Claire Barker

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Tasmanian Artist
Expressionist Painter

Good day to you and thank you for looking….

My art is presented to the public through the Design Centre-Tasmania, Cnr Tamar and Brisbane St, Launceston, 7250 and the Art Frontier gallery, Orr Street, Queenstown, 7467. I graduated from my Bachelor of Contemporary Arts at the Acedemy of the Arts, Inveresk, Tasmania 7250 in 2006.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008 Remember This, Arts Alive, Charles Street Launceston
2006 Visited, E.Scape Wilderness Café and Gallery, St Mary’s

DUO EXHIBITIONS
2002 Claire Barker and Sylva Locke, Newstead College Gallery, Launceston TAS

Claire Barker and Sylva Locke Selected Paintings, The Star Bar, Charles St Launceston TAS

2001 Claire Barker and Sylva Locke, Newstead College Gallery, Launceston TAS

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2004 Egg, Ei, Eouf, Design Centre- Tasmania, Launceston TAS

2004 Male and Female-The Midnight Painters Guild, Powerhouse Gallery, Launceston TAS

2003 Launceston Show Art Prize, Queen Victoria Museum, Launceston TAS
2001 Art Rage, Queen Victoria Museum, Launceston TAS
2000 Women Against Violence, Pilgrim Hall, Launceston TAS

“To be an artist is to be preoccupied with your self. This state of existence is not as arrogant and ignorant as it seems. An artist’s fascination with their own feelings, experiences, interactions with the universe and their desire to paint, combine to create artworks that are fecund with ontological importance. When an artist paints they are expressing outwardly that which only exists within and are therefore giving form to the formless; thus creating magic, vomiting truth and gushing forth I am-ness.” Claire Barker, 2008.