Ramona Barry Curriculum Vitae
workshops | events | publications | exhibitions | programs | ideas
Current
Current
· General Manager, People, Projects and Programs Bridge Darebin 2019 – Present
· City of Darebin Arts and Heritage Committee 2020 – Present
Recent
Board Member Neighbourhood Houses Victoria 2019-2021
Program Coordinator Art, Craft & Cookery Competition & Makers Pavilion Royal Melbourne Show 2016 - 2019
Program Curator and Facilitator Craftlab+ Bundoora Homestead Art Centre 2018
Creative Officer/Curator Art+Design | RMIT Creative 2018
Craft Victoria Projects Officer (Regional Tour Catalogues Production) 2018
Co-director handmadelife workshop/gallery QVM 2016
Special Projects Officer Craft Victoria/City of Melbourne Love Locks 2016
Artist in Residence at The Australian Tapestry Workshop May 2016
Co Author of the Craft Companion published by Thames and Hudson AU 2015
Public Program Coordinator Craft Victoria 2015
2007-2012 Chair of Board of Craft Victoria (term ended Aug 2012)
2011 Curator ‘Contemporary Chair Survey’ @ the Gallery of Australian Design Canberra
Selected Exhibitions
2008 Family Values solo exhibition at IMP gallery Prahran
2007 product launch Craft Victoria retail window gallery Counter.
2006 Twelve Days of Christmas45 Downstairs Flinders Lane City (handmadelife)
2006 August Morphe Group Show. (handmadelife)
2006 July Porthole Show Brunswick Arts Space (handmadelife)
2006 June SPOD - Melbourne Scarf Festival (handmadelife)
2005 June Into the Woods 45 Downstairs Flinders Lane City
2000 The Night Carnival Aardwolf Gallery Latrobe Street Melbourne
Consulting
2007 Appointed to the Board of Directors Craft Victoria
2007 Special Projects Researcher/media writer Third Drawer Down
2007 Trend Committee (decoration and design) Designex
2004, 2006 Fresh Committee Craft Victoria
2006 Iggy and Lou Lou Media Liaison, marketing
2005 Third drawer Down Media Liaison, Administration
Selected Journalism and Writing
Commissioned Contributor Craft Writer’s Program
Commissioned contributor Art, Wine & Thou Journal
2014 ABC online parent portal commissioned contributor
2013 ongoing – catalogue essays, artists statements, grant applications – various clients
2012 Michi Girl regular contributor
2010 Monument Magazine furniture graduate profile
2010 Monument Magazine Contemporary Chairs profile
2009 Monument Magazine Profile Mariachi Design Collective
2009 co-editor I MAKE STUFF: the beta edition (limited edition book)
2008 Catalogue Essay Irene Grishin Selzer
2008 Media and Mission Third Drawer Down
2008 Media and Mission Iggy and Lou Lou
2007 Raymond de Zwart review Craft Culture
2007 Umoja Review Object Magazine
2007 Trend forecasting book (chapter introductions) Furnitex Decoration and Design
2006 Vicscope profile Object Magazine
2006 Trend Book Decoration and Design contributor Designex