CURRICULUM VITAE.  EXHIBITIONS 1992- 2008

Ross Barber.
Commonwealth Centenary of Federation Medal: for Distinguished Service to the Arts.
Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts) University of Western Sydney. 1994.
Master of Fine Arts. Queensland University of Technology. 1998.
Certificate IV Workplace Trainer. CSIT. 2000.
Email: barberr@squirrel.com.au or ross@accessarts.org.au
URL: http://www.rossbarber.com
Phone: 61 07 33586200

2007-2009

Executive Director Access Arts Inc.
Arts Law Queensland Board of Directors
Sunshine Coast Arts Industry Precinct (SCAIP) Board of Directors
Invited steering committee member Creative Recovery project Indigenous Communities FNQ and the Cape.
Appointed National Disabilities Strategy, Arts and Cultural Portfolio Member National People with Disabilities and Careers Council (NPWDACC) Commonwealth Government Department Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
Invited Member, (INCCA) International Network for the Conservation of Contemporary Art
Member, Queensland Disability Action Week Committee.
Presenter and Panels Chair Art of Difference 2009 Art of Difference Conference Gasworks Art Park Melbourne Victoria
Presenter panelist Arts Intersections Symposium. Griffith University.
Keynote Speaker - Community Accessibility and the Arts Embracing Change and Difference Forums, Latrobe Regional Gallery and Ballarat Fine Art Gallery Victoria
Presenter The Adelaide Fringe Festival, Hi Beam On the Job International forum on employment of people experiencing disabilities in Creative Industries.
Presenter Interactive Creative Noosa Conference
Presenter Pecha Kucha (the sound of conversations J.P.) Vol 01 12.09.07 Brisbane Powerhouse
Presenter Taking it to the Tropics, Arts Queensland, Regional Arts Development Fund Conference Cairns
Far North Queensland

2006

Executive Director Access Arts Inc.
Chairman Arts Access Australia.
Queensland Disability Action Week Committee.
Presenter Art of Difference Melbourne, 2006.
Presenter The Pacific Edge: Regional Arts Australia National Conference, 2006.
Arts Queensland Regional Partners Working Group
Arts Queensland Creative Fellowships selection panel.

2004 - 2005

Executive Director Access Arts Inc.
Queensland Disability Action Week Committee.
Presenter Big I Global Festival Osaka 2005.
Resident Artist DIVERSE - A Contemporary Arts and Community Cultural Development Project The Bundaberg Art Centre Residency Program.
Arts Queensland Creative Fellowships selection panel.
Interim Board Member artSynC arts/business incubator.
RADF Peer Panel Member Maroochy Shire.

2003.

Awarded Commonwealth Centenary of Federation Medal, for Distinguished Service to the Arts.
Arts Project Manager www.tapinonthepipes/Creative Mobility wrap-unwrap project Bundaberg. Arts Queensland major grants funding and Bundaberg RADF funding.
Appointed Interim Board Member artSynC arts/business incubator
Arts Project Developer www.tapinonthepipes.com 2003 Performance, Multimedia, Internet projects Maryborough, Cooroy Butter Factory Cooroy. Queensland Arts Council Regional Arts Funding.
Mr Ichinos Gift Concept developer, Mr Ichinos Gift Collective Ross Barber, Mark Bromilow, Jacquelyn Brown, Sunshine Coast performance project for 7th Asia Pacific Wataboshi Festival Brisbane 2003. Festivals Australia, Arts Council, Arts Queensland and Maroochy and Caloundra RADF
funding.
Bundaberg Arts Center Forum presenter on Arts and CCD project development planning.
Project developer and coordinator Onsite, Arts Queensland regional youth initiative for the professional training of young talented artists experiencing a disability or disadvantage.
RADF Peer Panel Member Maroochy Shire.
Access Arts Inc. Web site development to comply with PolicyX  Web Accessibility Guidelines: http://www.govonline.gov.au/projects/standards/accessibility.htm
Design Salubrious Productions.com web site to comply with PolicyX  Web Accessibility Guidelines: http://www.govonline.gov.au/projects/standards/accessibility.htm

2002.

Major Grant Rounds Peer Assessment Panels, Arts Queensland.
Cultural Advisory Council member, Arts Queensland.
Arts Project Developer www.tapinonthepipes.com 2002 Performance, Multimedia, Internet project.
Project Development Mr Ichinos Gift Sunshine Coast performance project for 7th Asia Pacific Wataboshi Festival Brisbane 2003.
Artist in Residence Caloundra Regional Art Gallery.
Facilitate Training for staff and volunteers Cooroy Butter Factory Association web page design principles, web site setup and maintenance. Noosa Shire RADF grant. 
Creative Minds/ CSIT Tafe  Arts and Design Module delivery.
Member Sunshine Coast Regional Arts Forum. 
RADF Peer Panel Member Maroochy Shire.
Access Arts Inc Web site development to comply with PolicyX  Web Accessibility Guidelines: http://www.govonline.gov.au/projects/standards/accessibility.htm

2001.

Major Grant Rounds Peer Assessment Panels, Arts Queensland.
Cultural Advisory Council member, Arts Queensland 
Arts Project Developer www.tapinonthepipes.com 2001 Performance, Multimedia, Internet project
Speaker Sunshine Coast Regional Arts Forum. 
Access Arts Inc Web site development to comply with PolicyX  Web Accessibility Guidelines:http://www.govonline.gov.au/projects/standards/accessibility.htm

 2000.

Chairperson Multi Arts and Festivals Panel,  Arts Queensland.
Cultural Advisory Council,  Arts Queensland.
Coordinator TAPINONTHEPIPES.COM Multimedia, Internet  project. Regional Arts Funding,  Arts Queensland.
Visual arts program support CREATIVE MINDS Youth (disabilities and disadvantage) Program .
Contemporary Sculpture Program development Cooloola Sunshine Coast Institute of Tafe  Diploma of Visual Arts.
Teacher CSIT Diploma of Visual Arts (Sculpture) Professional Practice/Art History CSIT.
Teacher Professional Practice/Art History (Modernism/Post-Modernism) Diploma of Visual Arts (Painting) CSIT.
Program Development and Delivery Excellence Award Cooloola Sunshine Coast Institute of Tafe. Diploma/Certificate  (Arts and Disabilities.)

Intra regional Curatorial Project : The Person behind the work before.
Cooloola Gallery Gympie Qld.
Noosa Regional Gallery Qld.
10 ARTS EXHIBITION SPACE Palmwoods Qld.

1999.

Workshop Program ADA Hong Kong. Performance (Scotia Monkivitch) and Sculpture (Ross Barber)
Teacher Professional Practice/Art History (Modernism/Post-Modernism) Diploma of Visual Arts. CSIT.
Teacher Work Access Program painting, drawing, sculpture Certificate 11 Visual Arts CSIT.
Arts Program Development CSIT Gympie.
President Cooroy Butter Factory Community, Arts, Environment Centre
Chairperson Multi Arts and Festivals Panel, Arts Queensland.

1998.

Visual Arts Grant for a Collaborative Installation. JARDIN DE WILTZ COOPERATIONS Luxembourg in 1998. Arts Queensland. 
Master of Fine Arts, QUT Academy of the Arts, Kelvin Grove.
Curator Hand Luggage touring exhibition and parallel Web site Development.
Coordinator Community Initiatives Team Art workshop Program.
Coordinator Disclosure Queensland University of Technology Visual Arts Dept. and Cooroy Butter Factory Initiative.
Co-developer with John Burke for Web Site and Web strategies for The Cooroy Butter Factory.
Teacher/Art History (Modernism/Post-Modernism) Diploma of Visual Arts. CSIT.
Tutor Access Arts Master classes program Visual Arts.
Artist in Residence, Collaborative weekend workshop Bodies on the move. Emerald Art Gallery. Queensland.

1997.

Master of Fine Arts studies. Academy of the Arts, Queensland University of Technology. Kelvin Grove.
Tutor/Demonstrator Foundation Studies. Academy of the Arts, Queensland University of Technology. Kelvin Grove.
Tutor Investigative Drawing Postgraduate Program Queensland University of Technology. Academy of the Arts, Kelvin Grove.
Design www. Site, Visual Arts. Queensland University of Technology. Academy of the Arts, Kelvin Grove.
Program Developer Artist in residence. Community Initiatives Program. Queensland Integrated Mental Health Services.

 1996.

Master of Fine Arts studies. Academy of the Arts, Queensland University of Technology. Kelvin Grove. 
Computer technology studies. Queensland University of Technology. Kelvin Grove. 
Part time resource development assistant. Noosa Regional Gallery.
Program Developer Artist in residence. Community Initiatives Program. Queensland Integrated Mental Health Services.
Tutor/Arts component development, Associate Diploma, Diversional Therapy. CSIT.
Tutor, art folio development. Queensland University of Technology. CSIT. The Butter Factory. Gallery Ague, Noosaville.
Chairperson. Cooroy Butter Factory Arts and Community Centre.

1995.

Master of Fine Arts studies. Academy of the Arts, Queensland University of Technology. Kelvin Grove.
Co-curator, Multiplicity. Queensland University of Technology. Kelvin Grove.
Tutor, Art folio and Tertiary Entry Preparation Course. Queensland University of Technology. Kelvin Grove.
Tutor, Art folio and Tertiary Preparation Course. ACE, The Butter Factory Cooroy.
Casual Tutor, Arts component, Associate Diploma, Diversional Therapy. CSIT. Nambour.
Tutor, Art folio Preparation. Maroochydore High School.
Certificate of TAFE Training Development. Units TNDOO3-OO4.

1991-1994.

Bachelor of Arts, Visual Arts degree. University of Western Sydney, Nepean.
Joined Accessible Arts. Advocacy and developing initiatives with institutions 
ABC, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney Arts Festivals and TAFE to raise the profile of 'disabled artists'.
The William Fletcher Scholarship.

1990.

Accepted into B. A. Visual Arts. University of Western Sydney, Nepean.
Materials sponsorship John Olsen and Commonwealth Scholarship assistance.

1989.

Life Drawing and investigative drawing studies. Penrith TAFE.

1966.

Life Drawing. East Sydney Technical College.

EXHIBITIONS 1992 - 2006.    CURRICULUM VITAE

2007- 2008

In the Beginning... Online Exhibition University of East Anglia Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, UK.
Pecha Kucha (the sound of conversations J.P.) Vol 01 12.09.07 Brisbane Powerhouse Performance In the winter of 68. Ross Barber - Alicia Jones.
Rhizome .org Artbase selected work She is always walking away....1948 - 2006. New media interactive installation development

2006

Quartet four love songs - vinyl wall text and spoken word sound Installation, Angela Robarts-Bird Gallery Gasworks Art Park, Albert Park Melbourne.
Two bored workers wishing aprons, made with 14 sheets of A4 paper covered with text in Korean and English saying : some other body someplace else, - Aprons Exhibition Provincial Spirit Grand Forks Art Gallery Grand Forks Canada.


2005

Artists Against Sedition Laws Casula Powerhouse Postcard Series - I'm thinking about Sedition.
Judith Wright Centre Asylum Postcard Series. Loose Lips need a stitch in time.

2004

Group show Envelope Exhibition Detroit Film Center 2004 Asylum Postcard Series.
Artist in Residence Diverse Installation Project Bundaberg Art Center -funding Regional Arts Fund.

2003

Dangerous Days for Barach de Spinoza, two light boxes with signing message Noosa Regional Gallery
Seeking the Center Noosa Regional Gallery. Somewhere else 40 hand made paper boats wall installation, Group Show.
An apology, glass front wall mounted box with two small paper boats printed in arabic and english text from Thomas Aquinas, private collection.
Two bored workers wishing aprons, made with 14 sheets of A4 paper covered with text in Korean and English saying : some other body someplace else, 
Provincial Spirit- Collaboration work of united artists group. Yi-Dynasty porcelain Historic Site- Exhibition Hall, Kwang-ju City, Korea Exhibition, May 31~ June 14

2002

Artist in Residence Caloundra Regional Galley sensing beauty/sensing difference.
project community based workshops exhibition  coinciding with Grapple Exhibition

Grapple. Touring Exhibition. Installation 8 braille tablets in fibreglass with embedded sections of silk rope on acetate plinths with  sound Installation (the rope) a reply to Baudelaire and Edouard Manet. 

Red Hot Fibre Handmade paper and sound Installation (the rope) a reply to Baudelaire and Edouard Manet. Redcliffe City Gallery.

2000 - 2001

Skin Deep Group Show Pataka Porirua Drift projection installation Museum of Arts and Cultures N. Z.
Dislocation javascript text based work Flock Artists for Peace UNESCO Web Page (Linda Carroli curator)
Curator Regional Galleries Association  Intra regional Project: The person behind the work before.
Turning Point Asylum Installation Caloundra Regional Gallery 

1999.

Skimming the Surface. Sound Installation Do you speak English? Nepalese Temple, Southbank Brisbane.
Target - Heads the obsessive image. Group show, Sculpture 10 Arts Exhibition Space. Palm woods QLD.
For the OShea's, drawing series from New College Oxford Opening Exhibition 10 Arts Exhibition Space Palm woods. QLD.

1998.

Curator Hand Luggage. Touring exhibition and parallel web site development.
Ship Of Fools. Collaborative Installation Jardin de Wiltz and Beaufort Castle. Northern Luxembourg.
Bodysuits. Touring New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia.
Commission, Two boxes 'over there.' Tanpopo-no-ye Foundation gift. Tokyo Japan.

1997.

tracking the blue Sheep. Kita-Kyushu Japan. Brisbane & Queensland Regional Galleries.
Bodysuits. Touring New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia.

1996.

being there. Am I having an aesthetic experience yet? Brine Gallery, Cooroy Butter Factory, Cooroy Qld.
salon des postgraduates. Queensland University of Technology., Kelvin Grove. Brisbane, Qld.
Direct Sun. Oil Salt Distance Installation A Survey of Sunshine Coast Contemporary Art, Noosa Regional Gallery.
Hand and Eye. Noosa Regional Gallery, Tewantin, Qld.
longue dure'e. Queensland University of Technology. Kelvin Grove. Brisbane, Qld.
Pausing for Effect. Metro Arts, Brisbane. Qld.
Co-curator An Ageing Specific Tricycle. Robert Hughes Gallery, Metro Arts, Brisbane. Qld.
Scratch and Win. IMA Brisbane. Qld.

1995.

Multiplicity. Queensland University of Technology. Kelvin Grove. Brisbane.
Cyber Cafe. Queensland University of Technology. Internet collaboration. participation various sites.
East Timor, A voice A Future. World Convention for Arts and Drama Information and Technology Building, Queensland University of Technology., Gardens Point.
Causal Connections. The Palace Gallery, Southbank Brisbane.

1994.

South East Asian Universities Exhibition. Singapore.
Out on a limb. Street Level, Blacktown.
Evatt Award Exhibition. Artspace, The Gunnery, Sydney.
Blue Print. Ministry for Arts office, The Gunnery, Sydney.
Preconceptions. group show, Watt space, Newcastle.
Screaming Envelope. group show. First Draft, Sydney.
Now You See Us Cibachrome Images Fairfield City Art Prize. Fairfield.

1993.

Uninvited Entry. The Boundary Rider, Biennial of Sydney.
S/he Feminist Trajectories. Empty room with steps and grid  Installation YZ space, University of Western Sydney.  Watt space, Newcastle. 
The Foyer Gallery. Australian National University, Air Space,  Redfern.
The William Fletcher Scholarship Award.
The Boundary Runner. group show, Watt space,  Newcastle.
Arts Extraordinaire. group show,  ABC, Ultimo.
Empty room with steps and grid. Ultimo. 
B. A. Graduate Exhibition. University of Western Sydney, Nepean.

1992.

Stormy Weather. group show, Monash Gallery, Judith Pugh ,  Regional Victorian Galleries.
Post modern Experiences. group show, Casula Powerhouse.
2d or not 2d. group show. YZ space,  University of Western Sydney.
Basil and Murial Hooper scholarship drawing prize. finalist.  Art Gallery of New South Wales.