About Troy Barbitta
Perth Contemporary Artist Working Across Art, Design and Visual Culture
Troy Barbitta is a multidisciplinary artist and designer whose work explores the layered intersection of culture, nature, myth, and modern design. Based in Perth, Australia, Troy creates original artworks that blend 17th-century illustration, advertising fragments, and architectural forms with symbolic watchers…characters that observe and guide through change.
My work is an excavation of visual culture, fragments of time, memory, and myth layered into modern relics.
Drawing from historical illustration, signage decay, and the visual language of branding, I build modular panels that speak in a language of collage, contradiction, and quiet symbolism.
Each piece is a living mosaic. Ink, print, type, and texture are not just materials, they’re cultural remains, reassembled to question our relationship with design, nature, and self.
Watchers, mythical guardians of a changing Earth, appear throughout my work as silent guides. They live in the background, observing, reminding, reconnecting.
This is not traditional painting. It’s not pure design. It’s a fusion, curated chaos and constructed stillness. Artifacts of the observed, made by hand. Never AI.
Troy Barbitta
“Every mark is human.
Every layer holds a watcher.”
Troy Barbitta
Selected Collaborations
Troy’s practice has moved beyond the gallery wall and into wine, hospitality, architecture, public events and collaborative spaces. These projects explore how art can shift in scale and form, responding to a particular place, object or audience while retaining the layered visual language of his wider practice.
Leeuwin Estate Art Series
Art series collaboration with one of Western Australia’s most recognised cultural and wine destinations.
Pickle District After Dark
Exhibited as part of the Pickle District’s annual celebration of art, design, music and creative culture.
FORM WA Public Salon
Selected work presented through FORM’s public platform for Western Australian artists and creative practice.
Aloft Perth
Original artwork and visual collaboration created for the contemporary hotel environment.
Hougoumont Hotel
Art integrated into the identity and experience of Fremantle’s boutique hotel.
Cocoon Fires
A creative collaboration bringing art, form and functional design together.
Human-Made, Design-Informed, Myth-Inspired.
Explore Troy’s original artworks, fine art prints, and visual projects—each one hand-assembled, deeply researched, and made to echo across time.
