Exhibitions

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6 - 24 Dec 2013 Read more

Immeasurably Distant

6 - 24 Dec 2013 Within a short distance from where I live there are many plotted and worked pieces of farmland. Each has its own almost individual personality that reflects the type of crop that is grown there and the people that work it. I take great pleasure in visiting each place in turn... Read more

Nicholas Blowers

Edgeland 8 - 29 Nov 2013 Edgeland was a term coined by the British geographer Marion Shard and it refers to the overlooked places on our doorstep, the urban edge. In our towns and cities it is a place where the urban and rural negotiate and renegotiate their borders. The Tasmanian Edgeland exists in its own... Read more

Caution and Reassurance

8 - 29 Nov 2013 My work, inspired by popular culture and finding expression in a “world of the toy” de- and re-construct childhood imagery. They engage the viewer with this world. Intentionally set up to be viewed through the eyes of an adult while still allowing us to participate childlike, in this “world of... Read more

Party

11 Oct - 1 Nov 2013 As a parent, observing my child growing up fills me with wonder, but also a sense of loss. Children's birthday parties are important social rituals, and on the surface of things, joyous and festive celebrations of life. However, on another level, they are compelling indicators of time’s inexorable passing. Children's... Read more

Cut on the Cross

11 Oct - 1 Nov 2013 The exquisite and enigmatic portraits of 2013 Archibald Prize finalist Prudence Flint will be on show at Hobart’s Bett Gallery from 11 October until the end of the month. The exhibition, titled Cut on the Cross, centres around an intriguing series of women sewing: draping mannequins, machining seams and stitching... Read more

Dead Dog

13 Sep - 4 Oct 2013 Read more

Raymond Arnold

The Pale Show of Life 5 - 26 Jul 2013 Read more

Stop making sense

5 - 26 Jul 2013 In this body of work I have blended my interest in the natural world with personal memories and histories, a love of French toile and the joy of making objects by hand. I have always made work that reflects my personal responses to the state of things. Ideas of Utopias... Read more

Touching Other Peopleʼs Shopping

7 - 28 Jun 2013 This body of work investigates the early European colonization of Australia with particular interest in first contact and Imperialism. It is critical of High Visibility (Hi Vis) clothing and considers the 'creep' and colonising agency of Hi Vis, as a metaphor for White Colonisation . ‘The claiming of things’ video... Read more

Quill

10 - 31 May 2013 Read more

Collected Pieces

19 Apr - 5 May 2013 I had, only that morning, resisted the temptations of Orhan Pamuk’s, The Innocence of Objects , in a city bookshop, and now Irene Briant had put her copy on the dining table. Again, I entered Pamuk’s museum, what he has called the ‘separate realm’ that co-exists with the outside world... Read more

Split Stream

27 Mar - 14 Apr 2013 Read more

Selected works 2013- 2014

3 Mar 2013 - 14 Apr 2014 Read more

Down to the Line: an exhibition of drawing

In memory of Dick Bett AM 15 Feb - 3 Mar 2013 It’s all too easy to forget that, once upon a time, we were all artists. Before we were lulled into communication by words and speech and letters, and well before most of us had an inkling of the strange abstractions of mathematics, we drew. We drew on anything we could... Read more

the black mirror, back burn, opera

11 Jan - 11 Feb 2013 the black mirror, back burn, opera For the migrant creating a meaningful sense of belonging in a new community can be a fraught and emotionally nuanced journey. Neil Haddon’s work proposes a visual way of evoking this complex process in a series of paintings. To do this Haddon draws on... Read more

Spaces Between

7 Dec 2012 - 7 Jan 2013 My current practice draws directly from my day-to-day experience within the Tasmanian suburban landscape. I seek out points of tension within these environments in an effort to deconstruct the idealised images of suburbia seen in Australian popular culture. While surveying the suburbs I catch glimpses into the private lives of... Read more