Bianca Beetson b. 1973 Sunshine Coast, Qld.

  • Artist (Painter) ,
A member of the Brisbane-based Indigenous artist collectives the Campfire Group and ProppaNOW, Beetson's mixed media works, which are always pink, employ humour as a central device in their message of survival and self-determination.
Talk | Version history | Updated Oct. 19, 2011 | Created Jan. 1, 2007
Name
Bianca Beetson
Birth date
1973
Birth place
Sunshine Coast, Qld.
Gender
Female
Roles
  • Artist (Painter)
  • Artist
Active Period
  • 1996-
Languages
  • English
Is Indigenous
Yes
Initial Record Data Source
  • Storylines Project, COFA, UNSW

Bianca Beetson of the Gubbi Gubbi people of the Sunshine Coast was born in 1973. Her work is instantly recognisable as she always uses the colour pink. She is a member of the Campfire Group as well as ProppaNOW artists group, both based in Brisbane. She has shown her work in a number of exhibitions including the '2nd Asia Pacific Triennal’ at the Queensland Art Gallery in 1996/1997, 'Black Humour’ at the Canberra Contemporary Art Space in 1997 as well as the 2001 exhibition “Gatherings, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art From Queensland Australia” in Brisbane. In the 'Gatherings’ accompanying catalogue she states that she likes “to use humour in my work … the ability to laugh at ourselves and to laugh at the times we find ourselves in, an overall sense of the ridiculous and the absurd … I see it as a necessary tool for survival and self determination … a spoonful of sugar helps the metaphor go down.”

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Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
associate of
Vernon Ah Kee
1967
Artist (Installation Artist), Artist (Video Artist), Artist (Photographer), Artist (Draughtsman), Artist (Printmaker)
associate of
Richard Bell
1953
Artist (Digital Artist/Designer), Artist (Painter)
associate of
Gordon Hookey
1961
Artist (Installation Artist), Artist (Printmaker), Artist (Sculptor), Artist (Painter)
associate of
Laurie Nilsen
Artist (Installation Artist), Artist (Sculptor), Artist (Painter)
associate of
ProppaNOW
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Camp Fire Group
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
Suburban Myth Fit
Date
2005
Energy Crisis
Date
2000
Deadly Triptych
Date
1997
Me Me, Me & You, Emu Dreaming - Fantastic Plastic
Date
1997
Froggy Went A Courtin'
Date
1997
Collections
Gatherings II
2006
Exhibition ()
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Qld.
Gatherings
2001
Exhibition ()
Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre, Brisbane, QLD
Black Humour
1997
Exhibition ()
Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra, ACT
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2nd Asia Pacific Triennial
1996
Exhibition ()
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Qld.
Citations:
  • Neville John O'Neill (ed)., (1997), Black Humour catalogue, (Place: Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra, ACT)
  • Demozay, Marion, (2006), Gatherings II, (Place: Keeaira Press, Southport, Qld.)
  • Demozay, Marion, (2001), Gatherings, Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art from Queensland, Australia, (Place: Keeaira Press, Southport, Qld.)