Del Kathryn Barton
Del Kathryn Barton is interested in the folklore of femininity, using digital collages, painted works on linen, and drawing to merge psychedelia and sensuality. Her works are often self-referential and include poetry or brief text that alludes to her own trials and tribulations in womanhood. Reminiscent of Egon Schiele’s tortured figures, her subject is often an innately female creature that is sinister and unrelenting, yet tortured and robotic. Nude anthropomorphic figures are aggressively sexual as they swim within delicately patterned, vibrantly colored, web-like spaces. Wide-open eyes and the stars and planets of the cosmos appear regularly in her visual language, alluding to her awakened consciousness and the uniquely feminine power of creation. Barton’s works consider how the landmarks of femininity and domesticity might reject the assumptions of cosmic purpose and rebel against convention.
Barton has exhibited at institutions including Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, The Fine Art Society, London, The University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, Institute of Modern Art (IMA), Brisbane, and Contemporary Arts Centre, Buffalo, New York, among other galleries in Australia and abroad. She was awarded The Archibald Prize in 2011 and 2008 by the Art Gallery of New South …
Del Kathryn Barton is interested in the folklore of femininity, using digital collages, painted works on linen, and drawing to merge psychedelia and sensuality. Her works are often self-referential and include poetry or brief text that alludes to her own trials and tribulations in womanhood. Reminiscent of Egon Schiele’s tortured figures, her subject is often an innately female creature that is sinister and unrelenting, yet tortured and robotic. Nude anthropomorphic figures are aggressively sexual as they swim within delicately patterned, vibrantly colored, web-like spaces. Wide-open eyes and the stars and planets of the cosmos appear regularly in her visual language, alluding to her awakened consciousness and the uniquely feminine power of creation. Barton’s works consider how the landmarks of femininity and domesticity might reject the assumptions of cosmic purpose and rebel against convention.
Barton has exhibited at institutions including Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, The Fine Art Society, London, The University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, Institute of Modern Art (IMA), Brisbane, and Contemporary Arts Centre, Buffalo, New York, among other galleries in Australia and abroad. She was awarded The Archibald Prize in 2011 and 2008 by the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney.
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Australia
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
Art and Australia, Sydney, Australia
Artbank
BHP Billiton Collection, Melbourne, Australia
Esk Collection, Launceston, Australia
RACV Collection, Victoria, Australia
The Flinders Collection, Melbourne, Australia
The Acacia Collection, Melbourne, Australia
The International School of Tourism, New South Wales, Australia
The University of Sydney Union Collection, Sydney, Australia
The Students Association, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
UBS, Sydney, Australia
Roslyn Oxley Gallery, Sydney, Australia
ARNDT, Berlin, Germany
