rsjbarker
Born: Melbourne
Studied Art – 1977- 1987
Lives in Sydney

Art Certificate – St George Technical College 1977 – 1978
Diploma of Art – City Art Institute (Formerly Alexander Mackie CAE) 1979 – 1981
Bachelor of Art – University of Sydney – 1984 – 1987 (incomplete)

1981 Basil and Muriel Hooper Scholarship – Art Gallery of NSW

2023 Adelaide Perry Art Prize – Finalist

2023 Gallipoli Art Prize – Finalist

2023 Remagine Hornsby Art Prize – Finalist

When I started art school in Sydney in 1976, my idea was to eventually do graphic design. Then I met my painting teachers, Peter Upward, Roy Jackson, Sue Archer and other artists within their orbit, Elizabeth Cummings, John Peart to name just two. I was instantly attracted to the large, free-flowing, tactile, inventiveness and freedom in their art and also by their international contemporaries. Subsequently my original intentions were buried.

Exhibitions

2023 Adelaide Perry Gallery, Croydon, Sydney, February (group show)
2023 duckrabbit Redfern, February – (group show)
2022 duckrabbit Redfern, November – (solo)
2022 Artists 4 Ukraine, See Gallery, Meadowbank, May (group show)
2022 Duckrabbit Redfern (collaboration)
2022 Omnivores at duckrabbit Redfern (group show)
2019 Sunday Afternoons with Damien Minton (solo)
2018 Defiance Gallery at Mary Place Paddington (group show)
2013 Martin Browne Fine Art Paddington (group show)
2013 Defiance Gallery Newtown (group show)
2007 Sheffer Gallery Darlington (solo)
2006 Hazelhurst Gallery (group show)
2003 Mary Place Gallery Paddington (solo)
2002 Rex Livingston Gallery Chippendale (solo)
2002 Cobbittee Gallery Mosman (group show)
2001 Mary Place Gallery Paddington (group show)
2000 Gallery 19 Haymarket (solo)
1996 Back Bar Gallery Paddington (solo)
1995 Rom Gallery Darlinghurst (collaboration)
1993 Rom Gallery Darlinghurst (solo)
1991 Sylvester Studios (group show)
1990 EMR Gallery (group show)
1988 AVAGO Gallery University of Sydney (solo)
1987 EMR Gallery Redfern (solo and various group shows)
1982 Mori Gallery Leichhardt (solo and various group shows)
1981 Steven Mori Gallery Leichhardt (solo and various group shows)
1979 Students Gallery Leichhardt (solo and various group shows)
1978 Commonwealth Bank Glebe (solo)
1978 Students Gallery Leichhardt (group show)

Various group exhibitions.
Various private collections