About the artist

Beevors art is defiant, unconventional, and moving.

Originally from Australia, Beevors has been practicing in New Zealand for the last 20 years. Head of sculpture in New Zealand’s oldest, and one of its most prestigious, art schools, Beevors has exhibited in a number of galleries, museums and exhibition spaces in New Zealand, Australia and Vienna..

Her first large-scale exhibition, Debbie does Disney, was critically acclaimed, a whimsical, feminist journey of Disney that both shocked and delighted. Anatomy Lessons is a departure from the unleashed joy of the previous exhibition, in an exploration of the darkness of our human relationship with animals’ lives and the life of the living planet.

Image of Michele Beevors, New Zealand sculptor and creator of Anatomy Lessons, a touring exhibition for art galleries and museums

Beevors work is accomplished, both in execution and the concepts that stand behind them. Masterful storytelling, by museum curator Emma Burns, concludes a breath-taking exhibition that is cohesive, intimate, and enlightening.

Beevors is continuing to add to the menagerie that she has created, with additional pieces from museum basement boxes, hundreds of years old, being drawn, sculpted, and taking shape stitch-by-stitch in the hope more people who see the works will be inspired to care.