KYRA HENLEY

A consummate draftsman and National Art School graduate, Henley has gravitated toward portraiture and still lifes, more recently extending into landscapes and collage. Her work draws variously on the Pop Art movement and earlier traditions such as Dutch still life painting.

Having won early recognition with the Waverly Art Prize for Oil Painting, Henley was Curwoods Artist In Residence in 2010. She exhibits regularly at Robin Gibson Gallery in Sydney, and has also shown at Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Virginia Wilson Art, SH Ervin Gallery, Mary Place Gallery and Harris Courtin Gallery. Her work has featured in prizes including the Portia Geach, the Mosman Art Prize, Eutick Memorial Still Life Award, the Hazelhurst Prize for Works on Paper, National Trust Harper’s Mansion Art Prize, the Lloyd Rees Youth Award.

Henley was the winner of ART Sydney’s Off The Wall Prize, the Sydney Art Cooperative Studio Prize and the Murrey Sime Award for Painting. Her commissions include a mural series for Ella Bache, and her work has featured in Vogue Living, the Sun-Herald, Cult Magazine and street press titles.