Exhibitions

Joan Ross

Those trees came back to me in my dreams | National portrait gallery canberra | 24 Aug 2024 - 27 Apr 2025 Joan Ross is a master at contextualising and recontextualising Australia's colonial past, with an edginess for today's viewing audiences. - Gina Fairley, ARTShub Review, 4 November 2024 In a practice that spans collage, printmaking, sculpture and video animation, Ross probes the ongoing consequences of colonisation in Australia with wit and... Read more

Kevin Perkins - Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery

Written in Wood: Kevin Perkins inspired by Richard Flanagan 6 Dec 2024 - 30 Mar 2025 Five monumental sculptural works by Tasmanian artist, master furniture-maker and wood craftsman, Kevin Perkins, each based on a novel by the acclaimed Tasmanian writer, Richard Flanagan. Perkins and Flanagan are both Tasmanian by birth and are long- standing friends. Their work in their respective disciplines, is deeply rooted in this... Read more

Gay Hawkes - Narryna

seaborne 5 Feb - 5 Apr 2025 A pioneer in the use of found material... Seaborne is a solo exhibition featuring renowned Tasmanian artist Gay Hawkes held at the historic merchant's house, Narryna. Gay Hawkes is a maker of sculpture and furniture and a producer of performance events and installation. This exhibition follows on from Gay's major... Read more

Imants Tillers

Metaphysical Journey 14 Feb - 8 Mar 2025 What is ‘metaphysics’? According to the Oxford dictionary – ‘metaphysics’ is “that branch of philosophy that deals with the first principles of things including such concepts as being, substance, essence, time, space, cause and identity: theoretical philosophy as the ultimate science of being and knowing.” Moreover, the adjective... Read more