Exhibitions
Below are details of current and past exhibitions. My work has progressed from more aesthetic pieces to video and sound works. Want to work with me? I would love to hear from you - Contact me
Moral Panic, Whisper Campaigns and Wicked Problems
Lake Country Art Gallery, March 16 to May 11, 2024
Members exhibition
The work presented at this exhibition is The Feels.
Moral Panic: a widespread feeling of fear, often an irrational one, that some evil person or thing threatens the values, interests, or well-being of a community or society.
Whisper Campaigns: A method of persuasion in which damaging rumours or innuendo are spread about the target, while the source of the summers seeks to avoid being detected while they are spread.
Wicked Problems: A social or cultural problems that is difficult or impossible to solve because of its complex and interconnected nature. Wicked Problems lack clarity in both their aims and solutions, and are subject to real-world constraints which hinder risk-free attempts to find a solution.
Time & Space
Salmon Arm Art Gallery, November 4 to December 9, 2023
Group exhibition
Work presented was Transitional Phenomena & The Mothership a collaborative video sculpture by Alison Beaumont & Heather Yip
In the time it takes you to read this sentence, you will have traveled 1,560+ kilometers, as our planet and solar system hurtle through space at a breakneck pace. As technology develops, so does our perception of time and space.
Guest Curator Damen Archard, along with 10 incredible artists, embarked on a journey to bring together artworks that focused on the here and now itself. With technologies both new and familiar, artists have created works that highlight where we are in time and space by drawing on themes of communication, nostalgia, navigation, temporality, loss, connection, and agency.
Listen Softly, Look Between
July 20th – August 20th , 2023, Island Mountain Arts, Wells, BC
Alison Beaumont & Stephanie Denz
What do we take from our surroundings? What impacts do our movements create? How are we a part of the surrounding environment, and the subconsciousness that may underlie it?
In 'Listen Softly, Look Between,' the works of artists Alison Beaumont and Stefanie Denz are exhibited together.
Denz is interested in how we take in and are a part of our surroundings, even though we are not always aware of that fact. She highlights the influence our environment has on us, consciously and subconsciously. This manifests in three-foot by four-foot oil paintings on Duralar, featuring natural and rural landscapes in which figures merge with foliage.
Beaumont's work asks, "How might our connection to Earth Mother have a direct correlation to how we consider and care for the non-human world?" Through photography, video, audio, and sensory triggers, she guides viewers into reflection on human impacts on the non-human and questions how, as humans, we navigate our feelings toward the changes on Earth.
The works bring intrigue, reflection, and noticing, with opportunities for visitors to be passive, immersed, and focused. This brings together very different experiences; some harsh, some soft, some ambiguous.
The Mother (Load)
March 11th, 2023 to April 30th, 2023 at Lake Country Public Art Gallery
Gallery Members along with Guest Artist Angelina Rosa responding to the themes and questions that were presented in the last exhibition State(s) of Being, and continue the conversation by diving into the subject of motherhood and the creative process.
“I am liminal” is my work exhibited in this exhibition (pictured). An examination of the liminal spaces in which mothers exist, where roles blur and how sitting in your car can sometimes be the most creative space you have.
Take a seat on the 1992 Red 4 Runner seat, read the poem and be liminal. There is also a participatory opportunity for you to post your thoughts and add to the wall.
Carry Me. Lay Me Down. at AR Bernard
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July 1st, 2022 to September 6th, 2022 Maud Collective/ Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art/ Kelowna Art Gallery - Bernard Ave, Kelowna BC
Illustrator - Shauna Oddleifsen , Animator - Joanne Gervais, Musician - Alison Beaumont - AR Bernard, Maud Collective 2022
Carry Me. Lay Me Down is a collaborative work where Alison is the featured Musician, the work is a collaboration with Artist/Illustrator Shauna Oddleifsen & Animator/Artist Joanne Gervais.
The Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art, Kelowna Art Gallery and Maud Collective brought together Okanagan artists to participate in AR Bernard, an augmented reality art exhibition on Bernard Avenue during Summer 2022.
AR (Augmented Reality) Bernard 2022 edition, features 7 collaborative groups who have created interactive images accessed through the AUGLE App. In each group of three there was an Illustrator, Animator & a Musician. In this edition Alison is featured as a musician having created the pieces name sake soundtrack “Carry Me. Lay Me Down.”
For full list of artists and work download the Augle App.
Taking place between July 1- and September 6, AR Bernard will transform Bernard Avenue and the heart of Kelowna into a prime destination to view augmented reality (AR) artwork created in collaboration with local digital illustrators, animators and musicians. The project supports local business vitality and the creative sector of Kelowna in a physically distanced and COVID-safe way.
MAUD Collective is dedicated to creative culture, experiences and placemaking. Using engagement as the main driver, MAUD fosters a creative community through its commitment to supporting, compensating and providing development opportunities to local artists while engaging them in local experiences with technology and place. They are the developers behind the augmented reality app, AUGLE. For more information please visit www.maudcollective.com
Lovers & Liars
February 26th 2022 to April 10th 2022, Lake Country, BC
Liar, Liar, Pants on fire...
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways… A playground taunt or poetry by Elizabeth Barrett Browning? Fake news and conspiracy theories?
Politics? Great Loves, John & Yoko, Sid & Nancy, Cleopatra & Mark Antony... The Lake Country Art Gallery's 2022 Members Exhibition theme Liars & Lovers is open to interpretation.
This juried members exhibition features a collaboration between Alison and fellow artist Pippa Dean-Veerman. Their work Climatometre is an exploration of potential environmental dissonance in our daily lives. Do our own actions betray our desire to be conscientious global citizens? Are we being good ancestors?
We all love the Earth and want to do no harm. But are we?
Alison with “The Feels” at Orchard Park Mall in February 2022
Arts for Social Change
February - April 2022, Orchard Park Mall, Okanagan Regional Library & Rotary Centre for the Arts Kelowna, BC
For this juried exhibition, the work The Feels was featured at Orchard Park Mall, Ellis Street Branch of the Okanagan Regional Library and also the Rotary Centre for the Arts. You can also read an article about the exhibitions and Alison’s work in-particular here.
Arts for Social Change Community, the exhibits feature unique pieces crafted by local students and professional artists. Each work of art was inspired by one of the 17 Goals of Sustainable Development, set out by the United Nations.
The art displays will reflect the motto of Global Citizen Events by being entertaining, educational and inspiring us to action. Exhibitions take place throughout the community in non-traditional art spaces.
The Assembly
February - March 2022, Alternator Centre For Contemporary Art, Kelowna BC
Group online juried exhibition.
Sustainability is arguably the most important issue of our times. Everything that we hold dear to us, and in fact our very lives themselves, are dependent upon the sustainability of our planet.
Sustainability is the capacity to endure into the future. Its most widely quoted definition is "meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs." (Bruntland Report, the United Nations, 1987.) Environmental, economic, and social considerations form the three pillars of Sustainability. Without all three working in tandem, there is little hope for achieving its critical goals.
I can't think of a more encompassing and urgent topic to launch The Assembly, the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art's new, online exhibition series. So many artists are concerned with one or more of these topics. Whether it be about climate change and environmental issues, economic equity, social rights, or how some specific examples of these affect each other, such diverse issues come together to spell out Sustainability.
Over the past two years, we have all felt the restrictions imposed upon us by the pandemic. For artists, the loss of community and a sense of isolation have been large factors. Through The Assembly, the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art provides a platform for our members to reconnect, and to collectively extend our reach beyond our region, to a provincial, national and international community.
Fern Helfand
President • Okanagan Artists Alternative Association
Sound Machines
July 3rd, 2021 to August 21st 2021, Salmon Arm Art Gallery, Salmon Arm BC
“The Feels” Multimedia Luminescent Box
Eight artists create installations that explore the intersection of sound, voice, music and noise. Featured artists are Alison Beaumont, Doug Buis, Daryl Kehler, Geri Matthew, Daniela O’Fee, Louis Thomas, and the 2021 Marie Manson Virtual Artist Residency artists Lucas Glenn and Heather Yip. This exhibition is generously sponsored by Song Sparrow Hall.
Significance Stares
at Me from
Everywhere
July 3rd, 2020 to August 16th 2020
Lake Country Public Art Gallery, Lake Country, BC
Significance is defined as the quality of being worth of attention; importance and the meaning to be found in words of events.Significance Stares at Me from Everywhere is the Lake Country Art Gallery’s new exhibit on display July 4-Aug. 16, with an open house Saturday, July 4 from noon to 2 p.m.
Lake Country artists Alison Beaumont and Lynette Schlichting have come together with Vancouver based artists Katherine Coe and Eve Leader for the exhibition.
Beaumont is a photography/digital artist and her video installation, Left Behind, occupies the front portion of the gallery while Schlichting’s assemblage sculptures meander throughout the gallery. Schlichting has a diverse background in film, set and costume design and combines this knowledge with her visual art practice.
Leader’s paintings and drawings are displayed on the walls and Coe’s installation fills the back of the gallery.
“Leader’s abstract paintings are haunting and speak to the human condition,” the Gallery states.
Coe is a multidisciplinary artist bringing drawing, printmaking, sculpture into her installation work.
“Through drawing, painting, sculpture, installation, and video, Beaumont, Coe, Leader, and Schlichting discuss contemporary subjects, the mystery of life, darkness, and beauty,” according to the gallery.
A Winter Gathering
January 11th, 2020 to February 9th 2020
Lake Country Public Art Gallery, Lake Country, BC
Working in collaboration with Oyama Traditional School grade 3 class “Studioterra” and teacher Mdme. Pippa Dean Veerman. Co-facilitating sessions with the class, building idea generation techniques, exploring art concepts and practices to guide students in creating an Art installation at Lake Country Public Art Gallery, Lake Country BC. The exhibition is an open community exhibition where artists and community of all ages are invited to contribute to “A Winter Gathering” bring and creating artwork in the gallery space. Assisted students in creating a variety of 2D & 3D work as well as collaboratively using video, sound and footage captured by staff, students and myself to create “Gather” a 10 minute video exploring connection, stories and sounds. The video limits visual human presence, focussing on the impressions we as humans make on our environment and how these imprint in the Winter gathering.
Artmart 2 @ Alternator Gallery for Contemporary Art
August 9th, 2019 to October 2019
This project created art postcards using found objects on Okanagan/Kootenay beaches and trails. Using the found objects to create abstract sun prints as a comment about how we as humans leave a mark on the landscape. Buy your unique card from the Art Vending machine located in the Rotary Centre for the Arts in Kelowna BC.
Discourse
June 21st to July 6th, 2019
Members Gallery, Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art, Kelowna, BC
Vision and sound play a huge part in our experiences as humans, what happens when sound we hear is in conflict with what we are seeing? Discourse invites the viewer to explore the notion that sound affects our visual experiences. Spinning in the forest, taking in the sky, the breeze, feeling serene, flowing, alive, losing control, out of control, anxiety, tragedy, falling, joyful, letting go, taking in your surroundings. Our experiences of the same surroundings are unique, the spinning forest allows you to choose sounds, while experiencing the same visuals. How does each sound impact you?
Welcome to the (Neighbor) Hood
March 1st, 2019 to March 24th, 2019 - Lake Country Public Art Gallery, Lake Country BC
Oh, who are the people in your neighborhood?
In your neighborhood?
In your neighborhood?
Say, who are the people in your neighborhood?
The people that you meet each day…
This piece on display is from the Neighbours video work that focuses on women in my community and their views on their supports within the Neighbourhood.
Sign of the Times - The Art of Protest
August 30th, 2018 to September 30th, 2018 - Lake Country Public Art Gallery, Lake Country BC
Curated members exhibition of works relating to protest and how artists can play a role in commenting and also making change:
This exhibition invites members of the LC Art Gallery to make a statement about the current local or political climate. Throughout history, artists have been and continue to be, in the forefront by making statements and rallying for social change. Think…Picasso’s Guernica, Joseph Beuys, the Guerrilla Girls, Banksy, Pussy Riot and Ai Weiwei, just to name but a few.
Sign of the times (Greater Good), is a piece I created in response to protests in the South Okanagan, Similkameen as a New National Park has been proposed. As with all protests there are two sides, this piece concentrates on the fleeting glances at the "NO National Park" campaign and how the landscape overpowers the sense of protest.
A Restless Earth
April 5th, 2018 to May 20th, 2018 - Lake Country Public Art Gallery, Lake Country BC
“We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children”
--Unknown
This exhibition explored current ecological crises and presents a platform for a discussion on the Anthropocene—the current ecological epoch that represents humanity’s dominant influence on the planet. Click Here for more information. My work "Our Path" is exhibited and can also be viewed on Youtube.
Bringing the Darkness Into the Light
October 3rd, 2017 to October 31st, 2017 - Rotary Centre for the Arts, Kelowna, BC
This exhibition brought together local artists to explore themes around visual representation of what darkness means. I am showing two pieces "Awakening" & "Glinting", from the on going Spirit of the Moment project. This project is a collection of moments of stillness, where you are alone in your thoughts, reflecting, reconnecting, imagining. Click Here for more details.
Are We There Yet?
August 30th to September 30th 2017 - Lake Country Public Art Gallery
In conjunction with the Lake Country Artwalk, this members exhibition explores roadside attractions and the idea of road tripping in Canada. My piece "One trick pony" explores the idea than many small towns have annual events that define them or make them what they are known for, the image was taken at the annual Falkland Stampede. Click Here for more information.
Artscape - Artsco
January to April, 2017 - Cottonwoods Care Facility, Kelowna, BC
Artsco offers members the opportunity to exhibit at community sites throughout the central Okanagan. I exhibited a number of flora and fauna pieces at this exhibition. Click Here for more information.