Clark Beaumont

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Clark Beaumont
BornFormed in 2010
NationalityAustralian
EducationQueensland University of Technology
Known forVideo, Installation, Performance Art
AwardsFinalists The Churchie Art Prize
Website Clark Beaumont's website

Sarah Clark and Nicole Beaumont, known as Clark Beaumont, are an artistic collaborative duo who formed in 2010, and currently live and work in Brisbane, Australia. The pair work primarily in the mediums of video and live or mediated performance, and have presented live performances and videos at festivals, exhibitions, and events nationally and internationally. [1]

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Work

Clark Beaumont work primarily in the mediums of video and live or mediated performance. Their work explores questions of identity, female subjectivity, intimacy, and interpersonal relationships, often with themselves as the subject matter for their work. Their collaboration means exploring the social and physical dynamics of working together to create artwork. Through performance and time-based media, they experiment with multiple feminine personas and characters, recreating and reflecting on the individual and intersubjective experiences that contribute to the practice. The duo aims to create artwork that creatively and critically engages elements of humour and absurdity to explore how contemporary constructs of female identity and subjectivity are formed. [2]

Exhibitions

Since beginning their collaboration, the duo have presented live performances, videos and installations nationally and internationally in both group and solo shows. Solo exhibitions include:

Group exhibitions include:

13 Rooms

In April 2013, Clark Beaumont were included in the major exhibition 13 Rooms, produced by Kaldor Public Art Projects in Sydney, Australia. [17] The exhibition was curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Klaus Biesenbach, and included other performance works by numerous well-known international artists such as Damien Hirst, Marina Abramović, Tino Sehgal, Allora & Calzadilla, Santiago Sierra, and John Baldessari. Clark Beaumont's inclusion in the exhibition, as comparatively younger and lesser known artists, was the subject of much media coverage within Australia and overseas. [18] [19] [20] In the 13 Rooms catalog, Clark Beaumont's work was described as: "...extend[ing] a historical trajectory of conceptual art and present Coexisting, 2013. Explicitly positioning the artists as artwork, the pair will spend the duration of the exhibition on a plinth with a surface area slightly too small for two people to comfortably occupy." [21]

Notes

  1. "CV : Clark Beaumont".
  2. "Clark Beaumont biography".
  3. "Heart to Heart exhibition page".
  4. "Kings ARI website".
  5. "JIWAR website".
  6. "She'll Be Right, Boxcopy website".
  7. "Pear Shaped, Current Projects website".
  8. "GoMA website".
  9. "AEAF website".
  10. "MUMA website". 5 August 2019.
  11. "SGAR website".
  12. "Rinse & Repeat, Laura Brown". Archived from the original on 25 January 2014. Retrieved 10 February 2014.
  13. "Pivotal, BUS Projects website". Archived from the original on 22 February 2014. Retrieved 10 February 2014.
  14. "SafARI 2012 website".
  15. "Brisbane Emerging Art Festival 2012 website". Archived from the original on 14 February 2014. Retrieved 10 February 2014.
  16. "Metro Arts website".
  17. "13 Rooms website". Archived from the original on 9 February 2014. Retrieved 10 February 2014.
  18. "Artistic Duo Clark Beaumont selected for 27th Kaldor Public Art Project, ArtAsiaPacific".
  19. "Unknowns edge out established performers, Sydney Morning Herald". 28 November 2012.
  20. "Clark Beaumont interviewed on ABC Radio National". Australian Broadcasting Corporation . 19 February 2013.
  21. "13 Rooms, Kaldor Public Art Projects website".

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