I respectfully acknowledge the traditional custodians of the unceded lands on which I live and create work, the Boonwurrung/Bunurong and Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation and the Brataualung people of the Gunaikurnai Nation. I pay my respects to their Elders, past, present and emerging and extend that respect to all First Nations people.
Education:
2010 Master of Fine Arts (by Research), the Victorian College of the Arts, The University of Melbourne
2005 Bachelor of Fine Art, Honours, the Victorian College of the Arts, The University of Melbourne
2004 Bachelor of Fine Art, the Victorian College of the Arts, The University of Melbourne
Public Artwork Commissions / Outdoor Sculptures:
2022 Front Beach Back Beach temporary public art commission with LAST Collective
2022 Who's Afraid of Public Space? ACCA Commission, Beth Arnold and Sary Zananiri
2022 Big Art, Small Halls, Mount Best Hall, South Gippsland Australia (forthcoming) 2018 In Motion, Mountain to Mouth 2018, Point Lonsdale, Australia
2016 Plane and Field, Testing Grounds, Southbank, Melbourne, Australia
2016 Keep in Time, Test Sites Project, City of Melbourne, Australia
2014 The McClelland Sculpture Survey and Award, McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Langwarrin, Australia 2014 Lorne Sculpture Biennale, Sculpture Trail, Lorne, Australia
2012 Within Foundations, Beth Arnold and Sary Zananiri, VicUrban Public Art Commission, Officer, Victoria, Australia
2011 Tiny Stadiums Festival, produced by PACT and curated by Quaterbred, Sydney, Australia
2009 Changing States, commissioned by White Street Project, Frankston City, Australia
2008 Intrude: Art & Life, Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art, China
2008 As it appears… Laneway Commissions, Beth Arnold and Sary Zananiri, City of Melbourne, 18 July 2008 – 22 February 2009
2006 Discarded Object Poster Project, supported by CLUBSproject, Bus Gallery and NAVA, Melbourne, Australia 2006 Urban Art Summer Program, Melbourne, Australia
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2023 Beth Arnold, CAVES Performance, curated by Rozalind Drummond and Storm Gold
2012 Beth Arnold, The Atrium Project: Filling The Void, The Incinerator Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2012 Walking through, over and between, Academy Gallery, Inveresk, UTas, Australia
2012 Exhibition RAIR#7: Presented by Kaus Australis, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2011 Approaching site, Sutton Gallery Project Space, Melbourne, Australia
2011 Beth Arnold, Jenny Bishop, and Robbie Dixon, Place Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2008 The object as witness, 2008 Next Wave Festival, Melbourne, Australia
2007 1:1, Victoria Park Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2006 Discarded Object Poster Project, supported by CLUBSproject, Bus Gallery and NAVA, Melbourne, Australia
Selected Group Exhibitions:
21/22 Who's Afraid of Public Space? ACCA, Melbourne, Australia (forthcoming) 2022 Project Room, Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne, with the LAST Collective (forthcoming)
2018 Round Dance with Jude Walton, MOVEMENT + ART, MADA Faculty Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2017 Light: The Second LAST Collective exhibition, Artery Co-op Project Space, Melbourne, Australia
2017 Elapse, presented by KINGS at the Hobiennale Arts Festival 2017, Hobart, Australia
2016 Curtain Call, Curated by S.O.A.P, Blindside Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2012 Place of Assembly, Schoolhouse Studios, Melbourne, Australia
2011 3SQUARE, Conical, Melbourne, Australia
2010 Gestures and Procedures, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
2007 Anonymous No. 5, Blütenweiss, Berlin, Germany
2006 Resurface, Blindside Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2006 All City, KINGS Artist Run Initiative, Melbourne, Australia
2006 Selecta, West Space, Melbourne, Australia
2003 The Mary and Lou Senini Student Art Award 2003 for Ceramics, McClelland Gallery, Langwarrin, Australia
Artist in Residence:
2021 Artist in Residence, with LAST Collective, Siteworks, Brunswick, Melbourne 2019 Artists in Residence, with LAST Collective and mentor Jude Walton, Brunswick Mechanics Institute, Melbourne
2012 Artist in Residence, Kaus Australis, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2012 Artist in Residence, School of Visual and Performing Arts, Inveresk, University of Tasmania, Australia
2011 Artist in Residence, St Columba’s College, Essendon, Melbourne
Professional Development and Employment:
2023: Workshop Artist: Waste not want not: strawbale & mudbrick construction | climate change | resource scarcity
A creative workshop titled Turning the clay on Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Country, Eltham, led by artists Beth Arnold and Emil Toonen in collaboration with the Nillumbik Mudbrick Association and Deakin University
2018 Workshop Leader, Mountain to Mouth 2018, Point Lonsdale Beach, Australia
2017 The Drill Hall Project, Direction and Choreography by Jude Walton. Scenography by Beth Arnold
16-18 KINGS Artist Run Initiative Committee Member
2016 Public Art Melbourne, Jason Maling Test Sites Workshop participant
2015 Gesture and the hand: Later years of the Margaret Lawrence Australian Ceramic Collection. Blue Urchin Gallery (Curator)
2015 VCA Art Project Coordinator: An Ecology of Object and Actions developed and led by Aleks Danko and Jude Walton
2014 VCA Art Project Coordinator: Sculptors in Schools Project, Public outcomes in Lorne Sculpture Biennale 2014 2013 VCA Secondary School: Visual Arts Program Workshop Leader
13/14 VCA Short Course Summer Teacher: Sculpture Workshop
2010 Workshop Leader, Landscape Architecture Program, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
2010 ACCA Arts Immersion Workshop Leader
2006 The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art Curatorial Clinic # 5 participant
Selected Awards and Grants:
2016 Australia Council for the Arts Grant, Arts Projects for Individuals
2010 National Gallery Women’s Association Postgraduate Award – Victorian College of the Arts: School of Art Award
2010 Sutton Gallery Emerging Artist Award 9-10 Australian Postgraduate Award – The University of Melbourne 2006 NAVA Visual and Craft Artists’ Grant 2004 National Gallery Women’s Association Undergraduate Encouragement Award, VCA: School of Art Award
2003 Potters Equipment Award, VCA: School of Art Award
Selected Bibliography:
2017 Microspectrophotometers & other measures, catalogue essay 2017 Hobiennale, by Rebecca McCauley
2016 Reflections on Plane and Field, Testing Grounds Publication, 2016, by Katie Paine
2012 Don’t fence me in: thrust of artworks parries need for barriers, The Age, 18/07/2012, by Robert Nelson
2010 New Wave Old Wave, The Age A2, 07/08/2010, by Liza Power
2010 Around the Galleries, The Age, 21/08/2010, by Dan Rule
2008 Artists take to the streets, Art World, Issue 6 December 2008/January 2009
2008 Towards new trains of thought, The Age A2, 15/03/2008, by Charlotte Francis
2008 Beware an art attack in city’s dark, dingy lanes, The Age, 16/08/2008, by Margaret Cook
2006 Search is on for lost photos, The Age, September 2006, by Megan Backhouse
Writing:
2010 Thesis: Approaching site, Master of Fine Arts (by Research)
2015 Exhibition Essay: Gesture and the hand, Later Years of the Margaret Lawrence Australian Ceramic Collection, accompanying exhibition at the Blue Urchin Gallery
Beth Arnold is a member of the artist collective Light and Air and Space and Time (LAST) with Melanie Irwin, Katie Lee, Clare Rae and Hanna Tai www.lastcollective.com
Beth Arnold and Sary Zananiri have been collaborating since 2006 and together have produced As it appears...(2008), Within Foundations (2012) and Building Foundations (2021 – 2022).