Barbara Balfour
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CATALOGUE ESSAYS & FEATURE ARTICLES    
2019                
“Resistance is not futile”, by Paul Uhlmann, review of Perspectives on Contemporary Print: critical writing since 1986, (including Balfour‘s work) in Imprint magazine, Print Council of Australia, Melbourne, Australia
 Spontaneous Combustion, video documentary about the Spontaneous Combustion Collective (with Balfour as a member), part of the Collective City series produced by Richard Mongiat and David Sylvestre, Toronto
 
2017                 
“An Exploration of Contemporary Printmaking”, review of Printopolis publication (including Balfour‘s work) by Jessica Natalie Woolard, National Gallery of Canada website
“Printopolis”, by Haley Toll, review (including Balfour‘s work), Canadian Review of Education
 
2015                
"Thinking Through Print: An Evolutionary Approach to Imagining Graphic Futures", on the work of Barbara Balfour, Matt Donovan and Hallie Siegel, and Kathryn Smith. Paper by Jenn Law delivered at Contemporary Print Symposium in Oslo, Norway
“Touching, Tracing and Embellishing – One Thing After Another: The Gestures of Jeannie Thib, Eight Print Media Artists, and the Workshop of the World”. Essay by Patrick Mahon.
Open Studio publication concurrent with the group exhibition Embellish
 
2008                
Catalogue for group print exhibition Further, Hanmi Photography Museum, Seoul, Korea
 
2007                
Catalogue for the Falun Triennial Exhibition , Dalarnas Museum, Falun, Sweden
Essay by Corinna Ghaznavi. Open Studio publication for solo exhibition to the nth degree
“The Anthropometry of Barbara”, essay by Jennifer Fisher. In the catalogue Selfish. Co-publication: Koffler Gallery, Toronto, and the Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, BC
 
2004                         
Printmaking at the Edge, by Richard Noyce, Published by A&C Black, London, UK (featured artist)
 
2002                
“48 Rooms/48 Hours”, catalogue of rooming house show. Introduction by curator Ingrid Bachmann
 
2001                
"Broken System", essay by Kitty Scott, Curator of Contemporary Art, the National Gallery of Canada. In catalogue published by the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, for solo show Soft Spots
 "Getting To Know Barbara", essay by Ian Carr-Harris. Open Studio publication concurrent with the solo exhibition Offspring
© Barbara Balfour 2020