Artist profile
Harry
Bayston
Harry Bayston (b. 1994 UK) is a Naarm based artist whose brush pushes entangled limbs topsy turvying between layers of gestural marks. Faces look down to smiles and waves as their legs go the opposite direction. A ragtag group of characters showboat and play coy with the viewer across these colourful surfaces.
Harry Bayston holds a Master of Fine Art with Distinction from RMIT (2022) and a Bachelor of Fine Art with Honours from UNSW AD (2017). He has exhibited consistently since 2017 in Victoria and New South Wales with multiple solo and group exhibitions at both commercial and artist run galleries. His work is held in private and corporate collections across Australia and Europe, and has been commissioned for several murals, installations and publications.
Career Highlights
- Completing 2024 with both a solo and group exhibition, artist residency and work featured in a design studio while battling cancer.
Artist Interview
What medium do you work with, and why have you chosen them?
My predominant medium is acrylic paint. Depending on the piece, it can also include oil paint, oil pastels and gouache. Texture and tactility are key in the creation of these various artworks, with the painted surfaces ranging from hand stitched textiles to canvas and wood panels.
How does your artwork get from initial concept to exhibition stage?
There's an age old cliche, blood, sweat and tears; one might better say, paint, sweat and fears.
Can you tell us a little more about your creative working environment/studio?
Good music (subjective) and light (objective), the rest is just circumstantial.
