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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 Tijela”2016 Bihac as well as Australian Art books. She also previously appears in documentary program on art in Australia in 1994 Imagine, SBS Television and books about Australian Art.