Anjelie Beyer
I
was born in the Netherlands in 1940 and migrated with my family to
Australia when I was eleven.
I have always drawn, and art was my first choice of education.
Teacher training followed, and I taught in primary and secondary
schools, studied again, and taught at TAFE and university for twenty or so
years.
I have a studio at Nichols Point, and still draw and paint with
pleasure.
While I enjoy abstract design, it is ‘reality’ that most
intrigues me.
It interests me that art is unreal, while appearing very realistic.
Art is a bizarre playground where you can create paintings of
paintings, such as the increasingly complex series: ‘Hero and Dolly are
caught in the Witch-artist’s Maze’.
Even
when my work is spare, I like it to have attitude,
and appear to interact with the viewer.
Many of my subjects have eyes, for example, the car in Raincloud
has sly cartoon eyes.
A recent series called ‘Otherwise’ shows elaborately painted
figurines (dolls and dogs etc) acting dramatically.
These creatures came from a 2006 Artback
trip to Silverton, which has an old-wares shop, and I began to draw them
in settings as if they were at an alternate artists’ camp, then brought
them home – and I have not yet run out of scenarios with them as stars.
Even when their eyes are broken off, they still have attitude
when placed in their other-world.
2010
Finalist: Williamstown Contemporary Art Prize;
Flirty Skirty III, eight oils, in joint exhibition, effemmera Gallery ,
Footscray;
Act 1 First Prize Oil: The Art Vault Rotary Art Show 2010, Gallery 25,
Mildura.Ape,.
2009
Seven Suns Seven Moons, forty-five downstairs Melbourne: Fundraising
exhibition and auction: one large and 12 small oils, for Trust for
Nature and Open Family Australia;
Artvault Contemporary Art Prize,
Mildura Show.
2008
Cullulleraine
presented to Tim Holding, Environment Minister
Sandilong
Park in Wetlands, joint exhibition,Gallery
25 Deakin, Mildura
Oils and collages in Telling Stories, joint
exhibition,
MREAM Studio, Footscray
2007
Oil
paintings and works on paper works used on Elephant
Princess film sets
White,
oil painting diptych, joint exhibition, Gallery 25 Deakin, Mildura
Raincloud,
9 x 5 #2,
joint exhibition Walker Street Gallery Dandenong
Flirty Skirty, oil paintings and
works on paper, joint exhibition, MREAM
Studio, Footscray
2006
The
Willow Pattern Story,
curator and exhibitor of oil paintings, joint exhibition Mildura Arts
Centre and Walker Street Gallery Dandenong
Red, oil paintings, joint
exhibition, Mildura Arts Centre
Smorgasbord, oil paintings,
joint exhibition at Red Cafe Gallery, Wentworth NSW
Loveheart, an ephemeral sculpture, in
Palimpsest: Mungo National Park NSW
2005
Walls
of China,
gouache diptych, Mildura Show: Best Exhibit - Local Artist
2004
Neds
Corner,
four combined oils, Mildura Show: Best Exhibit – Rural Landscape
2003
What
Colour painting used
for Mildura Arts Festival booklet, poster, and media P.R
Tiny Gardens of Eden,
assemblages in Palimpsest # 5, Mildura Showgrounds
2001
AUSTRALIA
: A Lavish
Show, Mildura Arts Centre, solo exhibition of oil paintings
Fly
Door, installation, Palimpsest: Mildura Arts Centre and IPC venue
Green Landscapes,
oil paintings, Exhibition of Local Art, Mildura Arts Centre
2000
Door,
installation, Palimpsest: Mildura Arts Centre
Why does it have to be landscape?
oil paintings with Sunraysia Institute of TAFE / LaTrobe University Art
Staff exhibition, LaTrobe Gallery Bundoora, & Mildura Arts Centre
1999
Pink
Pictures,
solo exhibition of oil paintings, Les
Bagatelles, Carlton
1998
Curator with Ian
Hamilton, The Elliott Collection, works by Brangwyn, Orpen, and other British
artists and a Degas, and Streeton, McCubbin and other Australians' works,
with catalogue of art and essays
Earth Cube, site-specific
installation and Earth Cube two-dimensional fabric constructions for Palimpsest:
Mildura Arts Centre
1997
Curator, On
Our Own Ground, exhibition and catalogue of five Mildura artists for
MA Thesis, Mildura Arts Centre
1996
Hero
and Dolly are trapped in the Witch-artist's Maze,
oil paintings with Sunraysia Institute of TAFE Art staff, Mildura Arts
Centre, and Deakin University Geelong seminar
1995
Three
Stages Rose,
Grand Prize Overall and First Price Painting, three oil paintings, Hoechst
National Arts and Crafts Exhibition, Melbourne
Pre 1995 Many exhibitions, solo and collective, and prize-winning paintings, the first of which was Burning Off, a shared first prize, when we first came to Mildura.
2000 - M A by
research (Philosophy) Deakin University
1988 - BA Honours (Humanities) Deakin University
1987 - Teacher Registration: TAFE 1987; Secondary 1987; Primary B 1962.
Curator, Mildura Arts Centre: The Willow Pattern Story, exhibition and catalogue of Australian and NZ artists using the ceramic pattern as basis for art, January- March; also at Walker Street Gallery Dandenong - a slightly larger exhibition and catalogue, May 2006. The Elliott Collection, with Ian Hamilton, the exhibition and catalogue of essays and images of the founding collection of works by Brangwyn, Orpen, Degas, and others, 1997-8; On Our Own Ground, exhibition and catalogue of five local artists, 1997.
Teacher Our Lady's Primary School, Ringwood; St John's Primary School, Lower Ferntree Gully; Our Lady of Sion College, Sale; Adult Education courses, Madec, Mildura Coomealla High School; Sacred Heart Primary School, Mildura; Participation and Equity Program short courses, Mildura; Department of Education and Training short courses; Sunraysia Institute of TAFE, English, social sciences, art courses; Warrnambool Institute of Advanced Education; LaTrobe University, Mildura Campus: Bachelor of Teaching; Bachelor of Arts Fine Art; Bachelor of Arts Humanities and Social Science.
Community Arts: Organising Nichols Point Life-Drawing Group and Sessions in Studios; work-shopping with community groups eg Mildura Youth Services; organizing exhibitions for local (and sometimes other) artists; taking part in week-long workshops such as Trust for Nature's Painting the Corner, and Anne and Steve Hederics's Artback; writing essays for catalogues eg the Elliot Collection or for the media on current exhibitions eg aRTSaBOUT.