Barbara Licha

SELECTED BIOGRAPHY

1957Born in Rawa-Mazowiecka, Poland
1979-81Studied Painting, Graphics, Sculpture,
Acadamy of Fine Arts Wroclaw, Poland.
1981-82Lived and Studied in ltaly.
1982Arrived in Australia
1985-88BA, City Art Institute, Sydney.
1989Grad Diploma Fine Art, City Art Institute, Syd.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1979Wroclaw, Open Gallery " Zamek" Poland
1984Holdsworth Galleries, Sydney.
1989Access Gallery, Sydney.
1990Prints, Salon of Modern Art, Sztuka Polska
 Wroclaw, Poland.
 Access Gallery, Sydney.
1991Access Gallery, Sydney.
1992Access Contemporary Art Gallery, Sydney.
1994Access Contemporary Art Gallery, Sydney.
1995Access Contemporary Art Gallery, Sydney.
1997Access Contemporary Art Gallery, Sydney.
1998Access Contemporary Art Gallery, Sydney.
2000BMG Art, Adelaide.
 Access Contemporary Art Gallery, Sydney.
 ListerCALDER Gallery, Perth.
2001Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra.
2002Brenda May Gallery, Sydney.
2003BMG Art, Adelaide.
 May Gallery, Sydney
2004Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra
 Brenda May Gallery, Sydney
2006Brenda May Gallery, Sydney
2007BMG Art, Adelaide.
 Brenda May Gallery

SELECTED MIXED EXHIBITIONS

1979Assembly of Artists 'RYS`, Wroclaw, Poland
1980Biennial of Exlibris, Rzeszow 80.
1987Australian Lithographers, Intaglio Printmaker
 Print Guild, Melbourne.
 x 12: Visionary Phantasies, Piccolo Spoleto,
 Print Workshop. Melbourne
1988Ivan Daugherty Gallery, Sydney.
 Goldfield Print Award, Ballarat VIC.
 8th Biennial Exhibition Mornington, VIC.
 International Exhibition of Computer Art Poland
1989Biennale Grafiki (Graphic), Lubin, Poland.
1991John Olsen Drawing Prize, Bathurst
 OTC Tech Fax An Exhibition Sydney.
 We Are 11 Artists, Gallery in the Passage
 Wroclaw, Poland
1991Sir Hermann Black Gallery Sydney University
1992-94Salon des Refuses, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney
1992,6,7,9Portia Geach, SH Ervin Gallery Sydney.
1993Mornington Peninsula Art Centre Exhibition VIC.
1994,96Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award, NSW.
1995Access to Adelaide II, BMG Fine Art Adelaide
1996Redlands Westpac Invitational Art Prize, Syd.
 Alice Prize, Alice Springs, NT.
19976th International Works on Paper Fair, Sydney
 PolArt National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1998Remnants of the Real, drawing exhibition
 ACAG, Sydney.
1999New Sculpture, ACAG, Sydney.
 Petits Formats 1999, Kiron Gallerie, Paris
2000Sharjah Arts Museum, United Arab Emirates.
 Threads of Humanity, Wollongong City Gallery.
 The Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of NSW.
 The 2000 Archibald Regional Tour, Albury,
 Dubbo, Tweed, Lismore.
2000The World Festival of Art on Paper, Slovenia
 Archibald Prize, Victorian Arts Centre, VIC
2001Invited to the Biennale Internationale dell Arte
 Contemporanea in Firenze, Italy
 IwoP Fair, Sydney, Australia
 The World Festival of Art on Paper, Slovenia
2002Salon des Refuses, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney
 Alice Art Prize, Alice Spring
2003Sculpture 2003 Brenda May Gallery, Sydney
 Salon Des Refuses, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney
 PolArt'03, Parliament House, Sydney, Australia
 Fifty/50, New England Regional Art Mus.Armidale
2004UR in EU, Sir Herman Black Gallery, Sydney
 Multi-Coloured Australia, Embassy of
 Republic of Poland, Canberra, Australia
 The Frank Saxby Bequest Prize, Taree
2005Kinetic Art, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney
 Artist's Artist Axia modern Art, Melbourne
 The Art of collaboration, Singapore,
 SOFITEL, Works on paper, Sydney
 Portia Geach Memorial Awards, Sydney
2006Applied Arts- Form + Function, BMG, Sydney.
  Twenty/20 Vision 1986 - 2006,
 Parliament House,Sydney, Australia.
2007Art + Humor Too, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney.
 Abode, Pol-Art Bond Store, Tas. Museum Hobart.
 Artisans in the Gardens, Royal Botanic Gardens,Syd.
 Gallery Adagio, Sydney
 Portia Geach, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney

COMMISSIONS, PRIZE & GRANTS

1998Australian Council, Pat Corrigan Artists Grant
1999Designs for Tapestry, Victorian Tapestry Workshop, VIC
2000Portrait of Liam Tomlin for the James Joyce Foundation
2005"2005 Perfect Diary Readers" Choice Award

PUBLISHED/REPRODUCED

1988Directory, Australian Artists Producing Prints.
1989Barbara Licha, Her Paintings, M. Baterowicz,
 Wiadomosci Polskie.
1990Reproduced, SMH, Good Weekend, Jun6 p56
 Artists & Galleries of Australia Max Germaine
 SMH, Christopher Allen Sept 7
1991Reproduced, Portfolio Magazine Affirmative
 Action Agency
 Catalogue We Are, Galeria w Pasazu Poland
 SMH, Lynette Fern, July '
 Women Artist of Australia, Max Germaine
 Craftsman House.
 Images in Contemporary Australian Painting
 Nevill Drury, Craftsman House
 SMH, Bronwyn Watson, Nov 11, p l8.
 Format, E Markiewicz, p 4-5
1993New Art Eight, Nevill Drury, Craftsman House
1994Images 2, Nevill Drury, Craftsman House.
 Imagine, SBS Television
1995Who's Who of Australian Visual Artists, DW
 Thorpe (in association with NAVA)
1996New Visions, New Perspective, Anna Voigt
 Craftsman House.
 MCA News, Nov96-Jan97, p-4,5.
1997SMH, Bruce James, Jan.10,p-24
Artists and Galleries of Australia,
 The Macquarie Dictionary on CD-ROM
1998Images 3, Nevill Drury, Craftsmen
 House.
 Art Monthly, June, p ¨C 18
 Art and Australia, Vol.36 No2, p.253
2000SMH, Metro, Sebastian Smee, Mar 17-23
 The West Australia, Big Weekend, 09, 12, p-8.
 Art Monthly, March, p.2.
 Reproduced, SMH, April.
 The Adelaide Review, John Neylon, April
 Art Market, Victoria Hynes,
 Art and Australia Vol.37 No 4.
 Artist's Palette,No11, G. Baxter, p-58
2001The Canberra Times, Sasha Grishin, Sep 25
2002SMH, Critic's picks, Victoria Hines, May 24
2003SMH, Metropolitan, Anne Loxley, 22Jan, p.15
 Profile, Art Almanac, Oct, p. 135.
2004Metro, Dominique Angeloro, Jan23-29,p.26
 TV Feature, Sculpture04 on Today Show,
 The Canberra Time, Art, Sasha Grishin, Feb 27,
2005SMH, Reproduction, The Sydney Magazine, March
 Australian Contemporary Painting, Jingzhe Li (ed)
 Peoples Fine Arts Publishing, p.55-7
2007The Green House, SMH Earth Hour Magazine,
 23 March, p.35.
 Southern Courier, Sydney Magazine, 9 Oct, p. 27

REPRESENTED

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia; Academy of Fine Art, Wroclaw, Poland; City Art Institute, Print Collection, Sydney; University of Wollongong Permanent Art Collection; University of Sydney Union Collection: University of Western Sydney Permanent Collection; Queensland University of Technology; Grafton Regional Gallery; Telstra Collection; Print Council of Australia; Artbank; Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland; Victorian Tapestry Workshop, Australia;
Korea, France, Poland, Italy, West Germany, UK, Japan, USA.