Kyle Barnes
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From Cookstown, Northern Ireland, Kyle Barnes graduated from The University of Ulster, Belfast, in 2010 with a BA Hons degree in Fine and Applied Arts. Since then he has won the Towry prize at the National Open Art Competition, exhibited at the prestigious Pallant House Gallery in Chicester and most recently been awarded the KPMG Young Artist Award at the RUA Belfast.
He is interested in the process of painting, manipulating the material and working to its distinct qualities, while paying heed to differing textures in skin and how this is conveyed through tonal value and the temperature of colour. He is inspired by our perception of, and our interaction with each other through visual identity. The combination of expression, eye contact, concealment, colour and texture makes for a varied involvement with each of his works.
Education
BTEC Diploma Foundation Art and Design at Limavady College 2005/06
BA Hons Fine and Applied Art at University of Ulster 2007/10
Exhibitions
Canvas Galleries, Belfast, April 2009
RDS Student Awards, August 2009 (further selected for travelling exhibition, 2 shows) - RUA RED,
Tallaght, Dublin August 2009
Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny, October 2009
Degree Show, University of Ulster, Belfast, June 2010
Bradbury Gallery, August 2010
Carrie Neely Waterfront Christmas Exhibition, Belfast, December 2010
Young Contemporaries Exhibition, Whalley Gallery, Holywood, June 2011
RUA, Ulster Museum, Belfast, October 2011
Art at the Ivory Exhibition, Belfast, Nov- Jan 2011/12
National Open Art Competition, Minerva Theatre, Chichester, December 2011
Prize winners exhibition, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, January 2012
Burnavon Arts Centre, Cookstown, July 2013
RDS, Dublin Art Fair, November 2013
Chimera Gallery, September 2014
RUA, Ulster Museum, Belfast, October 2014
Awards
Towry Award, best painting from Northern Ireland for 'Bill and Ben' at the
National Open Art Competition
KPMG Young Artist Award, RUA Belast 2014
Press
Featured in Northern Ireland Home and Lifestyle magazine, July/August 2010 edition
Featured in Northern Ireland Home and Lifestyle magazine, Nov/December 2011 edition
Culture NI , November 2011 Art Review, Art at the Ivory
Ulster Life, November 2011 , A month in the art world
Mid Ulster Mail, December 2011
For-example Online magazine, October 2012
Public Catalogue Foundation
Mid Ulster mail, July 2013
For-example Online magazine, July 2013
Sorted magazine, March/April 2014 Juxtapoz online, October 2014, juxtapoz.com
Ignant, October 2014, ignant.de
Cross Connect, October 2014, crossconnectmag.com
Journal du design, October 2014, journal-du-design.fr
Art People Gallery, October 2014, www.facebook.com/artpeople1
Q106 Radio, October 2014
Emma Duff, RUA review, October 2014,
blogs.qub.ac.uk/belfastfestival/royal-ulster-academy/
Liz Baird Review of RUA, Belfast Telegraph, October 2014
Irish Arts Review, Winter 2014