Erika Beck FRAS

Erika Beck FRAS

Biography – Erika Beck – Artist
Croatian born Sydney based artist Erika Beck enjoys a rewarding artistic career in Australia working predominantly with gestural abstraction for over 40 years. Erika was trained in Europe whilst living in France, England and Germany before she permanently settled in Sydney. She further her art studies at the National Art School of NSW and has since been exhibiting her works in numerous solo and group exhibitions across Australia and Europe.
Beck has won numerous prestigious art prizes and awards throughout her career. She is a Fellow of the Royal Art Society in Sydney and was awarded ‘Medal of Distinction Award’ by the Society in 2018. Her series of work, ‘Forces of Nature’ was selected to show at the Mosman Art Gallery ‘In Profile’ display in 2015, among other achievements. In 2023 the Rotary Club of Mosman awarded Beck a “Paul Harris Fellowship Medal” for her services to the community.

Solo Exhibitions
2023 Conversations with Nature, Thienny Lee Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
2019 Patterns of Light, Thienny Lee Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
2017 Places in the Sun, Thienny Lee Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
2015 Amazing Light, Gallery 307, Northbridge, Australia.
2015 Forces of Nature, Mosman Art Gallery, Mosman, Australia.
2009 Recent Landscape Painting, Ku-ring-gai Council Chambers, Australia
2008 Landscapes on My Mind, Gallery 307, Northbridge, Australia.
2007 Landscapes, Ku-ring-gai Council Chambers, Australia
2006 Landscapes – Water Series, Ku-ring-gai Council Chambers, Australia
2005 Landscapes – Fraser Island, Gallery 307, Northbridge, Australia.
2000 Paintings of Uluru, Kimberley, Ku-ring-gai Art Centre, Roseville, Australia.
1996 Erika Beck, Ku-ring-gai Art Centre, Roseville, Australia.
1995 Erika Beck, Istral Gallery, Woollahra, Australia.
1994 Colour Poems, Ku-ring-gai Art Centre, Roseville, Australia.
1993 Erika Beck, Europa House, Zagreb, Croatia.
1992 Erika Beck, Ku-ring-gai Art Centre, Roseville, Australia.
1991 Erika Beck, Wycombe Gallery, Neutral Bay, Australia.
1991 Erika Beck, Gallery Wall, Edgecliff, Australia.
1989 Erika Beck, Ku-ring-gai Art Centre, Roseville, Australia.

Group Exhibitions
2019 ‘Big’ – Exhibition of Large Abstracts, Gallery 307, Northbridge, Sydney Australia.
2018 Salon Christmas – Collectors Choice, Artsite Gallery, Camperdown, Sydney, Australia.
2017 Barrier Reef Gallery 307, Northbridge, Australia.
2017 Eklektikos Artsite Gallery, Camperdown, Sydney, Australia.
2016 Beck, Chen Chow, McKee, Wicks et al, Gallery 307 Gallery, Northbridge, Australia.
2016 The Energy of Water Artsite Gallery, Camperdown, Sydney, Australia.
2014 Group Exhibition, Gallery 307, Northbridge, Australia.
2013 Nova 2013, Incinerator Art Space
2013 Hidden Treasures, Artsite Gallery, Camperdown, Sydney, Australia.
2012 Salon Christmas – Collectors Choice, Artsite Gallery, Camperdown, Sydney, Australia.
2012 Group Exhibition – Still Life, Artsite Gallery, Camperdown, Sydney, Australia.
2011 Group Exhibition, Artsite Gallery, Camperdown, Sydney, Australia.
2010 Nova 2010, Sheffer Gallery, Darlington, Sydny Australia.
2010 Final Exhibition, Taylor Galleries, Summer Hills, Sydney, Australia.
2009 Pas de Deux – Recent Landscapes, Gallery 307, Northbridge, Australia.
2008 Group Exhibition, Taylor Galleries, Summer Hills, Sydney, Australia.
2007 Art Melbourne 07, Gallery 307, Northbridge, Australia.
2006 Dual Vision – Two Artist Exhibition, Gallery NTK
2006 Contrasting Images, Taylor Galleries, Summer Hills, Sydney, Australia.
2005 Group Exhibition, Taylor Galleries, Summer Hills, Sydney, Australia.
2003 Eva Barry & Friends, Taylor Galleries, Summer Hills, Sydney, Australia.
2001 3 + 1 Group Exhibition, PCL Exhibitionist Gallery, Strawberry Hills, Sydney, Australia.
2001 10 Women Artists, Trinity Delmar Gallery
2000 PAS Group Exhibition, Manly Regional Gallery, Manly, Australia.
1999 Cape Tribulation Artists, Ku-ring-gai Art Centre, Roseville, Australia.
1998 Present Company Included, Manly Regional Gallery Manly, Australia.
1998 Nova 1988, Ku-ring-gai Art Centre, Roseville, Australia.
1996 Four Men and One Woman, Istral Gallery, Woollahra, Australia.1987
1991 Artists from the Ku-ring-gai Art Centre, Barcelona, Spain.
1987 Nova 1987, Ku-ring-gai Art Centre, Roseville, Australia.

Awards
2018 Medal of Distinction Award – Royal Art Society, (judged by Artist Bela Ivanyi)
2014 Grand Prize Ku-ring-gai Art Society (judged by Peter Griffen and Chan Dissanayake)
2014 Northbridge Art Prize – Acrylic/Oils Category (judged by Nick Vickers)
2012 Northbridge Art Prize – Contemporary Category (judged by Anne Cape)
2012 Lane Cove Municipal Art Award – Contemporary Art Prize
Highly Commended for use of colour by International School of Colour and Design (judged by Elizabeth Cummings)
2010 Waterbrook Art Exhibition – First Prize Acquisitive (judged by Patrick Carroll)
2008 North Sydney Open Prize (judged by Tony Tozer)
2005 First Prize, Ku-ring-gai Art Society -Contemporary Acrylic (judged by Anne Cape)
1985 Second Prize, Ku-ring-gai Art Society – Contemporary Section (judged by Margaret Woodward)
1997 Third Prize Royal Easter Show – Watercolour (judged by Patrick Carroll)
1996 Grand Prize Ku-ring-gai Art Society (judged by Margaret Woodward & David Fairborn)
1996 Grand First Prize Ku-ring-gai Art Society – Landscape (judged by Margaret Woodward & David Fairborn)
1996 First Prize Ku-ring-gai Art Society – Modern (judged by Margaret Woodward & David Fairborn)
1995 First Prize Ku-ring-gai Art Society – Pastel (judged by G. Austin & Aviva Finberg)
1995 Second Prize Royal Easter Show – Drawing (judged by Margaret Woodward)
1994 First Prize Royal Easter Show – Still Life
1993 Second Prize, Royal Easter Show (judged by Ann Thompson)
1992 First Prize Ku-ring-gai Art Society (judged by Ian Chapman & Earl Backen)
1990 Grand Prize Ku-ring-gai Art Society (judged by Susan Sheridan)
1990 First Prize Ku-ring-gai Art Society – Contemporary Section (judged by Earl Backen)
1990 First Prize, Water Colour Section Royal Easter Show (judged by Edmond Capon)
1989 First Prize Royal Easter Show – Still Life (judged by Barry Pearce)
1988 Finalist Blake Prize – Selected to travel
1998 Second Prize Hunters Hill Art Prize
1987 Grand Prize Ku-ring-gai Art Society (judged by Max Taylor & Eva Kubbos)
1985 Second Prize, Ku-ring-gai Art Society (judged by Margaret Woodward)

Memberships

Fellow of the Royal Art Society (FRAS) of NSW
Exhibiting member Ku-ring-gai Art Society.
Mosman Art Society – Exhibiting member
Past President of Peninsula Art Society (1992 to 1995)
Foundation member of the Australian Society of Miniature Art