Irene Briant: Distant Fields

OPENING NIGHT: FRIDAY 1st of NOVEMBER, 2024, 5.30PM

Without the imagery words used in descriptions of the cosmos or outer space - millions of light years away, black holes, quasars, superclusters, galaxies, infinite dark voids, star fields…are enough to set the imagination whirring.

Even with recent advances in our understanding of the solar system due to instruments such as the NASA’s Hubble telescope and more recently the James Webb telescope, how our universe works and what it looks like, are still intriguing concepts.

- Irene Briant

This exhibition with Bett Gallery coincides with Irene's 90th birthday. Irene has held more than 16 solo exhibitions in Tasmania and nationally. She has been selected to exhibit in numerous group exhibitions throughout Australia and internationally, including Queen Victoria Museum Launceston, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Hobart, Art Gallery of NSW and in Thailand, The Philippines, and Singapore. Her work is held in many national and private collections including Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Hobart, Parliament House Canberra, Canberra Museum and Gallery and Artbank Sydney.