Ken Wentworth

Ken Wentworth is a contemporary Australian visual artist based in Melbourne. The foundation of his initial painting practice used existing cultural images of public figures from the media and repositioned them into a new allegorical framework, enabling an alternative perspective of meaning to be explored.

His current practice expands upon this via paintings of figure groupings, that combine with text and installation elements, to create absurd icons of the modern world.

Future performance,  installation-based and painted works will explore unspoken realities, individual or collective vulnerabilities, to implicate the viewer to think of their own experiences or consider the lived experiences of others.

Ken graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts - The University of Melbourne with a Bachelor of Fine Art (Painting) in the year 2000, and completed a Masters of Fine Art (Coursework) at RMIT University in the year 2020.