Exhibitions

Abacus Wars

20 Nov - 12 Dec 2020 I am a data mine Click bait or dick bait - past my used by date Truth twists in the wind while all the madmen run the world I am a Binge Watching - Lock Down - Basic Bitch Why do Dermatologists hate her Eggs, milk, bread, Dismantle and re-imagine... Read more

The Bleeding Tree

12 - 29 Nov 2020 Amanda Davies has produced a series of new work in response to Angus Cerini's play, The Bleeding Tree. The Bleeding Tree brings one of Australia's most successful and awarded plays of the decade to Hobart. Critics have hailed Angus Cerini's moprbidly hilarious fable as 'powerful, visceral and deeply exhilarating theatre',... Read more

Real Worlds: Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial 2020

24 Oct 2020 - 7 Feb 2021 Real Worlds: Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial 2020 Art Gallery of New South Wales 24 Oct 2020 – 7 Feb 2021 Real Worlds: Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial 2020 presents the work of eight contemporary Australian artists who create extraordinary new worlds in drawings of great complexity and invention. With drawing as... Read more

Out of Darkness

24 Oct - 14 Nov 2020 Philip Wolfhagen studied at the Tasmanian School of Art, Hobart from 1983 to 1984 and from 1986 to 1987 before moving to Sydney, where he studied at the Sydney College of the Arts, the University of Sydney in 1990. He returned to live and work in Tasmania in 1996. Since... Read more

Valerie Sparks

Sanctuary (Series II) 1 - 31 Oct 2020 Read more

Australian Print workshop etchings

1 - 31 Oct 2020 A set of 4 hand coloured copper plate etchings created Aug. – Dec 2019 at the Australian Print Workshop, Fitzroy. Printed by Martin King, etched and hand-coloured by Julie Gough. Read more

Surfacing

25 Sep - 17 Oct 2020 Sue Lovegrove’s paintings reflect her close relationship to the natural environment, in particular the wild and remote landscapes of Tasmania. She is well known for her serene and delicate renderings of shimmering light, air, space and the way invisible phenomena of the wind and weather imprints on the landscape. Her... Read more

At the Bottom of the Garden

25 Sep - 17 Oct 2020 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

Additional Works

1 Sep - 1 Oct 2020 Read more

The Long View

28 Aug - 19 Sep 2020 Read more

Oracle

28 Aug - 19 Sep 2020 These are some of the declarations that feature in this new body of text-based work created during the Covid 19 crisis. Backed by an ethereal, gently rhythmic sound track, the statements appear as patterned formations of text on brightly coloured fabric banners strung across the width of the gallery. They... Read more

Picturing

1 - 22 Aug 2020 Pat Brassington’s photographs are not designed to easily satisfy. Her works are mysterious, leaving the viewer searching for a narrative, a solution to the psychological puzzle of familiar forms made strange. Humans seek order and familiarity, we find patterns where there are none, and Brassington’s uncanny photographs encourage this behaviour.... Read more

Breaking Horizons

1 - 22 Aug 2020 In May 2020, Amber Koroluk-Stephenson completed an artist residency on the Glover Country estate in northern Tasmania. Staying in the 1830s house originally built and owned by English colonial painter John Glover and surrounded by the cultivated garden and hills of the estate, the experience allowed her to develop her... Read more

Everyday Counts

5 - 27 Jun 2020 Two-time winner of the prestigious Glover Prize for Australian landscape painting, David Keeling’s most recent works are so much more than classically beautiful. Though one can appreciate the classical references and technical quality, the romantic play of light and lust for a nature free of constraint, even the awe of... Read more

Thepa Mapa

8 - 30 May 2020 Read more

Prelude to Arcadia

8 - 30 May 2020 This new body of work is a prelude to “Glass House Arcadia”, a collaborative interdisciplinary public art project scheduled for 2021. This will comprise one or more exhibitions and events with a full scale artglass house. As such, ‘Prelude to Arcadia’ is the first in a series of new exhibitions... Read more

Memory Arbor

9 Apr - 2 May 2020 Read more

Jane Burton

A Phantom Lover 9 Apr - 2 May 2020 Advancing. Turning. Retreating. A spectral figure manifests from a patch of light on a roughcast wall. Part vapour, part flesh, the soft territory of a body starts to apparate with womanly volumes and a girlish face, and she is gone before she fully arrives. Light and shadow. Light and shadow.... Read more

Juncture

13 Mar - 4 Apr 2020 Juncture can represent a point in time when the seasons change. It can be a place where fields meet. Or it can be a critical moment when we need to make a decision. Our needs and how we must live on this planet are at a significant juncture. Patrick Grieve Read more

Troy Ruffels

Watersong 14 Feb - 7 Mar 2020 Read more