Nicole Barakat is a Kfarsghabi, Lebanese artist who works with deep listening and intuitive processes with intentions to transform the conditions of everyday life. She has worked as an arts educator for over 23 years, including lecturing in fine arts (UNSW) and working as an artist educator at the Art Gallery of NSW and the Museum of Contemporary Art.

Nicole’s collaborative community-engagement practice centres respect to facilitate exchanges of experience, knowledge and skills. Nicole’s practice is rooted in re-membering and re-gathering her ancestral knowledge, working with coffee divination, plants and flower essences for community care.

Nicole is the 2025 recipient of the Fisher’s Ghost Art Award open award, Campbelltown Arts Centre. She undertook an artist residency in Bethlehem, Palestine in 2010 and was in residence at the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris in 2023 where she convened with a 300-year-old Lebanese cedar tree in the Jardin des Plantes.