Del Kathryn Barton

Del Kathryn Barton (born 11 December 1972) is an Australian artist who began drawing at a young age, and studied at UNSW Art & Design (formerly the College of Fine Arts) at the University of New South Wales. She soon became known for her psychedelic fantasy works which she has shown in solo and group exhibitions across Australia and overseas.[1] In 2008 and 2013 she won the Archibald Prizes for portraiture presented by the Art Gallery of New South Wales.[2][3] In 2015 her animated film Oscar Wilde’s The Nightingale and the Rose won the Film Victoria Erwin Rado Award for Best Australian Short Film.[1]

Del Kathryn Barton
Born (1972-12-11) 11 December 1972
Sydney, Australia
NationalityAustralian
AwardsArchibald Prize
2008 You are what is most beautiful about me, a self portrait with Kell and Arella

Archibald Prize
2013 hugo

Early life

Barton grew up in the bush-land of the lower Blue Mountains west of Sydney Australia, often living in sheds or tents with her hippie-like parents. Barton suffered depression as a child, and art became her therapy. [4] She drew obsessively from an early age and lived in her imagination. [5]

Her early subjects included fairies, animals, nature, and maps. She also drew the female form, occasionally using her mother to pose for her nude works, other times copying work from published magazines.[6]

In 1990, she entered into the College of Fine Arts of the University of New South Wales, as an already accomplished artist with a wide repertoire of subjects. Her tutor during this time, whom she recalled as a “fantastic teacher”, was Michael Esson. After graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1993 the artist was employed as a lecturer at CoFA from 1994-96.[6]

Career

She held her first exhibition in 1995, and has gone on to hold numerous solo exhibitions in Sydney and Melbourne..[7]

Her solo exhibitions include: The Nightingale and the Rose, Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), Melbourne, Australia (2016); the highway is a disco, ARNDT, Singapore (2015); Electro Orchid, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney (2014); The Nightingale and the Rose, Heide Museum of Modern Art (2012); the stars eat your body, Kaliman Gallery, Sydney (2009); the whole of everything, Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne (2008) and thank you for loving me, Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne (2005).[1]

On 7 March 2008, it was announced that Barton had won the 2008 Archibald Prize for portraiture, for You are what is most beautiful about me, a self portrait with Kell and Arella, a self-portrait with her two children.[8] Barton said of the portrait: "This painting celebrates the love I have for my two children and how my relationship with them has radically informed and indeed transformed my understanding of who I am".[9] A key inspiration for Barton is her experience of motherhood. [10] In 2013, she won the Archibald Prize for her portrait of actor Hugo Weaving. Of portraiture generally, she says: "I really value the discipline" that it brings.[11]

She was also an Archibald Prize finalist in 2008, 2013 and 2018.

She is represented by Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery in Sydney.

Del Kathryn Barton has participated in group exhibitions that include: Like-ness, Albertz Benda, New York, USA (2016); Express Yourself: Romance Was Born for Kids, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (2014); Dark Heart, Adelaide Biennale of Australian Art, Adelaide (2014); Theatre of the World, Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania (2012); Lightness and Gravity, Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland (2012); Freehand: Recent Australia Drawing, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne (2010/11); 2009 Wynne Prize for Landscape, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (2009); Half a World Away: Drawings from Glasgow, Sao Paulo and Sydney, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, New York (2002).[1]

Barton produced the animated film Oscar Wilde’s The Nightingale and the Rose, which celebrated its world premiere at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival in 2015 and was shown at the 2015 Melbourne International Film Festival . The movie won the Film Victoria Erwin Rado Award for Best Australian Short Film.[1] As a result of the film, in 2015 she was also she was awarded an Australian Film, Television and Radio School Creative Fellowship. [12]

Artistic Practice

Barton's paintings are fantasy-like and include female figures merged with flowers and plants. Historically flowers have often been used to represent femininity and female genitalia.[12] In later works she included photographic images of male figures.[13]

Many works are digital collages[12] and she often incorporates gouache, glitter, sequins and markers.[14]

Barton begins a work by making a drawing, perhaps of an emotion, gesture or image from a dream. She then develops the drawings into a highly patterned paintings, working on more than one painting at a time. Each work takes several months to complete. [10]

Collections

Del Kathryn Barton is represented in gallieries across Australia and images of works can be seen at:

National Gallery of Australia's collection with four prints in her series 'that's when I was another tree' from 2007. [15]

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/explore/collection/artist/26718/

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/?q=Del+Kathryn+Barton

Queensland Art Gallery and Museum of Contemporary Art., Brisbane http://collection.qagoma.qld.gov.au/qag/imu.php?request=display&port=45001&id=67c2&flag=start&offset=0&sort=creatortitleaccno&count=20&view=lightbox&PublishOnIMuInternet=Y&value1=Del%20Kathryn%20Barton&column1=creatorculture

Art Gallery of South Australia in Adelaide https://www.agsa.sa.gov.au/collection-publications/collection/?q=Del%20Kathryn%20Barton&type=work&has-images=yes&on-display=no

Publications
YearTitlePublisher
2015Del Kathryn Barton - the highway is a discoA3 Arndt Art Agency
2012Oscar Wilde - The Nightingale and the RoseArt & Australia Pty Ltd
2011Del Kathryn BartonPiper Press
2008the whole of everythingKaren Woodbury Gallery

References
  1. "Arndt - Del Kathryn Barton". Archived from the original on 7 August 2016. Retrieved 15 July 2016.
  2. "ABC News Online Archibald Prize Winner declared 22 March 2013". Archived from the original on 15 September 2018. Retrieved 22 March 2013.
  3. Higson, Rosalie (3 May 2008). "The Face: Del Kathryn Barton". The Australian. Archived from the original on 5 November 2016. Retrieved 30 August 2014.
  4. Rigby, Myffy. "Del Kathryn Barton's whimsical cosmos". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 13 September 2020.
  5. Rigby, Myffy. "Del Kathryn Barton's whimsical cosmos". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 13 September 2020.
  6. Ewington, Julie (2014). Del Kathryn Barton. Sydney: Piper Press, Sydney. pp. 131, 136. ISBN 9780980834703.
  7. Del Kathryn Barton Archived 9 October 2009 at the Wayback Machine, Lost at E Minor.
  8. Schwartzkoff, Louise (8 March 2008). "A winning mother load of happiness". The Sydney Morning Herald. Archived from the original on 26 October 2012. Retrieved 1 April 2016.
  9. Syllabus Connections: The Archibald Prize and Portraiture Archived 30 September 2009 at the Wayback Machine, Archibald Prize, 2008.
  10. Teffer, Nicola. "Del Kathryn Barton". National Gallery of Australia. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
  11. Rigby, Miffy (26 February 2016). "Spectrum Now ambassador and artist Del Kathryn Barton on how art saved her life". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 1 April 2016.
  12. "Del Kathryn Barton | NGV". www.ngv.vic.gov.au. Retrieved 13 September 2020.
  13. st, Visit North Terrace Adelaide SA 5000 Australia T. +61 8 8207 7000 E. infoartgallery sa gov au www agsa sa gov au AGSA Kaurna yartangka yuwanthi AGSA; l, s on Kaurna; Maps, Open in. "Collection Search". AGSA - The Art Gallery of South Australia. Retrieved 15 September 2020.
  14. "Del Kathryn Barton | artnet". www.artnet.com. Retrieved 13 September 2020.
  15. "NGA Search Option". National Gallery of Australia. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
Awards
Preceded by
John Beard		 Archibald Prize
2008
for You are what is most beautiful about me,
a self portrait with Kell and Arella		 Succeeded by
Guy Maestri
Preceded by
Tim Storrier		 Archibald Prize
2013
for hugo		 Succeeded by
Fiona Lowry

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