
Selections from the Museum Displays
To complement the annual gallery exhibition, Beaudette created installations in the second floor museum that explored the visual and conceptual rhetoric of museological presentation. Each display introduced different artifacts and specimens from her extensive collection.
2012 Seashore Live
Gathered over a decade from beaches and abandoned buildings, objects and specimens were archived and stored in the museum stacks. The museum’s location was strategic, on a dead end road half way to the continent. Isolated on an island, itself a fragment, the museum oscillated within a network of critical disciplines: archaeology, anthropology, natural history and visual art.








2013 Epitaph
Bride Sullivan was born in King’s Cove on February 18, 1917 where she lived with her father until his death. She remained on her own in the family home well into her 80’s. Epitaph presents a selection of Bride’s belongings; it holds the story of one woman’s life lived in rural Newfoundland.








2015 Natural History Collection
The specimens were assembled and displayed in response to the gallery exhibition Nature Factory, which explored the relationships between nature and culture. The historic flag of Newfoundland was fashioned from natural specimens.








2016 Displacement
Each egg a potential placed in (salt)boxes, they both contain and are contained. Boxes gathered from forgotten places; empty like the saltbox houses of outport communities. Modest structures cobbled together in modest times by modest means.




2017 Artifact Catalogue
The 1,010 objects in the collection document a past way of life common to fishing communities across Newfoundland. With the decline of the cod fishery in the 1990’s, fishermen and fishery buildings disappeared. The objects are from abandoned houses, fishing stores and sheds, old dumpsites and stone foundations on the Bonavista peninsula. The Artifact Catalogue is a documentation of each object in the collection, providing a cultural context for 2 Rooms and a departure point for art production.








2018 The Hegnaeur Collection
Naturalist and bone collector John Hegnaeur collected bird skulls and other bones near his property on the Bonavista Peninsula for decades. Each bird skull has been preserved in a ziploc bag and identified by name. As part of this exhibition 2 Rooms documented and catalogued the Collection.



