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Artist ProfileClaire BeynonBorn and educated in South Africa, Claire Beynon immigrated to Dunedin from Cape Town in November 1994. She completed a BAFA at the University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, graduating In 1982 with distinction in printmaking and the faculty’s Certificate of Merit. The following year, Beynon spent several months in the post-graduate printmaking department at Chelsea School of Art, London, working alongside experienced printmakers and technicians such as Tim Mara, Colin Connor, Pamela Clarkson and others. Beynon’s first solo exhibition was in Johannesburg in 1984 and she has exhibited regularly since then, with solo and group shows in New Zealand, USA, South Africa, Australia, the United Kingdom and the Republic of China.SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2008 Fathom: new works on paper and canvas - The Arthouse, Christchurch 2008 InterfaCE: an art/science installation with Sam Bowser - The Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, New York 2007 Where there is ice there is music - The Diversion, Marlborough 2006 Route Marking: Antarctica work - Peter Rae Gallery, Dunedin 2006 not EMPTY not SILENT not WHITE - The Arthouse, Christchurch 2005 Interim - The Suter Gallery, Nelson 2005 There is a place - The Diversion Gallery, Marlborough 2005 Somewhere between Intuition and Reason: new work on paper, canvas and stone - The Arthouse, Christchurch 2004 Turn - Peter Rae Gallery, Dunedin 2004 Altered Ground - E. Southland Museum, Gore (touring exhibition of large works on paper) 2003 Altered Ground - Ashburton Art Gallery, Ashburton 2002 Altered Ground - The Forrester Gallery, Oamaru 2002 In Conversation - The Arthouse, Christchurch 2001 Bearings - Milford Galleries, Dunedin 1999 Leave the room behind - Milford Galleries, Dunedin 1998 As it happens - Milford Galleries, Dunedin 1994 At the still point of the turning world : responding to the work of T. S. Eliot - Chelsea Gallery, Cape Town 1994 A slow unravelling - Karen McKerron Gallery, Johannesburg 1993 23 New Works- Chelsea Gallery, Cape Town 1986 30 Recent Works - Karen McKerron Gallery, Johannesburg 1985 34 Prints and Drawings - Karen McKerron Gallery, Johannesburg SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2008 Caselberg Trust/Breaksea Girl Residency Show (with Nigel Brown, Gregory O-Brien, Wayne Seyb, Gillian Whitehead, Marilynn Webb, Glenn Colquhoun, Lynn Kelly, Alan Roddick and Mark Orton) – St. Paul’s Cathedral, Dunedin 2008 Art/Science Exhibition (NZ International Science Festival) – Community Gallery, Dunedin 2008 Group Show (with Fleur Yorsten, Peter Cleverley and Alannah Brown) – gallery thirty three, Wanaka 2007 Lyrical Notations - Salisbury House Gallery, The Manse, Dunedin 2007 Works on Paper - The Artists Room, Dunedin 2006/7 The Big Ice (touring show) - Otago Museum, Dunedin 2006 Crowded House - The Arthouse, Christchurch 2006 Sound Still (collaborative exhibition with Katherine Glenday, Lyn Smuts and Others) - Irma Stern Museum, Cape Town 2006 Paperworks - Peter Rae Gallery, Dunedin 2005 Five Artists, Five Rooms - The Arthouse, Christchurch 2005 Crowded House - The Arthouse, Christchurch 2005 Paperchase: leading contemporary New Zealand artists exhibit works on paper - gallery thirty three, Wanaka AWARDS 2006 Finalist in the CoCA Art Awards, Christchurch 2004 Finalist in the Wallace Art Awards, New Zealand 2005 Peoples’ Choice Award, Wallace Art Award 2001 Merit Award - Cranleigh Barton Drawing Award, New Zealand 2003 Finalist in the Cranleigh Barton Drawing Award, New Zealand 2002 Merit Award - Mainland Awards, Dunedin 2002 Creative New Zealand Creative Communities Grant. 1999 Finalist in the Biennial Cranleigh Barton Drawing Award, New Zealand 1998 Merit Award, Works on Paper – Cleveland Art Awards, Dunedin
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