Beverley Iles produces works that grapple with the essence of place: how we make sense of what is around us, how we form connections with a site, and how we live together in a literal and existential sense. As a migrant and adoptee, Beverley is interested in belonging, stability, construction of personal permanence and the complexities of coexistence. The frequent use of site-specific and found materials act to document a site, but often disrupt identification with place. Her sculptures show an evident love of materiality, yet often highlight material and industrial failures, and insecurity around certainty and place.
In 2016, Beverley graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Curtin University and won the City of South Perth Emerging Artist Award. Since graduating, she has completed two residencies, had a solo exhibition, been a finalist in three national awards, including the Churchie Emerging Artist award, been part of a collaborative project with a Taiwanese curator and featured in a documentary about working cross culturally, she has been selected for a sculpture scholarship and residency in Switzerland, and has exhibited in numerous group exhibitions in Melbourne, Brisbane and Western Australia.
You can view a comprehensive Artist CV here.
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2023 Wadjemup Museum Contemporary Sculpture Commission; curator Liz Cartell; Wadjemup/Rottnest Island WA 6161
2022 Summer Group; Kolbusz Space, Perth WA 6000
2022 Foraging in the Waste Stream; curator Tami Esancy; Ellenbrook Gallery, Ellenbrook WA 6069
2022 Artist in Residence; Bullsbrook Recycling Centre, Bullsbrook WA 6084
2022 Sculpture at Bathers Beach; curator Sandy Murray; Bathers Beach, Fremantle WA 6160
2021 At Home; curator Leah Robbie; Kolbusz Space, Perth WA 6000
2020 Dwellings; curators Jess Boyce and Miranda Johnson; The Lobby, Swanbourne WA 6010
2020 Sculpture at Bathers Beach; Bathers Beach, Fremantle WA 6160
2020 York Botanical Art Prize (finalist); Gallery 152, York WA 6302
2020 Dumped; curator Tami Esancy; Ellenbrook Gallery, Ellenbrook WA 6069
2020 Sculpture by the Freeway; curator Jon Denaro, Old Aberdeen Place, West Perth WA 6005
2019 Slip Stream; Central TAFE Gallery, Northbridge WA 6003
2019 Artsource Salon NOW, Old Customs House, Fremantle WA 6160
2019 Survival; curator Cathy Swioklo; Mundaring Arts Centre, Mundaring WA 6073
2019 Off Kilter; curator Lorraine Spencer Pichette, Moores Building, Fremantle WA 6160
2018 Inaugural Sculpture on the Scarp; curator Denise Pepper; Darlington Arts Festival, Darlington WA 6070
2018 Antipodean Encounters; curator Ashley Yihsin Chang; Midland Junction Arts Centre, Midland WA 6056
2018 Portrait of Taiwan in Perth: Reflection, Connection, Collection; curator Ashley Yihsin Chang; Citiplace ArtSpace, Perth WA 6000
2018 14 degrees of Separation; curator Peter Dailey; Ellenbrook Gallery, EllenbrookWA 6069
2017 Churchie Emerging Artist Award (finalist), Queensland University of Technology Art Museum, Brisbane QLD 4000
2017 Fundamentally Unstable: 3 sites; Bunbury Regional Art Galleries, Bunbury WA 6310
2017 34th Sculpture Survey; Gombok Gallery, Middle Swan WA 6056
2017 Artist in residence and AiR exhibition; Another Project Space, Ashfield WA 6054
2017 Wyndham Art Prize (finalist); Wyndham VIC 3024
2016 Art Degree Show; Curtin University, Bentley WA 6102
2016 City of South Perth Emerging Artist Award (overall winner); South Perth WA 6151
2016 Artonomy Art Trail, Avon Descent Festival, Fish Market Reserve, Guildford WA 6056
2016 Self: contained (as part of the Perth Fringe Festival, Midlandia), Midland WA 6056
2019 Documentary about cross cultural working in the arts, produced by Community Arts Network.
2018 Documentary for Portrait of Taiwan in Perth: Reflection, Connection, Collection; School of Arts and Humanities, Edith Cowan University
2016 Bachelor of Fine Arts; Curtin University, Bentley WA 6102
2020 Cowinner, with Peter Dailey, of Kerry Harmanis Sculpture Scholarship
2016 Overall winner, City of South Perth Emerging Artist Award
2016 Member of Vice-Chancellors List, Curtin University
2016 Head of School of Design and Art Commendation, Curtin University
