// ARTIST STATEMENT
Using a multidisciplinary approach, Sue’s visual art practice primarily examines place and space.

My current work is part of an ongoing investigation into the concept of liminal space (transformation and the in-between) through the lens of personal mythologies, postinternet and postdigital concerns, and Instruction Based art.

At the present time, I am working on a series of paintings and digital works, that explore ideas relating to liminal space through the transformation of well known Australian landscape paintings. Postdigital strategies are used as a metaphor for the permanent alteration and ultimate transformation of the landscape and our society as we know it.

// BIO
Melbourne based Sue Beyer recently completed an MFA (research) at the VCA in Melbourne, supported through an Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship. In 2018 Sue was awarded the National Gallery of Victoria Women’s Association Award for the work created as part of her candidature.

Beyer has held solo exhibitions in Brisbane and Melbourne, and participated in group shows in Australia, Singapore and the United States. Sue has been a finalist in multiple prizes, and was the winner of the Emerging artist category in the Stanthorpe Art Prize in 2014. Her work is part of numerous corporate and public collections including Artbank, an Australian Government art collection.

Beyer is the director of Sandbox Studios Melbourne, a set of professional art studios and independent artist run gallery.

Sue is represented by Studio Gallery Group

// CV

Education 2019 Master of Fine Art (research), Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne 2010 Bachelor of Fine Art with Class I honours, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University 2005 Graduate Certificate in Graphic Communication, RMIT, Victoria 1997 Bachelor of Visual Arts - Graphic Design, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University Selected Solo exhibitions 2021 TBA - Studio Gallery Group, Sydney 2021 Transformer - Fortyfive Downstairs, Melbourne 2018 MFA Graduate Show - Margaret Lawrence Gallery, VCA, Melbourne 2018 Your neon lights will shine - George Paton Gallery, Melbourne 2018 A million lights are dancing - Sawtooth ARI, Launceston 2017 A place where nobody dared to go - SEVENTH, Melbourne 2016 disPLACE - ARCADE, Melbourne 2015 The Land of Make-believe - Conduit Arts, Melbourne 2014 Betwixt and Between - Spiro Grace Art Rooms, Brisbane 2013 Open Studio Exhibition - Point B Worklodge, Brooklyn, New York 2013 Memory Palace - Logan Art Gallery 2012 Dwell - Redland Art Gallery, Brisbane Selected group exhibitions 2020 Biennial of Victorian Women Abstract Artists - West End Art Space, Melbourne 2020 Creative Code Festival - Lightbox, New York 2020 Winter Show - Studio Gallery Group, Melbourne & Sydney 2019 Friends and Family - Daine Singer, Melbourne 2019 Rules of engagement - The Substation, Singapore 2019 Small! 2019 - Fortyfive Downstairs, Melbourne 2019 Happy Shadows - Brightspace, Melbourne 2019 Victoria Street - The Wandering Room, Melbourne 2019 Directors - BOX, Melbourne 2019 Divergent - Assembly Point, Melbourne 2019 Awkwarder - The Wandering Room, Melbourne 2018 VIVID - Chapman & Bailey, Melbourne 2018 Out Front - Here we see, Gallery There, Melbourne 2018 Universal Personal - VCA Artspace, Melbourne 2017 Scenes of our city - Museum of Brisbane 2016 17.08.16 - Home@735, Sydney 2016 Collectibles V - Spiro Grace Art Rooms, Brisbane 2015 Closing/Opening party - PointB Worklodge, Brooklyn, New York 2015 18 x 8: From Point A to PointB and back again... - PointB Worklodge, Brooklyn, New York 2014 Collectibles IV - Spiro Grace Art Rooms, Brisbane 2014 Planes of reality - Judith Wright Centre, Brisbane 2013 +1 - Garage ARI, Sydney 2011Check in - Brisbane Emerging Art Festival - Metro Arts, Brisbane 2010 NetWork - The Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat 2010 Suburbia - Redcliffe City Gallery 2010 Test Pattern 2010 - Ryan Renshaw, Brisbane 2008 Digital Fringe - Melbourne Fringe Festival, Melbourne 2008 Illusion - SomArts Cultural Center, San Francisco Selected Prizes (Finalist) 2020 Sunshine Coast Art Prize - Caloundra Regional Gallery - Caloundra 2020 Moreland Summer Show - Counihan Gallery, Melbourne 2017 15 Artists - Redcliffe City Gallery - Redcliffe 2016 National works on paper - Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery - Victoria 2016 The M Collection Art Prize - Gallerysmith - Melbourne 2014 The Redland Art Prize - Redland Art Gallery - Brisbane 2014 The Stanthorpe Art Festival - Stanthorpe Regional Art Gallery - Stanthorpe 2013 The Churchie National Emerging Art Prize - Griffith University Art Gallery - Brisbane 2013 The Wilson Visual Arts Award - Lismore 2012 Albury City Art Prize - Albury City Gallery - Albury 2011 Sunshine Coast Art Prize - Caloundra Regional Gallery - Caloundra 2011 Moreton Bay Region Art Awards - Pine Rivers Art Gallery - Strathpine 2011 Clayton Utz Art Prize - Clayton Utz Lawyers - Brisbane 2009 15 Artists - Redcliffe City Gallery - Redcliffe 2007 Stillwell Show - SFSU Fine Arts Gallery - San Francisco Awards 2018 The National Gallery of Victoria Women's Association Award 2014 Winner of the Emerging Artist category - Stanthorpe Art Prize - Stanthorpe 2013 Winner - The Milburn Art Prize - Brisbane 2009 Griffith Award for Academic Excellence - Griffith University 2008 Winner - RBWH art award - Brisbane Selected Grants 2020 National Assistance Program for the Arts - Sidney Myer Fund & The Myer Foundation 2018 Faculty Small Grants Scheme - The University of Melbourne 2013 Regional Arts Development Fund (RADF) Grant 2010 ArtStart Grant - Australia Council for the Arts 2007 International Experiences Incentive Scheme Grant, Griffith University Residencies 2016 Green Rooms, London, UK - December 2016 2014 Imaging the land International Research Initiative (ILIRI), Fowlers Gap, Artist in residence - May 2014 2013 Point B Worklodge - Brooklyn, New York - December 2013 2013 Bundanon Trust Artist in Residence - July 2013 Collaborations 2013 Other spaces 'Glow Tent' with Caitlin Halsall for Animating spaces - Redlands Curatorial projects 2018 VIVID - Chapman Bailey, Melbourne 2013 - 2014 Other Space - Artist run space - Blackbutt, regional QLD Public Art Commissions 2012 - 2013 Our Place – This is where we live - Ipswich Hospital Expansion project - managed by Project Services, Qld State Government 2009 I'll tell you on the way home - Project Services, Qld State Govt. Bike Centre - 61 Mary Street, Brisbane Collections Artbank Binder Dijker Otte Brisbane Grammar School Central Park - Sydney Gadens Lawyers Gold Coast University Hospital Hilton Hotels Ipswich Hospital Jupiters Casino Lady Cilento Children's Hospital Land Solution Australia Murphy Pipe and Civil Royal Brisbane and Womens Hospital - Brisbane The Mater Private Hospital - Brisbane & Springfield Private - UK, USA, Canada, Australia Professional Memberships NAVA Professional activities Director of Sandbox Studios, Australia TEDx talk, October 5, 2014, Powerhouse, Brisbane RADF Committee Member - South Burnett Regional Council Jan 2014 - April 2014 Artist workshops, Redlands Ignite Festival, Cleveland June - July 2013 Artist talk, Art Cafe, Brisbane Girls Grammar School, October 2012 Children's after school workshops - Camp Hill and Bulimba 2012 Artist workshops - Mapping your world - Redland Art Gallery July 2012 Volunteer, Redland Art Gallery - Cleveland June 2012 - Dec 2012 Artist talk and workshop - Mapping your world - Pine Rivers Art Gallery February 2011 Artist workshop - Goondiwindi State HIgh School October 2010 Artist talk - Suburbia - Redcliffe City Gallery 17 June 2010 Volunteer, Artworkers Alliance - Brisbane Sept 2008 - April 2009 Volunteer, Institute of Modern Art - Brisbane Sept 2006 - April 2007 Guest lecture - QCA - Creating the image 11 May 2006 Selected Bibliography Kennedy, A 2020, Sue Beyer, A-OK, Melbourne viewed 7 June, 2020 Smith, S 2016, SUSIE SMITH REVIEWS 17.08.16, Home@735 Gallery viewed 17 September, 2016 Documentor 2016, Editorial: Sue Beyer: disPLACE, Documentor viewed 30 June, 2016 Nelson, I 2015, Interview: Sue Beyer, One Four Four, Melbourne viewed 8 January, 2016 Eskola, M 2014, Betwixt & Between, Catalogue essay, 2014 Clarke, A 2014, Review of Betwixt & Between, Six to Eight, Sydney viewed 16 October, 2014 Cha, M 2014, What's your topography, Moustache Magazine, Brisbane viewed 23 September, 2014 Bridge, C 2014, Sue Beyer Now, Art World Women, Melbourne, viewed 5 February, 2014 Browne, S 2013, Mapping creativity, U On Sunday, 19 May, p. 30.