THE GALERY IS CLOSED FRIDAY 29 AUGUST.  SORRY FOR THE INCONVENIENCE.

OPENING EVENT: Wednesday, 13 August, 5.30 - 7.30pm
ARTIST TALK: Saturday, 16 August, 12pm mid-day

Kathy Barry presents a new solo exhibition - her first time showing with Melanie Roger Gallery.

We Went to the Edges of Time works to bring together colour and pattern to vibrate as frequency to affect the viewer energetically. There are two series that build upon each other to create an intensity of affect and meaning. Red and green are employed as colours to refresh and recharge the viewer, allowing for a release of energy from their field. The final paintings in both series act as a vortex to create an imprint on the viewer. Almost like an opening to new energies, light and frequency. The window work, Star Antenna, starts and ends the grouping, closing a circuit of energy work. In this piece there is a sense of a field that is quantum, interconnected and multidimensional. All of the works in the show are the result of suspending artistic agency to allow something other and more-than-self to come through. This aligns with the content embedded in the work. Almost as though the work itself is the pathway to its becoming.

A commissioned response piece of new writing by Robyn Maree Pickens accompanies the exhibition.  Available to read online at link below.

Kathy Barry is a visual artist based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara.Barry holds a Master of Fine Arts with Honours and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Te Waka Tūhura Elam School of Fine Arts, Waipapa Taumata Rau The University of Auckland, as well as a Postgraduate Diploma in Art History from Victoria University of Wellington Te Herenga Waka.

In 2024 her work was included in the major international group show Duty of Care at IMA/Institute of Modern Art in Meanjin Brisbane, curated by Stephanie Berlangieri, Robert Leonard and Angela Goddard. In 2023 she was selected by a private panel to receive the prestigious C Art Trust Award. Her first substantial survey exhibition, Energy Work, with Sarah Smuts-Kennedy, was curated by Christina Barton for Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery (2022).

Kathy’s work was represented in INCERTEZA VIVA the 32nd São Paolo Bienal (2016), curated by Danish curator and writer, Lars Bang Larson, who also included her work in Believe Not Every Spirit, But Try the Spirit at MUMA/Monash University Museum Art in Melbourne (2015). She staged Homeworld, a two-person exhibition with Isobel Thom, at Te Uru Waitākere Contemporary Gallery (2014), after completing an artist residency at Parehuia McCahon House followed by a residency at the Vermont Studio Center in the USA (2012).

Barry's artworks are held numerous public and private collections, including Ngā Puhipuhi o Te Herenga Waka Art Collection; The Koopman Collection at the National Library of the Netherlands; Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries; The University of Auckland Art Collection; Wellington City Council Art Collection; the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade; The Arts House Trust; and The Suter Art Gallery Te Aratoi o Whakatū.