Past
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HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM ALL AT BETT GALLERY
GALLERY CLOSED 21 Dec 2023 - 9 Jan 2024 Bett Gallery extends a huge thank you to our artists, clients, visitors and industry friends. Wishing you all a wonderful festive season and we look forward to welcoming you back in 2024. The gallery will close for a summer break at 5.30pm on the 21st of December and will re-open... Read more -
A Room of One's Own - Women in Still Life
24 Nov - 16 Dec 2023 OPENING NIGHT: FRIDAY 24TH of NOVEMBER, 2023, 5.30PM GUEST SPEAKER: GABRIELLA COSLOVICH, award winning arts-journalist and author VIEW ONLINE CATALOGUE HERE VIEW WORKS IN A LIST HERE Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force,... Read more -
Neridah Stockley
Farms and Other Places 27 Oct - 18 Nov 2023 My work is landscape based with shelter as an ongoing subject. I live on the north east coast of lutruwita (Tasmania) where I am surrounded by farm buildings, coastal landscapes, open sky and weather. These landscapes can often operate like dioramas where shapes and structures are staged and positioned capturing... Read more -
Lucinda Bresnehan
Bett Gallery Award Winner 2022 (Platform 2) 27 Oct - 18 Nov 2023 My work aims to explore the relationship between the physical and emotional body and the effects upon it by our surroundings. Exploring the transitions that evolve between the internal and external environments. Lucinda Bresnehan, 2023 The Bett Gallery Award is given to a UTAS graduating student who shows a particularly... Read more -
Stephanie Tabram
Lessons from the Land 29 Sep - 21 Oct 2023 JOIN STEPHANIE'S WAITING LIST HERE PURCHASE EXHIBITION CATALOGUE HERE This highly anticpated exhibition by Stephanie Tabram once again establishes her as one of Australia’s most collectable painters. Almost two years to the day since Stephanie’s last show, a conscious decision was made by both artist and gallery, to provide Stephanie... Read more -
Troy Ruffels
stone tides weeping trees 1 - 23 Sep 2023 VIEW EXHIBITION HERE The exhibition ’Stone Tides Weeping Trees’ is a visual and poetic response to the Miena Cider Gums of Tasmania's central highland plateau and Lake District. Walking on the plateau, through bone gardens of rock, moss, and bleached wood, I feel a sense of melancholy. There is a... Read more -
Michael Schlitz
The Well in the Waterhole 1 - 23 Sep 2023 Michael Schlitz is an award-winning Tasmanian artist best known for his masterfully hand-cut woodblock prints on Japanese (Kozo) paper. Though remarkably distinct, Michael’s work remains difficult to describe; uncaptured by language, his images are as sure and as fleeting as shadows. Light moves through Michael’s line work the way it... Read more -
Ricky Maynard
No More Than What You See 1993-2023 4 - 26 Aug 2023 In 1993, the United Nations International Year for the World's Indigenous People, the South Australian Department of Correctional Services presented No More Than What You See, a photographic essay by Ricky Maynard, documenting Aboriginal experiences of imprisonment. The photographs in this collection were taken at Yatala Labour Prison, the Northfield... Read more -
Matt Coyle
Inner City Landscapes 7 - 29 Jul 2023 Several more recent paintings in acrylic, which Coyle refers to as “Inner City Landscapes,” have smoother surfaces. But Coyle’s choreography of sharp, shadow-based modelling and flat aerosol spray paint make them ravishingly strange. Using a discarded diorama retrieved from a tip and repeatedly photographed from different angles and in different... Read more -
Ingo Kleinert in collaboration with Robin Blau
The Anthropocene Cabinet 7 - 29 Jul 2023 The term Anthropocene is now widely used as the period during which human activity has been the dominant influence on climate change and the environment - often, if not always - resulting in destructive forces. The Anthropocene Cabinet takes as its starting point the 1986 nuclear disaster in Chernobyl, USSR.... Read more -
Lynne Uptin
kunanyi - a botanical journey 7 - 29 Jul 2023 kunanyi/Mount Wellington brings a Gondwanaland heritage wilderness into a capital city. Plants have evolved in this dolerite landscape in isolation since Tasmania became detached from Antarctica 45 million years ago and then separated from the Australian mainland some 12,000 years ago. The watercolour paintings in this exhibition follow the variation... Read more -
Tom O'Hern
Hell Pig 9 Jun - 1 Jul 2023 Hell Pig. I’ve been thinking about mechanical megafauna rolling around and eating up all the marsupials and cutting up all the hills for roads and the sprawl. A hell pig or entelledont , a n ancient pig beast from Europe the size of a hilux with big crocodile jaws. I’ve... Read more -
Nicola Gower Wallis
A Window Illuminated 9 Jun - 1 Jul 2023 'I have never considered myself a student of realism. I've never quite reached the pinnacle of drawing a really good horse, or managed to draw a convincingly straight line. And perhaps it was then, in commiserating with a wonky looking cat, that my attachment to medieval art really began. It's... Read more -
Sarah Rhodes
Online Exhibition | A Surrounded Beauty 20 May - 20 Jun 2023 Sarah Rhodes is a photographic artist using a post-documentary practice to explore ways in which the natural environment shapes one's inner world. Living and working on lutruwita Tasmania, her focus is on how people are entwined with place, and key themes of isolation and connection, self-containment, and belonging. A Surrounded... Read more -
Hermannsburg Potters
Thepa Ntjaarra Inthurra (Too Many Birds). 13 May - 3 Jun 2023 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 -
Joan Ross
Don't let leaves into your house 12 May - 3 Jun 2023 view exhibition Joan Ross moves between mediums deftly; whether drawing, print, animation or virtual reality, it is impossible not to recognise her poignant works, not least for the hi-vis yellow which marks them. This curious yellow—the yellow of safety warnings, of demolition crew vests, public wardens and cyclists—is everywhere. It... Read more -
Barbie Kjar
Lion Tides: Stories of the Sea and Salt 22 Apr - 27 Aug 2023 Barbie Kjar’s Lion Tides: Stories of the Sea and Salt Maritime Museum of Tasmania, Hobart 22 April - 27 August 2023 ‘Lion tides occur when the earth, moon and sun are aligned at perigee and perihelion. It is a tide just after a new or full moon, when there is... Read more -
Brigita Ozolins
LOOKS DREAMS AWAKES 14 Apr - 6 May 2023 LOOKS DREAMS AWAKES is based on a series of quotes by Carl Jung, the psychiatrist credited with founding analytic psychology. He gave us the terms introvert and extravert, synchronicity, archetype and the collective unconscious. Eight statements by Jung have been encrypted into binary code, but several significant words have been... Read more -
VALERIE SPARKS
Dark Garden 14 Apr - 6 May 2023 Dark Garden is an exceptional progression of Valerie Sparks’s celebrated ‘Sanctuary’ series. This latest exquisitely detailed collection takes on an almost calligraphic form, with the vertical orientation of the images directing the eye to fall rhythmically down the picture surface. Radiant splinters of cool light coat the undersides of leaves... Read more -
Sara Maher
Chrysalid 10 Mar - 4 Apr 2023 Sara Maher is a mid-career visual artist based in lutruwita/Tasmania. Since completing Fine Arts degrees at the National Art School (NSW) and the University of Tasmania, locating a sense of self-in-place has been central to focusing the development of her work. At the heart of her practice is deep reflection... Read more -
Pat Brassington
Strike 10 Mar - 4 Apr 2023 As Australia’s leading surrealist, Pat Brassington’s masterful control of unreality remains unparalleled. With a career spanning four decades, this most recent exhibition is as unmissable as her first. Brassington’s lifelong interest in psychoanalysis and surrealism, and her commitment to a feminist eroticism, is described in a suite of images that... Read more -
Alex Davern
Uneasy Architect 19 Feb - 12 Mar 2023 Alex Davern Uneasy Architect Haus of Vovo 24 Burnett Street, New Norfolk Curated by Tricky Walsh and Sarah Jones 19 February - 12 March MONA FOMA 2023 Rona Stern and Alex Davern destabilise the symbols of the monumental. They’re reflecting the world at the moment, watching... Read more -
No Fixed Shape
Group Exhibition 10 Feb - 4 Mar 2023 Read more -
kanalaritja tunapri : the new generation
13 Jan - 4 Feb 2023 TERESA GREEN | VERNA NICHOLS | LOLA GREENO | CHARLYSE GREENO EMMA ROBERTSON | BEC WOOLLEY | JULIE GOUGH | | ANNETTE DAY | ASHLEE MURRAY | AUNTY CORRIE FULLARD | AUNTY JEANETTE JAMES | TRACY PURDON | TRACEY TURNBULL The art of shell stringing is a valued Palawa cultural... Read more -
Caroline Rannersberger
Tree Change 13 Jan - 4 Feb 2023 I have shifted place. I have extended my practice from working on Lunawanna-Alonnah/ Bruny Island with mountain views across the ocean; to also take in Hobart, where I am surrounded by tall eucalypts that cascade down from Kunanyi/Mt Wellington towards nipaluna/Hobart city waterfront. I have shifted my subject matter. I... Read more -
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
