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Curriculum Vitae

Christopher Beaumont

Born: Melbourne, Australia 1961

Studied Group Exhibitions Awards and Prizes
Solo Exhibitions Collections Bibliography
 

Studied

1997 Swinburne University of Technology - Grad Dip. Multimedia Software Development
1985-87 Victorian College of the Arts - BA. Painting & Sculpture
1984 Prahran College of TAFE(now Swinburne University) - Dip. TOP Art & Design
1980-83 University of Melbourne - MB., BS. Medicine
   


Solo Exhibitions

2006 Bendigo Art Gallery Victoria
Eva Breuer Art Dealer Woollahra NSW
2005 Cobalt Gallery, South Yarra Victoria
2004 Fortyfivedownstairs Melbourne, Victoria
1995 Scope Gallery Fitzroy
1992 Botanical Gallery South Yarra
1991 Botanical Gallery South Yarra
1990 Pinacotheca Gallery Richmond


Group Exhibitions

2006 "Postcard Show" - Linden St Kilda Centre for Contemporary Art St Kilda Vic.
2005 The Authur Guy Memorial Painting Prize The Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria.
"Neo Millennium" - Toyota Community Spirit Gallery, Toyota Australia Vic.
"Postcard Show" - Linden St Kilda Centre for Contemporary Art St Kilda Vic.
"Works for Windows" - St Kilda Festival Vic.
Artists for Kids Culture Prahran Town Hall & Jackman Gallery St Kilda
2004 Artists for Kids Culture St Kilda Town Hall & Jackman Gallery St Kilda
"120º of Separation" Linden St Kilda Centre for Contemporary Art
"Postcard Show" - Linden St Kilda Centre for Contemporary Art
"Compendium" ICON Gallery Deakin University Vic
2003 "Postcard Show" - Linden St Kilda Centre for Contemporary Art
"St. Kilda Artists' Group Show" - Patrizia Autore Gallery, St Kilda Vic.
St Kilda Art Supplies 10th Anniversary Show - Metropolis Gallery St Kilda Vic.
Compendium - Platform Artists Group Spencer Street, Melbourne Vic
2002 "Postcard Show" - Linden St Kilda Centre for Contemporary Art
"St. Kilda Artists' Group Show" - Patrizia Autore Gallery, St Kilda Vic.
JNF Genus Art Auction - Patrizia Autore Gallery, St Kilda Vic
2001 "St Kilda Artists' Group Show" - Patrizia Autore Gallery, St Kilda Vic.
2000 "Postcard Show" - Linden Gallery, St Kilda Vic.
"St. Kilda Artists' Show" - Patrizia Autore Gallery, St Kilda Vic.
1999 "Postcard Show" - Linden Gallery, St Kilda Vic.
"Acland Street Show" - Shop Windows Acland Street, St Kilda Vic.
"Exposure" - Linden Gallery, St Kilda Vic.
1996 "Food in Art" - Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Vic
1995 "Postcard Show" - Linden Gallery, St Kilda Vic.
"Australia Felix" - Benalla Art Gallery, Victoria
1994 "Sport the Greatest Theatre of All" - Adelaide Festival Centre Art Space, Adelaide SA
Touring Exhibition, South Australia, Vic., NSW, Qld., NT
Sotheby's Contempary Art Auction - Sotheby's Armadale Vic
"Re Production" - Gallery at Tolarno's St. Kilda Vic.
"Still Life" - Eva Bruer Gallery, Sydney NSW
Conrad Jupiters' Aquisitive Prize - Gold Coast City Art Gallery,
Coolangatta Queensland - aquired
"Love & Ruin" - , St Kilda Town Hall, St Kilda Vic
"The Monster Footy Show" - Artists Garden, Fitzroy Vic.
1993 "Arrangement, Australian Still Life 1973-1993" - Museum of Modern Art at Heide,
Bulleen Vic.
"Postcard Show" - Linden Gallery St Kilda Vic.
Group Show - 135 Fitzroy Street Gallery St Kilda Vic.
1992 "Postcard Show" - Linden Gallery St Kilda Vic
Margaret Stewart Endowment Collection, National Gallery of Victoria
Margaret Stewart Endowment Collection, McClelland Gallery, Langwarrin Vic
"St Kilda Festival - Food" - Gallery at Tolarno's St. Kilda Vic
Summer Group Show - Botanical Gallery South Yarra Vic
1991 "Postcard Show" - Linden Gallery St Kilda Vic
"Out of our Oeuvre" - Gallery at Tolarno's St. Kilda Vic
1990 Moet & Chandon Touring Exhibition, Australia wide
"Art with Text" - Monash University Gallery, Victoria
"Good for Football" - Punters' Club Fitzroy Vic
1989 "From the Collection" - Monash University Gallery, Clayton Victoria
Moet & Chandon Touring Exhibition, Australia wide
"The Slab" - Punters' Club, Fitzroy Vic.
Group Show - Pinacotheca Gallery, Richmond Vic.
1988 "Site of Execution" - Australian Center for Contemporary Art, Victoria
1987 Graduate Show - Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne Vic

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Awards and Prizes

2005 People's Choice Award - Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo VIC
2000 Art Spectrum Finest Artist Colours Prize - Post Card Show Linden St. Kilda
1999 Sweet Design Acquisitive Prize - Post Card Show Linden St. Kilda
1994 Conrad Jupiters' Prize, Gold Coast City Council, QLD
1992 St Kilda City Council Prize (non acquisitive)
Selected by Melbourne Theatre Company for Seasons Brochure
1991 Postcard Prize & reproduction, St Kilda City Council
1990 Finalist, Moet & Chandon Touring Exhibition
1989 Finalist, Moet & Chandon Touring Exhibition
1987 Hans and Sylvia Sumberg Prize (VCA)


Collections

 National Gallery of Victoria, Margaret Stewart Endowment
 Monash University Collection
 ex-BHP Collection - now dispersed through Christies
 Western Mining Collection
 Malleson Stephen Jaques Collection
 Gold Coast City Art Gallery
 Australian Gallery of Sport & Olympic Museum
 Lowensteins Arts Management
 Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
  Private Collections

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Bibliography

2004

Robert Nelson "A Serve of Fruit & Vegetables" Review - The Age Oct 22nd

1995

Catherine Lambert "Giving Life to the Ordinary" Review - Herald-Sun February 19th
Robert Nelson "Contemplation of Fragile Riches" Review - The Age March 1st

1994

Martin Flannagan, Exhibition Catalogue, "Sport the Greatest Theatre of All" Adelaide Festival Centre Art Space
McCullogh Alan & Susan, Encyclopedia of Australian Art, Allen & Unwin
Victoria Lyn & John Rigby, Exhibition Catalogue Conrad Jupiters' Art Prize

1993

Melbourne Theatre Company Brochure
John R Neeson, "Arrangement, Australian Still Life 1973-1993" Exhibition Catalogue MOMA Heide
Robert Rooney, "Our Still Life Assurance" The Australian, December 11th
Christopher Heathcote, "An unfashionable but thought-provoking show for lovers of art", The Age, December 22
Today Arts, Summer, Herald-Sun, January 12th
"Arrangements", Stages Magazine, January/February Edition.

1992

MIFA Brochure
Rebecca Lancashire, "A Penchant for Vegetables", The Age, September 9
Rebecca Lancashire, "All the Art that's fit to see", Entertainment Guide The Age, September 11
Exhibition Catalogue Margaret Stewart Endownment

1991

Andrew Masterson, Best Weekend, Age Weekend Magazine, November 2

1990

Merryn Gates, "Art with Text" Exhibition Catalogue, Monash University Press
Alex Selenitsch, Art Monthly, No. 34 September
Peter Hill, Tension Magazine, No. 23 October
Moet & Chandon Touring Exhibition Catalogue

1989

Moet & Chandon Touring Exhibition Catalogue

 

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