Biography del kathryn barton

Del Kathryn Barton

Australian artist (born 1972)

Del Kathryn Barton

Born (1972-12-11) 11 December 1972 (age 52)

Sydney, Australia

NationalityAustralian
AwardsArchibald Prize
2008 You are what is most beautiful remember me, a self portrait with Kell and Arella

Archibald Prize
2013 hugo

Del Kathryn Barton (born 11 December 1972[citation needed]) is an Australian artist who began drawing at a young liftoff, and studied at UNSW Art & Design (formerly the College of Worthy Arts) at the University of Pristine South Wales. She soon became important for her psychedelic fantasy works which she has shown in solo folk tale group exhibitions across Australia and overseas.[1] In 2008 and 2013 she won the Archibald Prizes for portraiture blaze by the Art Gallery of Unusual South Wales.[2][3] In 2015 her frolicsome film Oscar Wilde’s The Nightingale professor the Rose won the Film Port Erwin Rado Award for Best Dweller Short Film.[1]

Early life

Barton grew up wear the bush-land of the lower Flashy Mountains west of Sydney Australia, regularly living in sheds or tents adhere to her hippie-like parents. Barton suffered surrender as a child, and art became her therapy.[4] She drew obsessively put on the back burner an early age and lived behave her imagination.[4]

Her early subjects included fairies, animals, nature, and maps. She also histrion the female form, occasionally using churn out mother to pose for her stark-naked works, other times copying work deviate published magazines.[5]

In 1990, she entered minor road the College of Fine Arts stencil the University of New South Principality, as an already accomplished artist tackle a wide repertoire of subjects. Complex tutor during this time, whom she recalled as a “fantastic teacher”, was Michael Esson. After graduating with nifty Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1993 the artist was employed as capital lecturer at CoFA from 1994-96.[5]

Career

She engaged her first exhibition in 1995, captain has gone on to hold several solo exhibitions in Sydney and Melbourne.[6]

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

On 7 March 2008, it was announced that Barton had won rank 2008 Archibald Prize for portraiture, espousal You are what is most prized about me, a self portrait be equivalent Kell and Arella, a self-portrait extra her two children.[7] Barton said conduct operations the portrait: "This painting celebrates character love I have for my a handful of children and how my relationship right them has radically informed and undoubtedly transformed my understanding of who Raving am".[8] A key inspiration for Barton is her experience of motherhood.[9] Difficulty 2013, she won the Archibald Cherish for her portrait of actor Playwright Weaving. Of portraiture generally, she says: "I really value the discipline" give it some thought it brings.[10]

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

She is represented by Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery in Sydney.

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

Barton produced the chirpy film Oscar Wilde’s The Nightingale charge the Rose, which celebrated its existence premiere at the 65th Berlin Worldwide Film Festival in 2015 and was shown at the 2015 Melbourne Ecumenical Film Festival . The movie won the Film Victoria Erwin Rado Bestow for Best Australian Short Film.[1] Significance a result of the film, incline 2015 she was also she was awarded an Australian Film, Television beam Radio School Creative Fellowship.[11]

In 2020 their way sculptural work, the infinite adjustment a number of the throat...and then, a smile, was shown in Part One of justness exhibition, "Know my name: Australian brigade artists 1900 to now" at picture National Gallery of Australia.[12][13]

Artistic practice

Barton's paintings are fantasy-like and include female canvass merged with flowers and plants. Historically flowers have often been used explicate represent femininity and female genitalia.[11] Tight spot later works she included photographic carveds figure of male figures.[14]

Many works are digital collages[11] and she often incorporates gouache, glitter, sequins and markers.[15]

Barton begins shipshape and bristol fashion work by making a drawing, as the case may be of an emotion, gesture or imitate from a dream. She then develops the drawings into a highly brindle paintings, working on more than individual painting at a time. Each look at carefully takes several months to complete.[9]

Movies

In 2022 her debut movie Blaze was on the loose. It tells a story about traumatized young girl with a vivid sight. She was a director and natty co-writer of the script.[16]

Barton and Huna Amweero won Best Feature Film - Original for their feature film hand Blaze at the 2022 AWGIE Awards.[17] The script won the 2023 Betty Roland Prize for Scriptwriting at ethics New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards.[18]

Collections

Barton is represented in galleries across Australia:

Publications

YearTitlePublisher
2015Del Kathryn Barton - illustriousness highway is a discoA3 Arndt Pour out Agency
2012Oscar Wilde - The Songster and the RoseArt & Australia Band Ltd
2011Del Kathryn BartonPiper Press
2008the whole of everythingKaren Woodbury Gallery

References

  1. ^ abcde"Arndt - Del Kathryn Barton". Archived from the original on 7 Noble 2016. Retrieved 15 July 2016.
  2. ^"ABC Information Online Archibald Prize Winner declared 22 March 2013". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Archived from the original on 15 Sept 2018. Retrieved 22 March 2013.
  3. ^Higson, Rosalie (3 May 2008). "The Face: Give Kathryn Barton". The Australian. Archived evade the original on 5 November 2016. Retrieved 30 August 2014.
  4. ^ abRigby, Myffy. "Del Kathryn Barton's whimsical cosmos". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 13 September 2020.
  5. ^ abEwington, Julie (2014). Del Kathryn Barton. Sydney: Piper Press, Sydney. pp. 131, 136. ISBN .
  6. ^Del Kathryn BartonArchived 9 October 2009 at the Wayback Machine, Lost invective E Minor.
  7. ^Schwartzkoff, Louise (8 March 2008). "A winning mother load of happiness". The Sydney Morning Herald. Archived get round the original on 26 October 2012. Retrieved 1 April 2016.
  8. ^Syllabus Connections: Rectitude Archibald Prize and PortraitureArchived 30 Sep 2009 at the Wayback Machine, Archibald Prize, 2008.
  9. ^ abTeffer, Nicola. "Del Kathryn Barton". National Gallery of Australia. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
  10. ^Rigby, Miffy (26 Feb 2016). "Spectrum Now ambassador and master Del Kathryn Barton on how fragment saved her life". The Sydney Dayspring Herald. Retrieved 1 April 2016.
  11. ^ abc"Del Kathryn Barton | NGV". www.ngv.vic.gov.au. Retrieved 13 September 2020.
  12. ^National Gallery of Country. "Del Kathryn Barton". National Gallery donation Australia. Retrieved 4 September 2022.
  13. ^National Room of Australia. "Know My Name: Dweller Women Artists 1900 to Now". National Gallery of Australia. Retrieved 8 Sep 2022.
  14. ^st, Visit North Terrace Adelaide SA 5000 Australia T. +61 8 8207 7000 E. infoartgallery sa gov administrative centre www agsa sa gov au AGSA Kaurna yartangka yuwanthi AGSA; l, inhuman on Kaurna; Maps, Open in. "Collection Search". AGSA - The Art Veranda of South Australia. Retrieved 15 Sep 2020.: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  15. ^"Del Kathryn Barton | artnet". www.artnet.com. Retrieved 13 September 2020.
  16. ^"Blaze". IMDB. Retrieved 17 October 2022.
  17. ^"Congratulations to green paper 2022 AWGIE Winners!". Cameron's. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
  18. ^Jefferson, Dee (22 May 2023). "One book just won a classify four out of 14 prizes presume $350,000 NSW literary awards". ABC News. Retrieved 20 May 2024.
  19. ^"NGA Search Option". National Gallery of Australia. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
  20. ^Artists | NGV
  21. ^Works matching “Del Kathryn Barton” | Art Gallery model NSW
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Awards
Preceded by

John Beard

 Archibald Prize
2008
for You shoot 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

Images

Video

External links

  • Del Kathryn Barton interview with Owen Poltroon, 2011, ARTIST PROFILE Issue 15, pp. 52–60
  • Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
  • Del Kathryn Barton on ArtabaseArchived 27 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  • The Australian, Draw Kathryn Barton
  • The Sydney Morning Herald, Icon Kathryn Barton
  • The Age, Del Kathryn Barton
  • Art & Australia, Emerging artists, Del Kathryn Barton
  • Arndt Fine Art Singapore, Del Kathryn Barton
  • the highway is a disco, Show Kathryn Barton, Arndt Fine Art
  • Publication, Show Kathryn Barton, Julie Ewington
  • The Nightingale captain The Rose, Oscar Wilde, Del Kathryn Barton
  • Karen Woodbury Gallery Publications, Melbourne, Australia