Exhibitions

Gallery Closed for summer recess

24 Dec 2022 - 10 Jan 2023 Bett Gallery extends a huge thank you to our clients, artists, visitors and industry friends, wishing you all a wonderful festive season. ⁣ 2022 marks the 36th anniversary year of Bett Gallery in Hobart and we are thrilled to acknowledge this momentous year with many thanks to our creative community... Read more

Annika Koops

Shadow Moves 25 Nov - 17 Dec 2022 Exhibition continues: Saturday the 17th of December 2022 Shadow Moves is an exhibition about motion as seen through a painterly lens. It considers the emotional register of movement in the context of automation with a series of paintings called Double Binds. These works show inert forms that resemble squiggles made... Read more

Mish Meijers

Low to no filter 25 Nov - 17 Dec 2022 Opening night: Friday the 25th of NOVEMBER, 5:30pm Exhibition continues: Saturday the 17th of December 2022 The Exponential. Mish Meijers makes new worlds out of old, and sometimes virtual ones. In the hybrid paintings from her new body of work Low to No Filter, we see remnants of precovid travel... Read more

David Keeling

Up Early 28 Oct - 19 Nov 2022 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 the sublime throughout Keeling’s inimitable oeuvre, it is his contemporary sensibility... Read more

Richard Wastell

Preservations 30 Sep - 22 Oct 2022 The title of this exhibition is ‘Preservations’. Something is being preserved here in these paintings, something precious and worth protecting. Something venerated. But what? Many of the works in this exhibition contain depictions of scallop shells. They look a little out of place, appearing like dreams within these Tasmanian High... Read more

Georgia Morgan

Dreams and Effigies (to be burnt) 30 Sep - 22 Oct 2022 Georgia Morgan works with thresholds: an open window, a hole in the fence, a pause for thought in conversation. Her constructions are the building of new and familiar cracks that are portals to memories that are neither hers, nor necessarily real. Morgan is quickly establishing herself as an important voice... Read more

Amanda Davies

Vent 10 - 25 Sep 2022 Vent is a solo exhibition of new paintings by Amanda Davies, curated by Eliza Burke. Installed across four rooms of The Barracks at Willow Court, New Norfolk, the exhibition is a response to the architectural and institutional histories of the site and an exploration of psychosomatic phenomena through painting and installation.... Read more

Sydney Contemporary 2022

8 - 11 Sep 2022 Mish Meijers Troy Ruffels Imants Tillers Richard Wastell Nicola Gower Wallis Belinda Winkler Philip Wolfhagen Sue Lovegrove Sydney Contemporary returns in 2022 from 8–11 September (Collector Preview, 7 September) with the country’s largest and most diverse gathering of leading galleries. Staged at Carriageworks, Australia’s largest multi-arts centre, the Fair welcomes... Read more

Tim Burns

PAINTING THE SILENT MUSIC 2 - 24 Sep 2022 4’ 33” They come as a shock. They are beautiful and intriguing and confounding. The experience is is a bit like that of first seeing the James Webb Telescope’s photograph of the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 as it was 4.6 billion years ago. These new works by Tim Burns not... Read more

Sue Lovegrove

The Invisible Lake 2 - 24 Sep 2022 When Lake Pedder was flooded in 1972 to create a hydro dam, it was a devastating loss to both the environment and to the community of conservation minded people who value and care deeply for our natural heritage. 50 years on, the lake is still very present in our imaginations.... Read more

Amber Koroluk-Stephenson & Kelly Austin

Settings for Uncertainty 26 Aug - 18 Sep 2022 Settings for Uncertainty brings together the work of Kelly Austin and Amber Koroluk-Stephenson to investigate tensions between reality and illusion. This exhibition will explore notions of suspended space between time and place, being and belonging, figuration and abstraction. Drawing on personal and collective memory to capture poetry in a fragmented... Read more

Water[shed]

50 Artists. 50 Years. 6 - 27 Aug 2022 50 Artists. 50 Years. water[shed] is an exhibition conceived by OUTSIDE THE BOX / Earth Arts Rights and presented in collaboration with Bett Gallery to support the Restore Pedder campaign. The staging of the water[shed] from 5 August - 27 August 2022 coincides with the 50th anniversary of the last... Read more

Amber Koroluk-Stephenson

A Hopeful Mirage 8 - 27 Jul 2022 Amber Koroluk-Stephenson’s paintings have always provoked the question of ‘where are we?’, with liquid boundaries between domestic and exterior domains, patchwork perspectives, and conspicuously constructed mises en scène. Throughout A Hopeful Mirage, however, a heightened emphasis on ‘where are we going?’ emerges. The exhibition is a tragicomic meditation on the... Read more

Kelly Austin

An Elemental Persistence 8 - 27 Jul 2022 This work is about the simultaneous state of knowing and not-knowing; an ebb and flow between the solid and translucent, heavy and light, two and three dimensional. It is about teetering on an axis between the recognisable and the abstract with the desire to instill wonder and inquisitiveness, and to... Read more

Tom O'Hern

Bum steer 10 Jun - 2 Jul 2022 A month spent in a secret shack on a secret island with a bunch of artists. Long days of feral pigs, evil seabirds, stripey boys, bum mountains and sting rays. Every day I went for a swim, did a drawing and drank too much. The drawings are a diary. No... Read more

Bett Gallery Award 2021

Platform I 10 Jun - 2 Jul 2022 2021 marks the 12th year of the Bett Gallery award and an exciting new format for the prize. The award is now given to a group of selected graduating students who show a particularly high standard of artistic merit, imagination and determination. The winners of this award will be given... Read more

Megan Walch

uncanny 10 Jun - 2 Jul 2022 There are, and have always been, things going on that we don’t know about. William Kentridge says, “The one thing that Covid-19 has shown us is that claims to authoritative certainty about how the world operates are very thinly based. The question of uncertainty, ambiguity, and doubt is the bedrock... Read more

Rosie Hastie

Once 13 May - 4 Jun 2022 Rosie Hastie is a photographer who tames the wild, capturing the most fantastic landscapes: silhouettes of tearing oceans against ragged coastlines, glowing mist, sea spray, low-lying cloud, slender reflections—always at dawn; water like glass, skies like smoke, land like torn paper—always at dusk. L'heure bleue. There is a French phrase,... Read more

Patrick Grieve

Transit 13 May - 4 Jun 2022 Patrick Grieve, one of Tasmania’s most notable landscape painters is renowned for richly coloured renditions of his home on the North-West Coast. His textured and gestural works suggest his methodological toil—a ploughing, a planting, a flooding of seasonal change—a performative replication of the agricultural work that shapes and changes the... Read more

Troy Ruffels

Weathered Ground 14 Apr - 7 May 2022 Troy Ruffels’ work is characterised by its subtly intertwined layers, where observations of the natural landscape are overlain in a richly textured palimpsest. Marked by hand and eye, these landscapes are simultaneously interior and exterior. They emerge from a deep familiarity with place, revisited as both inhabitant and traveller, a... Read more

Lynne Uptin

Banks’ Banksias 14 Apr - 7 May 2022 Trained at the National Art School Sydney, Lynne practiced as a leading illustrator in Sydney for 13 years before owning and opening two art galleries, a ceramic and a glass art studio. In 2021 Lynne was awarded the UK Society of Botanical Artists Dip SBA (Dist.) also receiving the SBA... Read more

Neridah Stockley

New Paintings - Shacks and Sheds 14 Apr - 7 May 2022 Neridah Stockley was born in New South Wales in 1973. She trained at the National Art School in Sydney, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting major in 2001. Her practice includes printmaking, painting and ceramics. Her work is held in numerous collections including; Macquarie Group, Artbank, Parliament House... Read more

Alexander Okenyo

AMOR FATI 18 Mar - 9 Apr 2022 Opening Friday 18 March, 5.30 - 7.00pm Exhibition continues to Saturday 9 April This new work finds me more amanuensis than artist. I have spent the last year diligently writing things down, painting things up, copying things out, gathering data from the books and the news and the conversations at... Read more

Raymond Arnold

Elsewhere World - To See the Bones and the Tombstones at Once 18 Mar - 9 Apr 2022 Opening Friday 18 March, 5.30 - 7.00pm Artist Talk Saturday 26 March, 1.00pm Exhibition continues to Saturday 9 April There is nothing of the void about this magnificence. Instead this space, inside this cosmic envelope is everywhere vectored, scored by ordinate and abscissa, marking out the numberless sites of an... Read more

A Show of Strength

Group exhibition 19 Feb - 12 Mar 2022 On the back of the postponement of the water[shed ] exhibition, a group of Bett Gallery artists have rallied together in a display of solidarity to produce a remarkable exhibition of new work from their studios. Exhibiting artists: KELLY AUSTIN NICHOLAS BLOWERS PAT BRASSINGTON IRENE BRIANT TIM BURNS JANE BURTON... Read more

David Stephenson

Survivors 14 Jan - 12 Feb 2022 I have always loved trees, from hiding then climbing in them as a child to my first photographs. 'Survivors' continues my long-term exploration of that quintessential Australian tree genus, Eucalyptus. We are only recently learning some of the many secrets of the arboreal world, with its complex networks and hidden... Read more