Hedwig Barry (b.1969, Bloemfontein) is an artist working at the intersection of the visual arts, arts education and research. Her drawings, paintings and sculptures are grounded in a rich conceptual terrain that articulates a feminist politics of love and desire in artistic practice, and in society at large. Barry’s work explores the grounds we walk on and live in. She asks how we teach and learn, how and whom we include, and what we make along the way. A long career as an educator, facilitator, producer and collaborator, across artistic disciplines, has led her to a dedicated studio practice embedded in the processes of drawing, painting, sculpting, video and writing. In 2020 Barry graduated cum laude from the MA Fine Arts programme at the Wits School of Arts in Johannesburg. Also in 2020, she was commissioned by BMW to create two large-scale outdoor interventions for the BMW campus in Midrand, South Africa.