{"id":26458,"date":"2024-04-21T18:58:15","date_gmt":"2024-04-21T16:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/?p=26458"},"modified":"2024-04-21T21:26:26","modified_gmt":"2024-04-21T19:26:26","slug":"painter-barbary-obrien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/painter-barbary-obrien\/","title":{"rendered":"Painter Barbary O’Brien"},"content":{"rendered":"

Text and images by Barbary O’Brien<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nCrying tree 1 (Summer), 2m x 2m, acrylic on canvas, by Barbary O’Brien.<\/em><\/p>\n

Barbary O’Brien<\/a>: I am a Queer Feminist Artist, Cartoonist, Mural painter, Designer and Environmentalist living, surfing, and working at Ratalang\/Middleton, on Ngarrindjeri\/Ramindjeri Country, on the South Coast of South Australia.<\/p>\n

I often refer to myself as a visual communicator and have facilitated arts projects in a diversity of contexts, such as schools, youth health centres, prisons, government departments, arts festivals, First Nations communities, urban, rural & remote places, for forty five years, with a strong educational and social development sub text, and in recent decades focusing strongly on the environment. I have worked with children and young people a lot over my career and feel that mentoring and encouraging young people in the process of creating artworks and community cultural development is vital for fostering future generations of artists; and growing community understanding and appreciation of the role of the arts in life and work.<\/p>\n

I have always been motivated to bring humans closer to the natural world in the hope of evoking a sense of wonder, compassion, and connection, thus, many of my public art projects – murals and mosaics<\/a> – have focused on pictorial interpretive works. I have recently retired from this career to focus exclusively on my personal arts practice. I am primarily a painter, working on quite large scale canvases in a semi-abstract colourist style. But really, anything goes!<\/p>\n

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\nFire in the belly, acrylic on canvas, 1.8m x 2m, by Barbary O’Brien.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nCrying tree 3 (we all become the stars), acrylic on canvas, 2m x 2m, by Barbary O’Brien.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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