Del Kathryn Barton’s creative world-building project imagines empowered, spirited women

Del Kathryn Barton exorcised her rage in her critically acclaimed feature film Blaze, but its aftermath is grief. 

You wouldn't know it if you cast your eye around her Paddington studio: wide-eyed sylphs, sibyls and sages emerge from minutely detailed canvases where chequerboards, dots and strawberries are laden with new meaning. 

Much like a cinema auteur, DKB is engaged in a world-building project and it's a place that brims with female power and agency. 

Who else but Del Kathryn Barton joins The Art Show as Daniel Browning says goodbye after 31 years at the ABC.