Sierra Barber

Sierra graduated from OCAD University’s Sculpture & Installation Program in 2015. She is currently basing her practice in Port Dover, Ontario, Canada.

Sierra is a self-taught encaustic artist, and has been working with the ancient painting technique for nearly 10 years. Her practice explores the natural characteristics of beeswax as a material, creating a seamless bind between reality and the imagined. Her process involves a repetitive build-up of thin layers of melted wax that create mesmerizing forms specific to how the material was applied at the time. The layered process allows the wax to gradually grow and change on its own, transforming into controlled chaos that appears to have happened organically.

Throughout her professional practice, Sierra’s work has explored themes of preservation, transformation, the collection of memory, virtual nostalgia and curiosities of time. These concepts are re-imagined and retold in beeswax, pulling them back into a natural world to be analyzed and interpreted.

SIERRA BARBER
b.1991 Canada
OCADU Graduate - BFA (2015):
Sculpture & Installation Major
with a Minor in the Indigenous Culture Program

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Education
2015 BFA OCAD University: Sculpture & Installation Major
with a Minor in the Indigenous Culture Program

2017
Duo Exhibition
23 Market Gallery, Port Dover, ON

Participating Artist
Annual Norfolk County Studio Tour 2017

2016
Group Exhibition
Perivale Gallery, Manitoulin Island, ON

Retail Exhibition Feature
Frank and Oak, Ottawa, ON

2015
Sculpture/Installation Thesis Show
"Do Say Look", Gallery 1313, Toronto, ON

Festival of the Body
Participating Artist, OCAD University, Toronto, ON

2014
Arts Co Annual Arts Competition
Was awarded first prize in the competition as well as Viewer’s Choice Award, Simcoe, ON
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Station Arts Centre
"Everything in its Place" - Solo Show, Tillsonburg, ON

Norfolk Arts Centre
Below 40 - Participated in the Group Exhibition, Artist Talk & Slide Show Presentation

Norfolk Studio Tour
Participating Artist

2013
Hazel Race Juried Arts Competition
Was awarded second prize in the juried art competition, Simcoe, ON

Norfolk Studio Tour
Participating Artist

2012
Arts Country Juried Arts Competition
Was awarded first place in the juried arts competition at Lynnwood Arts Centre

Wonderful Works Auction
Was honorary chair of the a...