Education
Barnett has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at Witwatersrand University, Johannesburg, with distinction.
Barnett has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at Witwatersrand University, Johannesburg, with distinction.
Her work is concerned with investigating urban spaces and narratives in the form of stop motion animations, video installations, sound installations and interventions made in urban landscapes. Barnett"s practice addresses transition, distance, and exploration, both horizontal and vertical. Her past investigations also concern aspects of holes, mining, and depth through drawing, video, and sculpture.
She has lived and worked in Johannesburg, Paris, and New York, and these experiences have a continual influence on her artwork.
She often collaborates with Robyn Nesbitt. Education Exhibitions 2009, Direct Paris - A Solo Exhibition by Nina Barnett, Alliance Francaise South Africa 2009, Double Body, Fada Gallery, Johannesburg 2008, Near Sighted, Far Out at Harvestworks, New York 2008, The New Spell at David Krut Fine Arts, New York 2007, Spier Contemporary 2007, Stellenbosch, South Africa 2007, Armed Response Exhibition at the Goethe Institute in Johannesburg 2007, Absa Le"Atelier exhibition at the Absa gallery in Johannesburg 2006, Kazoo - Play, Action, Intervention in Public and Private Space - Premises Gallery, Johannesburg 2006, Sasol New Signatures exhibition - Pretoria Art Museum 2006, Human Immunodeficiency Virus: I Love You Positive Or Negative group show - Alliance Francaise Johannesburg 2006, Real Presence06 - Belgrade, Serbia 2006, Semblant group exhibition - Alliance Francaise, Johannesburg.
