Del Kathryn Barton screams us in openly and at once may i song beast may i suck of roses, 2015 All gouache and ink on hot-pressed paper (Installation shot) Each: 60.5 x 82 cm Image courtesy of the artist and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney Del Kathryn Barton’s detailed and vibrant paintings are a reverie of other-wordly figures, flora and fauna. In 2014, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery presented Del Kathryn Barton’s new work, which for the first time included visceral, text-based paintings. The primordial intensity of Barton’s approach is unleashed in these gouache works on paper, their textual references conjuring surreal images characteristic of Barton’s unique universe. Del Kathryn Barton has been exhibiting since 1995. In 2013, Barton was awarded the Art Gallery of New South Wales’ Archibald Prize for the second time with a portrait of actor Hugo Weaving. In 2012, a solo exhibition of Del’s work was presented at the Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne. She has also been included in notable groups exhibitions, such as Dark Heart, 2014 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide (2014), Express Yourself, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (2014), Australia: Contemporary Voices, The Fine Art Society, London. (2013), Louise Bourgeois and Australian Artists, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne (2012), Theatre of the World, Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart (2012), Lightness and Gravity, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane (2012), Wilderness, Balnaves Contemporary Painting, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (2010) and Feminism Never Happened, Institute of Modern Art (IMA), Brisbane (2010). Barton’s work is represented in major museum collections in Australia, including the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide and the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), Hobart.
