Kate Barry is a Christchurch-born, Brisbane-based painter who has exhibited vastly across Australia and New Zealand. With a multitude of recognitions and awards in her repertoire and many commissions and exhibitions set for 2020, Kate’s first solo exhibition of the year is at Side Gallery in Red Hill, titled, SOURCE. The exhibition will showcase entirely new work, with large scale pieces which we are used to seeing in a Barry exhibition, but with an apt addition of 32 small works on board. These are primarily focussing on process, while exploring the materiality of paint, and restricting the type of gestural strokes available to a 20 x 20cm board.
While the two aspects of the exhibition focus on scale, that is, large works and small works, the small works require a different, more introspective approach. The small works collection — while still gestural — as a whole, appears more intimate and reveals the artist’s hand in a more evident manner. The two aspects of the exhibition merit a kind of quiet reflection while we take in the subtleties and expressive qualities of mystery, sensuousness, and nostalgia.
In true Kate Barry style, the whole body of work emphasises free, spontaneous, and emotional expression with the mark-making techniques she uses and a killer colour palette that nods to her background in design.
The works in SOURCE are a reference to the source of inspiration, or the source of Kate’s emotional expression, and emphasises the unstudied and intuitive application of paint. Dynamic compositional drama, teamed with Kate’s ability to tie lyricism and beauty to gestural mark-making, consistently proves the artist’s ability to reflect, articulate, and capture an expression.

Unfurling 2019
Acrylic and oil on canvas
46 x 62 cm
$1390 Framed

Memento 2019
Acrylic and oil on canvas
105 x 105cm
$2390 Framed

Halcyon 2020
Acrylic and oil on canvas
104 x 104cm
$2390 Sold

Kaleidascope 2019
Acrylic and oil on canvas
25 x 30 cm
$390 Sold

Small Trails 2020
Acrylic oil on canvas
51 x 41 cm
$1190 Framed

Bush Reverie 2019
Acrylic and oil on canvas
78 x 78cm
$1890 Sold

Ulterior 2020
Acrylic and oil on canvas
76 x76 cm
$1890 Framed

Hunker Down 2020
Oil on canvas
31 x 41 cm
$690 Sold

Thirst 2020
Oil on canvas
31 x 31 cm
$590 Sold

Feeding Frenzy
Acrylic and oil on canvas
133 x 92cm
$3200 Sold

Blue Intervention 2020
Acrylic and oil on canvas
76 x76 cm
$1890 Framed

Sublimate 2020
Oil on canvas
31 x 31 cm
$590 Sold

Lost Gold 2019
Oil on canvas
32 x 32 cm
$590 Framed

Trickle effect
Oil on canvas
20 x 20cm
$350 Sold

Haze 2020
Oil on canvas
95 x 95cm
$2290 Framed

Vottie 2020
Oil on board
20 x 20cm
$175

Japanese Garden 2020
Oil on board
20 x 20cm
$175 Sold

Beware Falling Rocks — Kate Barry
Oil on board
20 x 20cm
$175 Sold

Silent 2020
Oil on board
20 x 20cm
$175 Sold

Tamarillo 2020
Oil on board
20 x 20cm
$175

Curly Tracks 2020
Oil on board
20 x 20cm
$175

Glimpse 2020
Oil on board
20 x 20cm
$175

Shots 2020
Oil on board
20 x 20cm
$175 Sold

Drift 2020
Oil on board
20 x 20cm
$175 Sold

Threads 2020
Oil on board
20 x 20cm
$175 Sold

Clean Your Room 2020
Oil on board
20 x 20cm
$150 Sold

Drenched 2020
Oil on board
20 x 20cm
$175 Sold

Sea Silk 2020
Oil on board
20 x 20cm
$175 Sold

House On Fire 2020
Oil on board
20 x 20cm
$175 Sold

Ghost Reeds 2020
Oil on board
20 x 20cm
$175 Sold

Watching Willows 2020
Oil on board
20 x 20cm
$175 Sold

Tattered 2020
Oil on board
20 x 20cm
$175 Sold

Gum Sliver 2020
Oil on board
20 x 20cm
$175 Sold

Lyrics 2020
Oil on board
20 x 20cm
$175 Sold

Blue By You 2020
Oil on board
20 x 20cm
$175 Sold

Cloudy 2020
Oil on board
20 x 20cm
$175 Sold

Sorbet 2020
Oil on board
20 x 20cm
$175 Sold

Spellbound 2020
Acrylic and oil on board
20 x 20cm
$175 Sold

Home holiday 2020
Oil on board
20 x 20cm
$175 Sold

Puffer 2020
Oil on board
20 x 20cm
$175 Sold

Hanging around 2020
Oil on board
20 x 20cm
$175 Sold

Summer Slacks 2020
Oil on board
20 x 20cm
$175 Sold

Ignite 2020
Oil on board
20 x 20cm
$175 Sold

Embers 2020
Oil on board
20 x 20cm
$175 Sold

Blue Moon 2020
Oil on board
20 x 20cm
$175 Sold

Undertow 2020
Oil on board
20 x 20cm
$175 Sold

Conundrum 2020
Oil on board
20 x 20cm
$175 Sold

Panetone 2020
Ink and oil on canvas
86 x 86 cm
$1790 Sold

Obstacles 2020
Oil and acrylic on board
42 x 52 cm
$960 Sold

Bleached Beach 2020
Acrylic and oil on canvas
32 x 31 cm
$490 Sold

Secret Paths Unframed 2020
Oil and acrylic on board
47 x 61 cm
$1590 Framed