DAVID BEAUMONT THE COORONG & OTHER MEANDERINGS
The Coorong & Other Meanderings
New paintings & ceramics by David Beaumont
October 2 - October 26, 2025
Salt Contemporary 33-35 Hesse Street
Queenscliff, Victoria
Front: Northerly Track II (detail), 2025, oil on linen, 122.5x122.5cm
Left: Shallow Waters I (detail) 2025, oil on linen, 122.5x122.5cm
DAVID BEAUMONT
This body of work ventures into the Coorong amongst other meanderings. I was fortunate enough to have ‘poked’ around this area camping from the Hooded Plover campsite to the Murray River mouth where the fresh water meets the Southern Ocean.
I was drawn, yet again to the sublime beauty of this region which has something of Swan Bay and Lake Tyrrell in its DNA.
Dusk around the isthmus was special - blues and greens playing off each other alongside the etched, linear shoreline trails.
Curiously, whilst painting these works, I began to realise that I hadn’t yet let go of the Mallee region. Hence the meandering component of the exhibition.
The ever-present traits in this topography affirmed my commitment to colour, line, the paint surface and pictorial space, of these sublime landscapes.
footnote: the landscapes that seek me out are charged with a quiet beauty and humility. The stuff of nuance, contemplation and light. There is a deep strength in them, but they are not loud.
Isthmus, 2025, oil on linen, 112x274cm | $13,400
Coastal Mist, 2024, oil on linen, 152x122cm | $12,400
Beginning of Autumn, 2025, oil on linen, 152x122cm | $9,400
Mallee Summer, 2025, oil on linen, 152x122cm | $9,400
Springtime: Coorong, 2025, oil on linen, 152x122cm | $9,400
Breeze Line, 2025, oil on linen, 152x122cm | $9,400
Northerly Track I, 2025, oil on linen, 122.5x122.5cm | $7,500
Northerly Track II, 2025, oil on linen, 122.5x122.5cm | $7,500
Late Afternoon Coorong I, 2025, oil on linen, 122.5x122.5cm | $7,500
Late Afternoon Coorong II, 2025, oil on linen, 122.5x122.5cm | $7,500
Across the Bay I, 2025, oil on linen, 122.5x122.5cm | $7,500
Across the Bay II, 2025, oil on linen, 122.5x122.5cm | $7,500
Shallow Waters I, 2025, oil on linen, 122.5x122.5cm | $7,500
Shallow Waters II, 2025, oil on linen,122.5x122.5cm | $7,500
Coorong Dusk I, 2025, oil on board, 62.5x62.5cm | $3,800
Coorong Dusk II, 2025, oil on board, 62.5x62.5cm | $3,800
Right: Isthmus: Coorong II, 2025, oil on board, 42.5x32.5cm | $2,400
Left: Isthmus: Coorong I, 2025, oil on board, 42.5x32.5cm | $2,400
Right: Isthmus: Coorong IV, 2025, oil on board, 42.5x32.5cm | $2,400
Left: Isthmus: Coorong III, 2025, oil on board, 42.5x32.5cm | $2,400
Right: Edge of Ochre II, 2025, oil on paper, 43.5x31.5cm | $2,400
Left: Edge of Ochre I, 2025, oil on paper, 43.5x31.5cm | $2,400
Right: Edge of Ochre IV, 2025, oil on paper, 43.5x31.5cm | $2,400
Left: Edge of Ochre III, 2025, oil on paper, 43.5x31.5cm | $2,400
Left: Land Marks 1, 2025, Keane midfire black clay, wire, 18x7cm | $350
Right: Land Marks 2, 2025, Keane midfire black clay, 30x12cm | $750
Right: Land Marks 3, 2025, Keane midfire black clay, wirer, 30x12cm | $750
Left: Land Marks 4, 2025, Keane midfire black clay, wirer, 32x18cm | $950
Left: Land Marks 5, 2025, Cool Ice midfire porcelain, 17x20cm | $900
Right: Land Marks 6, 2025, Cool Ice midfire porcelain, 18x23cm | $950
EDUCATION
2011 Masters Visual Art, Victorian College of Arts, Melbourne
2010 Post Graduate Diploma of Visual Arts, Victorian College of Arts, Melbourne
1996–1998 Undergraduate studies, Fine Arts (Painting and Drawing majors), University of Ballarat
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 ‘The Coorong & Other Meanderings’, Salt Contemporary Art, Queenscliff, Victoria
‘Mallee Suite’, Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Horsham, Victoria
2024 ‘Across the Plains: You Yangs to the Mallee’, Salt Contemporary Art, Queenscliff, Victoria
2022 ‘Yonder’, Salt Contemporary Art, Queenscliff, Victoria
2020 ‘Here & There: New Paintings & Sculpture’, Salt Contemporary Art, Queenscliff, Victoria
2018 ‘Of the Land’, Salt Contemporary Art, Queenscliff, Victoria
2017 ‘Larapinta Palimpsest’, Salt Contemporary Art, Queenscliff, Victoria
2016 ‘Summer Series’, Salt Contemporary Art, Queenscliff, Victoria
2015 New Paintings, Salt Contemporary Art, Queenscliff, Victoria
2013 ‘Land and Sea’, Salt Contemporary Art, Queenscliff, Victoria
2012 ‘Asylum’, Blindside Gallery, Melbourne
2011 ‘Eu thanatos’, Geelong Gallery, Victoria
2010 ‘Oh Susannah Those Sleazy Elders’, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
2009 ‘Shift’, Salt Contemporary Art, Queenscliff
‘Line and Land’, Greenhill Galleries, Adelaide, South Australia
New Paintings, Ballan and Pannan, Sorrento, Victoria
2008 ‘Reasoned Disorder’, Salt Contemporary Art, Queenscliff
‘Landmarks: beyond the surface’, Geelong Gallery, Victoria
2007 Salt Contemporary Art, Queenscliff, Victoria, New Paintings
2006 Rushcutters Bay Gallery, Sydney, The Nature of Ambiguity
New Paintings, Salt Contemporary Art, Queenscliff, Victoria
2005 New Paintings, Cruz Galleries, Docklands, Melbourne
New Paintings, Hitchcock Avenue, Barwon Heads, Victoria
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Salon Des Refusés, S.H Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Papermade: Contemporary works on paper, Salt Contemporary, Queenscliff, VIC
2024-2025 Salon Des Refusés, S.H Ervin Gallery, Sydney, David Roche Foundation, Adelaide, Retford Park, Bowral
2024 HOME, Everywhen Art at Whistlewood (McCulloch & McCulloch), Mornington Peninsula, VIC
2022 HOME, Salt Contemporary Art, Queenscliff, Victoria
Rochfort Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2018 20/20: A Sense of Place, McCulloch & McCulloch, Mornington Peninsula, VIC
2017 Terra Firma, Boom Gallery, Geelong, Victoria
A Sense of Place, McCulloch & McCulloch, Mornington Peninsula, VIC
Summer Series, Salt Contemporary Art, Queenscliff, Victoria
2016 Scotch College, Indigenous Foundation fundraising exhibition, Melbourne, VIC
2014 Land and Sea, Salt Contemporary Art, Queenscliff, Victoria
2011 Poles Apart, Experimental Film and Video Installation, Blindside Gallery, Melbourne
2009 Schubert Contemporary, Gold Coast, Queensland
Ballan and Pannan, Sorrento, Victoria
2008 Schubert Contemporary, Gold Coast, Queensland
2007 Sara Roney Gallery, Sydney
REVIEWS/LECTURES/PUBLICATIONS
Humanata (poetry anthology), David Beaumont, 2015
Sightlines, The Age, Friday July 11, 2008
The Art of Interpretation (Public Lecture), David Pereira, Co-director, Freudian School of Melbourne, October 25, 2008
AWARDS
Selected: ‘Salon Des Refusés, Archibald Selection’, Sydney, NSW, 2025
Selected: ‘Salon Des Refusés, Archibald Selection’, Sydney, NSW, 2024
Finalist ‘John Leslie Art Prize’, Gippsland Art Gallery, VIC, 2020
Semi-Finalist ‘Doug Moran National Portrait Prize’, Sydney, NSW, 2019
Finalist ‘Doug Moran National Portrait Prize’, Sydney, NSW, 2018
Finalist ‘Hadleys Art Prize’, Hobart, Tas, 2018
Finalist ‘John Leslie Art Prize’, Gippsland, Vic, 2018
Finalist ‘Fleurieu Art Prize’, South Australia, 2018
Finalist ‘Glover Art Prize’, Tasmania, 2018
Finalist ‘Wyndham Art Prize’, Vic, 2018
Finalist ‘Paddington Art Prize’, Sydney, NSW, 2015
Finalist ‘ANL Maritime Prize’, Melbourne, Vic, 2008
Finalist ‘2008 Fletcher Jones Art Prize’, Geelong Gallery, 2008
Finalist ‘ANL Maritime Prize’, Melbourne, Vic, 2007
Finalist ‘ANL Maritime Art Prize’, Melbourne, Vic, 2006
Finalist ‘Cromwell’s Art Prize’ – Sydney, NSW, 2005
Finalist ‘ANL Maritime Art Prize’ – Melbourne, Vic, 2005
RESIDENCIES
2020: Police Point, Sorrento, Mornington Regional Gallery
2017: The Art Vault, Mildura
2016: The Art Vault, Mildura
COLLECTIONS
Art Gallery of Ballarat, Vic
Gippsland Regional Gallery, Sale, Vic
Searoad Ferries, Queenscliff, Vic
Murdock Children’s Research Institute, Melbourne, Vic
Epworth Foundation
Crown Plaza, Adelaide, SA
Borough of Queenscliff, Victoria
St John of God Hospital, Ballarat
Gordon Institute of TAFE, Geelong
Henley Properties Pty Ltd
Alfred Hospital
Saville Club, London, UK
The Coorong & Other Meanderings
October 2 - October 26, 2025
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