Rhonda Barrett (b.1979, Canada, paper artist)

Halifax, NS B3K 3L4  

 

Selected exhibitions and showings:​

• 2023 - Guest Artist - Labrador Creative Arts Festival, Happy Valley- Goose Bay, NL

• 2023 - Group Exhibition - Nomnom Truck, Nocturne: Art at Night, Cuts and Paste Gallery, Halifax, NS

• 2020 - Solo Exhibition - 'Home is where the heART is',  Round Hill Studio, Annapolis Royal, NS

• 2019 – Solo Installation – ‘The Poets Grotto’, Nocturne, Art at Night, Halifax, NS

• 2019 – Group Exhibition – ‘Clapback’, James Black Gallery, Vancouver, BC

• 2019 – Solo Exhibition – ‘Park’, Art 1274 Hollis, Halifax, NS

• 2019 – Solo Exhibition – ‘Patterns Disturbed’, Gallery 1919, Halifax NS

• 2018 – Solo Exhibition – ‘Maiden, Mother, Crone’, Gallery 1919, Halifax, NS

• 2018 – Solo Exhibition – ‘Germinations’, Dart Gallery, Portland Street, Dartmouth, NS

• 2018 – Juried Exhibition – ‘Small Treasures’, ICCA, Inverness, NS

• 2018 – Group Exhibition – ‘Hands Dancing’, ICCA, Inverness, NS

• 2018 – Group Exhibition – ‘Generations’, Truro Art Society, Truro, NS

• 2018 – Group Exhibition – ‘Red’, Hardware Gallery, Kentville, NS

• 2017 – Group Exhibition – Nonesuch Art on Paper Awards Finalists, Parrsboro, NS

• 2017 – Group Exhibition – ‘Creative Resistance’ St. FX Gallery, Antigonish, NS

• 2017 – Solo Exhibition - Corridor Gallery – VANS office, Pier 21, Halifax, NS

• 2016  - Performance (Dance) – Art Zone Gallery, Nocturne 2016, Halifax, NS

• 2016 – Group Exhibition/Dance Performance – Art Zone Gallery, Barrington Street, Halifax, NS

• 2016 – Group Exhibition – Nonesuch Art on Paper Awards Finalists, Montreal, QC

• 2016 – Group Exhibition – Nonesuch Art on Paper Awards Finalists, Parrsboro, NS

• 2015 – Group Exhibition – Art Zone Gallery Members Show, Barrington Street, Halifax, NS

• 2015 – Solo Event/Exhibition – ‘Birds Flyin’ High’, The Waiting Room, Almon Street, Halifax, NS

 

Education:

• 2023 - Curating Collage, Online Webinar, Kolaj Institute

• 2017 – Fundamentals of Graphic Design, 5 Course Specialization, CAL Arts through Coursera

• 2017 – Heritage Management, Universite Bocconi through Coursera

• 2002 – Architectural Technology, College of the North Atlantic (drafting and architectural sketching and modelling)

 

Associations:

• Creator and director of Canadian Collage Collective, started in 2020.

• Member – Visual Arts Nova Scotia (VANS), Halifax, NS

• Member Artist - King's Point Pottery and Craft, King's Point, NL

• Member Artist – Paper Artist Collective, London, UK

• Member Artist - Eastern Shores Gallery, Head of Jeddore, NS

 

Media Coverage:

• Authored an article for Contemporary Collage Magazine, Issue 8 'Mary Delaney; Collage Pioneer'

• Featured by Kolaj Magazine in Issue 31 published in September 2020.

• Featured on Global Halifax Mornings, June 25 with Jeremy Keefe. (5:45 of on air time)

• Interviewed by The Chronicle Herald, ‘In the Studio’ Series for publication in 2019.

• Featured in Murze Magazine, ‘Ten Days of Art’, Issue Five, 2019

• Featured in Murze Magazine, ‘Minimalism’, Issue Three, 2018

• Featured in The Coast Magazine ‘Fall Arts Preview’, Volume 26, Number 11

• Interviewed and aired as part of CBC Atlantic News coverage of the Paint Peggy’s Cove event, July 10, 2017

• d’Entremont, Yvette: “Making It With Metro”, Metro News, January 20-22, 2017

• “2016 Nonesuch Art on Paper Awards Finalists Exhibition, 30 September-14 October 2016”,

• Kolaj Magazine, Issue 16, 2016

• Nonesuch Art on Paper Awards, “Les Expositions 2016 Nonesuch Art on Paper Awards Exhibition”; Black Dog and One-Eyed Press, 2016

 

Collections:

• Pieces are currently being held in private collections in

  • Toronto, ON

  • Calgary, AB

  • Halifax, NS

  • Vancouver, BC

  • Boston, MA, USA

  • New York, NY, USA

• Corporate commissions

  • Black Sheep Restaurant, Halifax, NS

  • Wayfare Oyster House, Whitehorse, Yukon

  • Julia Johnson, Caldwell Banker Supercity, Halifax, NS

 

Workshops Taught:

• 2019 – Up-cycling Newspaper Into Landscape Art – 1 day workshop, Chester Arts Centre, Chester, NS

• 2018 – Crazy Figure Collage – 2 hour workshop, MacPhee Centre for Creative Learning, Dartmouth, NS

• 2017 – Collage FUN-damentals – 2 hour workshop, MacPhee Centre for Creative Learning, Dartmouth, NS

• 2017 – Collage Creation – 1 day workshop, Main and Station, Parrsboro, NS

 

Awards:

• 2019 – Honorable Mention, ‘Protest Art Contest’, MacGillvray Law, Halifax, NS

• 2018 – Regional Finalist, Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series

• 2017 – Regional Finalist, Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series

• 2017 – Finalist at Nonesuch Art on Paper Awards, Main and Station, Parrsboro, NS

• 2016 – Emerging Artist Award- Art Zone Gallery, Barrington Street, Halifax, NS

• 2016 – Finalist at Nonesuch Art on Paper Awards, Main and Station, Parrsboro, NS