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    A Selected Overview of Paintings

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    Curriculum Vitae here.

  • Current Exhibitions

    GallerySmith BlossomGallerySmith

    23 December - 2 February, 2011
    Out of the Darkness
    Group show: Chris Beaumont, Kirstin Berg, Dadang Christanto, Paula do Prado, Simone Eisler, Ian Friend, Junko Go, Kirrily Hammond, Peter Lambropoulos, Sue Lovegrove, Susan Purdy, Catherine Nelson, Silke Raetze, Arryn Snowball, Lisa Tomasetti, Stephanie Valentin, Emma van Leest.
    http://www.gallerysmith.com.au
    170-174 Abbotsford St
    North Melbourne, Vic

     

    Still Life 2011, Oil on Linen, 25x30cm $2600Linden Centre for Contemporary Art

    Sat, 4 Feb 2012 - Sat, 17 March 2012
    OPENING: 1 - 5pm Saturday 4th February 2012

    The Linden Postcard Show will open with hundreds of small format contemporary art works by artists from all over Australia.

    VIP Preview night 6-8pm Friday 3rd Feb, 2012

    http://www.lindenarts.org/

     

  • la biennale di venezia

    Recent travel to Vernissage of the Venice Biennale. 31 May - 6 June, 2011
    Then on to Florence, Rome, Taormina and Madrid.

     

  • Art Basel Miami 400px

    Travelled to: Miami Beach December 1 - 3, 2010

    Art Basel Miami Beach is the most important art show in the United States, a cultural and social highlight for the Americas. As the sister event of Switzerland's Art Basel, the most prestigious art show worldwide for the past 41 years, Art Basel Miami Beach combines an international selection of top galleries with an exciting program of special exhibitions, parties and crossover events...

    I saw this painting on the way

    CotanSánchez Cotán: Quince, Cabbage, Melon, and Cucumber ca. 1602

    At the San Diego Museum of Art.

     

     

    Also saw shows by these artists in NYC: Luc Tuymans, John Currin, John Walker, Edward Hopper, Enoc Perez, Paul Tech, Anselm Kiefer etc.

     

  • Visit the member's lounge at NGV International, Melbourne

    This work was purchased by the Margaret Stewart Endownment from the 1989 Moet et Chandon Prize & Touring Exhibition. It is currently hanging in a Still Life exhibition in the National Gallery of Victoria's members lounge.


    Vanitas: Still Life with Blackboard
    Oil and Collage on Canvas
    61 x 76cm
    1988

     

     

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    Recent commissioned work:


    Still Life with Barrister's Wig & Football
    Oil on linen
    51 x 61cm
    2009

     

     

     

  • Recent Exhibitions

    • Deloitte Exhibition Catalogue Cover

      Organic Chemistry

      Still Life Paintings by Christopher Beaumont
      May 5 - August 15 2008
      Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu - QV Melbourne

       

    • Finalist: 2008 Williamstown Festival Contemporary Art Prize

      The Substation Arts Centre, 1 Market Street, Newport VIC.
      4 - 13 April 2008
      More information

    • New Artists at AXIA Modern Art

      27 October - 25 November 2007

    • fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne VIC. 22 May - 2 June 2007

      Group show 'Natura' with Adriane Strampp, Alana Kennedy & Grant Nimmo
      Media Release here.

    • Eva Breuer Art Dealer, Sydney NSW. 29 July - 18 August 2006

      Link to: Eva Breuer Art Dealer with Catalogue & Prices, Artist's Statement and Photos from the opening.

    • The Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo VIC. 13 May - 18 June 2006

      Link to: The Bendigo Art Gallery

       

    • The Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize InvitationThe Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize
      The Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo VIC 26 Jan - 6 March 2005

      Narcissus - Oil & Collage on Linen

      This painting won the "People's Choice Award" in The Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize

      Link to: Announcement of The People's Choice Winner - State of the Arts web site

      The $50,000 acquisitive prize, the richest open painting prize in Australia, was won by Dale Frank.

      Link to: The Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize - current information.

  • with Madeline Getson from City of Port Phillip

    Current Painting Studio

    The painting studio has moved from the City of Port Phillip Bowling Club Studios and Vegout near Luna Park in St Kilda to Shakespeare Grove (about 50m).

     

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