Emma Beer - Not all beer and skittles, 2021

Artwork Dimensions: 140cm x 110cm

Photography: David Paterson

"Energised and resonant, shimmering with vitality, these works are alive to all of light's permutations, responsive to its delicate shifts in tone and hue, shade and shadow. Characterised by this mutability, Beer's layered fields create radiant interactions of space and depth: paint is stretched, pulled and manipulated, pigments are thinned, veiled and extended, before being reconfigured as strident skeins that block and structure."              ....... Curator: Tony Oates

Learn More: Exhibition: Drill Hall Gallery - Zooper Dooper Feb 10 - Apr 10, 2022

About The Artist

Emma Beer was born on Yorta-Yorta country, in Echuca and grew up on the family farm, attending St Mary’s Primary School and St. Joseph’s College. 

Beer moved to Canberra to Study Painting at the National University Of Australia and graduated in 2009 with First Class Honours. 

In recent years her work has been included in Canberra’s biennial contour 556 and the symposium by the ANU School of Art and Design, Painting Amongst Other Things. Other curatorial projects that Beer has participated in are; Abstraction Twenty Eighteen, a series of satellite exhibitions in conversation with the NGV’s The Field Revisited across Melbourne. Young Moderns, at Penrith Regional Gallery, and Emerging from Canberra, at Watters Gallery in Sydney.

Noteworthy, solo projects include ZOOPER DOOPER curated by Tony Oates at the Drill Hall Gallery, #nofearsemmabeer Tributary Projects, WHAT IS IT YOU CAN’T FACE? FIVEWALLS Gallery, Melbourne, It’s all about Eve, Australian National Capital Artist Gallery, Princess of the Riverina, Reading Room Soho, London, Lashings of Ginger Beer PHOTOSPACE GALLERY ANU, and THE INFORMALITIES OF [filtered word] MIRACLE Canberra Contemporary Art Space 

Beer’s work is included in the Canberra Museum and Art Gallery collection, as well as collections such as The Macquarie Group Collection, The Australian National University, Drill Hall Gallery; The Embassy of Spain, Australia; The National Gallery of Australia: Megalo Archive Collection and numerous private collections throughout Australia, Singapore, Scotland, England, France, and Spain. 

Beer wishes to acknowledge the Ngunnawal and Ngambri people, the traditional custodians of the land on which they live and work, and pay their respects to elders past, present and emerging.