Dianne Beevers

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Dianne Beevers
Born (1946-12-18) 18 December 1946 (age 77)
Taree, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation(s)Artist, sculptor, jeweller and curator

Dianne Beevers (born 18 December 1946) is an Australian sculptor, artist, [1] jeweller and former lecturer at Box Hill Institute and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, RMIT.

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Early life

Dianne Beevers was born in Taree, New South Wales. [1] She studied at the National Art School, Newcastle and the Newcastle Teachers' College between 1964 and 1967. In 1967 she was awarded a Diploma in Art (Education). In 1977 she graduated from the University of Newcastle with a Bachelor of Arts,[ citation needed ] and obtained a master's degree in Art in Public Space from RMIT in 2006. [2]

Career

During the 1980s Beevers worked in Melbourne as a curator in the Museum of Victoria Children's Museum and in 1988 she worked a curator as on the Royal Exhibition Buildings' presentation of Judy Chicago's Dinner Party in Melbourne. Throughout the 1990s she was on the committee of the Women's Art Register and the Melbourne division of NAVA.

Beevers was part of the "Bad Mothers" group of artists who highlighted the struggles of women who were artists and mothers. [3] This group included other Australian artists such as Charlotte Clemens, Raewyn Rayner, Nicole Newman and Fay Plamka. Exhibitions by the Bad Mothers included one in 1989 at Reconnaissance Galleries Melbourne and one at the Tin Sheds Gallery, University of Sydney in 1990. [4]

Between 2001 and 2003, Beevers worked with local residents, the Pilot Station committee and landscape architect, Rupert Milne Holme, on the Landscape and Heritage Masterplan in Camden, New South Wales. [5]

A major public art installation is her joint work with Andrea Tomaselli Piazza Italia (2006), Lygon Street Carlton sponsored by the City of Milan, "to mark Melbourne’s Sister City Relationship with Milano". [6]

Beevers has an installation in the City of Brimbank titled "Seeds of Hope and Dreams (2011)". This was a collaborative project with Andrea Tomaselli. [7]

In 2019, she won an Australian Design Centre, ADC, Award for "Two Strands of Pearls". [8] The prize for this award was an opportunity to exhibit in the ADC's Object Space, Darlinghurst. [9]

Notable exhibitions

Publications

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  2. ↑ "Dianne Beevers". Australian Design Centre. Retrieved 6 March 2021.
  3. ↑ "Welcome to the art of Charlotte Clemens". www.charlotteclemens.com. Retrieved 6 March 2021.
  4. ↑ www.charlotteclemens.com http://www.charlotteclemens.com/about.php . Retrieved 6 March 2021.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)[ title missing ]
  5. ↑ "Landscape and Heritage Interpretation Masterplan". www.camdenheadpilotstation.org.au. Retrieved 6 March 2021.
  6. ↑ "Dianne Beevers". australiandesigncentre.com. Retrieved 6 March 2021.
  7. ↑ RossM_241 (4 July 2019). "Seeds of Hope and Dreams". www.brimbank.vic.gov.au. Retrieved 6 March 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  8. ↑ Www.australi, Esigncentre com; Office: +61 2 9361 4555, esigncentre com T: Gallery: +61 2 8599 7999. "Profile 2019". Australian Design Centre. Retrieved 6 March 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  9. ↑ "In the Fire Zone: How to Cook a Knife". City of Sydney – What’s On. Retrieved 6 March 2021.[ permanent dead link ]
  10. ↑ "Lend Me Your Ears on Art.Base.BASE". Art.Base. Retrieved 6 March 2021.
  11. ↑ "Semi-Precious – An Installation by Dianne Beevers". Broadsheet. Retrieved 6 March 2021.
  12. ↑ "Master Makers VR Tour Part 1". RMIT Gallery. Archived from the original on 18 November 2020. Retrieved 6 March 2021.
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