Bundanon

Riley Beaumont’s practice is an inquiry into abstraction and painting in the expanded field.

Born in Coolum/Gubbi Gubbi, QLD, Beaumont trained in Printmaking and Drawing and subsequently received his Honours in Painting from the ANU School of Art in 2016.

Recent solo exhibitions include Like Anything, Green Floor Gallery, Melbourne/Naarm, 2024; New Paintings, Gallery9, Sydney/Gadigal Country, 2022; AIR, At The Above, Melbourne/Naarm, 2022; If I Were A Racehorse They’d Have Shot Me By Now, TWFINEART, Brisbane/Meanjin, 2020; Quixotic Indifference, ANCA Gallery, Canberra/Ngambri and Ngunnawal Country, 2019.

Beaumont was a finalist in the Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize 2023 and the Waverley Art Prize 2022.

In Residence at Bundanon

I propose to use the focused time in the landscape of Bundanon to develop a particular approach to seeing flatness and depth and applying this to my painting process.

I plan to begin by creating small drawing studies as a point of departure, or as compositional reference, for a series of large paintings. The translation from small drawing to large painting interests me as a process of mediating the expressive, painterly gesture and breaking down, or opening up, the controlled composition of the drawing. The scale of the work will also help to communicate the body’s instrumentality in mark-making.