sarah barker

Exhibitions and Major Works

2024

• Official Selection, International Photography Awards (IPA)

• Commended Award, People Category, Mono Awards 2024

• Official Selection, International Photography Awards (IPA) - One Shot "Searching for Peace”

• Group exhibition (online), In Praise of the Earth: An Earth Month Celebration, Kinship Photography Collective

• Finalist & Semi-Finalist, CLIP Award, Perth Centre of Photography

• Published photo-essay, “Work or Retire?”, 1 in 6 by 2030

• Featured Artist, Focus on Aging, Lenscratch

• Honourable Mention x3, Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women Photographers

2023

• Winner, Inaugural Crapping Room Prize, Salon de Refuse - Inner West

• First Place, People / Family, International Photography Awards (IPA)

• Honourable Mention (Cell Phone), 2 x Finalist, 20th Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women Photographers

• Semi-finalist, IRIS Award, Perth Centre of Photography

• Finalist, Olive Cotton Award for Photographic Portraiture, Tweed Regional Gallery

• KBH Portrait Project for National Sorry Day, National Centre for Indigenous Excellence (NCIE), Redfern

• Honourable Mentions: People, Culture & Daily Life - 19th Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women Photographers

• 2022 A Time Capsule, Australian Women in Photography (@auswip)

2022

• Exhibiting artist, Collective 2022, Perth Centre for Photography

• Finalist, Maggie Diaz Photography Prize for Women

• Finalist, Kuala Lumpur International Photoawards (KLPA) Photographic Portrait Prize

• Community exhibition, NAIDOC Locals Exhibition at Broadway Sydney

• Published work, The Kurt Vonnegut Museum & Library literary journal: So It Goes, A Labor of Love.

• Group exhibition, The #EveryDayClimateCrisis Visual Petition, Climarte Gallery

• Finalist, Percival Photographic Portrait Prize

• The AUSWIP Directory

• Online exhibition, 2/22/2022, Lenscratch

• 2021 A Time Capsule, Australian Women in Photography (@auswip)

• Exposure Photography Festival, Alberta, Canada

2021

• Presentation - Women's Climate Congress for the #everydayclimatecrisis Visual Petition.

• Online exhibition “2021 Family Gatherings”, Lenscratch

• Online exhibition “They are us”, Head On Photo Festival

• Instagram Takeover, Women’s Photo Alliance

• Group exhibition, Loud & Luminous, POP Gallery, Brisbane

• Group exhibition, Lockdown Picture Show, Halls Lane Gallery

• Published work, #ICPConcerned: Global Images for Global Crisis

• Finalist, Stanthorpe Photography Awards

• Finalist, "Notions of Home", Lucie Foundation

• Honourable Mention in the International Photography Awards One Shot / Our Times - Pandemic Perspectives Photo Contest.

• Winner - The Lucie Foundation Guardian Project: Street Photography category

• Honourable Mentions: Cell Phone, Portrait & Street Photography - 16th Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women Photographers

• Group exhibition - Six Feet: Boundaries, Belonging, Becoming

• Group exhibition - 30 Over 50
  Center for Fine Art Photography

• Group exhibition - “life”
  A Smith Gallery

2020

• Published work - MassIsolation Australia
  Ballarat International Foto Biennale

• Group exhibition - #ICPConcerned
  International Centre of Photography

• Honourable Mention in Street Photography - Mobile Photography Awards 2020

2019

• Published work - Loud and Luminous 2020

• Honorable Mention in Cell Phone Photography - 14th Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women Photographers

• Finalist - Bowness Prize

• Solo exhibition - Photographic Memory
  McGlade Gallery, ACU

• Semi-finalist - HeadOn Photo Festival (Portrait)

• Semi-finalist - Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize

2018

• Featured photographer - Through a Woman's Lens
  Social Documentary Network

2017

• Winner - Portraits Category, 10th Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women Photographers

• Finalist - CLIP Award for Landscape Photography

2002 - 2017

• Portrait project for Kinchela Boys Home Aboriginal Corporation (KBHAC)

2016

• Finalist - Head On Photo Festival (Mobile)

• Semi-finalist - Head On Photo Festival (Portrait)

• Finalist - DUO Magazine Percival Photographic Portrait Prize

• Finalist - Shadow Stories, Mobile Photography Awards

2015

• 21st Century Street Photography: 250 New Examples, Lensculture

• Kinchela Boys Home Portrait Project
  Herbert Smith Freehils

2014

• Honourable Mention - Mobile Photography Awards

• Group exhibition - Kinchela Boys Home Portrait Project
  90th Anniversary Commemoration
  Bennelong's Haven, Kinchela and DNAAG Kempsey

• Group exhibition - Kinchela Boys Home Portrait Project
  DNAAG Gallery, Kempsey

• Group exhibition "Tap Turns 25"
  Tap Gallery, Darlinghurst

• Solo exhibition - Phone Works
  Head On Photo Festival
  Gauge Gallery, Glebe

• Finalist - Duo Magazine Percival Photographic Portrait Prize

• Finalist - Iris Award
  Perth Centre of Photography

• Group exhibition - “Legacies of Policies”
  Kinchela Boys Home Aboriginal Corporation (KBHAC) portrait project
  Governor Macquarie Tower, Sydney

2013    

• Finalist - "This is Democracy" photo competition
  The Institute for Democracy and Human Rights (IDHR), University of Sydney

• Joint winner and winner of Peoples Choice Award - “Out of my Pocket” smart phone photography competition
  Tap Gallery, Darlinghurst

• Semi-finalist - Moran Contemporary Photography Prize

• Group exhibition - “No Names, Just Numbers”
  Kinchela Boys Home Aboriginal Corporation (KBHAC) portrait project
  DNAAG Gallery, Kempsey, NSW

2012  

• Group exhibition - StoryLines 2012 Festival
  Kinchela Boys Home Aboriginal Corporation (KBHAC) portrait project
  University of NSW and Bondi Pavillion

2011    

• Solo exhibition - “Let’s Face It” Portraits of survival from Kinchela Boys Home
  2011 Head On Photo Festival, Fisher Library, University of Sydney

• Finalist - Olive Cotton Award for Photographic Portraiture
  Tweed River Art Gallery

2010    

• Group exhibition – Emoh Ruo + Friends
  Chrissie Cotter Gallery, Camperdown, NSW

2008       

• Commissioned work - "Keeping our Families Together & Strong"
  Bangala Aboriginal Health Unit of Sydney South West Area Health Service

2007        

• Finalist - Olive Cotton Award for Photographic Portraiture
  Tweed River Art Gallery

2006        

• Finalist - Olive Cotton Award for Photographic Portraiture.
  Tweed River Art Gallery

2001        

• Group exhibition - ‘Mudi Dungarra Mudang’ (Youth Dance of Life)
  Photographic work commissioned by Central Sydney Area Health Service
  Walkabout Gallery, Leichhardt

2000        

• Group exhibition - “GYS” Glebe Youth Service

1999        

• Runner-up - Sydney Morning Herald ‘Jeffrey Smart’ photography competition

1995        

• Solo exhibition - “Small World, Big Family” portraits of migrants to celebrate 50 Years of Post War Migration
  Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney
  This work was also exhibited at the opening of the Parramatta Adult Migrant English Program building.

Collections

• State Library of New South Wales

Online

• “Work or Retire?”, 1 in 6 by 2030

• Men in Suits

• Peter Vadiveloo

• Ballpoint Penguins

Publications

• Olive Cotton finalist in The Guardian, 2023

• KBH Portraits in The Guardian, 2023

• NITV Nula/News, 2023

• The Kurt Vonnegut Museum & Library literary journal: So It Goes, A Labor of Love.

• #ICPConcerned: Global Images for Global Crisis, 2021

• MassIsolationAustralia 2020

• Loud & Luminous 2020

• Herbert Smith Freehills Reconciliation Action Plan, 2015

• Artlink, Vol 34 no 4"Valediction for a gallery: Following the ART MONEY" P64

• Redfern Waterloo Authority (RWA) Annual Report 2008/2009

• WHO Magazine, 1997

Memberships

• National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA)
  

Professional experience and studies

1978 - present Photographer

2014 - 2018 Photographer’s Assistant, Post-Production Technician and Administration Manager

1993 – 1996     Studied for BA Communications, UTS, Sydney

1990 Certificate in Audio Engineering

1978 – 1981     Darkroom technician and photographer’s assistant, Philip Weir Photography