Sue Beyer
14 - 25 August 2024
G3
Opening Night
Friday 16 August | 6 - 8pm
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Sue Beyer
Using an interdisciplinary approach, Sue Beyer focuses on ideas relating to Instruction Based Art, transformation, and the in-between.
From a young age, Sue has been fascinated with the 'magic' of computers, programming, and later the internet. When first becoming interested in computers, they took on a metaphysical aspect, hinting that all the answers were available if one knew the right question to ask. Sue has been using computers, microprocessors, and programming as an interface or transformative space since 2007.
In Sue's work, digital, electronic, and new media are joined with traditional media to create single works or installations. These are called 'Digital Combines,' a new genre proposed by the artist Claudia Hart in 2021. Digital Combines consist of physical, digital, and virtual objects, like a 3D collage, joined together using instructions placed in the metadata of a blockchain smart contract (NFT). In contrast, Sue's paintings, which vary in size, look pixelated and appear to be a close-up of a digital file. However, upon close examination, the lines are not perfect, revealing Sue's hand as the artist.
Sue is interested in how these disparate objects make meaning through a type of oscillation, a central idea found in Metamodernism.
Artist Bio
Sue Beyer is currently a candidate for a Doctorate in Visual Arts at Griffith University, holds an MFA from the University of Melbourne, and a BVA from Griffith University. She has exhibited internationally and received support through cultural agencies such as the Australia Council, Creative Victoria, the University of Melbourne and the Sidney Myer Fund & The Myer Foundation.
Sue has been a finalist in multiple prizes, was the winner of the Emerging Artist category in the Stanthorpe Art Prize (2014) and was awarded the National Gallery of Victoria Women’s Association Award (2018) for work created as part of her MFA. Her work is part of numerous corporate and public collections including the Australian Government’s Artbank.
Beyer has curated exhibitions across Australia over the last 10 years. The most recent, Digital, shown in Melbourne in 2022, included 30 international artists working with a variety of different mediums to highlight how artists reference the digital to talk about being human.
In late 2023 Sue was a recipient of the NARS Foundation International Residency in New York and the Mark Rothko International Painting Symposium in Daugavpils, Latvia.
Beyer is a Sessional Lecturer with the School of Design at RMIT in Melbourne and is based in Melbourne and New York.
Contact
Phone : (03) 9482 3550
mail@redgallery.com.au
Address
157 St Georges Rd
Fitzroy North, Victoria, 3068
Map
How to get here
Tram: route 11
Stop 21 just north of Edinburgh Gardens
Melway ref: 30B12
Parking in nearby streets
Bus: 504 (Reid Street)
