We spent the weekend painting. Philip got a start on the bathroom downstairs where we are doing a cheapy reno to spruce up the space a bit. We also painted finished off some painting in the kitchen. All a perfect job for a rainy weekend.
On Sunday I went into the city to see the Archibald prize exhibition. There were some great paintings and some not so great paintings (I think you need to be on some serious drugs to understand them). I have to agree with the winning painting however. I thought it was a wonderful painting and the colours were just wonderful in it.
“This painting celebrates Del Kathryn Bartons love for her two children and how her relationship with them has radically informed and transformed her understanding of who she is” “The title of the work – you are what is most beautiful about me – alludes to that utterly profound ‘in-loveness’ that all mothers have for their children.
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.
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