Michele Barker

Michele Barker is a Sydney-based artist working in the area of new media. Conceptually, her work has concerned itself with notions of bodily identity, difference and in more recent times, the relationship between science, medicine and corporeality.

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Touching from a Distance

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Lynne Roberts-Goodwin

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Monika Tichacek

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