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Bec Juniper - Artist's Statement & Biography

 

Artist's Statement
Over the last two years I’ve covered a few thousand kilometres on driving trips through the Pilbara and East Kimberly, been glued to window seats in aircraft on clear days, lived in aboriginal communities, spent many Saturdays and Sundays with my family on either side of Fremantle Harbour and generally explored the surrounds of Perth.

 

In Fremantle and Cockburn, 5 minutes either way from where I live, I’ve found the spectacle and grandeur of an awesome landscape exists but I have to get to the port or the river or the abandoned buildings and industrial sites to really find it.

 

The Northwest trips however lay the inspiration out at every turn, It’s eye candy from an artists point of view, the scale and the beauty is so overwhelming that it makes a permanent imprint on your mind, and so the Northern landscape experience has become a dominant influence in this exhibition.
Bec Juniper 2006

   
Qualifications
2000 Visual Art Communications, Visual Art literacy, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia (WA)
1995 Advanced Certificate in Horticulture and Landscape Design, TAFE
1989 Art and Design, University Of Hobart, Centre for the Arts, Hobart, Tasmania
1988 Art and Design, Claremont School of Art, Perth, WA
1987 Art and Design, Perth Technical College, Perth, WA
  Completed courses in draughtsmanship - technical drawing and design, planning for sustainable development, cultural planning, cultural mapping, computer graphic, children’s literature
   
Abridged Employment, Community & Commissions
2005 - 2006 Client: Multiplex Residential Developments - Earthcare Community Consultancy Group. Art consultant and project artist for 'Vale' residential development, 10-year project
2005 Awesome international arts festival, sculpture installation
  Landart, living sculpture, Shire of Mundaring - traffic roundabout central Chidlow
  Public open space design - community art, Shire of Fremantle - Winterfold Primary School, Annie Street precinct Beaconsfield
  Public open space - community art mural, EarthCare, Ardross Estates - Beach Ridge estate, Jurien Bay
2004 Land Art installation, Shire of Mundaring, Trek the Trails project festivals Australia
  Public Art Artists Team, project management & design - community art, EarthCare, Clough - Moltoni Salentina Ridge Re-development
2001 Landscape Design/Consultancy, EarthCare - Pindan Constructions, Beaufort Central Re-development
2000 Public Art Artists Team, Burswood Casino (project management) balustrade commission
1999 Public Art and Environment, Artists Team, project management & community artist - Margaret River Skate Park project, jointly funded by Australia Council CEAD grant
  Public Art Artists Team, project management, community artist, Margaret River Aquatic Centre Sculptural Mural
1996 Public Art Artists Team, project management, Yoganup Park, Shire of Busselton, Award winning project
  Percent for Art - Artists Team, project management, East Perth Re-development Commission
1994 - 2004 Photography assistant, Mike Hemmings Photographic Studio
  Self employed - Landscape Design, (1992 onwards)
  Commissioned to design the Alternative Technology Centre and gardens - Margaret River
  SouthWest Regional Art Forum Co-ordinator, C.A.N.
  Arts administration, Shire of Augusta, Margaret River
  Community Arts representative, for shire of Augusta, Margaret River
  Research and development, Margaret River Art and Design Centre
  Representative for visual Arts, Cultural Mapping/development, Margaret River
   
Teaching
1994 - 2004 Landscape Design, South West College of TAFE
  Landscape design, private classes
  Gardening for school age children
  Visual art programme, Margaret River Primary School
  Visual art programme, Margaret River Montessori
  Visual art programme, Margaret River High School
  After School Visual art programme, Winterfold Primary School
  Visual art holiday programme, Cottesloe Scout Hall
  5 Schools Visual Art Programme, Beaconsfield Primary, Winterfold Primary, Hilton Primary, White Gum Valley Primary, South Fremantle Senior High
   
Solo Exhibitions
2006 Gomboc Gallery Sculpture Park, Middle Swan, WA
2004 Gomboc Gallery Sculpture Park, Middle Swan, WA
   
Selected Group Exhibitions
1994 - 2004 Major Solo Exhibition, Gomboc Gallery Sculpture Park, Middle Swan, WA
  Margaret River Art Gallery, WA
  Monsoon Gallery, Broome, WA
  Willyabrup festival, Margaret River, WA
  SouthWest Survey, Bunbury Regional Art Gallery, Bunbury, WA
  Evans and Tate Winery, WA
  Juniper Estate Winery, WA
  Margaret River Arts Council, WA
  The Works Gallery, Fremantle, WA
  Fremantle Arts Centre, WA
  Deck Chair Theatre
  QE2 Perth, WA
  Melbourne Art Fair 2002, Victoria
Grants
Australia Council C.E.A.D, Margaret River Skate Park
Country Arts, Art Extension, Primary School Students, Margaret River, WA
Department of Family and Children’s Services, Women’s Photographic Montage
Department of Education public endowment trust, 5 Schools Art Project
City of Cockburn Co-Express Youth, Art folio development for children
Festivals Australia - Artist in residence, Mundaring Arts Centre
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