Canadian born Kerwayne Berry immigrated to Australia in 1981 and after establishing her first studio in Newtown in 2000, she has since relocated to Southern Sydney to concentrate on her arts practice.
Kerwayne has become recognised for her subtle responses to the Australian landscape in mixed media works utilising a variety of mediums and techniques including printmaking and more recently, painting.
Kerwayne revels in exploring and capturing her experience of the texture and light of the watery edges of the unique rock, and land-locked, pools of Australia and the waterless landlocked interiors.
Through the use of colour, exciting textures and the expressive energy in her work she opens herself to the viewer to share in the emotions of the moment encouraging us to reconnect with nature and the elements.
Kate King, in describing Kerwayne Berry's work, writes:
"There is a rhythm playing through her work that is expressive of elemental forces of water, earth, air and fire.These landscapes found within rock pools and the waters edge appear to echo aspects of Turner’s landscapes in their rawness. ...timeless and beyond cartography ...a reflective surface into which viewers fall ...that quiet place at the core of being, (eliciting)...a sense of discovery, resisting interpretation, ...and ...indiscriminate in it's beckoning."
Kerwayne’s distinctive style expresses depth and energy through a sophisticated layering of visceral experience.
Solo Exhibitions (Selected)
2017
Displaced, Artsite Galleries, Sydney, NSW
2015
Binalong, Artsite Galleries, Sydney, NSW2009, 07, 06Gallery NTK, Croyden, Sydney, NSW
Group Exhibitions (Recent Selected)
2020
Collector´s Choice 2020, Artsite Galleries, Sydney, NSW.
2020, 19, 18, 17
Packsaddle Exhibition, New England Regional Gallery, Armidale, NSW.
Take Away, Artsite Galleries, Sydney, NSW.
2019
Collector´s Choice 2019, Artsite Galleries, Sydney, NSW.
2018
Collector´s Choice 2018, Artsite Galleries, Sydney, NSW.
Espirit de Corps, Artsite Galleries, Sydney, NSW.
2017
Collector´s Choice 2017, Artsite Galleries, Sydney, NSW.
2016
Collector´s Choice 2016, Artsite Galleries, Sydney, NSW.
The GPS has no idea where I am going!, Artsite Galleries Sydney, NSW
2015
Collector´s Choice 2015, Artsite Galleries, Sydney, NSW.
What Art Money can Buy: An exhibition of local Australian Artists Works, Artsite Galleries, Sydney, NSW
2014
Collector's Choice 2014, Artsite Galleries, Sydney, NSW
Winter Solace, Artsite Galleries, Sydney, NSW
M.O.S.T. 2014 - Marrickville Open Studio Trail, NSW
2014, 13, 12, 11, 10, 09, 08
Lennox Street Studios Exhibition, Newtown, NSW
2013
Collector's Choice 2013, Artsite Galleries, Sydney, NSW
Walking The Landscape, Artsite Galleries, Sydney, NSW
2012
Hidden Treasures, Artsite Galleries, Sydney, NSW
2012, 11
St Thomas Art Fair, Willoughby, NSW
2011
GU11 - Sydney Fringe Festival 2011 Exhibition, Artsite Galleries Sydney, NSW
Finalist Exhibition, Hunters Hill Art Prize, NSW
2011, 10, 08
Balmain Arts & Crafts Fair Exhibition, Balmain, NSW
2010
Marrickville Womens Salon (WMS 2010) Inaugural, biennial curated exhibition, ESP Gallery, Marrickville, NSW
2009, 07, 06
Gallery NTK, Croyden, NSW
2009, 05, 03
Drummoyne Art Society Award Exhibition, NSW
2008
Pressed for Space, Ewart Gallery, Willoughby, NSW
2006
Watch House Gallery, Balmain,NSW
2002
Side On Gallery, Annandale, Sydney, NSW
