The success of artworks, and your response to them, is an inexplicable and varied thing but there is just something very felt for me about this work.“It crystallises more successfully and more passionately some of my other works.On her walls and in her life, Barton takes inspiration from strong creative women, which in turn feeds deeply into her art.

"Recently a little girl, a friend of my daughters and I connected over her crazy obsession with unicorns. “And for me, there’s something about surfaces so detailed that at a certain point they become minimal and the energy is so heightened that it becomes distilled.” Spectrum Now Festival program and bookings; There are no false dawns in Del Kathryn Barton's artistic life. Femininity. Before moving to Sydney to start art school, she lived in tents and sheds with her family.Initially, it was an experience that almost sucked her up and swallowed her whole. "As ambassador for the festival we hope to share Del's work with a wider audience, who may not have discovered her yet. Artists such as Louise Bourgeouis and John Currin, who have both drawn on themes of sexuality and isolation in their work, are strong influences. And I do feel those years deeply informed my creative spirit and essence, which is still incredibly manifest in my work today.

The strong, emphatic advice I’d give to a young artist now is: ‘Give everything to the work. She has the little joey nestled in her pouch and hopefully it speaks about the strength and vulnerability that being a mother defines.” “The challenge for me,” Barton says, “is to almost put my blinkers on because I find the world overly stimulating sometimes.”She harnesses a city’s light, its energy, and admits to getting a little teary every time she flies back into town. There is just something so aesthetically unique about akangaroo. Her profound style has bewitched her fans, and her portrayal of sensitive subject matter such as the body, children in art, and her flourished,… In 1993, Barton graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the College of Fine Arts at the University of New South Wales, where she was subsequently employed as a lecturer in drawing. Barton herself is a wild aesthete, found in furry sandals or polka dot silk pyjamas, or both. Barton graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the College of Fine Arts at the University of New South Wales in 1993, where she was subsequently appointed as lecturer in drawing. CHILDHOOD IS AN intensely powerful time, its influence lingers on long after we have shed our milk teeth, crayons and soft toys. The magic and fantasy of Australiana-meets-other-worldliness in Barton’s work is so dense and rich, one could almost sink in her landscapes of wild-and-outrageous dream-like flights of fancy; of space unicorns and cosmic bunnies, sex and crocuses, rebirth and reformation. "Either there is the boundless joy of … A little like a very sensitive magpie. Her eye for the strange, beautiful and delicate made her work immediately collectable, then propelled her into the wider public arena when she won the prestigious Archibald Prize in 2008 for her self- portrait Most recently, Barton won an Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Award for her work on the reinterpreted Oscar Wilde fairytale, The strong, emphatic advice I’d give to a young artist now is, give everything to the work. A multimedia juggernaut, Barton collaborates beyond art, joining forces with Anna Plunkett and Luke Sales, the duo behind fashion label Romance Was Born, to work on projects including a children’s show that inspired Barton’s 2013 artwork, Creatively, she dances on the tip of a needle, ever on the precipice of the truly outrageous.She also points out a small drawing by influential Australian modernist Joy Hester (1920-1960). Barton has received negative criticism for her uncensored depiction of female genitalia, the gratuitous amounts of breasts that adorn her female figures, the images of orifices being penetrated by animals and colourful tubes, and of course her decorative style has been critiqued as being overly gratuitousBarton’s style is unbridled and unrestrictive. ""Within this idealised scenario a beautiful, punky maiden embraces an equally disco-rock unicorn whilst delicately perched on their own private pink planet," she says.Spectrum Now Festival program and bookingsThis year, the artist joins singer-songwriter Megan Washington, television host and comedian Charlie Pickering and entertainer David Campbell as creative ambassadors of the festival, which begins on March 1.Artist and Spectrum Now creative ambassador Del Kathryn Barton with her artwork Plus more than 100 events across talks, theatre, art and music.A two-time winner of the Archibald Prize, Barton describes all of her major paintings as "immensely challenging and arduous" including “I do find my brain calms down when I’m in the presence of kinetic energy,” Barton says.

And when you think you’re giving everything, give more. Australian artist Del Kathryn Barton presents her largest solo exhibition at Melbourne’s NGV Australia. “I think the thing that sustained me most as a young artist was an incredible level of naivety and idealism and a bit of brokenness. “Of all the work I’ve made, this painting is very dear to my heart. "The unicorn painting is my offering to this festival," she says. She swam, rode and drew. Spectrum Now Festival program and bookings; There are no false dawns in Del Kathryn Barton's artistic life. Del Kathryn Barton: The Highway is a Disco reveals the artist’s imaginative and deeply sensuous world, where ornately decorated species – both human and animal – are rendered in seductive line and colour.Del Kathryn Barton: The Highway is a Disco is a survey of new and … It has to be your primary relationship’.” Barton has since painted the likes of actors Cate Blanchett in 2011 and Hugo Weaving in 2013 – and won a second Archibald.Take that anxiety and depression, remove the sanctuary of bush and family, then add the city and art student Barton was suddenly navigating Sydney streets, sinking into human traffic, alone and lost in the noise. “I very much lived in the world of the imagination. "I look forward to being enriched along with our audiences by the work other creatives are bringing to this festival. Related Categories.