Rapture


PRICE LIST : All prices include GST  

1. Winter  Vines,  charcoal on paper  Image 107x51cm Framed 128.5 x 71cm 2021         $6,000.

2. Bastikiya 1, charcoal on paper Image 107x63cm Framed  128.5 x 83 cm 2021                      $6,500.

3. Bastikya 2, charcoal on paper Image 107x63cm Framed 128.5 x 83 cm 2021                          $6,500.

4. Lacework, charcoal on paper Image 33x107cm Framed 43.5x117cm 2021                   $2,600.

5.Bougainvillea & Shadow,  charcoal on paper Image 33.7 x 51.5cm Framed 44.2 x 61.5cm 2021 $1,600.

6. Tangle I,  charcoal on paper Image 72.5 x30.4 cm Framed 83x40.5cm 2021                  $2,200.

7. Seaweed Shadows,  charcoal on paper Image 72 x 32cm Framed 82.5 x42cm 2021        $2,200.

8. Tangle II, charcoal on paper Image 72.4x24.5cm Framed 83 x 34.5cm 2021                    $2,100.

 9.Banyena Magic Tree, charcoal on paper  Image 107x72cm Framed 128.5 x 92cm 2021      $6,800. 

10. Embrace, charcoal on paper  Image 107x 67.5cm Framed 128.5 x 87.5 2021                $6,800.

11. Rapture I, charcoal on paper Image 72 x 98cm Framed 93.5 x118cm 2021               $6,800.

12. Rapture II, charcoal on paper  Image 72x107cm Framed 93.5 x127 cm 2021                $6,800.

13. Evolve, charcoal on paper Image 107x57cm Framed 128.5 x77cm 2021                      $6,500.

14.Bougainvillea, charcoal on paper  Image 71x36 cm Framed 81.5x46cm 2021               $2,500.

15. 'Rapture- Detail' charcoal on paper Image 35 x72cm Framed 42.5x82cm 2021            $2,500.


With an art career spanning over 30 years, exhibiting both nationally and internationally, artist Kathryn Ryan has returned to her home town and will be hosting her first Warrnambool solo exhibition at The F Project Gallery in January.

Rapture is a new series of large scale and medium charcoal drawings, created during the past year of lockdowns which allowed more focused studio time in isolation. The drawings depict intimate details from nature, vine wrapped tree trunks, bark covered gums and seaweed, micro views, up close and personal. In Rapture, the intricate and detailed beauty from the natural world are explored in depth with layered, tonal and observational charcoal works.

These drawings allude to the extraordinary beauty in nature, the intimate details invite us to look within and at our surroundings.

Kathryn's artwork focuses on the juxtaposition of strength and fragility, the intimate and the distant, the fleeting and the solid, played out through her treatment of shadow and light, which is simultaneously bold and subtle, precise and ambiguous.

Kathryn has consistently held sell out exhibitions for over 25 years with leading Galleries in Melbourne and Sydney. Her work has been acquired for significant Public Collections including Parliament House, Canberra, RACV Collection, Warrnambool Art Gallery, The Macquarie Group Collection, Artbank, Deakin University and private collections in both Australia and internationally. Kathryn has been a finalist multiple times in major Australian Art Prizes including: The Wynne Prize at AGNSW, Salon des Refuses, Wynne - SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney, Geelong Contemporary Art Prize- Geelong Gallery, The Paul Guest Prize - Bendigo Art Gallery, The John Leslie Art Prize for Landscape - Gippsland Art Gallery. In 2015, The Warrnambool Art Gallery held a major 20 year Survey Show of her art practice. The exhibition, A Quiet Place, featured Paintings and Drawings from 1995- 2015 loaned from private and public collections.

Kathryn was recently awarded The RACV Visual Arts Grant in response to the impacts of Covid-19 , to create new work and support her art practice with the opportunity to showcase new work at RACV venues in 2022. This exhibition is supported by a Sustaining Creative Workers Grant: The Australian Government's Regional Arts Fund is provided through Regional Arts Australia, administered in Victoria by Regional Arts Victoria.

www.kathrynryanartist.com  0425 716 647