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Dr Bianca Beetson
Born
Roma, Western Queensland
Nationality Australian
Education Queensland University of Technology, Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts - Honors)
Known for Painting, sculpture, drawing, public art, photography, installation, textiles, new media, ceramics and public art
Movement Contemporary Australian Aboriginal art
Awards Inaugural ACHAA award for Excellence by an Aboriginal Curator at 2018 IMAGinE Awards.
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Feast of the Bon-yi, large nuts by Bianca Beetson at the Brisbane Botanic Gardens, Mount Coot-tha
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Feast of the Bon-yi, spirit figures by Bianca Beetson at the Brisbane Botanic Gardens, Mount Coot-tha

Dr Bianca Beetson is an Australian contemporary artist.

Life and career

Bianca Beetson was born in Roma, Western Queensland. She is an Indigenous Australian of the Kabi Kabi nation of the Sunshine Coast in South East Queensland. She studied and obtained a Bachelor of Arts in visual arts at the Queensland University of Technology from 1993 to 1995. She completed her Honours in 1998 and was awarded a Doctorate of visual arts at Griffith University in 2018.

She established herself as an artist for contemporary Australian aboriginal art and lives and works in Brisbane. Her work includes media such as painting, photography, installation, new media, textiles and public art. In her paintings and sculpture she often uses shades of pink. Her work also reflects on her relationship to skin and she interprets body paint designs and scarification marks in a contemporary manner.

In 2013 she was commissioned by the Brisbane Botanic Gardens to install her sculpture Feast of the Bon-yi in bronze and corten steel there on Mount Coot-tha. The cluster of large nuts and spirit figures visualises the gathering of the tribes. The nut itself symbolises a sacred object, it provides nourishment, rebirth and growth and is the reason why people travelled from so far and wide.

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