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CONNIE BARBER
Born in Sydney 1922, now resident in Melbourne.
The Return of Persephone is the final work in a series which combined a European myth with notations echoing, borrowed from, the notations used by Australian artists. Persephone appears as a Wandjina -like figure in green, the colour of life and growth, accompanied by figures which may be echoes of Bradshaw figures. The Dancing Circles is from a series which gave the appearance and actions of life to inanimate objects, stone, wood, seaweed, skeletons. The figures rotating are all portraits of the same stone.
The selection of imagery emerges from interpretations applied by Jung to myth and dream images and impulses from the unconscious.
EXHIBITIONS
Paintings have been exhibited with the Victorian Artists' Society, The Contemporary Art Society of Victoria, Contemporary Art Australia, Roar Studio, St. Peter's Eastern Hill (Iconography), and the East Gippsland Regional Gallerv. Individual Exbibitions have been held in The Joan Gough Studio Gallery and Diane Tanzer's Dellridge Street Gallery.
AWARDS
PUBLICATIONS
AWARDS
For individual poems or groups of poems:
Poems published widely in Australian Literary Journals, and in Press and Radio, and in New Zealand, Canada, U.S.A., Japan, Ireland, Denmark and Germany.
The
Contemporary Art Society of Victoria (Inc.) is a non-profit
organisation, run on a voluntary basis by artists, for artists, and
the Society has a long history of supporting and fostering artists -
particularly emerging artists and those from regional
Australia.
