About

Beverley Southcott is an established Australian mid-career contemporary artist and academic researcher whose practice spans photography, photo-media, video, installation, and painting.

Based primarily in Adelaide, South Australia, her work bridges fine art with a deep sociological, theoretical, and spiritual inquiry.

Her contemporary practice focuses on late 20th and 21st century global conflict, drawing from daily world news feeds. She metaphorically reconfigures these harsh realities into minimalist, abstracted landscapes of light and colour. These luminous fields are designed to offer the viewer alternative spaces for reflection, hope, and resolution.

Her recent practice has shifted toward exploring sensory-spatial experiences within domestic interiors and archival memory, while still engaging with themes of late 20th and 21st century global conflict reimagined in the aftermath. She continues to translate these realities into minimalist, abstracted landscapes of light and colour that invite reflection, hope, and resolution.

Southcott earned a Master of Visual Arts from the University of South Australia in 2004 and later undertook doctoral research at Curtin University from 2020 to 2021, focusing on art and conflict. Her academic and artistic research at Curtin examined how contemporary conflicts are represented through media and how art can create alternative spaces for reflection and peace.

Since the late 1970s, Southcott has held over 25 solo exhibitions and participated in many significant national and international group shows and awards such as the Julia Margaret Cameron Award, Spain, The Mandorla Arts Award (2007), McGregor Prize for Photography (2007) and the Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award (2006). She was awarded First Prize for the Gallery M Contemporary Art Award, Adelaide (2017).

Her works are held in public and private collections, including Cabrini’s Healthcare Collection (Melbourne), Flinders Medical Centre, Adelaide University, JAHM Collection (Melbourne), Dr Daryl Hewson’s Collection (Queensland), Gold Coast City Gallery (Queensland), Maitland Regional Art Gallery, The A4 Refugee Project Special Archive at the James Hardie Library of Australian Fine Arts (Queensland State Library), FotoNostrum (Spain).