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TORI BEECHE
Bio
B. 1972, Aotearoa
Lives and works in Arrowtown.
EDUCATION:
MFA (First Class Honours), Elam School of Fine Arts, 2020.
BFA (First Class Honours), Elam School of Fine Arts, 2015
AWARDS:
2023 National Contemporary Art Awards - Finalists Exhibition. NZ.
2021 Molly Morpeth Canaday Awards - Finalists Exhibition. NZ.
2020 New Zealand Painting & Printmaking - Finalists Exhibition. NZ.
2018 Sunshine Coast Art Prize - Finalists Exhibition. Australia.
COLLECTIONS:
Ayrburn Art Collection
Tori Beeche’s oil paintings arise from a quiet archaeology — sifting through historical image archives and layering them with personal memory and imagining to extract moments of charged stillness. Working in the tradition of Western genre painting, where the interior room becomes a site of inquiry, she draws on its elemental compositional grammar — the window, the mirror, the doorway — interweaving pattern, decorative motif, and the residue of Scandinavian heritage to ask how the spaces we inhabit come to shape us. Her paintings hold this tension between the inherited and the felt: neither purely nostalgic nor entirely present, they occupy a liminal register where the domestic interior becomes a kind of perceptual threshold.
Recent exhibitions include UNIFYING THREADS, MOTHERMOTHER at Te Atamira, Queenstown (2025), DREAM BIRD at Föenander Galleries, Auckland (2024), and OUTERBODY at Page Galleries, Wellington (2023).
