Beth Dillon (*1987, Sydney, Australia) is an artist based in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland.
Working across visual arts and live arts, she has created performances, videos and installations in diverse galleries, festivals, museums, nightclubs, theatres and public spaces in Australia and Europe. Her solo, collaborative and curatorial projects present intimate, comic and absurd explorations of the spaces and relationships of family life, as well as contemporary experiences of work and leisure. She often develops uncanny characters and environments from handmade costumes and objects, flushing up the awkward, embarrassing, neglected and under-appreciated elements of everyday life into the collective consciousness.
Dillon was co-director of Espace Libre (Visarte Biel/Bienne) in collaboration with Vera Trachsel (2021-2023), and is a founding member of the 110% collective with Lachlan Herd and Kieran Bryant.
She holds a Master of Fine Arts Research (2019) and a Bachelor of Fine Arts (2013) from the University of New South Wales. She was awarded the Anderfuhren 2021 prize and was a finalist in the 2024 Aeschlimann Corti Stipendium. Her work is part of the visual arts collection, Canton Bern, and has been supported by Pro Helvetia, the City of Biel/Bienne, Canton Berne, fOrum culture, Oertli Foundation, Australia Council for the Arts, Create NSW, the National Association for the Visual Arts, Australian Postgraduate Award, the University of NSW and the Copyright Agency (AU).
Text + Press
Review: Wet Nurse
David Wlazlo, Memo Review, December 2019
Notes on Nursing
Beth Dillon, October 2019
Been there, done that
Beth Dillon, MFA Research Paper, UNSW Art and Design, 2016-2019
De Nouveaux Territoires: The Wide West Show!
Performance review, Marie Sorbier, IO Gazette, February 2019
Review: The Wide West Show!
Katia Berger, Tribune de Genève, March 2019
The Cosmopolitan Art Clown: Exhibition Essay
Kuba Dorabialski, September, 2018
Sweating the Foundations
Tulleah Pearce, October, 2018
Artist Profile: Beth Dillon
Runway Conversations, Rebecca Gallo, 2017
I'm new here: Exhibtion Review
Tracey Clement, Art Guide Australia, 2015
I'm new here: Exhibition Essay
Alison Groves, 2015
Beth Dillon, Honours Research Paper, UNSW Art and Design, 2013