sonia e barrett MRSS

Sonia E Barrett performs Composites of plants, animals, elements and people to create interventions that presence their objectification and commodification, she also thinks about how to change perceptions of phenomena in “nature” that are a given. The work seeks to create new questions where there was a kind of certainty that has to do with the hegemony of normative Western European values. 

Born in the UK of Jamaican and German parentage Sonia E Barrett grew up in Hong Kong, Zimbabwe, Cyprus and the UK. She studied literature at the University of St Andrews Scotland and her MFA at Transart Institute Berlin/New York. 

Her work unpacks the boundaries between the determined and the determining with a focus on race and gender, She makes sculptural works so she can run her hands along the fissures and manifest strategies for multiple compatible existences and mourn.

Her sculptural practice includes placemaking with a view to assembling communities under the threat of climate change to (Re) claim space as well as instituting permanently.

Sonia is a MacDowell fellow and has been recognised by the Premio Ora prize, NY Art-Slant showcase for sculpture and the Neo Art Prize.

Sonia has mentored art students on DAAD funded international scholarship in Germany for the University Of Minnesota, taught Drawing at the University of Southampton as well as mentoring for the Transart institute In Berlin, and the SACI College of Art and Design Florence.