Barbara Licha

Born 1957 and raised in Poland, moved to Australia in the 1980s. She works with varying mediums including painting, print making, works on paper and sculpture. Her works have an immediate communication and an emotional tension expressed by figures.
She studied art in Poland, Wroclaw, Academy of Fine Art Painting, Graphic and Sculpture 1979-1981, Wroclaw and in Australia City Art Institute, Sydney 1985-1988, Bachelor of Arts, then majoring with painting Graduate Diploma Fine Art 1989.
Practicing Artist for 35 years and numerous solo exhibitions and group exhibitions in Australia and throughout the world including recently OpenArt Orebro 2022, ”, Chinese University Hong Kong 2021 Sweden, ScrapArt at Doha Qatar, 2019 , International Ceraamics and Sculpture Symposium Boleslawiec, Poland 2018.
Barbara has exhibited 7 times in Sculpture by the Sea since 2009 and 3 times in S X S Cottesloe since 2016. In 2015 Barbara received the Waverley Council Mayor’s Award at Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi.
Her works appeared in artists books, most recent Marie-Madeleine Masse “L’art du fil” France, 2020 Paris also cover for book by Isaac West, New York university Press,USA “Configuration” image of sculpture in 2013. Nihad Filipovic “Metamorfoza Tije...

1989 - Graduate Diploma Fine Art at City Art Institute, (painting) Sydney, Australia
1985-88 BA City Art Institute, Sydney, Australia
1979-81 - Graphic, Painting and Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Art in Wroclaw, Poland

COLLECTIONS

Maitland Regional Art Gallery, NSW, Au: National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Government of Qatar, Doha; Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, NSW, Australia; Academy of Fine Art, Wroclaw, Poland; International center of Ceramics in Boleslawiec, Poland; City Art institute Print Collection, Sydney, Au; University of Wollongong Permanent Collection, Wollongong, Au; University of Sydney Union Collection, Sydney Au; Deakin University Collection, VIC, Au; Queensland University of Technology, Au; The Trinity Grammar School Collection, Sydney, NSW, AU; Grafton Regional Gallery, AU; Print Council of Australia, VIC, Au; Artbank, Au, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland; Victorian Tapestry Workshop, VIC, Au;
United Arab Emirates; Qatar; Korea; France; Poland; Italy; West Germany, Singapore, UK, Japan, USA.


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2023 Parallels, Up Space Gallery, Marrickville, NSW, au: 2021 City Scape 2020-2021 and Umbrella improvisation, Up Space Gallery, Marrickville, NSW, au; 2020 – In Progress UP Space Gallery, Marrickville, NSW au; 2015 – Runners, Foyer Exhibition Space, Willoughby; 2014 – MX Art Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia; 2013 – The Maitland Regional Art Gallery, NSW; 2011 – Runners, Charles Hewitt Gallery, Sydney; 2010 - Up Space Gallery, Sydney; 2008 - “Artist in Residence at Mission”, NG Art Gallery, Sydney; 2007 - Brenda May Gallery; 2007 - BMG Art, Adelaide; 2006 - Brenda May Gallery, Sydney; 2004 - Brenda May Gallery, Sydney; 2004 - Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra; 2003 - BMG Art, Adelaide; 2003 - Brenda May Gallery, Sydney; 2002 - Brenda May Gallery, Sydney; 2001 – Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra; 2000 - BMG Art, Adelaide; 2000 - Access Contemporary Art Gallery, Sydney; 2000 – Lister CALDER Gallery, Perth; 1998 - Access Contemporary Art Gallery, Sydney; 1997 - Access Contemporary Art Gallery, Sydney; 1995 - Access Contemporary Art Gallery, Sydney; 1994 - Access Contemporary Art Gallery, Sydney; 1992 - Access Contemporary Art Gallery, Sydney; 1991 - Access Gallery, Sydney; 1990 - Prints, Salon of Modern Art, Sztuka Polska
Wroclaw, Poland; ...