Understory 5
Artist: Kym Barrett
Medium: cold wax
Dimensions: 37cm x 37cm framed in black shadow box frame
Kym Barrett has lived and worked in Chatsworth, SE Queensland for over 45 years. She graduated in Fine Arts (painting and drawing) from the Brisbane College of Art (now QCA) in 1975 and has held twenty-two solo exhibitions.
Barrett was the 2022 Bundaberg Art Prize winner, 2021 Flying Arts Queensland Regional Arts Award winner and has won sixteen other Queensland Art Awards. She has been a finalist in twenty Queensland prizes and a finalist in five national awards since 2015. Her work is in the Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery Landscape Collection, Greenslopes Private Hospital, Sunshine Coast Regional Council Art Collection and Moreton Bay Regional Council Art Collection as well as in numerous private collections. Barrett currently creates abstract paintings that are process driven and which whilst exhibiting rich luminosity and depth are intentionally open-ended describing something out of reach but also the artist’s journey to a deeper ground.
Artist: Kym Barrett
Medium: cold wax
Dimensions: 37cm x 37cm framed in black shadow box frame
Kym Barrett has lived and worked in Chatsworth, SE Queensland for over 45 years. She graduated in Fine Arts (painting and drawing) from the Brisbane College of Art (now QCA) in 1975 and has held twenty-two solo exhibitions.
Barrett was the 2022 Bundaberg Art Prize winner, 2021 Flying Arts Queensland Regional Arts Award winner and has won sixteen other Queensland Art Awards. She has been a finalist in twenty Queensland prizes and a finalist in five national awards since 2015. Her work is in the Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery Landscape Collection, Greenslopes Private Hospital, Sunshine Coast Regional Council Art Collection and Moreton Bay Regional Council Art Collection as well as in numerous private collections. Barrett currently creates abstract paintings that are process driven and which whilst exhibiting rich luminosity and depth are intentionally open-ended describing something out of reach but also the artist’s journey to a deeper ground.