Bianca Vern-Barnett is an artist based in the Hunter Valley, Australia. She is the winner of the 2024 Hunter Emerging Art Prize for painting and will exhibit a new body of work in her first solo show at Straitjacket, Newcastle in September.
Her work has been selected as a finalist in the National Emerging Art Prize, The Hornsby Art Prize and the Newcastle Club Foundation Painting Prize.
Vern-Barnett creates abstract works which use layers to depict the chronology of a variety of historical, cultural, and personal narratives. She is a graduate of UNSW College of Fine Arts.