Kent Barrett

Kent Barrett was born in Brandon Manitoba, Canada and lives in Newfoundland. His work in photography spans has amazed and impressed for nearly 40 years. After decades of silver printing almost exclusively he has recently moved to computers and inkjet for expression and output.

Kent Barrett was born in Manitoba in 1952 and raised in Toronto Canada. He moved to Newfoundland in the 1970s to work with Dudley Cox's Newfoundland Traveling Theatre Company. For the next fifteen years Barrett worked with many of Newfoundlands brightest stars of stage and screen. Through his long association with the arts in Newfoundland, he has amassed an impressive document of the music, theatre and arts scene in the province he calls home.
During the 80s Barrett taught advanced darkroom techniques at the MUN Extension Arts and worked extensively with Manfred Buchheit on 19th century printing techniques. Barrett's work carried over to the electronic realm in the late 80s and he served as photo editor for the International Teletimes, an electronically distributed publication launched on private networks predating the internet. Barrett is recognized as a master printer and his works have been exhibited in galleries from St. John's Newfoundland to ...

Exhibitions include:

The Way They Were
Paper With Chemicals Splashed on It (Annex Gallery, solo)
Kent Barrett Photographs (MUN Touring, solo)
Greatest Hits (Great Auk Gallery, solo)
Some Girls (RCA)
No Exit (RCA, solo)
After A Fashion (Northlight, solo)
Photoperspectives (Presentation House)
Pixel Pushers (Emily Carr)
Tender Hooks (Grunt Gallery, solo)

Grants and Awards include:

NLAC artist's gran (2 occasions)
Arts & Letters Competition (2 occasions)
Canada Council Senior Arts Grant
Apple Canada People's Choice Award
Worth 1000 Award

Publications include:

United Press International
L'Actualit
The Evening Telegram
Flair
Cyberstage
Media West
The Computer Paper
Media Wave
International Teletimes ,