Michele Beevors

Originally from Australia, Beevors has a Master of Fine Arts and has been practicing in New Zealand for the last 22 years. She is Principal Lecturer/Sculpture at Dunedin School of Art, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand’s oldest, and one of its most prestigious, art schools.

Beevors has exhibited in several galleries, museums and exhibition spaces in New Zealand, Australia and Vienna. Large scale exhibitions include Debbie does Disney, which was shown in the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. This exhibition was critically acclaimed, a whimsical, feminist journey of Disney that both shocked and delighted. Anatomy Lessons her latest large-scale exhibition, has been created over the course of 17-years, with development ongoing.

Selected Awards & Grants:

  • 2018 Otago Polytechnic Research Prize
  • 2007, 2012, 2017 Research and Enterprise Development Grant, Otago Polytechnic Education Foundation Otago Polytechnic
  • 2004 Finalist, Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award.
  • 1998 Australia Council Grant (New Work)
  • 1994 Anne and Gordon Samstag Scholarship
www.michelebeevors.org