SELECTED CV: Bec Stevens
Selected Solo Exhibitions and Public Art Projects
2022 Tower of Hedge, Third Space digital, Geelong, curated by Sarah Jones
2021-22 Inhabiting Benjafield, public art project in Benjafield Park, Regional Art Fund
2021-22 Care Through Creativity, residency through Inscape at the Royal Hobart Hospital.
2019 Seed Garden Salamanca Art Centre in collaboration with Kris Schaffer
2011 STOP. REST. PLAY. Curated by Paula Silva for the Country Women’s Association CBD Branch
2009 Vigorous Everfrost, CAST Gallery, Contemporary Art Spaces Tasmania
2009 Upturns, props and portals, Kelly’s Garden, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart, curator: Sean Kelly
2008 in Green Land, Six a ARI, Hobart
2007 Groundworks, INFLIGHT ARI, Hobart
2007 Impossible Boundaries, Ten Days on the Island, Maria Island National Park
Teaching Artist engagements
2022 Groundworks at Nayri Niara Festival, Bruny Island
2021 Building Possible Possibilities, for the Suburbs Project at Rosny Farm Arts Centre
2020 Wellbeing consultation and production of artworks for the book When I Wake Up I Smile for the
Commissioner for Children and Young People.
Make Contact, Commissioner for Children and Young People, Ambassador Program
Kickstart Arts, Regeneration Project with Newtown Primary School
Whats the shape of Hope? Micro publishing workshop, The Barn, Rosny Farm
2019 KickStart Arts Healing Ground Project, Remembering the Future.
stART Children’s program at Salamanca Arts Centre
Making Marks’ exhibition, B4 Learning Coalition
Commissioner for Children and Young People: Ambassadors Program
2018 Micro publishing workshop with New migrants, LINC, Glenorchy
Micro publishing workshop and Book Cubby installation with Victoria Ryle, Moonah Arts Centre
Selected Group Exhibitions and Publications
2021 When I Wake Up I Smile, for the Commissioner of Children and Young People, Tasmania
2020 Two Sides, Rosny Farm Arts Centre,
All Emotions Allowed Here, ArTELIER
2013 Plimsoll Inquiry, Plimsoll Galley, University of Tasmania, Hobart
2013 Critical Operations, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, curated by Bryony Nainby
2010 Green, Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, co-curated with Geoff Parr and Lucy Bleach
2010 Look Out, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, curated by Jane Stewart and Michael Edwards
2009 Onalog, Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, curated by John Vella
2008 Canopy, Commissioned Installation, Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens, Hobart
2008 The Unsustainable Weight of Place, Watch This Space, Artist Run Initiative, Alice Springs
2008 Sculpture Trail, 4th Biennial Mountain Festival, Sculpture Trail, Hobart
2004 Sticks and Stones, The Academy Gallery, Launceston and Devonport Regional Gallery, Devonport, curated by Helene Weeding
Here and There, Library Gallery, University of Miami and Entrepot Gallery, University of Tasmania
2003 Scape, CAST Gallery, Contemporary Art Services Tasmania, curated by Celia Lendis
Residencies, Prizes, Awards and Commissions
2021 Care Through Creativity, residency through Inscape at the Royal Hobart Hospital, funded by the Australia Council for the Arts.
2020 Resilient Australia Award, All Emotions Allowed Here Book project
2018 Residency, All That We Are, Hobart
2013 Curatorial Mentorship Program Recipient, Contemporary Art Spaces Tasmania
2012 Asialink Residency recipient, Rimbun Dahan, Malaysia
2009 New Work Grant, The Australia Council for the Arts
Assistance to Individuals Grant, Arts Tasmania
2009 Kelly’s Garden Curated Projects, commissioned by Salamanca Arts Centre, curator Sean Kelly
Canopy, commissioned installation, Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens, Hobart
2008 Hobart Water Prize and Peoples Choice Prize, 4th Biennial Mountain Festival Sculpture Trail
2006 Judges Commendation, City of Hobart Art Prize, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
2005 Wilderness and Cultural Heritage Residency Grant, Maria Island National Park, Arts Tasmania
2004 Residency, The Arthur Boyd Bundanon Trust
2001 Student Award, The Hutchins Art Prize
Professional Experience
2021 Online project Development Glen to Creek Artist Exchange with Julie Forrester, Cork Ireland
2021 Member of the Australian Association Environmental Education
2020 Narragunnawali Reconciliation in Education Training
2018-20 Member of ArTELIER, Professional Learning Exchange
2019 Curatorial Team Making Marks, An exhibition of very young children’s art, TMAG
2014–18 Exhibition Production Assistant, Museum of Old and New Art
2014 C’MONA Community Centre Coordinator for Southdale, devised by Christoph Buchel at MONA
2013 Curatorial Mentorship Program Recipient, Contemporary Art Spaces Tasmania
2013 Steering Committee member, The Creative Connections Project, partnered through Access Arts, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery and The Tasmanian Early Years Foundation
2011-14 Founding Member of the Country Women’s Association CBD Branch
2010 Studio Residency, Contemporary Art Spaces Tasmania
2008-10 Gallery Manager, Criterion Gallery
2007 - 09 Secretary and Artist Liaison, INFLIGHT Artist Run Initiative
2009 Co-curator 10 x 10, Architecture Week with Sara Wright, Australian Institute of Architects
Selected Interviews and Reviews
Lock down is child’s play, Hobart Mercury, June 21st 2020
Interview for All Emotions Allowed Here, children publishing project, ABC Hobart breakfast radio with Ryk Goddard, June 19th 2020
Seed Garden ABC Radio 12th September 2019
Hollow in the paper, Eliza Burke, Artlink, p 86, Vol 33 no 4, 2013
Hollow in the Paper, Clyde Selby, The Mercury, August 10, 2013
Green, Judith Abell, Artlink, pg 93, Vol 30 no 3, 2010
http://tasmaniantimes.com/index.php?/article/international-parking-day-friday-17th-september/ Associate Professor Kate Crowley Head, School of Government University of Tasmania
Upturns, props and portals, Philip Watkins, Artlink, Vol 29 no.3, 2009
Undiscovered Artist Profile, Philip Watkins, Australian Art Collector, Issue 44, 2008
Scape, Briony Downes, Artlink, Volume 24 no 1, pg 93-94, 2004