Kerry Inkster

I was born and raised in a small dusty town in country South Australia - the daughter of farmers. I distinctly recall seeing articles about Pollock and Warhol as a young teenager and thought that artists only truly existed in a fabled world. However, as misplaced as it was in my environment, I loved art - the only place I felt a sense of true enquiry, self reflection, breath, and peace. After a diversion into a "sensible career" and motherhood I became a professional artist, conceptually trained through the South Australian School of Art in 2012 with a Bachelor of Visual Art, Specialisation Painting. Through my hard work I won the 2013 University of South Australia Medal for outstanding academic achievement in the Division of Education, Arts and Social Sciences. I was also selected and entered into The Helpmann Academy Graduate Exhibition in 2013.
Fast forward to today, I live in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, with my partner and our collective 6 kids, 3 dogs, and 5 chickens. I am very fortunate and have my own home studio where I get to fling paint and explore my passion - painting!! As far as I'm concerned there's nothing better than applying paint in it's many forms - watching it move, blend, bleed, and dry! I am interested in asking questions about the human condition through my figurative and portrait paintings and drawings. Mostly working from photographs and film stills, I have a particular interest in observing the female image and the cultural implications that these images represent. Much of my interest at this point in time is in feminist artists, gender discrimination, horizontal segregation - and you may notice that my painting style is also reflective of this as I paint (as most action painters do) horizontally. As I have been subject to sexual discrimination, a patriarchal culture, and domestic violence, strong beautiful women interest me. On my artistic journey I have developed my style from hyper realistic beginnings to simplified shape and form with the influences of action painting Expressionism and Pop Art. I'm hugely interested in colour, tone, composition, texture, and movement - and I focus on these elements within my figures and faces.
Please contact me if you'd like to discuss art at anytime!