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Bio
Beverley Southcott is a mid career
artist. Beverley has participated in exhibitions internationally,
nationally and in South Australia that included photography,
painting and installation.
Southcott's recent work has been selected and included for major
Australian art awards and competitions.
My theoretical on going research is primarily
within relevant contemporary art theory, cultural and theological
studies that include these subject matters: the 19th century
and the post modern sublime; the urban city environment; surveillance;
consumerism; globalisation and post industrialism.
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Beverley Southcott - art biographical
details
Within the corporate controlled urban spaces
such as the enclosed shopping mall or the high rise office block
protected by highly advanced technological electronic surveillance
equipment may be where moments of wonder can occur. My recent
photographic images are reflective of meditative moments that
encapsulate the everyday and the ordinary within predominantly
western globalised consumerist cultures. The images are not necessarily
based on traditional and religious iconic references but reflect
the tension between desire and negation of consumerism and global
imagery that permeate the everyday. Resulting in imagery that
may reflect a temporary sublimeness that transcends from, or
co-exists with the banal and the ordinary.
My theoretical research for this series
of works are based on relevant contemporary art theory and cultural
studies on the post-modern sublime, surveillance and controlled
societies, consumerism, globalisation and post industrialism
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Now 'n Ever
The Now 'n Ever photo media series
represent the contemporary sublime which can or may co exist
within every day living. This is where one can be enmeshed in
the every day, though some how still respond to other moments
of wonder or hopefulness within our daily programs. Perhaps to
understand the meaning of infinity is to always acknowledge that
moment of the 'now'.
The notion of barriers, netting and flags in these images are
metaphoric of rebuilding or re constructing and re acknowledging;
or in another sense they can become psychological barricades
that block the 'in roads' to spaces of otherness.
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Now 'n Ever One, 2008
C type digital photograph
28 H x 120 W cm
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Now 'n Ever Two, 2008
C type digital photograph
28 H x 120 W cm
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Now 'n Ever Three, 2008
C type digital photograph
28 H x 120 W cm
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Now 'n Four, 2008
C type digital photograph
28 H x 120 W cm
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Beverley Southcott 2008 to approx. late nineties only
Education
1998 - mid 2004
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Awarded Masters
of Visual Arts South Australian
School of Art, University of South Australia.
Details of the 2 other awarded tertiary degree/post graduate
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Selected solo exhibitions
2008 - 1999 only (From 2008-1979 held 14 solo exhibitions)
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Elsewhere, Barr Smith Library, University of Adelaide. August.
Palm of Your Hands, (solo) within Public Relations, (two person exhibition with Rachel McElwee) Downtown
Contemporary Art Space, Adelaide.
Sea-In, Bay Discovery Centre, City of Holdfast Bay, Glenelg.
Hollow / Hallow Space, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide.
Hollow / Hallow Space, Liverpool Street Gallery, University of South Australia, Adelaide.
Bridge, Nexus Multicultural Arts Centre, Adelaide.
Garden City, Upstart Contemporary Art Space, Port Adelaide, Adelaide.
Now space, James Harvey Gallery, Sydney.
Gallery Spain, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia.
Icy love / I see love, window exhibition, Nexus Multicultural Arts Centre, Adelaide.
The Way Out, (2 person exhibition), public space - David Jones Rundle Street store, Adelaide.
Within this space I find, James Harvey Gallery, Sydney.
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Selected group exhibitions
2008 - 2004 only
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Misdemeanours, 8 Kent St. Gallery, SALA Adelaide.
Finalist, The Alice Prize 2008 March.
Urban Differences, Vitamin Online Exhibition.
Creation - Cosmos and Chaos, The Flinders Uni. and Adelaide College of Divinity, Centre for Theology,
Science and Culture, March.
Undercurrent, Queensland Centre for Contemporary Photography, Brisbane. Finalist,
The Advertiser Contemporary Art Award, SALA Festival 2007, Adelaide.
Reeling in the Years, SALA Festival 2007, Bay Discovery Centre, City of Holdfast Bay, Glenelg.
Met Tails, The Light Square Gallery, Adelaide Centre for the ARTS, Adelaide.
Meet & Greet, Downtown, Adelaide;
Undercurrent, New photo media work, Fringe Festival, Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide.
Finalist, The Mandorla Award for Contemporary Religious Art 2007 + touring, Perth.
Finalist, Mc Gregor Prize for Photography 2007, Uni. of Southern Queensland.
Finalist, 2006 Conrad Jupiters Art Prize, Gold Coast City Gallery, Surfers Paradise.
Finalist, Greenpeace, Art for Action 2006 - Changing Nature, The Gallery at Darling Park, Sydney.
Finalist, 2006 Biennial Landscape in the Postmodern, Brad Cooper Gallery, Tampa, Florida.
Let's Pretend It Isn't So, Shop@rt, SALA, Port Adelaide.
Selected, [Sacred] Sex & the City, Nexus Multicultural Arts Centre, Adelaide.
My Happiness Art Auction, Onya Soap Box, Adelaide.
Where the Beep Hell are Ya, Kings Ari, Melbourne.
Finalist, Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Qld.
Selected, Heart of Australia Art Auction, Artspace, Festival Centre, Adelaide.
2006 Scotch College Fine Art Exhibition, Adelaide.
Celebrating the Spirit, Adelaide College of Divinity and Flinders University, Adelaide Fringe.
Saints Art Auction, St Peters Girls School 2005, Adelaide.
Banyule City Council Works on Paper Award 2005, Melbourne.
One on One Mapping, Hervey Bay Regional Art Gallery, Qld.
Barossa Fine Art Exhibition 2005, Barossa Regional Gallery, Tanunda.
Finalist, (CCAS) Canberra Contemporary Art Society Art Award.
Postcards from the Edge, Brent Sikkema Gallery, fundraiser for Visual Aids, New York, USA.
Art Card exhibition, Sharjah Art Museum, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.
Adelaide Cathedral Art Show, St. Peter's Cathedral, Adelaide.
Masters Mystery Art Show, Florida International University, Miami, USA in conjunction with Art Basel, Miami.
Finalist, From this Place, Cowra Regional Art Gallery, Cowra, NSW.
Nexus Multicultural Arts Centre's Members exhibition, Adelaide.
Quest for the Spirit, Flinders University, Adelaide Fringe.
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Selected grants, funding
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Honourable mention, Nexus Multicultural Arts Centre Art Awards, Adelaide.
Honourable mention, 2006 Biennial Landscape in the Postmodern, Brad Cooper Gallery, Tampa, Florida.
Special commendation, Nexus Multicultural Arts Centre Art Awards, Adelaide.
SALA Festival 2005 Photo Media Award, Adelaide.
Helpmann Academy Grant, Sea-In exhibition, Bay Discovery Centre, Glenelg.
Pat Corrigan Artist's Grant, NAVA for the Preserve exhibition, SALA week.
Nexus Multicultural Arts Centre Inc. award for most innovative work
NSW Regional Galleries Association, Exhibition Development Grant - The Pack-Age exhibition.
NSW Ministry of the Arts, and NAVA - marketing grant and sponsorship from Fuji-Xerox for the
Piece x Piece exhibition.
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Selected reviews and
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Collections and Reflections, Undercurrent catalogue essay, Sept. 2007, Craig, G, Queensland Centre for
Photography, Brisbane.
Warhol's Spirit Lives On, The Advertiser, July 21, 2007, p. 13, Mc Donald, P, Arts Editor.
Public and Private Spaces on Show, Helpmann Academy Update, Vol 14, No 2 Issue 56,
June - August, 2006, Adelaide, P. 13, Allen, L. Met Tales, catalogue essay, May 2007, Waters, S, Adelaide.
Met Tales, The Adelaide Review, No. 318, June 8-21, 2007, p. 17, Neylon, J.
A Tale of Six Artists, The Independent Weekly, June 16-22, 2007, p. 32, Adelaide, Dutkiewicz, A.
Excitement Machine, June 2007, Contributing Artists, p. 34; Artist Page - Beverley Southcott, p.18, Adelaide,
Mahoney, T. & Vistoli, B. Met Tales, dB magazine, Issue 415, 27 June-10 July, 2007, Adelaide, p.36, Dunt, N.
Palms of Your Hands, Philament: An Online Journal of Arts and Culture, University of Sydney, released June 07
Heckenberg, M, Editor. http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/publications/philament/issue10_contents.htm.
Front cover, City and Cup Three, Philament: An Online Journal of Arts and Culture, University of Sydney,
released June 07, Heckenberg, M, Editor. http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/publications/philament/index.htm
Undercurrent, Adelaide Review, No 313, March 30-April 12, 2007, p. 17, Radok, S.
Undercurrent 2007, dB magazine, Issue 407, March 14 - 21 2007, Adelaide, Sutter, L.
Undercurrent of Photography, Helpmann Academy Update, Vol 14, No 1 Issue 55, March - May, 2007,
Adelaide, p. 6, Allen, L.
Visual Arts Roundup 2005, dB magazine, 21 Dec - 10 Jan 2006, Dunt, N. & Waters, S.
The Images that Surround Us, St. Petersburg Times, Tampa, Florida, Sept.7, 2006, Bennett L. Times Art Critic.
Changing Views Looking at the World through the Eyes of Postmodern Artists, Weekly Planet Tampa,
Florida, No. 411, 2006, Voeller, M.
[Sacred] Sex & the City, Visual Arts, The Adelaide Review, No. 298,
August 11-24, 2006, pg. 15, Neylon, J.
Media Release and catalogue image, 2006 Josephine Ulrick & Win
Schubert Photography Award;
Nexus Art, Adelaide Matters, Issue 68, February, 2006, p. 27.
Visual Arts Roundup 2005, dB magazine, Issue 374, January, 2006, Dunt, N. & Waters, S.
Public Relations, dB magazine, ed No 370, 2nd November, 2005 p.37, Waters, S.
SALA Wins for SASA Graduates, Helpmann Academy Update, Vol 12, No. 4, Issue 48, October-November,
2005. p. 5, Allen, L.
Sea-In, dB magazine, ed no 366, 7 September, 2005, p. 45, Waters, S.
Salty SALA Festival Reflections, No. 46, Independent Weekly, Aug. 14-20, 2005, p. 5, Wakefield, K.
Hollow/Hallow space, Beverley Southcott, The Adelaide Review, March 4, 2005, pg. 28, Radok, S.
Vitamin: Episode 2, Visual Arts Magazine Artist page, Sth Aust., p. 11.
Eyeline Cont. Visual Arts, No. 54, Winter 2004, Artist page, p.54.
UniSA News, Students @UniSA, April/May 2003, University of South Australia,
Making Sense of War through Art, p.2, Knottenbelt, C.
Rip It Up Magazine, Issue 719, 20-26 March, 2003, p. 35 Adelaide.
Eyeline Cont. Visual Arts, No. 49, Spring 2002,
Rethinking Spirituality: Beverley Southcott
Garden City, p. 53, Hosseini, V.
Eremos Journal, Nov. 2002,
Rethinking Spirituality in the Garden City, pp. 22-25, Hosseini, V.
An Aust. Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, Beverley Southcott Exhibition,
Spring 2002, p.49-50, Hanratty, N.E.
Real Time+On Screen, Aug.-Sept. 2002, Seen, Visual Art, p. 18, Reid, C.
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Collections
| Dr Daryl Hewson's
Collection, Qld; Gold Coast City Gallery; The A4 Refugee Project
Special Archive; James Hardie Library of Aust. Fine Arts, Queensland
State Library; NSW legal firm; CSS Finance; J. S. Associates,
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Private collections
| Adelaide, Spain,
USA and U.K. |
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