Of German Jamaican Parentage brought up in England, China and Cyprus Sonia Elizabeth Barrett has an international range of cultural influences. A graduate of St Andrews University where she studied Philosophy, Literature and International Relations and the Transart Institute (MFA). Sonia has been Selected as a winner of the Premio-Ora Contemporary Art Prize, Italy and a finalist in the Artslant showcase for Sculpture, NY, USA, she has attended the Royal St. Catherine’s Conference of Commonwealth Arts Windsor, England, Her work has been shown internationally and will be in residence at the MacDowell Colony in the USA at the end of this year. Sonia preforms furniture and her inquiry is into the servient relationships between people things and animals and the blurring if these distinctions. www.sebarrett.net