Exhibitions

Sue Lovegrove

Meltwater 22 Nov - 14 Dec 2024 VIEW ONLINE CATALOGUE The experience of sitting still, quietly watching and bearing witness to a glacier imperceptibly melt is both compelling and horrifying. Over the next century, 80% of Europe’s glaciers will completely melt and become extinct due to irreversible human induced global warming. In 2014 a glacier in Iceland,... Read more

Helen Wright

Some stories are worth telling 22 Nov - 14 Dec 2024 The bird paintings in this exhibition form a collection of images derived from both my ongoing experience and fascination with native bird life, most often close to home at Cornelian Bay but also at Kelso, an old family property with a native garden, in the north of the state. Birds... Read more

Irene Briant

Distant Fields 25 Oct - 16 Nov 2024 Without the imagery words used in descriptions of the cosmos or outer space - millions of light years away, black holes, quasars, superclusters, galaxies, infinite dark voids, star fields…are enough to set the imagination whirring. Even with recent advances in our understanding of the solar system due to instruments such... Read more

Amanda Davies

Premaydena Studio 25 Oct - 16 Nov 2024 Painting, it's a thing that I'm into... Amanda Davies works are like no others, and yet, they are indebted to others more deeply than most. Seldom does one encounter a painter so thoroughly aware of the tropes and treacheries of paintings’ chequered history. The same can be said of Davies’... Read more

David Keeling

Another time, another place 27 Sep - 19 Oct 2024 When I reflect on my painting over these years I think what stands out for me is my maturing relationship to place, how slowly the landscape moved from 'object' to 'subject' in the paintings. This coincides with a growing love of the particular, such as Narawntapu National Park, the Cornelian... Read more

The Footy Show

30 Aug - 21 Sep 2024 VIEW EXHIBITION Bett Gallery prides itself on it's annual community based exhibitions, and this year we are tackling footy! Football is deeply embedded in the cultural fabric of Australia and what better way to celebrate this than through art. This exhibition offers some intriguing insights into our culture, our community... Read more

Richard Wastell

Fishing, painting 30 Aug - 21 Sep 2024 I can't say with any certainty where my paintings come from or what they mean. They appear gradually over many months like slowly unfolding dreams. And like dreams their meanings are only ever hinted at. For all that, I'm sure these paintings have something to do with my growing up... Read more

Neil Haddon

Waymarking / Painting / Undertow 2 - 24 Aug 2024 VIEW ONLINE EXHIBITION CATALOGUE READ ARTS HUB REVIEW BY GINA FAIRLEY Neil Haddon is a British-Australian artist whose compellingly diverse work explores themes of displacement and identity, influenced by his migratory experiences and lutruwita/Tasmania's colonial history. In this exhibition, the artist delves into his personal biography, exploring the legacy... Read more

David Stephenson

bone country 2 - 24 Aug 2024 Is the Anthropocene the epoch of ecocide? In post-colonial lutruwita/Tasmania, land clearing, overgrazing, forestry, and hydro-industrialisation have drastically shrunk the verdant forests that once covered the island. The corpses of drowned trees rise out of hydro impoundments or stand solitary in drought-stricken paddocks. A fifty-meter thin green veneer of bush... Read more

Michaye Boulter

Atmospheres 5 - 27 Jul 2024 In my studio, there is a large table with a pile of ill-printed photographs; they have been drawn on, ripped up, some photocopied into black and white and drawn on again. There are plenty more in boxes; these are chosen. For a memory, I can’t quite place, nestled amid grasses... Read more

Rosie Hastie

monument: passive discoveries 7 - 29 Jun 2024 VIEW ONLINE CATALOGUE READ REVIEW BY ANDREW HARPER 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... Read more

Mish Meijers

dermatologists hate her! 7 - 29 Jun 2024 Mish Meijers furthers her investigation into the deluge of contemporary life. How it intersects the absurd and oblique with cat click bait (or whatever floats your boat). And then unnerves with serious and disturbing current world events. Hashed together in an ever-lasting gob stopper of information that challenges how we... Read more

Kelly Austin

minor falls, major lifts 10 May - 1 Jun 2024 VIEW ONLINE CATALOGUE WITH ESSAY BY BRIONY DOWNES Kelly Austin is a ceramic artist living in lutruwita, Tasmania. She completed a Bachelor of General Fine Arts from the Emily Carr University in Vancouver, Canada in 2011 and a Master of Philosophy from the Australia National University, Canberra in 2016.... Read more

Philip Wolfhagen

PREMONITIONS 10 May - 1 Jun 2024 Words are a very important part of the creative process for me. The image always comes first but immediately it comes into existence there is a need for a name. A title is an important ‘frame’ for the image, providing clues to my intentions but without proscribing its interpretation. There... Read more

Tim Burns

the abstract intuition 12 Apr - 4 May 2024 VIEW ONLINE EXHIBITION CATALOGUE Tim Burns is a notable figure in contemporary Tasmanian painting. Living and working at Cloudy Bay on Bruny Island, his scapes are of a less familiar kind than perhaps one would expect. Cannily referent far beyond his picturesque surrounds, Burns’s works capture more than the geographic... Read more

Hermannsburg Potters

Marna Mapa Mpaarama - Making Plenty of Bush Foods 12 Apr - 4 May 2024 VIEW ONLINE EXHIBITION CATALOGUE Now we want to show for you our bush foods, because we been grow up on bush tuckers. Learning from our ancestors, they teach us what to do for all the seasons. There's Tjaapa (Witchetty Grub) and Yalka (Bush Onion) in the karnta / Lhurrpa... Read more

PLATFORM 2024

15 Mar - 6 Apr 2024 VIEW EXHIBITION LUCINDA BRESNEHAN BRITT FAZEY KATE LEWIS FRANCES MALCOMSON LORNA QUINN Through the annual PLATFORM series of exhibitions, including the UTAS Bett Gallery Award, Bett Gallery continues its unwavering commitment to nurturing and promoting emerging and early career artists. PLATFORM represents the diverse and compelling practices of the next... Read more

Belinda Winkler & Kevin Perkins AM

Melaleuca 15 Mar - 6 Apr 2024 VIEW EXHIBITION HERE A collaborative project between ceramicist and sculptor Belinda Winkler and Kevin Perkins AM, one of Australia's foremost furniture designers and sculptors. In Tasmania some simply call him [Kevin Perkins] the Master, a consequence of both a body of work seen to be peerless and a lifetime of... Read more

Dai Li

Tale of "Small yet Great' 16 Feb - 9 Mar 2024 Unlike portraits and caricatures, I regard my ceramics creations as fictional. They are not you or me, or anyone we know, but they may contain qualities you and I are familiar with. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. Dai Li, 2023 Dai Li was born... Read more

AMBER KOROLUK-STEPHENSON

Interior Topographies 16 Feb - 9 Mar 2024 read Weekend Magazine review by Andrew Harper Amber Koroluk-Stephenson’s painting practice is well-known for its distinctive blend of real and artificial landscapes and interiors. Dream-like images populated with objects loaded with cultural meaning – rubber gloves, flowers, architectural structures – are all pieced together with meticulous precision. As the title... Read more

Summer Soirée

Group Exhibition 12 Jan - 10 Feb 2024 A celebration of the new year with a group exhibition packed full of artists you know and follow, new artists you are about to follow, and an exciting new collaboration. VIEW FULL EXHIBITION VALERIE SPARKS PHILIP WOLFHAGEN DAVID KEELING HELEN WRIGHT HELEN GONINON AUNTY JEANETTE JAMES STEPHANIE TABRAM YARRNYTY ALTERE... Read more