(Artist, Australia)
Nicole Barakat is an artist lives and works in Sydney, Australia. She works to unpick the borders of art and life, re-examining intersections between drawing and textiles, collaboration, live work and community-engagement. Her work embodies the love and patience that often characterises traditional textile practices. Nicole approaches making as a form of meditation, with intentions to transform the conditions of everyday life, conjuring new ways of thinking, feeling and envisioning reality.
Barakat’s practice includes extensive collaborative community-engagement. Within this practice, she sees respect and equality as the leading principles that drive the exchange of experience, knowledge and skills.
Her most recent project, Shadow Places (a collaborative project with community in Narrandera, New South Wales), was exhibited as part of Sydney Design Festival at the Powerhouse Museum in partnership with the Cad Factory and the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences. Nicole has a passion for the potential of imagination and art to create social change.