Welcome to Ben Beeton’s SciArt of Australia

My art drops a thread through aspects of the ecology, geology and deep time history of natural systems. My process of creating art is a learning experience. SciArt shares the knowledge that has been shared with me and inspires my work.

Teachers have told me that their students find SciArt intriguing and that my website is a wonderful visual literacy tool. I am very glad to see that the methodology which I have developed to create my art can be used as an educational tool.

Genestreaming Sculptures National Tourism Trail Vision

A Journey through Culture, Conservation & Deep Time

I have contributed my art to a team that is developing the Genestreaming national sculpture trail project which connects first nations art with nature journaling, science and conservation awareness through sculptures that depict site specific evolutionary trees of 15 local species plus humans.

Singapore Gardens by the Bay Genestreaming

Artist Residency Hamelin Pool, Shark Bay

2021 Twin Creeks Genestreaming Sculpture

Denmark Genestreaming

Ravensthorpe Genestreaming Sculpture

2025 Northcliffe Genestreaming Sculpture

Artist for the Royal Society of Victoria’s Burke and Wills Environmental Expedition 

The Dig Tree

Artist with Coromandel Adventures New Zealand

Alice Springs Genestreaming Augmented Reality Sculpture

Through SciArt I give conservationists, traditional owners and scientists an opportunity to share their knowledge. These are people who are working to preserve environments and have important messages which they want to share with the outside world.

Mount Magnet Mural for Astro Rocks Festival Artist Residency

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Bunya Mountains Genestreaming Sculpture

With Aunty Carol Pettersen OAM I am a co-founder of the Genestreaming Journey Sculptures initiative. My artistic collaborator is scientific illustrator Mali Moir. The public art project unites conservation initiatives with science and seeks to present both indigenous and non-indigenous artists work from communities.

Twin Creeks Genestreaming Sculpture

Wave Rock Genestreaming Augmented Reality Sculpture

Bremer Bay Genestreaming Sculpturehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLWuQ6SKHKs

Following the Leeuwin Current

One of my heroes is William ‘Strata’ Smith (23 March 1769 – 28 August 1839) was an English geologist, credited with creating the first detailed, nationwide geological map. The map that changed the world, Photograph at the Research School of Earth Sciences ANU ACT

Kellerberrin Genestreaming Augmented Reality Sculpture

Gondwana in Toowoomba

2013 Artist with Kimberley Air Tours 

2007 Artist Residency at Dunmoochin 

2022 Bonye Bair (Bunya Mountains) Genestreaming Sculpture

Artwork created on my first artist residency in 2006 at Broken Hill

Mount Magnet Mural for Astro Rocks Festival Artist Residency with AR Beta Test of a Genestreaming Sculpture

Artist Residency at Fowlers Gap 

Genestreaming Sculptures National Tourism Trail Vision

2016 Artist Residency at Uluru

Artist Residency at Windjana Gorge National Park

Northcliffe Genestreaming Sculpture

Artist Residency at Rovers Rest Girraween

2007 Project Daintree 

Artist Residency at Brisbane EcoSciences Precinct 

Phanerozoic – Ten Billion Years on a Flat Surface – Part 1

Capel Genestreaming Augmented Reality Sculpture

Twin Creeks Genestreaming Sculpture

2025 Bremer Bay Genestreaming Sculpture

Dendroid Drawings on the Euro Rail 

Crows Nest Falls Through Deep Time

Artist Residency Carnarvon Gorge, Takarakka Resort

Artist Residency at Hill End 

Geralton

Artist Residencies/Projects

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Genestreaming Sculptures National Tourism Trail Vision – A Journey through Culture, Conservation & Deep Time

2025 Wave Rock Genestreaming Augmented Reality Sculpture

2025 Ravensthorpe Genestreaming Sculpture

2025 Bremer Bay Genestreaming Sculpture

2025 Denmark Genestreaming Journey Sculpture

2025 Northcliffe Genestreaming Sculpture

2025 Capel Genestreaming Augmented Reality Sculpture

2024 Singapore Gardens by the Bay – Genestreaming Sculpture – Bunya Mountains to Boyce Gardens Toowoomba

2024 Alice Springs Genestreaming Augmented Reality Sculpture

2022/23 Kellerberrin Genestreaming Augmented Reality Sculpture

2022 Wave Rock – The Tsunami of Deep Time

2022 Ravensthorpe Range Artist Residency

2022 Bonye Bair (Bunya Mountains) Genestreaming Sculpture

2021 Mount Magnet Mural for Astro Rocks Festival Artist Residency with AR Beta Test of a Genestreaming Sculpture

2021 Twin Creeks Genestreaming Sculpture

2019 Artist Residency at Quaalup Homestead in the Fitzgerald River National Park

2018 Artist Residency Carnarvon Gorge, Takarakka Resort

2016/17/18 Following the Leeuwin Current

2017/18 Artist Residency Vancouver Arts Centre Albany

2017 Artist Residency Valley of the Giants Tree Top Walk

2017 Artist Residency Donnelly Lakes

2017 Artist Residency Waterfall Cottages Margaret River

2017 Artist Residency at Lesueur National Park, Nambung National Park

2016 Artist Residencies Hamelin Pool, Shark Bay to Mount Augustus

2016 Artist Residencies at Cape Range National Park, Yardie Homestead and Warroora Station all three are located off Ningaloo Marine Park

2016 Artist Residency at Broome Bird Observatory

2016 Artist Residency at Windjana Gorge National Park

2016 Artist Residency at Rovers Rest Girraween

2016 Iwara of the Super Continents

2016 Artist Residency at Uluru

2015 Artist Residency at Alice Springs Desert Park 

2015 Artist with El Nido Resorts Philippines 

2015 Artist Residency at Brisbane EcoSciences Precinct 

2015 Artist Residency at Naracoorte Caves Fossil Site 

2013 Artist accompanying Expedition Kimberley sponsored by Australian Geographic 

2013 Artist with Kimberley Air Tours 

2013 Artist with Coromandel Adventures New Zealand 

2012 Artist Residency at Driving Creek Railway, New Zealand 

2012 Gene Streams – Humanity over the Fleurieu Peninsula 

2011 Artist Residency Menindee Lakes – artist/film maker with Beckler’s Botanical Bounty 

2010 Artist for the Royal Society of Victoria’s Burke and Wills Environmental Expedition 

2009 Artist Residency with Wrights Air at Lake Eyre 

2009 Artist Residency at Sugarloaf Mountain Retreat 

2008 Artist Residency at Boyce Gardens through the University of Queensland 

2007 Artist Residency at Dunmoochin 

2007 Project Daintree 

2007 Light Waves 

2006 Artist Residency at Bundanon 

2006 Gene Streams – Dendroid Drawings on the Euro Rail 

2006 Artist Residency at Hill End 

2006 Artist Residency at Fowlers Gap 

2006 Artist Residency at Broken Hill 

2005 Landscapes Through Deep Time – Crows Nest Falls Through Deep Time 

2004 Notable Morphologies in the Evolution of Birds in China

2004 Landscapes Through Deep Time – Memories of the Eromanga Sea at Lake Mungo 

2004 Gene Streams Poetics – O’Reilly’s Lamington National Park 

2003 Landscapes Through Deep Time – Atmosphere 

2003 Landscapes Through Deep Time – O’Reilly’s Lamington National Park 

2002 Gene Streams Poetics – Life as Liquid 

2001 – 2002 Landscapes Through Deep Time – Binna Burra Lamington National Park 

2001 Ten Billion Years on a Flat Surface – Part 1 – 600 million years to the present 

2000 – 2004 Gene Streams Our Bodies are the Banks of DNA Rivers

2000 – 2001 Marine Impressions – Ammonites, Trilobites and Echinoderms, A Chronology of Appearances 

2000 Phyologenetic Spirogram Magnifine Glass Paintings

1999 Gene Streams Poetics – Life as Liquid 

1997 Landscapes Through Time- The Origins of Life on Earth in Three Dimensions & Four Dimensions