Artist statement:

I keep returning to a number of landscapes over the years. In particular Lake Mungo, The Little Desert, Flinders Ranges and Larapinta.  

These places resonate deeply - ‘Brushland Ochre’ was painted plein air at Mungo. The usual suspects of color, line, surface and composition engage but it’s the pictorial space at Mungo that has me. The big sky and open track to the Walls of China are mesmerising.  Quiet, beautiful and dense in history.  

(David Beaumont, June 2019)

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Artist biography:

Education: 

2011 – Masters Visual Art, Victorian College of Arts, Melbourne

2010 – Post Graduate Diploma of Visual Arts, Victorian College of Arts, Melbourne

1996–1998 Fine Arts, University of Ballarat

Solo Exhibitions:

2018 Salt Contemporary Art, Queenscliff, Victoria, Of the Land

2017 Salt Contemporary Art, Queenscliff, Victoria, Larapinta Palimpsest

2016 Salt Contemporary Art, Queenscliff, Victoria, Summer Series

2015 Salt Contemporary Art, Queenscliff, Victoria, New Paintings

2013 Salt Contemporary Art, Queenscliff, Victoria, Land and Sea

2012 ‘Asylum’, Blindside Gallery, Melbourne

2011 Geelong Gallery, Victoria, ‘Eu thanatos’

2010 Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, ‘Oh Susannah Those Sleazy Elders’

2009 Salt Contemporary Art, Queenscliff, ‘shift’

2009 Greenhill Galleries, Adelaide, South Australia, ‘line and land’

2009 Ballan and Pannan, Sorrento, Victoria, ‘new paintings’

2008 Salt Contemporary Art, Queenscliff, ‘reasoned disorder’

2008 Geelong Gallery, Victoria, Landmarks: beyond the surface

2007 Salt Contemporary Art, Queenscliff, Victoria, New Paintings

2006 Rushcutters Bay Gallery, Sydney, The Nature of Ambiguity

2006 Salt Contemporary Art, Queenscliff, Victoria, New Paintings

2005 Cruz Galleries, Docklands, Melbourne, New Paintings

2005 Hitchcock Avenue, Barwon Heads, Victoria, New Paintings

2004 Salt Contemporary Art, Queenscliff, Victoria, Swan Bay Series

2003 Queenscliff Hotel, Queenscliff, Recent works

2003 Convent Gallery, Daylesford, Victoria, Landscape

2002 Convent Gallery, Daylesford, Recent works  

1999 Powerhouse Gallery, Daylesford, The landscape and other abstractions

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2018 20/20: A Sense of Place, McCulloch & McCulloch, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria

2017 Terra Firma, Boom Gallery, Geelong, Victoria

2017 A Sense of Place, McCulloch & McCulloch, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria

2016-2017 Summer Series, Salt Contemporary Art, Queenscliff, Victoria

2016 Scotch College, Indigenous Foundation fundraising exhibition, Melbourne, Victoria

2014 Land and Sea, Salt Contemporary Art, Queenscliff, Victoria

2011 Poles Apart, Experimental Film and Video Installation, Blindside Gallery, Melbourne  

2009 Schubert Contemporary, Gold Coast, Queensland

2009 Ballan and Pannan, Sorrento, Victoria

2008 Schubert Contemporary, Gold Coast, Queensland

2007 Sara Roney Gallery, Sydney

2004 Turin, Italy, Qualitaly

2004 Gordon Institute of TAFE, Geelong, Victoria   

2001 Convent Gallery, Daylesford, Abstraction

1996 Regional Victorian Galleries (touring exhibition), Works on Paper

1995 Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Regional designers exhibition

Reviews/Lectures/Publications:

Humanata (poetry anthology), David Beaumont, 2015

Sightlines, The Age, Friday July 11, 2008

The Art of Interpretation (Public Lecture), David Pereira, Co-director,

Freudian School of Melbourne, October 25, 2008

Awards:

Finalist ‘Doug Moran National Portrait Prize’, NSW, 2018

Finalist ‘Hadleys Art Prize’, Hobart, Tas, 2018

Finalist ‘John Leslie Art Prize’, Gippsland, Vic, 2018

Finalist ‘Fleurieu Art Prize’, South Australia, 2018

Finalist ‘Glover Art Prize’, Tasmania, 2018

Finalist ‘Wyndham Art Prize’, Vic, 2018

Finalist ‘Paddington Art Prize’, Sydney, NSW, 2015

Finalist ‘ANL Maritime Prize’, Melbourne, Vic, 2008

Finalist ‘2008 Fletcher Jones Art Prize’, Geelong Gallery, 2008

Finalist ‘ANL Maritime Prize’, Melbourne, Vic, 2007

Melbourne Savage Club Biannual Invitation Art Prize - 2007

Finalist ‘ANL Maritime Art Prize’, Melbourne, Vic, 2006

Finalist ‘Cromwell’s Art Prize’ – Sydney, NSW, 2005

Finalist ‘ANL Maritime Art Prize’ – Melbourne, Vic, 2005

Melbourne Savage Club Biannual Invitation Art Prize - 2005

Finalist ‘City of Willoughby Art Prize’ – Sydney, NSW, 2004

Finalist ‘ANL Maritime Art Prize’ – Melbourne, Vic, 2004

Cultural exchange exhibition, Ethnic Council of Victoria, Turin, Italy, 2004

Residencies:

2017: The Art Vault, Mildura (2 week residency)

2016: The Art Vault, Mildura (3 week residency)

Collections:

Murdock Children’s Research Institute, Melbourne, Vic

Epworth Foundation

Crown Plaza, Adelaide, SA

Borough of Queenscliff, Victoria

St John of God Hospital, Ballarat

Gordon Institute of TAFE, Geelong

Henley Properties Pty Ltd

Alfred Hospital