Dhyana Beaumont
:: ARTIST/TEACHER

:: Multi-disciplinary Artist 
:: Painting :: Digital Media
:: Video :: VJ
:: TUTOR Art & Design ::
classes, workshop,
individual tutoring

:: PUBLIC/STREET ART
:: COMMUNITY ART
:: ENVIRONMENTAL ART

What I offer as an artist 
Arrange studio visits to check out my actual gallery space & current paintings &/or talk about potential commissions: proposals could involve Street Art, Painting for interiors, or to develop community art projects.
Commissions:
Arrange a studio visit especially for a commission
Open Studios: will be advertised

Bio & Education Dhyana Beaumont has exhibited nationally as a painter since 1992. Recent study involved Masters of Fine Arts investigating socially responsible art with an environmental edge, incorporating video installation in site-specific contexts. Projects were intervention or event based for projecting at street parties, projection nights & installations. She later collaborated in video installation project for the Fringe called “VanTV: Transforming Video on Wheels” involving projection in public spaces. Now she is moving back into teaching commissions and being a VJ.

Recent Highlights

2022-2024 | Taniwha’s Den: Live performance 2018-2024 | Cubeman Collective gigs, venues Laundry, Valhalla & Birdcage
2022-2023 | Matariki Projections with Cubeman and Shift Collective, Wellington Civic Square 2023 | Shift Collective, Nelson Lights Festival (June) 2022 | Shift Collective, Performance Arcade (Feb) 2022 | I AM Solartarian: I Am Sol-Lit Being, Solo Painting Exhibition (Aug). 2021 | Lemonade Group Show, exhibiting a mini retrospective of 80 paintings 2021 | Lemonade Collective Art Space: 2 VJ performances. 2020 & 2022 | New Year’s Festival VJ performances 2021 | Resonance App Launch: Brand-specific animated graphics

2016-17 | Hot Yoga Mandala Painting Commission
2011-13 +2019 VJ | Live Video Mixing
2019 | Mandala Commission
2016-17 | Mandala Hot Yoga Commission
2011-13 +2019 VJ | Live Video Mixing
2012 | Live Painting at Festivals Commission
2011 | WCC Public Art Commissions ::
Aro Valley Bus Stop
2011 East of Cuba | Street art commission
2008 | Tipping points:: above, between, below
2011 | Raw Food Café :: Eco Sapiens
2005 +2008 | Fringe:: Van TV::
Transforming video on wheels ::
Site-Specific Projections

MFA Massey University 2005
IN/SIGHT INSIGHT (video installation)

Public Artist

Street/Public Art Projects:
Public Art with an community, environmental edge.
art adapting to the client or funder of the site the local environment and engaging with the community.
I love creating Public Art as an alternative to revitalise the city negotiating with architects and property managers and soon property developers

2011-2012 | Wellington City Council Liaising WCC City Arts Team :: discussing Strategy for facilitating Street/Mural Art Projects with local community
2012 | Live Painting at Festivals Commission
2011 | WCC Public Art Commissions ::  Following WCC public art policy guidelines::  health & safety, create proposals/budgets
2011 | East of Cuba :: Street art commission

2011 | Raw Food Café :: Eco Sapiens :: Artist if Residence:: 
Raw Food Café :: existed in multiple sites and art events, initial promo event engaging people with bike blender.

We relocated to various sites including, engaging local Maori at their Marae, artists in residence kitchen, an empty shop, environmental centre, a park pavilion and foraging in community orchards, presenting the concept at a Hui and the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery.

2005 +2008 | Fringe:: Van TV:: Transforming video on wheels :: Collaborative Site-specific Projections & TV installation
Video installation in public spaces :: Film Archives, Te Papa, Midland Park, Bats, Queens Wharf, Cuba Mall & Civic Square
2005 :: Newtown Hall
2008 :: Tipping points:: above, between, below
Negotiated with WCC for access to public places, health and safety, asking organisations to be able to project video

Citizen Artist | Town Artist | Environmental Artist

2011-2012 | Brooklyn Catchment Community Project::
Collaborating in a community lead art project integrating environmental, sustainability & community.

2002-2005 |  Fine Art Masters :: Insite/ Insight 
:: Site Specific Artwork in the zone of the Wellington Bypass
I responded to local community & connected with activist groups. Involved with activist events, eg setting up video projections at community awareness events. Artistic models were public art projects, which involved the local community creating dialogue in the evolution of the artwork/event/intervention.
2004 | New/Town Hall (Masters)
An unused shop in Newtown became an environmental center & a base HQ in preparation for Wellington’s local body elections .
I nominated an environmentalist for Mayor & developed strategies to vote for a sustainable way of life & to focus on creating community.

MORE Links ::
youtube.com/user/anudhyana/videos
vimeo.com/anudhyana/videos