23 March - 17 April 2023
Opening Event
Saturday 25 March 2023
3pm - 5pm
Suze van der Beek’s reductive method foregrounds the reflective surface of a small body of water in relation to surrounding atmospheric lighting conditions. Suze works with the landscape tradition reduced to its basic components; foreground, background and horizon as a means of investigating the translation of space and light from the world in front of the lens to the photographic image.
Her intention is to engage viewers with an experience that is complex, subtle and affecting by amplifying the aesthetic qualities of her photographic images such as nuanced details, soft, diffuse tone and the sensing of subtle movement (inferred by the relation between salient and recessive areas of the image plane).
Suze van der Beek is a visual artist and art educator with many years of practice. Suze has a Master of Fine Art by Research from the School of Creative Arts, University of Tasmania. She is an active member of The Pear Shed Gallery Cooperative, a committee member of Turrakana – Tasman Arts Association and the Co-Director of Lightwave Festival. Suze lives at White Beach on the Tasman Peninsula in Lutruwita / Tasmania and teaches visual art at Tasman District School. Her work is held in collections in Australia and Aotearoa / New Zealand.
1. Untitled i (from White Beach) 2015
Edition 1 of 5
Framed archival pigment print
1500 x1000mm
$2,600
2. Untitled v (from White Beach) 2015
Edition 3 of 5
Framed archival pigment print
1500 x 1000mm
$2,600
3. 7.00pm, 17 November 2017
Edition 1 of 5
Framed archival pigment print
730 x 1090mm
$2,400
4. 5:46pm, 25 August 2020
Edition 1 of 5
Framed archival pigment print
1090 x 730mm
$2,400
5. 6:56pm, 17 November 2017
Edition 1 of 5
Framed archival pigment print
730 x 1090mm
$2,400
6. 6:42am, 10 April 2018
Edition 1 of 5
Framed archival pigment print
1500 x 1000mm
$2,600
7. 5:53pm, 10 April 2018
Edition 1 of 5
Framed archival pigment print
1500 x 1000mm
$2,600
8. 6:46am, 11 April 2018
Edition 1 of 5
Framed archival pigment print
1500 x 1000mm
$2,600
9. 5:43pm, 11 April 2018
Edition 1 of 5
Framed archival pigment print
1500 x 1000mm
$2,600
10. 6:51am, 27 April 2018
Edition 1 of 5
Framed archival pigment print
1500 x 1000mm
$2,600
Education
2017 Master of Fine Arts by Research (Photography), School of Creative Arts, University of Tasmania
2013 Bachelor of Fine Art Hons by Research (Photography), School of Creative Arts, UTAS
1999 Bachelor of Fine Art (Printmaking), School of Creative Arts, University of Tasmania
Solo exhibitions
2023 New Cyanotypes; on Wood, Paper and Fabric, The Pear Shed Gallery, White Beach
Selected Works, Ninch Cider Gallery, Nubeena, Tasmania
2022 Beach Shack Blues, The Pear Shed Gallery, White Beach, Tasmania
2018 Blue Room, Biennale of Australian Art (BOAA), Ballarat Welcome Building, Ballarat, Victoria
Blue Room, Moonah Arts Centre, Moonah, Tasmania
home / world, Colville Gallery, Hobart
2017 Between June and October, Colville Gallery, Hobart
Mirrored Resonance; exploring an aesthetics of engagement, Plimsoll Gallery, School of Creative Arts, Hobart
Selected group exhibitions
2019 Works on Paper, Colville Gallery
2015-18 Annual Artists Show, Colville Gallery
2018 The Island, WestEnd Art Space, Melbourne
2017 Colville Gallery, WestEnd Art Space, Melbourne
2016 Art is a Living Thing, Aratoi Museum, Masterton, New Zealand
2015 Young Moderns, Colville Gallery
Residencies
2019 Rocky Cape National Park, Tasmanian Residency, Arts Tasmania
2018 Narawntapu National Park, Tasmanian Residency, Arts Tasmania
2014 The Ochre House, Fowlers Gap Research Station, New South Wales
Commissions
2023 Hobart Royal Hospital ICU, Artsite Scheme, Arts Tasmania (with Nikala Bourke).
2022 North West Regional Hospital Antenatal Clinic, Artsite Scheme, Arts Tas (with Nikala Bourke). 2011 Clarence Plains Child and Family Centre Artsite Scheme, Arts
Tasmania
2006 Risdon Vale Primary School Artsite Scheme, Arts Tasmania
2005 Bowen Road Primary School Artsite Scheme, Arts Tasmania
Art Prizes
2020 Tidal 2020, Devonport Regional Gallery, Tasmania
2020 Women’s Art Prize Tasmania
2014 Bay of Fires Prize, Tasmania
2013 Hutchins Prize (acquired), Tasmania
Collections
Australia and New Zealand