National Portrait Gallery

Maiden Mother Crone

Exhibiting together for the first time in Maiden Mother Crone, Del Kathryn Barton, Emily Hunt and Jess Johnson present works that bewitch, transform and create a cacophony of disruptive female…

Exhibitions

Event Details

Category

Exhibitions

Event Starts

Nov 14, 2026 10:00

Event Ends

May 23, 2027 17:00

Venue

National Portrait Gallery

Location

King Edward Terrace, Parkes ACT, Australia

Age-old archetypes that have long confined women collide in this exhibition of contemporary artists Del Kathryn Barton, Emily Hunt and Jess Johnson. Exhibiting together for the first time and presenting works that span painting, sculpture, drawings, ceramics, and video work, Barton, Hunt and Johnson create a cacophony of disruptive female energy in Maiden Mother Crone.

Featuring new works by each artist, the exhibition shows us how portraiture can be a vessel for contradiction and transformation, and how the bright and the beautiful can coexist with the dark and distasteful.

Be bewitched, leave transformed.

Image: Del Kathryn Barton the daughter 2012 [detail]. Commissioned by Art & Australia Magazine and Dott Publishing. © Del Kathryn Barton.

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