melbourne
Writings on the Wall, Space Delawab, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Writings on the Wall 2, DrawingSpace, Melbourne
Tapestry of Light, Victorian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne, Australia
2008- Drawing Revelation – Slow Release and Pink Mesh Holes, Project Space, Down Time, RMIT, Melbourne.
Installation: Rubber Constructions, JDMF. ECA Studio, Chicago, USA.
2007 Lux In Tenebris Lucet: with Godwin Bradbeer, SOAG, RMIT University, Melbourne.
20,000 Colours: The Artistic Gene; Four Generations of Women. Albury City Museum and Library, NSW.
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 set of verbs/ visions and dreams, Square Gallery, RMIT City Campus Melbourne
Barberis from Lewitt, Esa Jaske Gallery, Sydney
2004 Lightlines; a Kinaesthetic 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 Wheels Esa Jaske Gallery, Sydney
Crosses Stars + Circles, Noosa Regional Gallery, Queensland
Don't Take my Breath Away # 6plastique: Salle 3A, Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
Cut it Out! It’s a Wonderful World, Salle B, Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
Line of thought #2, Atelier 8113, Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris France.
2003 #4 plastique: pink, Helen Maxwell Gallery, ACT
#5plastique: specula, Span Galleries, Melbourne
2002 Plastique. with S!X designers, Span Galleries, Melbourne
Breath - Four Corners, Artists Commune, Contemporary Gallery, Hong Kong
2001 October Paintings – 2001, compositional fragmentation / reflected everyday. Gallery Three, Span Galleries,
Melbourne
Breakdown of Space and the Build up of Colour 1978 – 2001, Built Pictures, 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 (taped work),
Factory / Studio Space: A Polymerous Still Life; 2,000 sq. ft.
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, RMIT Gallery, Storey Hall, Melbourne.
Albury Regional Art Gallery, Albury, NSW The University Gallery, University of Tasmania, Launceston, Tasmania. Geelong
Regional Art Gallery, Geelong, Victoria
Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat, Victoria.
1998 Saying it with Flowers (Wilma Tabacco), Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide.
Apocalypse Circle Series, and Ten Black Flowers, Linden Gallery, Melbourne.
1997 Red Horse / Revealed Geometry, Westpac Gallery, Melbourne
Line of Thought, Victoria University, Victoria University Gallery
1996 Charpentes, Latrobe Street Gallery, Melbourne.
1995 Four Exhibitions, The Spiritual and the Mundane - Aspects of Scripture in the Modern World. Luba Bilu
Gallery, Melbourne.
Space One: Symbols and Types, Heavenly Jerusalem, (wall drawing)
Space Two: The Spiritual and the Mundane
Space Three: Wheels Within Wheels.
Space Four: Separated Gatherings.
Transitional Installation: Micrography / Ten Pieces, Luba Bilu Gallery, Melbourne.
1992 These Women - Where Honour's Due, Luba Bilu Gallery, Melbourne.
1991 Recent Paintings, Luba Bilu Gallery, Melbourne.
Geometer God, Luba Bilu – wall and window work, Melbourne.
1990 2 No. Plans, Luba Bilu Gallery, Melbourne.
Wall Drawing, Build a picture milk cartons, Room Four, Linden, St Kilda Arts Centre, Melbourne.
1988 Miniatures, From The Douce Apocalypse, Luba Bilu Gallery, Melbourne.
1986 Transitions; Angels lifting still lives into heaven – figurative and abstract constructions, United Artists,
Melbourne.
Building Pictures: Ritz St Kilda – Majestic Studios, St Kilda.
1983-4 Mirrored Melbourne, two pieces-1000 images, Public Art Billboard Project, Victorian Ministry for the Arts
1979 100 paintings from the everyday and other materials, Pinacotheca, Melbourne.
1977 Fractured realism and coloured edges; Victorian Ministry for the Arts, Billboard, City Square, Melbourne.
(Two Pieces, 12ft x 20ft, painted on wood)
CROSS /ROOM INSTALLATIONS
2007 INAROOM. London, Manchester, Chicago JDMF Gallery, Guangzhou, San Francisco
Cross Situations: Los Angeles, Cross, London, Chicago,
2006 my world my life, Melbourne, Australia
2006- INAROOM. Berlin, Frankfurt, Paris, London, Hong Kong
Cross Situations#10 Twelve Locations, Barcelona
2005 Cross Situations#8 Twelve Locations, San Francisco
Cross Situations#9 Twelve Locations, Los Angeles
2004 Cross Situations #2, Twelve locations, Frankfurt, Germany
Cross Situations #3, Twelve locations, Paris, France
Cross Situations #4 Twelve locations, London, Brighton, United Kingdom
Cross Situations #5 “‘Train Across’ the Interior of China”, China
Cross Situations #6 Twelve locations, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Israel
Cross Situations #7 Twelve locations, Sydney Australia
2003 Cross Situations#1.Twelve Locations, Melbourne, Australia
2000-03 Cut it out it’s a wonderful world, Melbourne, Paris
2000-90 The Spiritual and The Everyday, Melbourne
1985-90 Building Pictures; Ritz St Kilda, Majestic Studios, St Kilda, Melbourne
1985-76 The cluttered Life: continuum. studio installations:
Piles of Paris Pieces/ new compositions; Studio installations and paintings, Paris
Pieces of the everyday 1976, 48 pieces; Still lives and paintings, Melbourne
100 pieces 1977 - 1979, Maples Lane Studio, Pinacotheca, Melbourne
1974 wall and canvas; used-masking tape and gridded canvas pieces, Prahran College house, St Johns Street
Prahran, Melbourne
DIALECTICS: ON BELIEF
2013 Intersections Across the Gulf; the Tapestry of Light
Reading the Apocalypse: Reading the Church: two Roman Churches, Rome, June
2012 Apocalypse: Re-looking
2006 Converging Perceptions of Hospitality and the Apocalypse: Dr. Irene Barberis, Dr. Elizabeth Presa, St. Johns
Lutheran Church, South Bank, Melbourne
2005 Intersections - reading the space: San Francisco Jewish Museum, USA
Intersections - reading the space, Irene Barberis, Parastou Forouhar, Jane Logemann, Jewish Museum of
Australia, Melbourne (travelling)
Metaspace, Gertrude Street Galleries, Studio 11, Irene Barberis / Parastou Forouhar (with performance piece
and film), Melbourne, Australia
1998 Saying it with Flowers, with Wilma Tabacco, RMIT Gallery, Storey Hall, Melbourne
CONVENOR/ORGANISER, INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
2011 INTERNATIONAL CHAIR: Crossing the Line: Drawing in the Middle East#1, intersections of transdisciplinary practice and
understanding. American University in Dubai
Keynote 2011: Coda: Space of the Leap | Keynote as a Drawing
2013 The Tapestry of Light: Symposium, RMIT Design Research Institute, International speakers, Emerita Michelle P. Brown, Emeritus
Professor Margaret Manion, and Professor Davis Mainwarring
2014 International Chair: Crossing the Line: Drawing in the Middle East #2, intersections of transdisciplinary practice and
understanding.
Paper: ‘Psychochoreography’: everyone has their own mark.
American University in Dubai with The Global Centre for Drawing.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018… EDGE; 40 artists, Langford120, Melbourne
AbstractionTwentyEighteen, Langford120, Melbourne
2017 Chromatopia: A history of Colour, Tacit Gallery, Melbourne
Contemporary Australian Drawing #7 + Four Drawings: Barberis, Bradbeer, Southall and Tabacco
9x5 Now, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, VCA, Melbourne University, Melbourne.
2016 Atrocities across my face: in solidarity, Mir Zehnen Do – We are here, Curated by Dr Helen Light, Glen Eira Art Centre,
Melbourne
2015 Psychochoreography; concentric wall drawing, 2014, Contemporary Australian Drawing#5: Facsimiles, SACI Gallery, Florence, Italy
2014 Blue, Curator Wilma Tabacco, Gallery Langford120, Melbourne.
2013 ‘Reading the Space: rainbow text’, Contemporary Australian Drawing #4, New York Studio School, NY, USA
2013 5 Places Project: Magnus Quiffe, Stephen Millar, UK Curator Tony Trehy/irene Barberis,
Langford120, Melbourne
Thirteen, Curator, Irene Barberis, Langford120, Melbourne
2012 Non Objective, Curator, Steve Wickham, Langford120 Gallery, Melbourne.
Contemporary Australian Drawing#2, University of the Arts, London.
2011 ‘Lines of thinking’ Global Centre for Drawing, Langford120 (November 2011)
Crossing the Line: Drawing in the Middle East; Intersections of understanding (November. 2011)
100 Drawings, Black Arts @ Global centre for Drawing, Langford120 (November 2011)
2010 Contemporary Australian Drawing 1, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
Magnetic Islands, Project Space, RMIT University, Melbourne
Speculum: Drawing Time: Metasenta Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Speculum: Drawing Time, Barberis, Farthing, Lydiat, Trehy, The DrawingSpace (a Metasenta Project) American University in
Dubai.
2009 Tibet; Moving Cultures, The Art Space, Lhasa, Tibet
Tibet; Moving Cultures, Orange Gallery, Guangzhou, China
Interviews (sound): Venice Agendas, 53rd Venice Biennale, Venice, University of the Arts London
Agency of Words, Text Festival, Bury Museum and Art Gallery, Manchester, UK.
2008 Centres Project: Transcentric (Co Curator) Lethaby Gallery, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London
Rolled up, Rolled Out: (Curator), SOAG, RMIT University, Melbourne
Fast Forward, Seventh Gallery Melbourne, ECA space, Edinburgh
2007 Fold out Futures Chicago Project, Chicago, USA
Drawing 2007 - Biennial Fundraiser, London, United Kingdom
Living Elvis, RMIT Storey Hall Gallery, RMIT University
Small Tapestries, Victorian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne, Australia
2006 skin + peel with Dr Elizabeth Presa, St Johns Lutheran Church, Southbank, Melbourne
FLOAT, Project Space, RMIT, Melbourne
Summer Show, Esa Jaske, Gallery Artists, Esa Jaske Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2005 Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize (finalist), Bendigo Regional Gallery, Victoria
Expiration: Project Space, RMIT University, Melbourne
2004 Group Show; Selections from Sol Le Witt Personal Collection, Le Witt Gallery, Suffield Academy, Connecticut, USA
Group Show / Span Galleries for Melbourne Art Fair 2004
Precious Platters, Australian Jewish Museum, Melbourne
White Tube, White Tube Gallery, Hong Kong
Fluoresce, Area Gallery, Melbourne
2003 Return Nature: Pastoral. Nanjing, Shenghua Arts Centre, China
Gallery Artists- Esa Jaske Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2001 Colour, curated by Professor Jenny Zimmer, Smyrnios Gallery, Melbourne
A Studio in Paris. S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, NSW (travelling to Paris, France)
Death and Decoration; Glen Eira City Gallery, Melbourne University of Tasmania, Launceston University
Gallery, Tasmania; Mildura Art Centre, (2001-2002)
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, Commercial Galleries
Seventh Melbourne Art Fair 2000, SPAN Galleries Stand, Royal Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne, Victoria
1999 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
1997 Invitee, The 1997 John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize, National Gallery of Victoria
Latrobe Artists; 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, Warrnambool Art Gallery,
Vic, Noosa Regional Gallery, Qld, Albury Arts Centre, 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, Woolongong City Art Gallery, NSW
'9 x 5' Invitation Exhibition, Robert Lindsey Gallery, Melbourne
Selections from the State Galleries, S.B.S. Building, Sydney, NSW
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, Acquisitions over the Last Five Years, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, 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
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, RMIT 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, Deutcher 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, NSW
Young Australians, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1986 Portia Geach Portrait Prize Exhibition, Blaxland Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1985 6 Drawing, Tasmania School of Art Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania
1984 Spring Festival of Drawing, Mornington Peninsula Arts Centre, Victoria
1983 Figures and Faces Drawn from Life, Heidi Park and Art Gallery
New Art Selections from the Michelle Endowment, Victorian National Gallery, Banyule Gallery, Melbourne
1982 Group Exhibition, members of the Cite' Internationale des Arts, Cite' Internationale des Arte, Paris, France
Placed; from the everyday Installation, collaboration with Gary Goldstein (Israel) Studio 111, Paris France
Preston to Phillip, A survey, Reconnaissance Gallery, Melbourne
1981 Group Exhibition, "many many things”, Cite' Internationale des Arte, Paris, France
1979 Still Life Still Lives, “48 pieces, beauty and detritus” -Glenfiddich Company, Sydney Opera House, NSW
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, NSW
Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Qld.
1976 Drawing, Some Definitions, Ewing and George Paton Galleries, Melbourne University,
Melbourne, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Queensland.
AWARDS & COMMISSIONS
2009 International Public Art Award, Bury City Centre, “ Three in One –the Rock Project” Manchester, UK (not taken up)
RMIT University, Design Research Institute Grant: Tapestry of Light: history into Futures
Funding; Metasenta Pty. Ltd®
2008- Funding: Metasenta Projects, RMIT University
2007 ‘City Centre’, Shortlisted for International Public Art Project. Bury City Centre Manchester, United Kingdom
2006 Museums Australia, Jewish Museum – Honourable Mention for Intersections – Reading the Space.
2006 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 Commission, Eight Works – A Kinaesthetic Experience”, 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
Invitee, The 1997 John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize, National Gallery of Victoria
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, Lonsdale Street, Melbourne
Boxes, (design) Tokyo, Japan, Melbourne.
Daniel Joles, portrait commission, Melbourne
Visual Production, Bart mitzvah, Mount Scopus, College, Melbourne
Noel Counihan, Portrait purchase, Albury Regional Gallery, NS Senior Lecturer, Painting, RMIT Offshore program, Hong Kong
x2W
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)
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, Auckland, 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, (Kyneton), - not taken, Victoria
8' X 28', Factory work, commission for John Sands Collection, Melbourne
1987 Visual production, Cultural Exchange, Pun Yu Province and Guangzou, China
1986 Andrew Barton, Portrait commission, Victoria
1985 Artist in Residence, Melbourne Boys Grammar, Melbourne
Sybil Craig, Selected Drawing Prize, Mornington Peninsular 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 USA (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, NSW
1979 Glenfiddich Painting Acquisition, Sydney Opera House, NSW
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 Fractured and Cluttered – 12ftX 18 ft: Art in the Streets Project, Six Artists, Selected for installation
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, NSW
INSTIGATOR AND CO-CURATOR MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS
2011 ‘5 Places’, Mike Parr and Irene Barberis, Bury Museum and Art Gallery, Bury, Manchester, UK.
2009 ‘Across the Gulf”, 22 Artists from the Gulf, ARC International Biennale Brisbane.
2007 20,000 Colours, The Artistic Gene, Four Generations of Women, Albury City Museum
2005-6 Intersections - reading the space, Jewish Museum of Australia, Melbourne, Australia, San Francisco Jewish
Museum, San Francisco, USA
DIRECTORSHIPS:
Co DIRECTOR: GALLERY LANGFORD 120 www.Langford120.com.au
CURATED EXHIBITIONS www.langford120.com.au
DIRECTOR: METASENTA PUBLICATIONS www.Langford120.com.au
DIRECTOR: GLOBAL CENTRE FOR DRAWING www.langford120.com.au
CURATED EXHIBITIONS www.langford120.com.au
DIRECTOR: THE DRAWINGSPACE, MELBOURNE, RMIT University, Melbourne www.metasenta.com
CURATED EXHIBITIONS: www.metasenta.com www.metasenta.com.au
DIRECTOR/CURATOR: VICTORIA UNIVERSITY GALLERY
1998-99 Director / Curator, Victoria University Gallery, Melbourne
1997 Curator, Victoria University Gallery, Melbourne
CURATED EXHIBITIONS: VICTORIA UNIVERSITY GALLERY, MELBOURNE, VICTORIA
Specifically installed by Irene Barberis.
1999 Susan Hewitt and Fran Van Riemsdyke at Victoria University Gallery, Melbourne
Sterographics, John. R. Neeson
Drawing, Central Park, New York. Mary Tonkin
Real Abstraction, Wilma Tabacco, Jan Murray, Robin Kingston, Craig Easton guest curator, Wilma Tabacco
Exposure: Artists Portraits of Artists; Warren Brenninger. In collaboration with Linden Gallery, St. Kilda, Melbourne
Exposure: Artists Portraits of Artists, (38 Artists), Linden Gallery
Curated in collaboration with Anne Harris, Director: Linden Gallery Melbourne.
Star Painting 1999 from the Apocalypse, Abstract and Figurative Elements: Irene Barberis
Melbourne's Marvellous Tapestries, Gareth Sansom, Dale Hickey, Jimmy Pike, Ginger Riley, Victorian
Tapestry Workshop at Victoria University Gallery, Melbourne.
1998 Notations - 40 Artists, Installation Irene Barberis
Victoria University, The Heart of the Machine: Loy Lichtman & Megan Evans
Complicity: A Theorem and its Corollary- Mark Stoner
Far Away, Guest Curator, Professor Jenny Zimmer
Verisimilitude: Godwin Bradbeer
Hidden and Revealed x 3 Adrian. L. Page
Walk and Wave: Kevin Wilson and Nicole Vevoeden - Cash
1997 Selections From The Victoria University Collection
Line of Thought-Victoria University (96’-97): Authors, Victoria University Gallery, Melbourne
Paper Installation Piece, Line of Thought: Irene Barberis
Digital Landscapes, Barbara Grossman, Victoria University - Multi Media - Life, Dept. Electrical Engineering
Cuts, Installation, Wilma Tabacco and Irene Barberis
Photoworks; Ponch Hawkes, Women in Science and Engineering.
Notations - 40 Artists, Installation Irene Barberis
COMMERCIAL REPRESENTATION
Global Centre for Drawing @ Langford120
Langford120 Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Metaspace International, based in Melbourne.
Esa Jaske Gallery, Sydney
Span Gallery, Melbourne
Luba Bilu Gallery, Melbourne
United Artists, Melbourne
Pinacotheca, Melbourne
COLLECTIONS
Sol Le Witt Private Collection, Chester, New York, USA
Le Witt Collection, Spoletto, Italy
Suffield Acadamy Lewitt Gallery, USA
Murdoch Collection, New York, USA, Australia
Western Mining Corporation Collection, Australia
Monash University Collection, Melbourne.
Museum of Modern Art at Heidi Collection, Melbourne
National Gallery of Victoria, Michele Endowment
Museum, of New Zealand, Te Papa Tongarewa
Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, Brussels
Albury Regional Art Gallery, NSW
Geelong Regional Gallery, Victoria
Heide Museum and Art Gallery
Newman College; Melbourne University, Melbourne, Australia
Artbank, Australia wide
Art Purchase Program, Visual Arts Board, Australia
Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat, Victoria
B.H.P. Collection, Australia
Woolongong City Art Gallery, NSW
Mornington Peninsula Gallery Collection, Victoria
John Sands Collection, Melbourne
Bank Collections, Melbourne, Australia
Budget Collection
Canterbury Cathedral
Ballarat Regional Fine Art Gallery
St Kilda City Collection, Melbourne
Muka Collection, Aukland, New Zealand
Private Collections, Australia
Private Collections, London, UK, Paris, France, New York, San Francisco, USA, Europe, Africa, Middle East
ACADEMIC POSITIONS AND LECTURES
2015-18 Senior Lecturer, Drawing, Global Intensives, Florence, Senior Lecturer, Painting, RMIT Offshore program, Hong Kong
(2015/16)
2014 Senior Lecturer, Expanded Studio Practice, RMIT University, Melbourne
Senior Lecturer, Painting, RMIT Offshore program, Hong Kong x2
International Critic, and International Art Historian Lecture, Rome Program (New York based), Rome.
International Chair and Curator: Drawing in the Middle East 2, Dubai (GCfD & American University in Dubai)
2013 Senior Lecturer, Expanded Studio Practice, RMIT University, Melbourne
Senior Lecturer, Painting, RMIT Offshore program, Hong Kong x2
International Critic, & International Art Historian Lecture, Rome Program (New York based), Rome.
“Reading the space: Contemporary Australian Drawing #3, New York Studio School, New York.
2012 Senior Lecturer, Expanded Studio Practice, RMIT University, RMIT University,
Senior Lecturer, Painting, RMIT Offshore program, Hong Kong. Researcher; International projects.
Drawing Out (2) Conference, University of the Arts, London, Paper: A Parallel Paper: Blurring Edges. Curator: 84
Australian Artists, “Contemporary Australian Drawing2, University of the Arts London, London.
International Critic for The Rome Program (New York Based), Rome.
Tapestry of Light Project, Langford120 Lecture.
2011 International Chair; “Crossing the Line: Drawing in the Middle East; Intersections of practice and understanding. Keynote
Speaker (one of four). Curator; ‘Crossing the Line: Drawing in the Middle East’, 22 Artists: Australia, UK, Middle East,
Tashkeel Gallery, Dubai.
Visiting Lecturer: Discussions; American University of Dubai, Tashkeel, Galleries, Dubai, UAE.
Researcher and Senior Lecturer, RMIT SOA Melbourne / The Art School Hong Kong
Founding Director; Metasenta International Studio School.
2010 Curator/ Lecture; RMIT Gallery, RMIT University; Contemporary Australian Drawing 1.
Invitation: Steering Committee of the 2010 ‘Drawing Out’ Conference, RMIT/UAL.
Invited Chair Parallel Session Chair: Drawing in / Drawing is a way of Thinking, The Drawing Out Conference, RMIT
Storey Hall Auditorium, RMIT University, Melbourne, April 9. Senior Lecturer, SOA, RMIT University, Melbourne/Hong
Kong 2009. Developing Drawing through meetings and International Projects between Metasenta, RMIT and the
University of the Arts London. Senior Lecturer SOA, RMIT University, Melbourne/Hong Kong
2008 Co-Head Drawing, RMIT SOA, RMIT University, Developed Drawing through meetings and International Projects
between Metasenta, RMIT and the University of the Arts London.
Lecturer Hong Kong, Painting and Drawing.
Apocalypse – Tapestry of Light, Artists Talk, VTW, Melbourne
2007 ‘SOL LEWITT: Vignettes’, National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
Co’ Head, Drawing Department, RMIT University, Melbourne
Director: MetaSenta Projects (International)
Initiator: Ducan of Jordanston, inaugural ‘Drawing Lab’ Workshop
Initiator / partnership ‘Chicago Project’, RMIT University and Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland,
and John David Mooney Foundation, Chicago USA.
2006 Director: MetaSenta Projects, RMIT University
Lecturer, RMIT Drawing, Melbourne, RMIT Drawing and Painting, Hong Kong. RMIT University
Fine Art Drawing, Melbourne Painting and drawing Program, Hong Kong
Lecture/workshops (for Intersections Exhibition and Education Program), National Gallery Victoria,
Jewish Museum of Australia, Presentation College (working with Year eleven Students from five
schools - Jewish, Christian and Muslim for the exhibition 'Young Intersections, concurrent with
Intersections - reading the space)
2005 RMIT University, Fine Art Drawing, Melbourne. Painting, Hong Kong
2004 RMIT University, Fine Art Drawing, Melbourne. Painting, Hong Kong
2003 RMIT University, Fine Art Drawing, Melbourne, Hong Kong
2002 RMIT University, Fine Art Drawing, Melbourne, Hong Kong
2001 RMIT University, Fine Art, Drawing, Melbourne, Hong Kong
RMIT Hong Kong Arts Centre, Drawing and Painting
National Gallery of Victoria, Lecture: Education Program
2000 RMIT University, Fine Art, Drawing, Melbourne. Painting, Hong Kong
1999 RMIT University, Fine Art, Drawing, Melbourne
RMIT, Hong Kong Lecturer, Painting Department
Monash University, Fine Arts, Drawing, Melbourne
Launceston University, Lecture: Launceston, Tasmania
Albury Regional Art Gallery, Lecture: Saying it with Flowers. Albury, NSW
1998 Preston Tafe Institute, Lecture, painting, Melbourne
Swinburne Secondary College, and Tafe Lecture; Painting, Melbourne
1997 Monash University, Drawing, Melbourne
La Trobe Street Gallery School of Art and Design, Tutor; Painting and Drawing, Melbourne
1996 RMIT University, Fine Art, Melbourne
Monash University, Drawing and Painting, Melbourne
Geelong Art Gallery, Drawing Workshop, in conjunction with the Alan Davis Exhibition, Geelong,
Victoria
RMIT University, Fine Arts, Painting and Drawing, Melbourne
1995 Monash University, Drawing, Melbourne
1995 National Gallery of Victoria, Artist Talk, Education Services Department. Melbourne
National Gallery of Victoria, Master Drawing Workshop, Education Services Department, Melbourne
Monash University Artist Talk, Caulfield campus, Melbourne
Ballarat University, Artist in Residence, Ballarat; Victoria
Australian Jewish Museum, Artist Talk, (x2), Melbourne
Australian Jewish Museum, Seminar; The Wandering Jew, Myth and Metaphor, Melbourne
Interview; Radio National. 6.11.1995, The Wandering Jew, Myth and Metaphor, Rachel Cohn with
Vic Majzner, Heather Eliard and Irene Barberis
1994 RMIT University, Fine Arts, Painting and Drawing, Melbourne
New Arts Studio School, Co Director/Administrator, Lecturer, in collaboration with Elizabeth
Gower and John. R. Neeson, Melbourne
1993 Monash University, Drawing, Caulfield Campus, Melbourne
Co Director / Administrator, Lecturer, New Arts Studio School, Melbourne
1992 Phillip Institute of Technology, Fine Art, Painting, Bundoora Campus, Melbourne
Co Director / Administrator, Lecturer, New Arts Studio School, Melbourne
1991 Painting and Drawing Courses, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
Linden Gallery, Colour Theory Classes, Intermediate and Advanced, St Kilda, Melbourne
Linden Gallery, Children's Workshops, St Kilda
Co Director / Administrator, Lecturer, New Arts Studio School, Melbourne
1990 Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Painting and Drawing Courses, Melbourne
1988 RMIT University, Fine Art, Drawing, Melbourne
Private Classes
1987 Victorian College of the Arts, Painting and Drawing, Melbourne
Victoria College, Tafe, Drawing, Melbourne
Glenhuntly Rehabilitation Centre, Printmaking, Drawing, Painting, Melbourne
1986 Victorian College of the Arts, Painting, Postgraduate and Undergraduate, Melbourne
Glenhuntly Rehabilitation Centre, Printmaking, Drawing, Painting, Melbourne
Private Classes
1985 Victoria College, Tafe, Drawing, and, Melbourne
Victoria College, Fine Art, Drawing, Melbourne
1984 Life Painting Installation, Painting, Victoria College, Melbourne
Victoria College, Fine Art, Drawing, Melbourne
1982 British Embassy Anglican Church, St. Michaels, Painting Classes, Paris, France
1976-80 Private Classes, Workshops, Folio Development, Painting and Drawing.
Darwin Community College, Guest Lecturer, Northern Territory
PUBLICATIONS 2000 - 2014
2014 Guest Editor; Imprint Magazine ‘Now, Drawing...’
The Drawn Word: Even if I write my name I am drawing (Chapter), Studio International Publication/University of the Arts
London, RMIT University, Melbourne
2013 Metasenta Publications: Portraiture In Focus & Embarkation, ed. J. McKenzie Sophia Errey, Anita Taylor, Irene
Barberis, Helen Sturgess, Janet McKenzie, 2013
Crossing the Line: Drawing in the Middle East, ed. J Mckenzie, I Barberis, S Farthing, M Lima (Key note addresses, & 8 papers) 2013
Tapestry of Light: ed. J McKenzie, I. Barberis, D Mainwaring, Michelle. P. Brown, B. Muir, 2013.
Metasenta: a new Paradigm in Art Education© including Tibet: Moving Cultures, Collaboration a Macmillan/Metasenta
Publication 2012. (in process)
2012 Apocalypse: Re Looking, Feminale and the edge of logic, Ed. J McKenzie, Melbourne, 2012.
Good Drawing, Ed. S. Farthing, K. Chorpening, Bright Series 7, University of the Arts London.
Metasenta: a new Paradigm in Art Education© including Tibet: Moving Cultures, Collaboration a Macmillan/Metasenta
Publication 2012. (in process)
Contemporary Australian Drawing# 1, Collaboration; Palgrave Macmillan Publishing and Metasenta ® Pty.Ltd,
2011 Small Book Series: Heterachronia, Marcelo Lima,
The Death of Poetry, Tony Trehy, Publication’
2009 Across the Gulf, Bahrain, Dubai, Abu Dhabi 2009 Au/Ed, Dr. Irene Barberis/Keith Winter,” Metasenta Publications, Melbourne –
Hong Kong.
2008 The Chicago Project; Fold-out Futures, Volume 1 & 2 Ed. Dr. Irene Barberis, RMIT Publishing, Melbourne, 2008
2005 Intersections: reading the space. Co-introduction and Artist Statement, Jewish Museum of Australia, 2005
2000 Revelation Apocalypse. Introduction by Dr. Michelle Brown, Curator of Illuminated Manuscripts, The
British Library, London, Texts: Anna Clabburn, Suzi Gablick, Macmillan Art Publishing, Melbourne 2000
ARTISTS DOCUMENTARIES /METAVIEW
Production & Co Direction; Dr Irene Barberis; Co Director & Editor Dr Shaun Wilson. Cinematography: Andre Liew Moving Cultures, Keith R Winter, Across the Gulf.
2017 http://www.stellamotion.com.au/wordpress/?p=1442
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgQZAT2HCDM
2013: 10 Artists, Drawing Documentaries, UAL reciprocal ([TBC]S. Farthing/Irene Barberis)
2011/2013 New Series: Artists and Views. Gallery Langford120, The Global Centre for Drawing & Metaspace International Gallery Space, @ Langford120, Melbourne.
Tibet; Moving Cultures, Metaview, Metasenta Pty. Ltd® (2009/11) Photography Andre Liew, Edited by Dr Shaun Wilson, Produced by Dr Irene Barberis, Metasenta Pty. Ltd.
Across the Gulf, International Arc Biennale Brisbane 2009, Metaview, Metasenta Pty. Ltd® Photography Keith R Winter: Edited by Dr Shaun Wilson: Produced by Dr Irene Barberis, Metasenta Pty. Ltd.
REVIEWS, PRESS & WEB REPRESENTATION
www.irenebarberis.net www.langford120.com.au www.metasenta.com
www.globalcentrefordrawing.com www.tapestryoflightproject.com
2018 #Tapestry of Light, #Tapestry of Light Project Irene Barberis, # Canterbury Cathedral, # Brussels Cathedral, # Rome Art
Program, # SACI Florence, New York. # Langford120,
http://ccjvic.org.au/wp-content/themes/gesher/booklet/pdf/Gesher%202017.pdf
2017/ 16/15 #Irene Barberis, #Tapestry of Light Project, #Bury Museum, #RMIT Irene Barberis,
2014 Revelation/Apocalypse VAC Bendigo/Latrobe University. http://www.latrobe.edu.au/vac/exhibitions/vac-details?queries_title_query=Apocalypse%20/%20Revelation:%20Re%20Looking&queries_gallery_query=VAC%20gallery
The Drawn Word http://www.studiointernational.com/index.php/the-drawn-word
2013 Portraiture in Focus, http://www.studiointernational.com/index.php/portraiture-in-focus-irene-barberis-anita-taylor-and-helen-sturgess , Review Studio International.
2012 The Apocalypse: Re Looking, http://www.studiointernational.com/index.php/irene-barberis-apocalypse-revelation-re-looking-feminale-the-edge-of-logic-intersecting-luminosities, Studio International, UK. Papers, websites /reviews and articles
www.langford120.com.au www.metasenta.com.au www.irenebarberis.com.au
2011 The Age/reviews and articles (to be updated)
2010 www.metasenta.com.au www.metasenta.com for Metasenta Articles and web presence.
2009 http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/may/02/text-festival-bury
2008 RMIT University, 'Re-Imagining the Urban Habitus - a Project of the Art, Knowledge and Globalization
Cluster' in Art, 4 July 2008, accessed 24/07/2008, http://rmit.edu.au/browse;ID=0i308yvpxkc7z.
RMIT University, Global Art Metasenta, Metasenta Hub, 4 July 2008, accessed 24/07/2008,
http://www.rmit.edu/au/browse;ID=0nfz3rpv07s5
Review, Fold-out Futures, Studio International, 26 June 2008, accessed 24/07/2008, http://www.studio-
international.co.uk/books/fold_out_futures.asp
Rolled Up/Rolled Out, Essay, School of Art Gallery, accessed 24/07/2008,
http://schoolofartgalleries.dsc.rmit.edu.au/SOAG/exhibitions/2008/rolled_up_rolled_out.html
skin and peel, artist statement, 2006
City of Frankston, Light Pavers, Wells Street by Irene Barberis, Online Arts Directory, accessed 24/07/2008,
http://www.frankstonarts.com/eMem/Pub/pStart.asp
Steven Ball, 'Rolled Up/Rolled Out', in Direct Objective blog, Monday 28 April 2008, accessed 24/07/2008,
http://directobjective.blogspot.com/2008_04_01_archive.html
Richard Iacono, 'Rolled Up / Rolled Out', 28 April 2008, accessed 24/07/2008,
http://www.ricccardoiacono.co.uk/biography/current
2007 Walpole, Helen, 'Living Elvis art exhibition' in Elvis Australia, August 17, 2007, accessed 24/07/2008,
http://www.elvis.com.au/presley/news/living_elvis_art.shtml
Dr Janet Mackenzie, 'Apocalypse in Pink: The Work of Irene Barberis', Studio International, 26 March 2007,
New York, London. USA, accessed 24/07/2008, http://www.studio-international.co.uk/reports/barberis.asp
Documenta, Metronome No. 11 What is to be done? Tokyo, contributor, March 2007, accessed 24/07/2008,
http://magazines.documenta.de/frontend/article.php?IdLanguage=1&NrArticle=1238
Godwin Bradbeer, Kevin Wilson. '20,000 Colours, Four Generations of Women', Metronome 10, What is to be Done,
Documenta Magazines, Documenta 12, Kassel, Germany
Artrave, 'Powerfully hybrid', Artlink Vol 27 No 2, 2007
Felix Just, s.Jl, Ph.D., 'Some Books with collections of Apocalyptic Art' in Art, Images, Music and Materials related to the Book of
Revelation, Catholic Resources, accessed 24/07/2008, http://www.catholic-resources.org/art/Revelation-Art.htm
Elizabeth M. Grierson, Imagining a Faculty of Navigations in the Academy of Radical Generosity as a future for art education,
RMIT University
drawingroom.org.uk, Drawing 2007 - Biennial Fundraiser 2007, accessed 24/07/2008,
http://www.drawingroom.org.uk/fundraiser/index.htm
Metronome Press, Documenta 12, Irene Barberis, Participant, 2006-2007, accessed 24/7/08,
http://www.metronomepress.com/documenta12.html
2006 Dr Elizabeth Presa, breath light and skin, Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris
Dr Irene Barberis; skin and peel, artist statement
RMIT University, 'Melbourne makes global art links' in Openline RMIT News, August 16 2006, accessed
24/07/2008, http://www.rmit.edu.au/browse;ID=1silip3537ra
RMIT University, 'Melbourne makes global art links' in Newsroom, RMIT University, August 11 2006,
accessed 24/07/2008, http:www.rmit.edu.au/browse;ID=tw4mbyz89oku
Laughing Squid, 'A Three-Part Salon To Complement the Current Exhibition, Intersections: Reading the
Space', OSDir, January 2006, accessed 24/07/08, http://osdir.com/ml/culture.events.squid-list/2006-
1/msg00029.html
Jeju Teddy Bear Museum, 'About TBM', 7 August 2006, accessed 24/07/2008,
http://www.teddybearmuseum.co.kr/newteddy/about/about_04_read.html?seqno=131&pageNo=1.
Project Space/Spare Room, Float, exhibition brochure, June 2006
DigiGlass Australasia, 'Ellipse Pivot Glass Sculpture, Frankston' in High Resolution Imaging brochure.
2005 Art Almanac, 'Victorian Tapestry Workshop: The Big Small Tapestry Show' Dec 05 / Jan 06 Issue, accessed
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