Kym Barrett is a painter who graduated in Fine Arts from the Brisbane College of Art in 1975 and now lives and works in her studio set in bush land and creek in S.E. Queensland. It is these surroundings that inspire her to make paintings that evoke a sense of depth and mystery while echoing the marks, colours and textures of the landscape she is immersed in every day.
Oils, cold wax medium and drawing tools are her most frequently chosen media and gestural mark-making is a feature of the work, sometimes strongly and at other times, subtly.
Kym has held fifteen solo exhibitions and numerous group exhibitions.
Her paintings are contained in private collections in Australia, USA and Canada, and in several Queensland public collections.
Kym is the:
- WINNER 2019 $3000 Du Reitz Art Awards (locals)
- FINALIST, Moreton Bay Art Award 2018
- FINALIST, Stanthorpe Art Prize
- FINALIST, Pro Hart Outback Art Prize
- WINNER, OPEN AWARD, Mary Valley Art Festival
- WINNER of the Rush Art Festival 2016,
- WINNER of the $17,500 Kenilworth Painting Prize 2014, and
- FINALIST in the 2012 and 2013 Kenilworth Painting Prize
- FINALIST in the Sunshine Coast Art Prize 2015
- FINALIST in the Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award 2014, Moreton Bay Art Awards 2012, 2014 and 2015, Noosa Art Award 2014; and
- WINNER of the Andrew Fisher Portrait Prize, 2014.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Greenslopes Private Hospital, Brisbane
Sunshine Coast Regional Council
Bundaberg R Art Gallery Landscape Collection
Gympie Regional Council
Moreton Bay Regional Council Art Collection
Immanuel Lutheran College, Buderim
Assisi College, Gold Coast
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Australia, USA, Scotland, Canada, New Zealand
PUBLICATIONS
Cold Wax Medium – techniques, concepts and conversations, by Rebecca Crowell & Jerry McLaughlin
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