Known for its vibrant, figurative imagery, Barton's work combines traditional painting techniques with contemporary design and illustrative styles. Although she does a lot of figurative work, much of it self-referential, she doesn't do a great deal of portraiture though she was represented in last year's Archibald Prize with a painting of art dealer Vasili Kaliman.
Born in Sydney in 1972, Barton has a Bachelor of Fine Art from the College of Fine Arts, University of NSW, where she taught for three years until 2003. She has had regular solo exhibitions since 2000 and has participated in national and international group shows including the Helen Lempiere Travelling Art Scholarship, the Blake Prize for Religious Art and the Sulman Prize. She was a finalist in the 2007 Dobell Prize for Drawing.
The 2008 Sulman prize for Subject/genre or mural went to -
Rodney pople: Stage fright
Wynne prize for landscape and figure sculpture -
Joanne Currie nalingu - The river is calm
2008 Trustees' Watercolour Prize winner
John Wolseley
Camel Gate, Border Track, SA/Vic
The archbald prize website history and other info at the link below.
Archibald Prize website
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