Bee Williamson | Contact & Bio

Hi
I’m Bee.
I spent some time growing up in Devon in the 70’s in a converted furniture van and celebrated my first birthday at a Rolling Stones concert at Knebworth, apparently I was asleep the whole time.

With an early love of dance & music from watching my parents freeze to death doing a theatrical interpretation of the Eygptian Book of the Dead at a Edinburgh Festival, I came to love theatre down under at the Old Drill Hall in Mullumbimby. Yes, there is actually somewhere called Mullumbimby.

Back to drizzly hometown Melbourne, finishing highschool directing A Midsummer’s Nights Dream, I went onto my own dream, a course at the Victorian College of the Arts. There I discovered photography, creative writing including poetry and 11pm hot chocolates in empty classrooms. A long relationship with the written word developed as theatre-love was buried in too much Lacan theory.

Race towards the end of the naughties and ‘hive’ is now 12 years old…awwww….still doing design, loving learning more about what fine art is…and crafting poems as a Café Poet at Pheast48, in cahoots with Australian Poetry Ltd. Blogging on at: http://gypsyheart.typepad.com/blog/

I love designing books with meticulous & whimsical details.
I love crafting websites with soul & style.
I love creating CD’s that feel good to hold in your hand,
and I love drawing artworks that say something about beauty.

okay. that’s me.
Bee x

2010 - I was short listed for the A.M.E Bale Art Prize (works on paper) - exhibition at the Glen Eira City Council Gallery!

Exhibitions:

2011 MAPrc art auction and exhibition at Obscura Gallery, Balaclava. was asked to speak at opening alongside Prof. Jayashri Kulkarni. earth heart art - art auction, Synergy Gallery, Northcote.

2010 A.M.E Bale Art Prize, selected for works on paper catergory, exhibition at Glen Eira City Council Gallery. Art of Giving II, Liddiard Gallery, Oakleigh, for Mind's Ambassadors of Hope programme. Phantosea, QV Women’s Centre, 210 Lonsdale St, Melbourne.

2009 halos & shadows, Synergy Gallery, Northcote. Collaboration with Kate Le Plastrier. Art of Giving, Liddiard Gallery, Oakleigh, for Mind's Ambassadors of Hope programme.

2008 Works on Paper, Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy. The Shape of Indentity, Navigators Daughters, City Library, Melbourne CBD

2007 Digital Dreams, Karstens at CQ, Melbourne City CBD. Works on Paper, Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy. Linden Postcard Show, Linden, Acland St. St Kilda

2006 Hardcopy: digital art, Gasworks Arts Park, Albert Park. My Reality, Cube 37, Frankston Arts Centre. Linden Postcard Show, Linden, Acland St. St Kilda

2005 Hardcopy: digital art, Gasworks Arts Park, Albert Park. The Collectors' Exhibition, Steps Gallery, 62 Lygon St. Carlton, run by the Contemporary Art Society of Victoria Inc.

2004 The Collectors' Exhibition, Steps Gallery, 62 Lygon St. Carlton, run by the Contemporary Art Society of Victoria Inc.

2003 Ephemeral, Ethereal, original photographs at Espresso etc. - 97 Orrong Crescent, Caulfield North.

Film: 2004 My short dance film 'The Dance' was screened at "The Other Film Festival", at the Melbourne Museum.

Grants: 2007 Cultural Development Fund, City of Port Phillip for my play 'Hamlet's Angel', dramaturgical work with Martin White and playreading at NYWF Newcastle and Woman's Word launch.

Published: Poetry: 2010 poem & photo published in online journal "Ricochet". 2009 "The Hidden Self" launched at Dante's, Gertrude St. March 8th - self published book of poetry & artwork with Naomi Downie. 2007 "Woman's Word". C.R.O.P. "Harvest". People's Performance Project: "Bubbles of Resistance Rising: Beyond Borders and Binaries" Reviews: Camille - La Fille du Cirque - for Melbourne Stage online. The Resistible Rise of Arturio Ui - Brecht - Gippsland Senior, Senior Scene. Artwork: 2011 2 photos published in Everyday Splendor by Poetic Christi Press. 2009 Photo published in Reflecting on Melbourne by Poetica Christi Press launched at St Paul's Cathedral. 2006 Drawing published in Page Seventeen journal, Issue 4. 12 artworks in C.R.O.P. "Harvest - an anthology of new works".