Cirrus@Austlit

Barrina is a Barkindji artist, critic and writer dedicated to writing about topics and themes affecting land, place, culture, and history, and an academic who has demonstrated as part of a MA (Hons) the important role NSW Aboriginal women autobiographical narratives play in educating the wider audience of Aboriginal women’s lived experiences.

In 2022, she was one of five Australian poets selected to participate in the Invisible Walls: poetry as a Doorway to Intercultural Understanding. In the same year, she was published in The Art Issue of Rabbit: a journal for nonfiction Poetry, appointed Writer in Residence at University of Canberra and facilitated a poetry workshop at the Purrumpa First Nations Arts & Culture Gathering, Adelaide.

In 2023, her work has been published in the special issue of the Teesta Review: A Journal of Poetry, Kolkata, India and Authora Australia: online blind reviewed literary journal.

Barrina is a current member of the First Nations Australia Writers Network (FNAWN), a Director of Us Mob Writing (UMW) and a contributor and editor of UMW Too Deadly Our Voice Our Way Our Business. Barrina has exhibited her art locally and internationally, has extensive experience in curatorial and collection management working in both federal and state cultural institutions. Barrina lives in Queanbeyan, NSW and works closely with communities across New South Wales in the protection of Aboriginal cultural heritage.

Other Works:

Tacon, Paul Stephen Charles, South, Barrina and Hooper, Shaun Boree Depicting cross-cultural interaction : figurative designs in wood, earth and stone from south-east Australia. , 2003.