Exhibitions

The Valley Collection

Final Hang 17 - 18 Dec 2021 Read more

Stockroom Highlights

19 Nov - 11 Dec 2021 Read more

Explore Sydney Contemporary 2021

11 Nov - 11 Dec 2021 Sydney Contemporary, Australasia’s Premier Art Fair, In Partnership With MA Financial Group, Presents Explore Sydney Contemporary, Online From 11–21 November 2021. Featuring 80+ participating galleries from Australia and New Zealand presenting over 1800 artworks by 450+ artists from around the world, Explore Sydney Contemporary provides collectors, art buyers, and the... Read more

What stays within

22 Oct - 13 Nov 2021 Michaye Boulter’s landscapes, though undeniably Tasmanian, have a universal quality. The bulk of the headlands and the dark cuts of the escarpments are softened by a timeless mist. The ragged shorelines are washed softly by an ocean that touches shores elsewhere. These are not landscapes framed by windows, they are... Read more

Collusion

24 Sep - 16 Oct 2021 For Collusion, Briant continues her long-time exploration of the relationality of objects, masterfully seeking, sorting and arranging Wunderkammer-like works that are as geometrically referent as they are intuitively precise. Briant’s aesthetic precision has 3-dimensional objects in such successful communication—a perfectly chaotic patterning that is as legible as it is unpredictable—... Read more

The Good Year

24 Sep - 16 Oct 2021 Stephanie Tabram’s 2021 exhibition The Good Year once again establishes her as one of Australia’s most collectable painters. For The Good Year, Tabram gifts us a selection of exquisite landscape paintings and still-life compositions that are fragile and complex as only Tabram’s works are. The simplest of subjects can be... Read more

After the future

27 Aug - 18 Sep 2021 New paintings and drawings. Weird little beasts. They could be prehistoric or they could be post apocalyptic. Some new life forms clinging to a volcanic vent deep in the ocean. Covid hitching a lift on a deep space probe only to crash into a distant planet and start life all... Read more

Land of the broken hearted

27 Aug - 18 Sep 2021 Joan Ross grapples with Australia’s colonial legacy through her established practice spanning drawing, painting, installation, photography, sculpture, video and virtual reality. In her works, European settlers and emblems of colonial society stake their claim across the Australian landscape. Joan’s emblematic use of high-vis colour yellow across these colonial narratives has... Read more

Waiting for News

31 Jul - 21 Aug 2021 WAITING FOR NEWS...well there is no shortage of it these days...heavens. President of Haiti assassinated, Wildfires in the U.S and the hottest recorded temperature ever recorded on earth in Death Valley yesterday of 52c. Whoa. Then there is the U.S withdrawal from Afghanistan, Global Pandemic and now NSW in lockdown... Read more

Fierce Paradise: Paintings from Blairgowrie

30 Jul - 21 Aug 2021 Imants Tillers is an artist, writer and curator. He has exhibited extensively since the late 1960s and has represented Australia at significant international exhibitions such as the Venice Biennale (1986), Documenta 7 (1982) and the São Paulo Bienal (1975). Tillers came to prominence during the 1970s and has been an... Read more

Sara Maher

In (and out of) the Grey 2 - 24 Jul 2021 Sara Maher ‘ Working with consciousness’i I recall the time I found the drift-stick along the Lunawanna foreshore...it resembled the curved neck and head of the cormorant that perched on the orange buoy, a little way out from the jetty where I sat at sundown. In October 2020, Sara Maher... Read more

Painting East from the Plateau

2 - 24 Jul 2021 Richard Wastell’s enigmatic works render the Tasmanian landscape with such veracity that they are almost otherworldly. He has earned his reputation as a master of composition for large works, across multiple panels, in which elements of interest and admiration are pulled forward for artistic study. These magnified details—insects, shells, lichens,... Read more

New(ish) Work

4 - 26 Jun 2021 Dr. Sally Rees (b. 1970, Burnie TAS) is an artist based in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia who works across both time-based and static forms. Often blending autobiography and pop cultural influence with a surrealist automatism, her works position recording devices such as cameras and microphones as witnesses to uncanny human experience... Read more

2000 - 2010: A SIGNIFICANT DECADE

4 - 26 Jun 2021 When looking at an artist's work, it is often in the deep recesses of the their homes or studios that the real gems lay hidden. Hence it was a privilege and a curatorial treat to spend an afternoon at home with Pat Brassington, delving into her collection of past works... Read more

Troy Ruffels

Weathering - Burnie Regional Gallery 8 May - 19 Jun 2021 Entangled: Weathering at the Edge Weathering implies that what seems certain - the stone, the mountain, the ancient tree – is profoundly impermanent. Pause long enough, watch the time slip by: the stone breaks open, the seeking tide rises yet again. We are all held in this process of entangled... Read more

Hermannsburg Potters & Iltja Ntjarra Many Hands Art Centre

7 - 29 May 2021 THE HERMANNSBURG POTTERS are a dedicated group of Western Arrarnta artists creating vibrant handmade ceramic pots that encompass collective and individually lived histories in their distinct Country. The Hermannsburg artists continue a 30-year legacy, sculpting and painting their visual histories and contemporary settings, speaking to their cultural beliefs, traditions and... Read more

Melt

7 - 29 May 2021 My new body of work, a series of multiple panel oil paintings on linen, is autobiographical and is a response to my experiences in the land. It is also responding to my deeply felt concerns for the environment, in particular global warming, hence the title MELT. One event in particular... Read more

Shotgun 9: The clouds have cameras - Contemporary Art Tasmania

1 - 23 May 2021 Shotgun is a Contemporary Art Tasmania artist development program that supports selected Tasmanian artist/s through a customised and intensive program of high-level industry access, critical engagement and the production of new work. Shotgun 9 was awarded to Alex Davern. Work developed through the program is presented in The Clouds have... Read more

Fermented Preserves

9 Apr - 1 May 2021 Fish Becomes Bird Gaps in knowledge, mixing of metaphors, un-straight answers. Sometimes things are misunderheard, sometimes they are absorbed, taken in through a sweet form of osmosis. Georgia Morgan’s maternal grandparents migrated to Malaysia from India around 1930, as part of a second wave of Indian migration to colonial British... Read more

Iconotropy

9 Apr - 1 May 2021 A few years ago, somebody with a permanent marker wrote the words, “Question everything!” on a traffic-light box near the Moonah-New Town border. This is also a big imperative for people who write about art. When Robert O’Connor collects and displays images of street rubbish, or when he paints a... Read more

Disappearing

Painters and Writers Exhibition 12 Mar - 3 Apr 2021 We are at a unique time in our life on these islands of Tasmania; forced to pause, reflect, revaluate, to consider, to reset, to look again at where we live with new eyes.   Over the last few decades Bett Gallery has explored what it means to live or have... Read more

Michael Doolan

19 Feb - 6 Mar 2021 Michael Doolan lives in Melbourne and works in Sydney where he is a Senior Lecturer at Sydney College of the Arts at the University of Sydney. In 1981, Doolan completed a Bachelor of Arts, a Master of Arts in 2001 and in 2013, graduated with a PhD from the Faculty... Read more

Michael Schlitz

19 Feb - 6 Mar 2021 Michael Schlitz’s large format, relief woodblock prints not only require physical strength, manual dexterity and mental determination but relic traits such as artistic skill, knowledge, patience and time. These traits will never lose their value especially when the work is sympathetic and evocative with regard to the human condition and... Read more

Dai Li

19 Feb - 6 Mar 2021 Dai Li was born in Sichuan, China in 1987. She moved to Australia in 2009 and now lives and works on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland. Dai Li is an artist mainly working on ceramics and watercolours. She graduated from Jindezhen Ceramic Institute majoring in ceramic arts in 2009. Dai’s artworks... Read more

Parallel lines: Drawings from my archive

15 Jan - 6 Feb 2021 To conincide with David Keeling's major survey exhibition, Stranger, at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Bett Gallery is proud to present a suite of early drawing works from the archive of David Keeling. Two-time winner of the prestigious Glover Prize for Australian landscape painting, David Keeling’s most recent works... 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