Barbara Klunder

"Barbara Klunder has maintained, throughout her career, a high and accomplished profile as one of Canada's most respected artists. She has extensive experience working across mediums and genres of expression. She is able to work in the medium that best suits the expression of the issue she wants to address. Klunder moves with ease between her practice of graphic design (illustration, font design, page design) to textiles (hand-knit sweaters, carpets, paper-cuts and emroideries) to puppets, theatre costumes, backgrounds and murals.

She has created award-winning posters for the Toronto and Vancouver Jazz Festivals, the Rolling Stones and numerous music concerts and theatre productions. She was responsible for the visulas of the legendary BamBoo Club on Queen Street West in Toronto. She has designed a huge amount of good-cause fundraising posters and T-shirts for human rights issues, and her favourite cuase for over thirty years: the Environment."

• Frank Viva, from his presentation speech at the ROM, awarding Barbara Klunder the prestigious LifeTime Achievement Award from the Art Director's Club of Canada, 2009

Submitted by Abbozzo Gallery