John Beard (artist)

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John Beard (born 1943) is a Welsh artist and painter based in Sydney, Lisbon and London.

The Gap, oil & wax on linen (2006 Wynne Prize Winner), by John Beard

1 Life and art
2 Selected collections
3 Selected awards and fellowships
4 Selected Reviews, articles and essays
5 See also
6 Notes and references
7 External links

[edit] Life and art

John Beard won the Welsh National Art Scholarship in 1962 at just 19 years of age. After training at the Swansea College of Art, he completed further studies at the University of London and the Royal College of Art, London.

In 1965 he won the British Arts Council International Prize and Commission, and has since won many residences and commission at various Universities and establishments around the globe. After various teaching posts in the United Kingdom, Beard arrived in Western Australia in 1983, to become Senior Lecturer, Head of Painting, Curtin University, Perth. After resigning in 1989, Beard traveled extensively, living and exhibiting in cities such as New York, Madrid, Lisbon and London before establishing a Sydney base in 1997. When the Tate Gallery opened its St Ives gallery in Cornwall, 1998, John Beard was one of the first artists to be offered a residency and exhibition there.^[1]

Since the mid-1990's John Beard's paintings have explored the fugitive nature of reality. While living in Sinatra on the Atlantic coast of Portugal, Beard made the "Adaga" series of paintings which were studies of a massive off-shore rock which constantly changed its character in the surging sea and shifting light.

This same vestigation led Beard into portraiture - except that he is not interested in painting portraits as such, but in examing the nature of portraiture and its implications for the epistemology of human recognition.^[2]

Head-Self Portait4, oil & wax on linen, 76cm x 76cm, by John Beard

[edit] Selected collections

Artbank Australia, Australia
Arts Council of Great Britain, England
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Australia
Centro do Arte Moderna da Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal
Curtin University, Australia
Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Australia
Macquarie University, Australia
Murdoch University, Sydney, Australia
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
New Parliament House Collection, Canberra, Australia
Oxford University, England
Queensland Art Gallery, Australia
Robert Holmes a Court Collection, Australia
Sydney University, Australia
Tate Gallery, England
University of Melbourne (Victorian College of the Arts), Australia
University of New South Wales, Australia
University of the Northern Territory, Australia
University of Western Australia, Australia
Represented in private collections in America, Canada, England, Wales, Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and India.

[edit] Selected awards and fellowships

2006 Wynn Landscape Prize, Art Gallery of NSW
1994 Australia Council, Award to Assist Series of Solo Exhibitions in Europe.
1989 Australia Council Major Fellowship, Visual Arts & Craft Boad.
1984 West Australia Invitation Art Award, Fremantle Art Gallery.
1983 Pegasus Art Award, Art Gallery of Western Australia.
1965 British Arts Council International Prize and Commission, Aberdare Public Library Mural, Wales.
1962 Welsh National Arts Scholarship.

[edit] Selected Reviews, articles and essays

Ken Unsworth, oil & wax on linen, by John Beard (Finalist in Archibald Prize 2006)

Beard, John To Infinity and Beyond! Contemporary Australian Art, Commissioned article by the Official Website of ARCO, Madrid <masdearte.com> 2002.
Bond, Anthony Form-Image-Sign, The Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Essay,1984.
Brampton, Robin John Beard - Tate Gallery St Ives, England, The Times & Echo, St. Ives, England, December 1998.
Carlos, Isabel John Beard - Solo Exhibition, Galeria Luis Serpa, Lisbon, Portugal, FLASH ART, Review, May-June 1995.
Carver, Toni Tate Triumphant with John Wells and John Beard, Tate Gallery St.Ives England,
Chanin, Eileen Contemporary Australian Painting Australian Original, A Sense of Place, Article, Sydney, 1990.
Cinco Dias, Ed. Solo Exhibition - Afinsa Almirante Galeria de Arte, Madrid, Cinco Dias, Review, 22 May 1992.
Davis, Wendy After Image, John Beard at Tate Gallery St Ives (England), Monument, Feature, Issue 30, Sydney, June/July 1999.
Drury, Nevil John Beard, New Art II, Craftsman House, Sydney, Article, 1988.
Escribano, Maria Solo Exhibition - Afinsa Almirante Galeria de Arte, Madrid, Nuevo Estillo, Preview, June 1992.
Evans, Louise Solo Exhibition - William Jackson Gallery, London, Australian Associated Press, Article, March 1993.
Fern, Lynette Solo Exhibition - Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, The Sydney Morning Herald, Review, 11 October 1992.
Gibson, Robin Painting the Century, 101 Portrait Masterpieces 1900-2000, John Beard, Wanganui Heads 1998, National Portrait Gallery, London, Catalogue, 2000.
Greenberg, Sarah Solo Exhibition - Tate Gallery St Ives, England, The International Art Newspaper, Review, Vol. IX, No. 82., June 1998.
Hill, Peter, The Rock and the Head - Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney Australia, Review, Sydney
Morning Herald "HeadSpace" 6-12 September 2002.
Ingram, Terry Sombre Mood in New Collection, Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney The Australian Financial Review, News Feature, May 2004.
Jackson, Kevin "A hundred and one conceptions", Painting the Century, National Portrait Gallery, London, The Independent, Review, 28 November 2000
Jacobson, Howard The Chicago Art Fair, Modern Painters Vol. 2, No. 2, Summer 1989.
JN Solo Exhibition - BMG Galleries, Adelaide, The Adelaide Review, Review, June 1994.
Journal Letras, Ed. Accrochage 3, Galeria Comicos, Lisbon, Journal Letras, Review, 28 September 1993.
Kerr, Joan The Possibilities of a National Portrait Gallery ,The National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, Art Monthly Australia, Number 118, Review, April 1999.
Klaushofter, Alex There's no place... New Statesman, London, England, Article, 26 June 1998.
Lindsay, Robert The Shell Collection, Melbourne, Australia, Catalogue Essay, 1995.
Lynn, Elwyn Nobody's Man is Powerful Painter, Solo Exhibition - Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, The Weekend Australian, Review, 26 January 1985.
Lynton, Norbert Portraits from a Pluralist Century, Painting the Century, 101 Portrait
Masterpieces 1900-2000, National Portrait Gallery, London, Catalogue, 2000.
Mannix, Ian Solo Exhibition - William Jackson Gallery, London, Australian Broadcasting, Interview, February 1993.
McDonald, John Solo Exhibition - Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, The National Times, Review, 9 November 1986.
Mc Ewen, John Critic's Choice, The Rock and the Head - Solo Exhibition, Stephen Lacey Gallery, London, The Sunday Telegraph, Feature, 31 December 2000.
McGillick, Paul Exhibitions Overseas- Preview, Monument Magazine, Sydney, Australia 2002.
Mc Namara TJ Power of working with the grain - Solo Exhibition - Jensen Gallery, Auckland, The New Zealand Herald, 26 September 2000.
Maloon, Terence Solo Exhibition - Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, The Sydney Morning Herald, Review, 26 January 1985.
Marcon, Marco Solo Exhibition - Galerie Dusseldorf, Praxis M , No. 13, July/August 1986.
Millard, Rosie Cutting Edge, Tate Gallery St Ives, England, Art Review, June 1998.
Nazare, Leonor John Beard Galeria Luis Serpa, Solo Exhibition, Lisbon, Portugal, Expresso, Review, 21 January 1995.
Packer, William Solo Exhibition - Tate Gallery St Ives, England, The Financial Review, May 1998.
Perez de Azor, J. Solo Exhibition - Afinsa Almirante, Madrid, El Punto, Review, 15-21 May 1992.
Pinharanda, Joao John Beard - Solo Exhibition - Galeria Luis Serpa, Lisbon, Portugal, Publico, Review, 21 January 1995.
Simpson, Peter Masterstroke in minding his own beeswax - Solo Exhibition - Jensen Gallery, Auckland, Sunday Star Times, 24 September 2000.
Serraller, F. Calvo Suntuosa Madurez (Sumptuous Maturity) Solo Exhibition - Afinsa Almirante, Madrid, El Pais, Review, 1 June 1992.
Smith, Terry Solo Exhibition - Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, The Sydney Morning Herald, Review, 14 August 1988.
Tunnicliffe, Wayne John Beard Heads Phase III, Solo Exhibition - Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, LOOK - AGNSW Magazine, Article, Australia 1998.
Watson, Bronwyn Solo Exhibition - Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, The Sydney Morning Herald, Review, 26 June 1987.
Y. A. Solo Exhibition - Afinsa Almirante, Madrid, ABC Cultural, Review, 19 June 1992.