Kathy Barry

B. 1969

Red Monochrome from Toward the Edges of Time series, 2024, watercolour and pencil on paper, 880 × 900 mm (framed); 700 × 720 mm (sheet)

Green Monochrome from We Went to the Edges of Time series, 2024, watercolour and pencil on paper, 880 x 900 mm (framed); 700 x 720 mm (sheet)

Red Monochrome from We Went to the Edges of Time series, 2024, watercolour and pencil on paper, 880 × 900 mm (framed); 700 × 720 mm (sheet)

Homeworld, 2014, watercolour and pencil on paper, 880 x 900 mm (framed), 700 x 720 mm (sheet)

12 Energy Diagrams, 2015, watercolour and pencil on paper, 880 x 900 mm (framed) , 700 x 720 mm (sheet)

Homeworld, 2015, watercolour and pencil on paper, 880 x 900 mm (framed), 700 x 720 mm (sheet)

Untitled, 2012, watercolour, gouache, acrylic and pencil on paper, 1185 x 875 mm (framed) $6250

Summer Solstice, 2020, watercolour on paper, 455 x 450 mm (framed) $2860

Petunia, 2021, watercolour and pencil on paper, 485 x 470 mm $2860

Artist Biography

Kathy Barry is based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington. She has an MFA from Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland (2004) and a Postgraduate Diploma in Art History from Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington (20010.

Barry has been exhibiting since 2001, but her practice took its current turn in 2012, when she began producing watercolour drawings that caputre the energy fields she began to see and feel that have structured her series she has produced since that date.

Her works have been included in the 32nd Bienal de Sao Paulo in 2016, and in Believe Not Every Spirit, But Try the spirits at Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA) in Melbourne in 2015. She staged Homeworld, a two-person exhibition with Isobel Thom, at Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery in 2014, after completing the artist residency at McCahon House in West Auckland 2012. Most recently, Barry was featured in Energy Work: Kathy Barry / Sarah Smuts-Kennedy (2022), curated by Christina Barton at Te Pataka Toi Adam Art Gallery. This was her first substantial survey exhibition which gave visual form to intuited energy fields that exceed the human sensorium.

Barry is represented in numerous public and private collections, including Nga Puhipuhi o Te Herenga Waka, Victoria University of Wellington Art Collection; The Koopman Collection, National Library of the Netherlands; Sir George Grey Special Collections, Heritage Collections Auckland Libraries; The University of Auckland Art Collection; The Collection of The New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade; The Suter Art Gallery Te Aratoi O Whakatu.

She was the 2023/24 recipient of the C Art Trust Award.

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Solo Exhibitions

  • Erasing code worlds, 2019
  • Transmission, 2017
  • Space Echo, 2015
  • Tickets to the paper world, 2013
  • Porch light, 2010

Group Exhibitions