Biography

Barbara Goldin (nee Borbereki)

Barbara is a Sydney based artist where she works and teaches. She travels widely around Australia to paint the unique landscape that she loves.
Born in Hungary Barbara was educated in South Africa. She studied fine arts at Sorbonne University, Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris. Where she also attended drawing classes at Académie de la Grande Chaumière and graphics at Ecole Superior des Arts Modernes. In South Africa she worked at Killarney Film Studios, Johannesburg, as a graphic artist, followed by several years as the owner and manager of a commercial art gallery. During this period she developed her art further, focussing on her painting and exploring other media including mosaic and ceramics. While in South Africa she painted under her maiden name Barbara Borbereki. Barbara emigrated to Australia in 1978 where she worked and exhibited under her married name Barbara Goldin. In Adelaide she studied jewellery at O’Halloran Hill College of Further Education and obtained her Advanced Art and Craft Certificate in silver smithing. She moved to Sydney in 1981 where she continued to paint and worked on numerous large scale-mosaic commissions. In 1983 Barbara began teaching painting, drawing, botanical illustration, and ceramics at various Art Centres. She continues to enjoy teaching. Barbara has held numerous solo and group exhibitions in Australia and South Africa.
Her work features in the Peter Stuyvesant Art Foundation, Johannesburg, the
Touch Gallery, Cape Town, as well as in private collections in Australia, South Africa, Canada and the U.S.A.

All images copyright © by Barbara Goldin