Beth Dillon is an Australian artist based in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland.
Working across visual and live arts, she has created performances, videos, and installations for art spaces, festivals, museums, nightclubs, theatres, and public spaces in Australia and Europe. She often develops strange characters and environments using handmade costumes and objects which flush up to the collective consciousness the awkward and overlooked elements of everyday life. Frequently created in collaboration with friends and family members, her works offer intimate, tragicomic, and absurd explorations of spaces and relationships within the contemporary experiences of home, work, travel, and leisure.
Dillon was co-director of the Espace Libre (Visarte Biel/Bienne) in collaboration with Vera Trachsel (2021–2023) and is a founding member of the collective 110% alongside 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, and received the Anderfuhren Prize in 2021. Her work is part of the visual arts collection of the Canton of Bern and has been supported by Pro Helvetia, the city of Biel/Bienne, Canton Bern, fOrum culture, the Oertli Foundation, Australia Council for the Arts, Create NSW, the National Association for the Visual Arts, the 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