careful the floor is wet, exhibition at mono, lisbon 2021
2020 exhibition Melbourne
After a 13 month studio residency in Hamburg Germany at Frappant .eV Barnet stages an experimental painting installation. Collage, paint and drawing techniques are used to navigate how the body and personhood connect to space and movement and the flow of the contemporary era. Barnett is interested in the space that individuals inhabit within this constant change and the parallel between the concept of water and the human condition. Individuals, like water, are in constant flux and states of transition, always the same but always different, drifting in the never ending stream of time. Barnett's expanded approach to painting attempts to open opportunity within the limitations of painting. Materials layer in space and lead to unfolding possibilities.
Installed at Tinning Street Presents Melbourne. Documentary photography by Chris Bowes.
Untitled Brass figure, acrylic and oil on aluminium composite. 50 x 62 cm, 2019.
Untitled Brass figure, acrylic and oil on aluminium composite. 50 x 62 cm, 2019.
Untitled Brass figure, acrylic and oil on aluminium composite. 50 x 62 cm, 2019.
Untitled Brass figure, acrylic and oil on aluminium composite. 50 x 62 cm, 2019.
Untitled Brass figure, acrylic and oil on aluminium composite. 50 x 62 cm, 2019.
Untitled Brass figure, acrylic and oil on aluminium composite. 50 x 62 cm, 2019.
Untitled Brass figure, acrylic and oil on aluminium composite. 50 x 62 cm, 2019.
Tiled towel, acrylic and oil on aluminium composite, acrylic mirror fram, 19 x 19 x 12.5 cm, 2019.
Curiosities I, acrylic and oil on aluminium composite, acrylic mirror fram, 19 x 19 x 12.5 cm, 2019.
Curiosities II, acrylic and oil on aluminium composite, acrylic mirror fram, 19 x 19 x 12.5 cm, 2019.
Liquidity, painting, drawing, collage installation project. Installed at Frappant Galerie, Hamburg Germany. August 2019. The exhibition was a culmination of a one year studio residency at the Frappant artists house.
Martinis and hot feet, oil and acrylic paint on aluminium composite, 100 x 150 cm. 2017
Watermark, oil paint on aluminum composite, 30 x 40 cm. 2017
Silver flow, oil paint on aluminum composite, 30 x 40 cm. 2017
Brass figure I, oil and acrylic paint on aluminium composite, 40 x 60 cm. 2017
Brass figure II, oil and acrylic paint on aluminium composite, 40 x 60 cm. 2017
Narcissus in vogue, oil and acrylic paint on aluminium composite, 40 x 60 cm. 2017
Comber, oil and acrylic paint on aluminium composite, 40 x 60 cm. 2017
Poolside, oil and acrylic paint on aluminium composite, 40 x 60 cm. 2017
Gallery install view, Sawtooth ARI, Launceston, Hobart, Australia. 2017
Gallery install view, Sawtooth ARI, Launceston, Hobart, Australia. 2017
Gallery install view, Sawtooth ARI, Launceston, Hobart, Australia. 2017
Untitled (kalopsia), acrylic and oil paint on aluminium composite, each panel is 100 x 150 cm. 2015
Untitled (kalopsia), acrylic and oil paint on aluminium composite, each panel is 100 x 150 cm. 2015
Untitled (kalopsia), acrylic and oil paint on aluminium composite, each panel is 100 x 150 cm. 2015
Untitled (kalopsia), acrylic and oil paint on aluminium composite, each panel is 100 x 150 cm. 2015
Stella, acrylic and oil paint on aluminium composite 35 x 30cm. 2015
Coco, acrylic and oil paint on aluminium composite 35 x 30 cm. 2015
Gallery install view, Tinning Street Presents gallery Melbourne Australia. July - August 2015.
Gallery install view, Tinning Street Presents gallery Melbourne Australia. July - August 2015.
Gallery install view, Tinning Street Presents gallery Melbourne Australia. July - August 2015.
Gallery install view, Tinning Street Presents gallery Melbourne Australia. July - August 2015.
Gallery install view, Tinning Street Presents gallery Melbourne Australia. July - August 2015.
Gallery install view, Tinning Street Presents gallery Melbourne Australia. July - August 2015.
Consume me, acrylic and oil paint on composite board, each panel 122 x 60 cm. 2013
Consume me, acrylic and oil paint on composite board, each panel 122 x 60 cm. 2013
Consume me, acrylic and oil paint on composite board, each panel 122 x 60 cm. 2013
Gallery install view, 69 Smith Street Gallery. 2013
Erosion, oil paint on aluminium composite, 35 cm x 30 cm. 2016
Untitled, oil pant on aluminium composite, 30cm x 35cm. 2016
Untitled, oil paint on aluminium composite, 30cm x 35cm. 2016
Girl in Paris, copic marker on paper, 26cm x 21cm. 2016
Untitled, Oil paint on aluminium composite, 30cm x 35cm. 2016
Blue Funk, acrylic and oil paint on composite board, 122 cm x 60 cm. 2013
When she realises she is under glass, acrylic and oil paint on composite board, 122 cm x 60 cm. 2013
Don’t look down, acrylic and oil paint on composite board, 122 cm x 60 cm. 2013
Famed, acrylic and oil paint on composite board, 122 cm x 60 cm. 2013
Uptown, acrylic and oil paint on composite board. 2013
I listen to you, you listen to me, acrylic and oil paint on composite board. 2013.
sucked in, acrylic and oil paint on composite board, 122 cm x 60 cm. 2013.
I’m still what I’m meant to be, acrylic and oil paint on composite board, 122 cm x 60 cm. 2013
Gallery install view, Famesque, Tinning Street Presents, gallery Melbourne, Australia. May 2013
Intimate strangers, archival print on aluminium composite board, each panel is 14 cm x 41 cm. 2012
Word up, synthetic polymer and engraving on aluminium composite. Created for ‘Factivism’ Counihan Gallery Melbourne, Australia. Summer exhibition. November 2016.
In the flood, copic marker on paper. Shown at Rubicon gallery Melbourne, Australia. 2014
Mirror me, self-portrait, Oil paint on aluminium composite. 2016
Untitled (9:15 am) Self portrait, selected for the New Zealand Adam Portraiture Award 2016. Oil on Canvas.
Catch me, ink jet prints and gold enamel, mounted onto wood boards. Dimensions variable, Bond Song curated by Alistar Karl for the Melbourne Fringe festival. 2013.
Catch me, ink jet prints and gold enamel, mounted onto wood boards. Dimensions variable, Bond Song curated by Alistar Karl for the Melbourne Fringe festival. 2013.
