1983/4

Post-graduate training in Printmaking - Chelsea School of Art, London, UK.

1978-1982

BAFine Arts, University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. (History of Art, Drawing, Printmaking and Ceramics: Latin and English.) Graduated with Distinction in Printmaking, and faculty Certificate of Merit.

2010

InterfaCE - 3D ArtScience installation by Claire Beynon and Sam Bowser is mounted in the main foyer of the Wadsworth Center in the State Plaza Building Albany, NY as part of their permanent collection.

2009

La Jolla, San Diego, USA. - Training in the fundamentals of film editing with Mary Lynn Price, videographer and documentary film-maker. We embarked on making a series of short films featuring a flotilla of bamboo boats made by Claire Beynon in New Zealand for the 2008 research season in Antarctica. The boats were released into the ocean eighty feet below the sea ice of Explorers Cove and filmed as they made their dreamlike voyage upwards to the ice ceiling. We gathered extensive underwater footage of this drifting flotilla before retrieving them for future projects. (Creative director, Claire Beynon in collaboration with biologist/diver Sam Bowser, diver/vidographer Shawn Harper, divers Steve Clbuesch & Cecil Shin and diver, musician and film-maker, Henry Kaiser.

2009

Albany, NY, USA – Work trip to facilitate the completion of a three-year chapter of Antarctica-related ArtScience collaboration with New York-based polar biologist Sam Bowser. (with funding assistance in the form of a sub-grant from the US National Science Foundation (NSF)).

2009

Troy, NY, USA - Connection established with Geier & Bluhm, Manufacturers of Spirit Levels since 1907. A selection of their glass spirit vials accompanied us to Antarctica in 2009 and have given rise to various projects, including poetry and a solo exhibiiton titled Questions of Balance.

2008

Explorers Cove, New Harbor, ANTARCTICA (mid. Oct. – early Dec.) - Research season in Antarctica as artist collaborator and field assistant to Dr. Samuel Bowser, Taphonomist Dr. Sally Walker, Geologist Dr. Molly Miller and Team G-093 - supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation, USA.

2008

Macmurdo - Interviewed at McMurdo Station by US videographer Mary Lynn Price for her documentary series titled, WOMEN IN ANTARCTICA.

2008

TANG Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY – InterfaCE ArtScience installation first displayed.

2008

F-/Wh- FUGUE - composition for solo alto, four bass voices, bassoon and piano, by New Zealand composer Gillian Whitehead - with poetry text by Claire Beynon. Performed in Nine Artists in Fiorland - Dunedin Fringe Festival, St. Paul's Catherdral, DUNEDIN.

2008

Breaksea Residency - one of nine invited artists who participated in the Caselberg Trust’s inaugural Creative Residency, W. Fiordland.

2007

Albany, NY - NSF-funded trip for ongoing development of Antarctic ArtScience collaboration.

2005

Research season, Explorers Cove, New Harbor, ANTARCTICA (beg. Oct. – mid-Dec.) - ten weeks in a field camp woring collaboratively with protistologist Sam Bowser and his company of divers and scientists. My role as field & laboratory assistant meant I was able to benefit from a full-immersion experience of the Antarctic environment, the resonances of which continue to inform my work.

2009

HIDDEN DEPTHS - Ethics & aesthetics: the joys and challenges of Antarctic ArtScience collaboration. Guest speaker - Caselberg Trust fundraiser, Otago Peninsula Aquarium, DUNEDIN.

2009

STILL POINT - guest speaker for Conference of Humanities, CHRISTCHURCH

2009

SIGNIFICANT OTHERS – guest poet; The Octagon Collective, DUNEDIN

2009

QUESTIONS OF BALANCE – guest speaker, Dunedin Public Art Gallery Society.

2009

PECHA KUCHA presentation, Dunedin Public Art Gallery.

2008

NINE ARTISTS IN FIORDLAND - exhibition & multi-media performance inspired by the Caselberg Trust’s inaugural Breaksea Residency; St. Paul’s Cathedral, DUNEDIN.

2008

ANTARCTIC ART & SCIENCE – Disparate Disciplines or Dynamic Duo? Wadsworth Center, Albany, NY

2008

THE SCIENCE & ART of ANTARCTIC ARTSCIENCE – with Sam Bowser. Gateway Antarctica, Canterbury University, CHRISTCHURCH.

2008

ART & SCIENCE in conversation – Science lecture series with Sam Bowser - CRARY LAB, McMurdo Station, ANTARCTICA

2008

IMAGINING ANTARCTICA International Humanities-based Conference – delivered a paper titled Somewhere Between Intuition and Reason, Canterbury University, CHRISTCHURCH

2008

INTERFACE – ArtScience Installation and public lecture presentation TANG MUSUEM, Saratoga Springs, NEW YORK

2007

ANTARCTIC MARINE ECOSYSTEM RESEARCH – An ArtScience Collaboration – presentation with Sam Bowser. Sigma Xi, Albany Chapter, College of St. Rose, Albany NY.

2007

FULL CIRCLE – Guest speaker for ‘Idealism in Action’ at the Conference of Humanities, CHRISTCHURCH.

2006

TIME ON ICE – sharing my experience of a summer’s art and science processes in the Antarctic landscape. (New Zealand Society of Authors, Southland/Otago Branch, DUNEDIN)

2006

WALKING ON THIN ICE – guest speaker for The Caselburg Trust.

2004

TURN – a commentary by Paul Sorrell Catalogue essay for the exhibition TURN - Dunedin

2001/2

DRAWINGS IN OPEN SPACE - The Fictive World of CLAIRE BEYNON by Elizabeth Kerr. ART NEW ZEALAND (Issue no. 101.)

2002

ALTERED GROUND - an essay by Paul Sorrell, produced for the catalogue of the touring exhibition of the same name, with the support of Creative New Zealand, Creative Communities Scheme, Waitaki district.

2009

QUESTIONS OF BALANCE

The Arthouse, CHRISTCHURCH

2008

InterfaCE – an ArtScience installation with Sam Bowser

The Frances Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, NEW YORK

2008

FATHOM – new works on paper and canvas

The Arthouse, CHRISTCHURCH

2007

WHERE THERE IS ICE, THERE IS MUSIC – Antarctica work

The Diversion Gallery, MARLBOROUGH

2006

ROUTE MARKING – Antarctica work

Peter Rae Gallery, DUNEDIN

2006

not EMPTY not SILENT not WHITE - Antarctica work

The Arthouse, CHRISTCHURCH

2005

INTERIM

The Suter Gallery, NELSON

2005

THERE IS A PLACE

The Diversion Gallery, MARLBOROUGH

2005

SOMEWHERE BETWEEN INTUITION AND REASON

– new work on paper, canvas and stone

The Arthouse, CHRISTCHURCH

2004

TURN

Peter Rae Gallery, DUNEDIN

2004

ALTERED GROUND

- touring exhibition of large works on paper

Eastern. Southland Gallery, GORE

2003

ALTERED GROUND

Ashburton Art Gallery, ASHBURTON

2002

ALTERED GROUND

The Forrester Gallery, OAMARU

2002

IN CONVERSATION

The Arthouse, CHRISTCHURCH

2001

BEARINGS

Milford Galleries, DUNEDIN

1999

LEAVE THE ROOM BEHIND

Milford Galleries, DUNEDIN

1998

AS IT HAPPENS

Milford Galleries, DUNEDIN

1994

AT THE STILL POINT OF THE TURNING WORLD

- responding to the work of T. S. Eliot

Chelsea Gallery, CAPE TOWN

1994

A SLOW UNRAVELLING

Karen McKerron Gallery, JOHANNESBURG

1993

23 NEW WORKS

Chelsea Gallery, CAPE TOWN

1986

30 RECENT WORKS

Karen McKerron Gallery, JOHANNESBURG

1985

34 PRINTS & DRAWINGS

Karen McKerron Gallery, JOHANNESBURG

2010

TEN OUT OF TEN - with Don Binney, Don Peebles, Jeff Thomson, Melvin Day. Richard Adams, Lindsay Missen, Eion Stevens, Michael Smithers & Wayne Seyb

The Diversion, MALBOROUGH

2009

ALCHEMY - collaborative show with jeweler, Kate Alterio

The Artists' Room, DUNEDIN

2009

ALCHEMY - collaborative show with jeweler, Kate Alterio

Gallery 33, WANAKA

2009

SEVEN - with Sam Foley, Alannah Brown, Greg Lewis, Michael Tuffery & others

The Artists' Room, DUNEDIN

2009

FORMATION: Structure in Nature, Art & Design - InferfaCE IV with Sam Bowser & others

Mildred I. Washington Art Gallery, Duchess Community College

2009

InterfaCE III with Sam Bowser

edited version, HALIFAX

2008

THE OLD CHIEF POST OFFICE - heritage exhibition

Salisbury House Gallery, DUNEDIN

2008

NINE ARTISTS IN FIORDLAND - Caselberg Trust/Breaksea Residency collaborative show & performance with Nigel Brown, Gregory O’Brien, Wayne Seyb, Claire Beynon, Gillian Whitehead, Marilynn Webb, Glenn Colquhoun, Lynn Kelly, Alan Roddick & Mark Orton

St. Paul's Cathedral , DUNEDIN

2008

OTAGO OTAGO with Peter Cleverly, Allanab Brown, Claire Beynon, Daniel Unverricht & Fleur Yorsten

Gallery 33, WANAKA

2008

InterfaCE II - NZ International Science Festival - Claire Beynon, Nicola Gibbons, Sam Bowser & Jennifer Fretwell.

OTAGO ART SOCIETY Gallery, Railway Station

2008

WORKS ON PAPER

The Artists' Room, DUNEDIN

2007

LYRICAL NOTATIONS

Salisbury House Gallery, The Manse, DUNEDIN

2006/7

THE BIG ICE
an Antarctica-inspired exhibition curated & toured nationally

The Otago Museum, DUNEDIN

2006

CROWDED HOUSE

The Arthouse, CHRISTCHURCH

2006

SOUND STILL - collaborative exhibition with Katherine Glenday, Lyn Smuts and others

Irma Stern Museum, CAPE TOWN

2006

PAPERWORKS

Peter Rae Gallery, DUNEDIN

2005

FIVE ARTISTS, FIVE ROOMS

The Arthouse, CHRISTCHURCH

2005

CROWDED HOUSE

The Arthouse, CHRISTCHURCH

2005

PAPERCHASE – leading contemporary NZ artists exhibit works on paper

Gallery 33, WANAKA

2004

MIRUHIKU   - The Southland

ASHBURTON ART GALLERY- touring exhibition curated by Jim Geddes

2004

BEYOND
– group show: Claire Beynon, Mary Horn, Shelly Johnson, Maria Kemp, Stephen Mulqueen. Curated by Susan Frykberg in conjunction with Chrysalis Seed Trust

Peter Rae Gallery, DUNEDIN

2004

SEVEN
-fourteen works by seven artists; Graham Bennett, Wayne Seyb, Simon Edwards, Claire Beynon, Richard Adams, Cristina Popovici and Don Driver

The Arthouse, CHRISTCHURCH

2004

LARGE ART

Cleveland Art Centre, DUNEDIN

2003

THE POWER OF PROTEST
- exhibition protesting against Project Aqua

Temple Gallery, DUNEDIN

2003

ARTISTS AGAINST AQUA
- protest exhibition

The Forrester Gallery, OAMARU

2003

BY FOUR
- new work by Simon Kaan, Michael Greaves, David Shennan and Claire Beynon

Peter Rae Gallery, DUNEDIN

2003

finalist Cranleigh Barton Drawing Award

CHRISTCHURCH  City Art Gallery

2003

JAMES K. BAXTER exhibition & auction

DUNEDIN PUBLIC ART GALLERY

2003

MURIHIKU

Hazelhirst Gallery, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA

2001

SOUTHERN WAVE - Otago artists

Otago University House, AUCKLAND

2001

finalist Cranleigh Barton DRAWING AWARD

Canterbury Museum, CHRISTCHURCH

2000

VISIONS OF OTAGO

Milford Galleries DUNEDIN

1999

Merit Award Winner Cranleigh Barton DRAWING AWARD

Robert McDougall Gallery, CHRISTCHURCH

1998

OTAGO PENINSULA EXHIBITION

Milford Galleries DUNEDIN

1984

TEN PRINTMAKERS

Calvert Gallery, Pimlico, LONDON

1983

INTERNATIONAL PRINT BIENNALE

Taipei Museum. of Fine Arts, TAIWAN

2008

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATIONS, USA - Office of Polar Programs commission/grant to produce InterfaCE

2007

A species of Antarctic foraminifera is classified pilulina beynonae

2007

BREAKSEA / CASELBERG BOAT RESIDENCY, W. Fiordland, NEW ZEALAND

2007

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE, Salisbury House Gallery, The Manse, DUNEDIN

2006

FINALIST in the CoCA ART AWARDS, Christchurch

2005/08

NSF ANTARCTICA SERVICE MEDAL - date for award cermony pending

2005

FINALIST in the WALLACE ART AWARDS, New Zealand

2005

Peoples’ Choice Award, WALLACE ART AWARD

2003

MERIT AWARD - CRANLEIGH BARTON DRAWING AWARD, NZ

2003

FINALIST in the Cranleigh Barton drawing Award, NZ

2002

MERIT AWARD - MAINLAND AWARDS, Dunedin

2002

CREATIVE NEW ZEALAND Creative Communities grant

1999

FINALIST in the biennial CRANLEIGH BARTON DRAWING AWARD, NZ

1998

MERIT AWARD, Works on Paper – CLEVELAND ART AWARDS, DUNEDIN

2009

Moleskine notebooks - short story published in a limited edition run of Moleskine notebooks (a project in conjunction with AnOther magazine, UK.)

2008

A GLOBAL SNAPSHOT IN WORDS - one of eight short stories selected for publication in a special literary edition celebrating global community, AnOther magazine, UK.

2007

OPEN BOOK - Poetry & Images (Published by Steele-Roberts Ltd.). Collection of poems, hand-drawn ink-wash images and light-calligraphy photographs. Produced with an accompanying set of limited edition lithographs.

2003

Included in the SCAPA POETRY ARCHIVE - a database: contemporary NZ poets read their own work.

2000

Short-listed for the Lilian Ida Smith Award.

2009

Double Portrait – a non-fiction science essay/memoir (a short story) was a finalist in the Bill Manhire Creative Science Writing Competition.

2007

Drowning the Waterfall was commended in the NZ Poetry Society’s International Poetry Competition.

2006

Thin Ice and Flag Lullaby won first prize in the poetry section of a writing competition launched by a new Antarctica-specific publication ICETONGUE

2003

Jade was highly commended in the New Zealand Poetry Society’s International Poetry Competition.

2002

The Mystery Sonataswon first prize in the New Zealand Poetry Society’s International Poetry Competition.

2000

Introducing Deirdre was highly commended in the 2000 Takahe Short Story Competition.

2000

Trapeze Artist was short-listed in the 2000 South Island Writers Association Short Story competition.

1999

Point of Entry was runner-up in the 1999 Sunday Star Times Short Story Competition.

2009

ICE-UP - a short film - selected as one of three finalists in the People's Pixels Project film festival in Lake George, US (ArtScience collaboration with Sam Bowser, Henry Kaiser and Shawn Harper).

2009/10

ALCHEMY – a collaborative exhibition with Wellington-based jeweler, Kate Alterio (shows in Wanaka, Dunedin and Wellington).

2008/09

ABOUT BLUE - short underwater film incorporating a flotilla of bamboo boats and drawing on the collaborative input of various professionals (Sam Bowser, Henry Kaiser, Shawn Harper, Claire Beynon, Mary-Lynn Price and Mark Orton.)

2008

EARTH SONGS - a sound- & image-based initiative combining photographic images from Explorers Cove and environs (the Taylor Dry Valleys, Kukri Hills, Ferrar Fiord and Herbertson Glacier) with recordings of porcelain bell instruments played by Claire Beynon and Sam Bowser and made by South African ceramic artist Katherine Glenday.

2008

EUCLID - ArtScience project incorporating Sam Bowser's polar research (spec. the morphology and motility of foraminifera) and Claire Beynon's photography with the sculpture of Cape Town porcelain artist Christina Bryer. Christina created a series of fragile porcelain pieces based on the mathematical structures of foraminifera; these became an integral part of our ArtScience explorations during the 2009 season at Explorers Cove.

2008

F-/Wh- FUGUE - composition for solo alto, four bass voices, bassoon and piano, by New Zealand composer Gillian Whitehead with poetry text by Claire Beynon.

2008

FIORDLAND INSTRUMENT – collaboration with Katherine Glenday, using specially-commissioned porcelain vessels, painted and played in the Breaksea Residency cathedral performance, TEN ARTISTS IN FIORDLAND

2007

InterfaCE - an extensive art/science/Antarctica collaborative exchange with polar biologist, Dr. Sam Bowser

2006

SOUND STILL, Cape Town – a collaborative visual arts, dance and music exhibition.

2004

LIVE NEWS – cover for Maxine Alterio’s collection of short stories. (Steele Roberts)

2003

ARTISTS AGAINST AQUA - group exhibition of images and poetry produced in support of the Waitaki River while negotiations for Meridian Energy’s proposed hydro-electric scheme were under way. (Forrester Gallery, Oamaru & Temple Gallery, Dunedin.)

2002-4

DOUBLE-JOINTED – Dunedin Connections. (A collection of experimental poetry involving ten poets, brought together by Jenny Powell-Chalmers.  Published by Inkweed.)

2002

JERUSALEM, JERUSALEM – group exhibition of images drawn from the life and work of James K. Baxter. (Dunedin Public Art Gallery)

2000

THE SONG OF THE BELLY-BUTTON MAN (An exhibition and book of poetry and images: project initiated by Artsenta, Dunedin.)

2000

Cover and artwork for GLOTTIS 5

2000

Cover and inside artwork for POLES APART, an autobiographical book of prose and poetry by Dunedin author Graham Bishop. (Published by Steele Roberts Ltd., Wellington, 2000.

1999

Cover and images for A TALENT FOR FLIGHT – a collection of poetry by Otaki poet Glenda Fawkes. (Publishes in March 1999 by Steele Roberts Ltd, Wellington.)