Connecting Idea to Outcome: in the studio and beyond 
With Dr Sharna Barker 

This half-day workshop led by Dr Sharna Barker, is an introduction to research and conceptual development and exhibition planning. As a practising artist and arts worker, Sharna offers an artist-led approach alongside logistical considerations to transform ‘idea to outcome’.  

The workshop will cover understanding and responding to a theme, and how to articulate this in an artist statement. Here, the workshop will provide participants with practical ways to frame and contextualise their artwork. Through brainstorming, writing activities and research, Sharna will address elements of context, relevance, and quality.  

Participants will also gain knowledge on how to realise an exhibition and key components of writing an exhibition proposal and/or preparing and presenting their own show in artist-run spaces. 

What to bring: 
Notepad and pen 

What is provided: 
3.5 hour workshop 
Morning tea (30 minute break) 

Bookings are essential. Limited places available. To register click HERE 

For more information: 
P) 07 4628 5330 
E) dogwood.crossing@wdrc.qld.gov.au 

DATE: Saturday 7 March 2026 
TIME: 9:00am – 1:00pm 
VENUE: Gallery 107 Dalby 
Dalby Arts Centre 
23 Marble Street 
Dalby QLD 4405 
COST: $30.00 

BIO

Dr Sharna Barker is an artist and arts worker based in Brisbane/Meanjin. She is Exhibition Program Officer at Museums & Galleries QLD and is a founding co-director of IN | artist run initiative at the Sunshine Coast/Kabi Kabi Country. She has worked and volunteered with organisations such as Griffith University Art Museum, Outer Space, KEPK art space, Boxcopy, and the Institute of Modern Art. Sharna holds a Doctor of Visual Art from the Queensland College of Art and Design, Griffith University for her thesis ‘Vestiges of Self: Self-Portraiture in the Age of the Embodied, Decentred Subject’. Her practice and curatorial interests span themes of liminality and transformation – specifically in relation to self/body – with a deep concern with materiality, embodied experiences, and conceptual meaning. 

Image: Dr Sharna Barker
Photo by Jax Oliver