Kent Barrett
Individual
Roles
Artist, Photographer, EducatorBiography
Kent Barrett was born in Manitoba in 1952 and raised in Toronto, Ontario. He moved to Newfoundland in the 1970s to work with the Newfoundland Traveling Theatre Company. Through his long association with the arts in Newfoundland, he amassed an impressive document of the music, theatre, and arts scene in the province he called home. During the 1980s, Barrett taught advanced darkroom techniques at the MUN Extension Arts and worked extensively with Manfred Buchheit on 19th century printing techniques. Barrett's work carried over to the electronic realm in the late 1980s and he served as photo editor for the International Teletimes, an electronically distributed publication launched on private networks predating the internet. Barrett was an early adopter of digital photographic technology and computer graphics, and had worked worked exclusively in that medium since 2001. Barrett is recognized as a master printer and his works have been exhibited in galleries from St. John's, Newfoundland to Victoria, British Columbia, and are found in many private collections. He died on October 17, 2019.Adapted from Red Ochre Gallery and Carnell's, 2017