Now and Then presents new video and installation artworks by Clark Beaumont. Clark Beaumont is the Brisbane-based artistic collaboration of Nicole Beaumont and Sarah Clark. Through both live and mediated performance works they investigate ideas and constructs surrounding identity, female subjectivity, intimacy and interpersonal relationships. Clark Beaumont are the subjects of their work, and their collaboration involves examining the social and physical dynamics of working together to create artwork. Their works often explore the intersection between performativity and authenticity, as well as the shifting dynamic between performer and viewer. The duo creatively and critically engage elements of humour and absurdity to explore how contemporary constructs of female identity and subjectivity are formed.
Clark Beaumont have presented live performances, videos and installations, nationally and internationally since 2010. Notably, in 2013, the collaboration exhibited work in Kaldor Public Art Project’s 13 Rooms, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist & Klaus Biesenbach. In 2014, they held a solo exhibition at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, were selected as the QAGOMA Melville Haysom Memorial Art Scholarship recipient, and received Highly Commended at the Churchie National Emerging Art Prize. Recently, they have presented live performances at the Institute of Modern Art (Brisbane), the Australian Experimental Art Foundation (Adelaide), Monash University Museum of Art (Melbourne) and Queensland University of Technology Art Museum as part of Performance Now, curated by Roselee Goldberg. In 2015, the duo participated in Marina Abramovic’s Australian artist residency, exhibited in QAGoMA’s survey exhibition ‘GOMA Q: Queensland Contemporary Art’, and were finalists in the Jeremy Hynes Award. This year, they will undertake a yearlong residency in Berlin, a project that is supported by the Australia Council for the Arts.
Exhibition Opening Saturday 12 March, 5 – 8pm
