With sixty new works cascading over five different mediums, ‘angel dribble’ transforms the entire space of the Gallery into the mythological realm of Del Kathryn Barton.
Barton’s subjects are often women, representative of those you would find in Norse sagas, grand Italian operas or Medieval tapestries. Yet there are also children, unicorns, skulls, tropical flowers and the artist’s own dog “Cherry Bomb”. Uniting the vision is her intensely original “griffe”: the punctured holes of light and painted rivers of line that unite all the shards and secrets. Where some artists generate a body of work, Barton propagates a universe, a cosmology with its own private symbols and visceral language in a composition of intricate detail and scale.
“I bled for this show and what distinguishes this work from anything else I have created in the last twenty years is the diversity of media. There are sculptures forged from sliced toys, found objects from my trove, expensive gem stones and some original elements cast in bronze. There are also thirty new photo-montage works (a first) that in some way lead up to my survey show for the NGV next year.” – Del Kathryn Barton
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery
11 August to 10 September, 2016
Sydney
angel dribble, acrylic on linen, 160 x 140cm
Courtesy the artist and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
