Exhibitions

Recent works 2019

7 Dec 2019 Read more

the shore, the race, the other place

15 Nov - 7 Dec 2019 For some time now, I have been drawn to thinking about my life as a migrant to Tasmania. It’s odd; how long it can take to realise that the subtle undercurrent of difference that has pervaded my life here could be used more purposefully as a tool for critical thinking.... Read more

Valerie Sparks

this is not a wallflower 18 Oct - 9 Nov 2019 'this is not a wallflower' brings landscape and botanical art together through a series of wallpaper installations. Floral Panel ‘Sanctuary’ provides the over-arching concept for a new long-term project. It refers to both the idea of a sanctuary as a space for us to dwell in, as well the spaces... Read more

STORMWORKS

20 Sep - 12 Oct 2019 Read more

Sydney Contemporary 2019

Carriageworks 10 - 15 Sep 2019 Read more

Jane Burton

The Sunken Garden (Ballarat International Foto Biennale, Art Gallery of Ballarat) 24 Aug - 27 Oct 2019 This new suite of photographs depicts a landscape of the Central Highlands region beyond Ballarat that was shown to the artist by a friend. This is not the kind of place found by the roadside, but a hidden place that one must walk into for some distance, crossing a kind... Read more

Shimmering in the Age of Stupid

23 Aug - 14 Sep 2019 Read more

Transparent things

23 Aug - 14 Sep 2019 Read more

From the bird's eye

26 Jul - 17 Aug 2019 Read more

Terrible Lizard

26 Jul - 17 Aug 2019 Read more

Holly Zeinert

Recalibrate - Bett Gallery Award 2017 28 Jun - 20 Jul 2019 The Bett Gallery Graduate Award is designed to give the recipient the opportunity to experience exhibiting in a first class commercial contemporary art gallery. The award is judged yearly in collaboration with the Tasmanian College of the Arts, and awarded when one student shows a particularly high standard of work,... Read more

Sufficient to have stood

28 Jun - 20 Jul 2019 See what rage transports our Adversary, whom no bounds prescribed, no bars of Hell, nor all the chains heaped on him there, or yet the main abyss wide interrupt can hold. So bent he seems on desperate revenge, that shall redound upon his own rebellious head. And now through all... Read more

I give you a mountain

6 - 22 Jun 2019 Joan Ross’ new work continues her obsession with colonisation and its ongoing legacy in Australia. New drawings address the 1788 Diaries of Watkin Tench, they talk to history in a way that she see’s as malleable, the telling of which is from a particular perspective and makes new connections, even... Read more

Crushing

1 - 30 Jun 2019 Crushing 1 to 30 June 2019 School House Gallery, Rosny Farm 'Responding to the energy and history of Stoner's painting, Amanda Davies enacts her desire to occupy its boundaries and revision its tensions, to awaken painting to a moment that escapes our view' Dr Elizabeth Burke Read more

INTERSTITIAL

2019 Australian Ceramics Triennial 1 - 25 May 2019 The works in Interstitial describe a concomitant charge; this curated collection of ceramic forms is quietly electric. Brought together on the occasion of the 2019 Ceramics Triennial, Interstitial showcases four artist's inimitable dedication to precision, and deep intuition for affective relations. The title of the show came through the artists... Read more

Pmara nurnaka. Urrknga nurnka. Nurna lhama pmara marra inthurra nurnakanha artitjika. Our country. Our clay. We go out

1 - 25 May 2019 To coincide with the 2019 Ceramics Triennale Bett Gallery presents new works by the internationally renowned Hermannsburg Potters. For the second time, the iconic ceramic works of the group of Aranda artists brings the brilliant desert sky, the soil, the sun, the birds, and the plants of Central Australia to... Read more

Short Stories

5 - 27 Apr 2019 Stephanie Tabram, born in the United Kingdom, presently living and working outside of Hobart is one of Tasmania’s most collected artists. Tabram has been painting for more than thirty years, having completed her studies in Sydney in 1989. Her exquisite paintings speak of the Tasmanian landscape like no others. They... Read more

The Learning

5 - 27 Apr 2019 THE LEARNING continues the artist’s ongoing exploration of the relationships between language, reading and codification. The work has been inspired by the forest as an archetype which represents a site of testing and transformation, and makes reference to two philosophical texts. The first is one of the four books of... Read more

David Stephenson

Time Works 15 - 30 Mar 2019 Read more

Ruminant

15 - 30 Mar 2019 Read more

Dirty Paper

Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery 15 Feb - 14 Jul 2019 Dirty Paper features five Tasmanian artists who have created and curated new works in response to the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG) collection. In addition, it includes works produced by two Tasmanian artists in the 1980s. Matt Coyle, Joel Crosswell, Tom O’Hern and Lucienne Rickard are well known for... Read more

The Stuff of Life

15 Feb - 9 Mar 2019 This show is about microbes and plants and big things and supernovas and protons expanding into universes. It’s about wondering and cosmic energies and reptiles and human beings colonising the universe and the green jungle growing back after the humans have become extinct. It’s about all the thoughts and inputs... Read more

Raymond Arnold

The "Unfinished" Print 15 Feb - 9 Mar 2019 Read more

Valerie Sparks

Crossing 3 - 27 Feb 2019 This work was created in the period following the death of my mother. Water is an ever-present element in my work. For my mother, crossing a body of water was the way she envisaged her impending death. Like many, she had a deep emotional and spiritual connection to the sea.... Read more

Guillotine!

18 Jan - 9 Feb 2019 Guillotine is three suites of paintings all concerned with depiction, the portrait, and objective reality. The works are uniformly ridiculous in terms of technique, rather than masterful, but traditional mastery and conservative tastes are at the butt of these jokes. Its all dry - Dry as a Weet-Bix sandwiched in... Read more

Rosie Hastie

Pendulous 18 Jan - 9 Feb 2019 'I see myself there where I am not'. In Michael Foucault's Of Other Places he explores the notion that we can position ourselves in a place that both does and does not exist. Pendulous is a manifestation of thought into physical place and form. Inspired by Foucault, this body of... Read more

Valerie Sparks

Cape Bruny - West East West 1 Jan - 1 Feb 2019 There is a dreamlike quality to the way Tasmania’s contrasting landscapes exist in close proximity to each other. From the west to east, one side of a cape to the other, one side of a mountain to the other; so close and yet so different. This duality creates a feeling... Read more