Clark Beaumont
{{short description|Australian artistic duo}}
{{Use Australian English|date=June 2020}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2019}}
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| nationality = Australian
| known_for = Video, Installation, Performance Art
| training = Queensland University of Technology
| awards = Finalists [http://www.churchieemergingart.com The Churchie Art Prize]
| website = [http://www.clarkbeaumont.com Clark Beaumont's website]
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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.{{Cite web|url=http://clarkbeaumont.com/index.php/aboutus/cv/|title = CV : Clark Beaumont}}
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.{{cite web|title=Clark Beaumont biography|url=http://www.clarkbeaumont.com/index.php/tag/bio/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:
- Heart to Heart at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney;{{cite web|title=Heart to Heart exhibition page|url=http://www.roslynoxley9.com.au/artists/304/Clark_Beaumont/1574/}}
- Feeling It Out at Kings ARI, Melbourne;{{cite web|title=Kings ARI website|url=http://www.kingsartistrun.com.au}}
- Seen at JIWAR, Barcelona (2013);{{cite web|title=JIWAR website|url=http://jiwarbarcelona.com}}
- She'll Be Right at Boxcopy, Brisbane (2012);{{cite web|title=She'll Be Right, Boxcopy website|url=http://boxcopy.org/2012/09/19/clark-beaumont/}} and
- Pear Shaped at Current Projects, Brisbane (2012).{{cite web|title=Pear Shaped, Current Projects website|url=http://www.currentprojects.org/so-where-the-bloody-hell-are-you--clark-beaumont.html}}
Group exhibitions include:
- "GoMA Q: Contemporary Queensland Art" at the Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane (2015);{{cite web|title=GoMA website|url=https://www.qagoma.qld.gov.au/whats-on/exhibitions/goma-q}}
- "Performance Presence / Video Time" at the Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide (2015);{{cite web|title=AEAF website|url=http://www.aeaf.org.au/exhibitions/ppvt.html}}
- Art as a Verb at Monash University Museum of Art (2014);{{cite web|title=MUMA website|date=5 August 2019|url=http://www.monash.edu.au/muma}}
- Presence/Absence at Spiro Grace Art Rooms, Brisbane (2014);{{cite web|title=SGAR website|url=http://www.sgar.com.au}}
- Rinse & Repeat at The Hangar, Brisbane (2013);{{cite web|title=Rinse & Repeat, Laura Brown|url=http://lauraaudreybrown.com/?p=168|access-date=10 February 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140125122503/http://lauraaudreybrown.com/?p=168|archive-date=25 January 2014|url-status=dead}}
- 13 Rooms at Pier {{frac|2|3}}, Sydney; Pivotal at BUS Projects, Melbourne (2013);{{cite web|title=Pivotal, BUS Projects website|url=http://busprojects.org.au/2013/03/26/pivotal/|access-date=2014-02-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222162431/http://busprojects.org.au/2013/03/26/pivotal/|archive-date=2014-02-22|url-status=dead}}
- Hatched at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth; SafARI (2012), Sydney;{{cite web|title=SafARI 2012 website|url=http://safari.org.au/2012/}} the Brisbane Emerging Art Festival, Brisbane (2012);{{cite web|title=Brisbane Emerging Art Festival 2012 website|url=http://www.beaf.org.au/2012-artists/|access-date=10 February 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140214045358/http://www.beaf.org.au/2012-artists/|archive-date=14 February 2014|url-status=dead}}
- Exist-ence at the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts, Brisbane's Sixty Sixty at Metro Arts, Brisbane (2011);{{cite web|title=Metro Arts website|url=http://metroarts.com.au}} and
- Introspection at the Brisbane Institute of Art, Brisbane.
= 13 Rooms =
In April 2013, Clark Beaumont were included in the major exhibition 13 Rooms, produced by Kaldor Public Art Projects in Sydney, Australia.{{cite web|title=13 Rooms website|url=http://kaldorartprojects.org.au/13rooms/|access-date=2014-02-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140209161200/http://kaldorartprojects.org.au/13rooms/|archive-date=2014-02-09|url-status=dead}} 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.{{cite web|title=Artistic Duo Clark Beaumont selected for 27th Kaldor Public Art Project, ArtAsiaPacific|url=http://artasiapacific.com/Blog/ArtistDuoClarkBeaumontBringYouthfulEnergyTo27thKaldorPublicArtProject}}{{cite web|title=Unknowns edge out established performers, Sydney Morning Herald|date=28 November 2012|url=http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/unknowns-edge-out-established-performers-20121128-2ae9f.html}}{{cite web|title=Clark Beaumont interviewed on ABC Radio National|website=Australian Broadcasting Corporation |date=19 February 2013|url=http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/weekendarts/clark-beaumont/4526608}} 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."{{cite web|title=13 Rooms, Kaldor Public Art Projects website|url=http://kaldorartprojects.org.au/13rooms/clark-beaumont}}
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External links
- [http://www.clarkbeaumont.com Clark Beaumont's website]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20140222003834/http://dismagazine.com/discrit89plus/users/profile/425 Artist Profile on 89Plus]
- [https://www.academia.edu/3684521/Clark_Beaumont_Coexisting Essay on Coexisting, Framework magazine]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20140223025428/http://dialogue.media-culture.org.au/students/clark-beaumont Queensland University of Technology, The Shape of Things to Come]
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Category:21st-century Australian artists
Category:Australian video artists
Category:Australian contemporary artists