Kerri is a West Australian  Artist, operating  at the intersections of traditional art, fashion, styling, and sustainability. Barrie has  Worked  within costuming, styling, wearable  sculptures and more recently  soft sculpture Art dolls.    Underpinned  by a Degree in Visual Arts-Fibre Textiles, a career in hairdressing, studies in theatrical make up, wig making, sewing, pattern making and a sojourn to fashion school in Paris. Barries work usually comes back to the wearable, often finding beauty in post consumer resources from  a personal ethos in sustainability.

In recent years  her   art practice has  also developed into textiles Art Dolls. Smaller scale vessels of identity and self-expression. Through careful observation of people, places, and tribes, her non-traditional dolls embody whimsical and eccentric personae that reflect  sometimes  societal norms but more so her need for the flamboyant. Drawing inspiration from fabrics, portraits, and human interactions her work captures a sense of playfulness and frivolity. These non traditional fabric dolls are unique vessels of identity. Each character is  carefully  hand stitched from found materials.  Representations of places, emotions,  experiences and fantasy. Highlighting  a yearning for a transcendent existence where flamboyance is  the  norm.

There is an aesthetic whimsy to her work. whipping hair, plastic or fabric or metal into a wearable for a theatrical performance, art production, wedding, or photo essay.

Works include multidisciplinary materials woven, twisted dyed, riveted, etched, studded, chain mailed and stitched. Corrugated iron curtains, a large aluminium bicycle dress peddled on stage and shipped around the country. The heartfelt piece of handprinted love letters pink ribbons installed high throughout the iconic pine trees amidst Fremantle fishing harbour.And

In 2008 Red Feathers and Hula Skirt was opened. A community store and workshop that only offered handmade, recycled and organic goods. Workshops in skirts to scarecrows. Ethics and Elegance

Life can take you up some very unusual paths and 2010 was no exception. This time the path went to Bali, Indonesia. No Eat Love Pray here, more like the smell, the noise, the Textiles!!! Kerri, bags and two children and a dependant brother I mean why not move to another country so that children can experience of the Green School, the”greenest school on earth” A vision of sustainability through community-integrated, entrepreneurial learning, in a wall-less, natural environment. What we haven’t highlighted here is the extent to which Kerri takes her creativity, her ethics, her beliefs and is proactive environmentally. A staunch recycler . As a resident during 2010-2015 in Bali and Artist in Residence at the Green School, Kerri founded the green school shop. Creating sustainable merchandise for international visitors and families. The Mountains of refuse were calling her to utilise her skills and extensive knowledge of all things material, Discarded plastic shopping bags transformed into funky, fashionable and functional sandals. wearable jewellery repurposed from Inner tubes, bamboo straw production and solar dyed bamboo fabrics . Any clean cast off paper bags, glossy fashion magazine became beads, gift bags or Christmas decorations, old Vogue, now vogue earrings. This endeavour enabled l Kerri to teach and support impoverished women. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQPB05rbpvg