Exhibitions

the epic secret life of the mundane

27 Nov - 23 Dec 2015 My Work has always been concerned with describing a sense of place and producing objects that have their own life and can exist outside the constraints of a label, such as landscape painting. They are not direct representations of places that I visit and see every day, nor are they... Read more

Dregs, Bogans and Third Generation Morons

30 Oct - 23 Nov 2015 Read more

Saddened Were the Hearts of Many Men

11 Oct 2015 “Where are all our men”, was a response to a body of work that was created some fifteen years ago titled “The Elders Album”. A project that was donated to the Aboriginal Elders Council in Tasmania those heart felt portraits still line the walls of the community hall of the... Read more

Ningi & Niyanta; tunapri rrala: Mother & Daughter - strong knowledge; enduring culture

2 - 23 Oct 2015 Read more

Chayni Henry

Flash Mob 4 - 25 Sep 2015 Read more

Rosie Hastie

The Folding Truth II; Top Gallery Salamanca 1 - 30 Sep 2015 Read more

Sum of it’s Parts

3 - 24 Jul 2015 A collection of assemblage pieces and small sculpture Sum of Its Parts chronicles my latest discoveries about relationships between objects and shapes across a visual field. Objects proliferate in the studio, they come with a history with a shadow in tow they evoke a memory an association a thought almost... Read more

Raymond Arnold

Elsewhere World 3 - 24 Jul 2015 An English painter friend sent me a book of Seamus Heaney’s poetry in 2011. The gift coincided with my commencement of work on a new etching series. I was developing prints of some terrain on Mt Lyell which is still heavily scarred from historic mining impacts and deforestation. Plants are... Read more

Nancy Mauro-Flude

Labyrinth 5 - 26 Jun 2015 Read more

Robert O'Connor

Steals 5 - 26 Jun 2015 Was it Mark Rothko? I think it was Rothko who when asked said that he went to New York City to “bum around and be poor for a while”. Maybe it was Jasper Johns? The Young Americans series are painted copies of photographs of sculptures; simulacra of simulacra. The sculptures... Read more

Monstering and other thoughtforms

1 - 29 May 2015 Read more

New Paintings

1 - 29 May 2015 Read more

Everything Nothing

10 - 26 Apr 2015 “If only, we're nothing at all” Josh Homme Everything, Nothing is the third solo exhibition from the Hobart based artist Alex Davern. These new paintings continue his investigation into the transformative power of everyday objects into quiet images, inducing contemplative stillness. Sitting on the boundary between minimal abstraction and the... Read more

Endling

10 - 26 Apr 2015 Read more

Materia Prima: The Rough Guide to a Soft Apocalypse

13 Mar - 1 Apr 2015 Materia prima - First matter - is the inchoate substance required for alchemy, a material to be transformed. Akin to chaos or dark matter - the nastier, stickier and more base this material is, the better. My materia prima is the medium of paint; metamorphosis occurs through the plasticity of... Read more

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Curtis Hore | Peter Whyte | Belinda Winkler 13 Feb - 6 Mar 2015 Read more

Valerie Sparks

Volta / Emergent 1 Jan - 1 Feb 2015 Volta 1 and 2, and Emergent were created for Wildflower Restaurant at the Como Treasury in Perth . The hyper-real panoramic aesthetic references the utopian, hybrid landscapes of 19th century French scenic wallpapers. The works bring together multiple points of perspective, different locations and times of the day.... Read more