Gaye Sutherland, "Tea-Tree Marshland, oil on linen. Winner of 2022 Annual
Presented by The Art Society of Tasmania
8 – 17 September 2023
OPENING NIGHT
September 8, 2023 – 6pm
Speakers: Her Excellency, The Honourable Barbara Baker, Governor of Tasmania
OPENING HOURS
10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
This exhibition features recent works in all mediums and styles by members of the Art Society of Tasmania
The Art Society of Tasmania has been a key player in promoting art and artists in Tasmania for 139 years, making it one of the oldest art societies in Australia.
Artists have the opportunity to share their work at the Lady Franklin Gallery in Lenah Valley each weekend. With a growing active membership this beautiful unique space could not accommodate the art work of all those who want to be part of the Annual Exhibition, hence the use of the Long Gallery which is a perfect exhibition venue.
The Art Society artists range from professionals to very skilled and talented recreational artists who work in all mediums, including oils, acrylics, watercolour, pastel, printmaking, photography, ceramics, 3D work and textiles.
Production still from Tan Lijie, 22 (2013). Single-channel HD colour video with sound, 3’ 46”. Courtesy of the artist.
Curated by Lynne Howarth-Gladston and Paul Gladston
Long Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre, 77 Salamanca Place, Hobart Saturday 19 August – Friday 1st September, 10-4pm
SOCIAL, Salamanca Arts Centre, 67 Salamanca Place, Hobart Saturday 26 August – Sunday 3 September, 10-4pm
The Barracks Gallery, 11 The Avenue, New Norfolk Saturday 9 September – Sunday 22 October (Saturdays and Sundays only) 11-4pm
A Chinese artist presents contemporary visions of reciprocity between humanity, Nature and the heavenly.
This exhibition showcases videos, photographs and assemblages by the Chinese contemporary artist Tan Lijie representing imagined coexistences between lived realities, enchanted realms, reveries and dreamscapes.
The multi-dimensionality of Tan’s work gives rise to subtly transporting atmospheres and myriad aesthetic affects which suspend fixed perceptions of the real as well as any orderly sense of time and space.
Tan’s work is informed by personal concerns about the controlling expectations and devastating environmental impact of present-day, materially obsessed, societies. It is also marked by the residual traces of traditional Chinese Confucian-literati culture and its aspirations toward a harmonious – mutually sustaining – aestheticized reciprocity between humanity, Nature and the heavenly.
Enchanted Realities -Tan Lijie, Selected Works 2013-2022 is curated with reference to Johnson. Tzong-zung Chang’s conception of the Yellow Box; an intervention with internationally dominant modes of gallery display intended as conducive to the showing of works characterized by the harmonizing reciprocity of traditional Chinese Confucian-literati aesthetics.
Tan continues to live and work in her home city of Shenzhen at the border between mainland China and Hong Kong – an interstitial space resonant with the indeterminate aesthetics of the artist’s work.
From Tan Lijie, Garden Memory Series (2019). From Tan Lijie, The Endless Circle (2017-2022). Photographs and light boxes, dimensions variable.Production still from Tan Lijie, A Mirror-Holder (2014). Three-screen video installation, black and white with sound, 10’ 49”.
From Tan Lijie, Mental Interest Series (2019). Photographs of accidental ink works on paper, dimensions variable.
TAN Lijie (b. 1991) was awarded a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Intermedia School of The China Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou (2017) and studied as an exchange student at Kingston University, London (2015). A one-person exhibition of Tan’s work was held at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (2022). Her work has also been included in group exhibitions at The Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart Tasmania, The Cipa Gallery, Beijing, the Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Beijing and the Djanogly Gallery of The University of Nottingham, United Kingdom. Her video, The World was awarded Best Creative (drama) at the Global Chinese University Student Film Awards (2012). Tan’s video, Haussmann in the Tropics is in the collection of the White Rabbit Gallery, Sydney.
The Curators
Lynne HOWARTH-GLADSTON is an artist, curator, and researcher. She has exhibited her paintings internationally, including in China, the UK, and Australia, and was lead curator of the exhibitions ‘New China/New Art: Contemporary Video from Shanghai and Hangzhou,’ Djanogly Art Gallery, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK (2015) and ‘Dis- /Continuing Traditions: Contemporary Video Art from China,’ Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia (2021). Her Ph.D. thesis is the first to engage critically with the work of the nineteenth-century botanical illustrator, Marianne North. She was a contributor to the BBC4 documentary, Kew’s Forgotten Queen: The Life of Marianne North (2016).
Paul GLADSTON is the inaugural Judith Neilson Chair Professor of Chinese Contemporary Art at the University of New South Wales, Sydney and a Distinguished Affiliate Fellow of the UK-China Humanities Alliance, Tsinghua University, Beijing. His numerous book-length publications include Contemporary Chinese Art: A Critical History (2014), awarded ‘best publication’ at the Awards of Art China (2015), and Contemporary Chinese Art, Aesthetic Modernity and Zhang Peili: Towards a Critical Contemporaneity (2019). He was an advisor to the internationally-acclaimed exhibition ‘Art of Change: New Directions from China’, Hayward Gallery-South Bank Centre, London (2012).
Sarina Dutton - The Singer - Salvaged Singer Sewing machine and found objects 30cm x 30cm x30cm,. Photo by Pete Maarseveen
Presented by Resource Work Cooperative
22 – 30 July 2023 | 10am-5pm
Opening event: July 21st, 6pm
Since 1995 Art from Trash has helped highlight the vast amount of usable resources sent to landfill through artistic endeavours and shown the beauty that can be found in what is traditionally thought of as waste.
Since 1995, Art from Trash’s goal has been to encourage a deeper discussion about reuse and the negative outcomes of our consumer driven society and how to reduce the vast amounts of usable items sent to landfill every day.
Artists and makers both established and emerging, schools, community groups and everyone in between are invited to explore all types of materials through creative reuse. A horse made from salvaged wire? A sculpture made from crockery? Clothes created from old photographs? Almost anything is possible and probable when, instead of thinking outside the box, we use the box to create something completely new.
Art from Trash is one of the only exhibitions where you could see all these plus a cornucopia of other amazing works all created from something someone else thought was waste.
Resource Work Co-operative is proud to present Art from Trash 2023 at the Long Gallery from July 22 to July 30 2323 and would like to thank our partners the City of Hobart and Salamanca Arts Centre.
Jennifer Riddle, An Atmospheric Embrace, 2023, acrylic on canvas, 183.5 x 183.5 cm
Jennifer Riddle’s atmospheric landscapes depicting the remote Southwest wilderness of Tasmania. Driven by her relationship with nature, Riddle conveys a sense of intimacy, awe, and connection through the ephemeral sublimity of light and weather on the land. Riddle was the 2022 winner of the prestigious landscape art award, Glover Prize.
This exhibition draws upon what our world has lost and forgotten – opening up conversations surrounding our most ancient and rare landscapes and the emotional impact of their presence in the context of today’s rapidly changing world. With concerns surrounding humanities growing disconnection from our natural world and the growing vulnerability of wilderness landscapes, I aim to evoke a sense of unity and peaceful harmony, reuniting our innate relationships with the sublime and humbling landscapes of Bathurst Harbour and Port Davey in Tasmania’s remote Southwest.
I’ve been returning to this region, studying the light, changing weather conditions and observing the unique geological and ecological presence that pulses
throughout this time-weathered land for over eight years. Each return visit births a series of new paintings,
deepening my love, appreciation, and emotional connection to this place. Through this ongoing relationship, I focus on the silent atmospheric beauty that hangs in the air – the same transcendental awe that has helped me through a time of loss, enriching my spiritual growth and informing my art practice for the past two decades. It is here, in these quiet moments, where I’ve found myself deepening my senses to the volume of air before me – surging an awareness no longer of oneself but a consciousness that extends well beyond.
Through this connection, I hope to create an informed representation that evokes a sense of place – honouring this land’s past and the deepening vulnerability of the wilderness landscape as we grapple with the realities of climate change on our most precious environments. With sentiments surrounding our innate connection with nature and the importance of strengthening this relationship, I reflect on this land’s ancestral heritage and acknowledge the traditional owners of this country, the Needwoonee and Ninunee Peoples and their deep reciprocal relationship with the Land, Sea, Waterways, Sky and Culture.
As this landscape confronts a new dawn in its long history, I examine the intensity of emotions that have surfaced collectively during the recent epochal events
surrounding global warming and the lockdowns of the Covid-19 pandemic. As the flaws of high-density urban living and our growing segregation from green living spaces revealed our collective innate response to seek nature and slow our rhythms in its presence. As a result, our national parks, beaches, and bush trails became a refuge from their urban confines – exposing our primal need to escape and immerse ourselves within its natural beauty. A sense of realisation filtered through the chaos and mayhem, and our need to be with nature became the clarity from which we found hope.
Today, more and more studies confirm what many cultures have known for thousands of years, in that we are a part of nature, not separate from it, and immersing in a natural environment provides health benefits to both our physical and mental well-being—proving how imperative it is to rethink how we live our lives, not only for the health of ourselves but for the health of our future generations and our most vulnerable species and ecosystems that inhabit this great earth.
Through empirical observations, empathy and love for this raw and rare wilderness, I hope to provide a soulful space within these paintings. One that offers a quiet place beyond the foreground and into the depths of the horizon, illuminating lost memories and renewing the innate threads that bind us to this earth and together.
8 – 26 June 2023
OPENING HOURS
Exhibition opening hours 10am – 10pm | Extended night time viewing throughout the duration of exhibition period.
OPENING NIGHT (Free)
Friday 9TH | 6pm – 10pm
GATHER TOGETHER EVENT (Ticketed)
A special one night event of music and performance to coincide with GATHER TOGETHER exhibition | More information via link.
GATHER TOGETHER EXHIBITION | brings artists from across the country to celebrate art, together. Curated by FORT HEART CO.
FORT HEART CO presents GATHER TOGETHER | bringing together over 90 curated artists from across the country from various creative backgrounds, including:
Abbie Whitton
Aleks Crossan
Aleta Lederwasch
Alyce Bell
Alyssa Henderson
Armie Sungvaribud
Baxter
Ben Davis
Benjamin Knock
Bonkleigh Strut
Bradley East
Cat Parker
Catherine Mina
Charlotte Tatton
Chehehe
Chris Bury
Clay Of Fires
Clinton Gorst
Coops
Devika Bilimoria
Donna Lougher
Eli Freeman
Emily-Rose Wills
Emma Armstrong-Porter
Esther Touber
Everyday Lines
Francis Brough
Garreth Pearse
Georgia Laurie
Giant Swan
Gil Gilmour
Giovanna Da Silva
Glen Downey
Gonketa
Grace Harper
Helen Spencer
Horse Chiropractor
Hugo Mathias
HWJ
Ingmar Apinis
Iris Blazely
Isaac Williams
Isabelle De Kleine
Jack Fran
Jack Hamilton
Jack Murphy
Jimmyjhx
Jonathon Harris
Jonny Scholes
Julia Schmitt
Katie Bright
Kelly Nefer
Kerrie OJ
Kimberley Turner
Kyle KM
Kyra Hannah
Laura Alice
Laura Coad
Lauren Fahey
Leadbeater
Lena Stumpf
Liam Snootle
Libby Dorney
Lila Ward
Lucy Ray
Maki Levine
Marianna Akl
Marisa Mu
Max Mueller
Meg Kolac
Melanie Errey
Melanie Caple
Michael Ariston
Miranda Rogers
Mitchell Pinney
Moksha Richards
Nani Puspasari
Natasha Bradley
Nicole Willis
Paink
Rachael Tanner
Rachel Bremner
Rachel Derum
Reece A Lyne
Rhys Cousins
Robyn Grove
Sarah Drinan
Scott Mclatchie
Sheridan Rothwell
Steffi Koppelwell
Stephanie Jook
Tegan Iversen
Ursula Woods
Viet-My Bui
Zeekiah Pilon
Zoe Haynes-Smith
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13 May – 3 June 2023 10AM – 4PM Monday – Saturday (Closed Sunday)
Developed annually by the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery in Launceston, the 2022 exhibition tour showcases a staggering 187 artworks by students in years 11 and 12 across Tasmania.
From analogue photography and traditional printmaking techniques to sculpture, video animation and more, ArtRage 2022 offers an eclectic and vibrant display of student works. As part of the ArtRage experience, students have been assessed on their works for their Tasmanian Certificate of Education.
ARTRAGE OPENING EVENT Friday 12th May 2023 | 5:30pm-7:30pm | The Long Gallery
SCHOOL VISITS School groups are encouraged to visit this exhibition. As this is a popular event, we ask that you please register at the link below to avoid disappointment.
Wednesday 22 March – Tuesday 11 April 2023, 10am – 6pm
Opening Event: Wednesday 22 March 2023 6pm
Over 50 artworks made in response to takayna/Tarkine – a call to action and visual reminder of what is at stake, and what we stand to lose.
takayna / Tarkine, in north west Tasmania, is one of Earth’s last truly wild places. But this globally significant rainforest is more threatened than ever before – by logging, mining and off-road vehicle damage to the natural environment.
Art for takayna showcases the beauty and fragility of Australia’s largest temperate rainforest, takayna. Over the course of one long weekend, artists explore a range of landscapes, from the expansive coastline of pristine beaches, to the giant eucalyptus and myrtle forests, and the rugged and wild rivers of takayna.
These artworks are a call to action – a visual reminder of what is at stake, and what we stand to lose.
Kyla Matsuura-Miller. Photograph by Suzie Blake
Saturday 25 February 2023, 7:30pm – 8:30pm 60 Minutes | No interval
The Line Tracing concerts consist of an unbroken evening of music, featuring live performances of several works composed for solo single-line instruments, each of which is followed by a musical response from a guest artist. For this concert we welcome Naarm/Melbourne-based sound and film artist Mish Szekelyhidi, who will remix each composition in real-time, transitioning between the live performances and creating a cohesive unbroken listening experience.
For Line Tracing 3, Ensemble Mania welcomes performances from nipaluna/Hobart based players James Anderson, Angus Deeth, Damian MacDonald, and Dominic Nguyen, and Naarm/Melbourne based musician Kyla Matsuura-Miller.
Line Tracing 3will include the following works for solo instruments : Andrew Toovey – Prelude for Viola (1993) Shiori Usui – Space Between (2022) Holly Caldwell – Co-meditation 1: Amber (2022) Dominic Flynn – Sheshonq (2020) Jaslyn Robertson – Dream-state (2021) David Murray – infold (2022)
Ensemble Mania is a new music ensemble based in nipaluna/Hobart, lutruwita/Tasmania. Consisting of a rotating line-up of outstanding musicians from both within Tasmania and interstate, the collective was created with the goal of providing unique listening experiences for local audiences. The ensemble’s efforts are focussed on showcasing music that would otherwise not be heard in the island state, from exciting current composers to recently uncovered pieces and local gems.
Mish Szekelyhidi (they/them, b.1993) is an ambitious artist researching radically accessible and expansive ways for disabled artists such as themself to compose, perform, learn and teach music in ways relating to, entangled with, promotive of disabilities and how this can be integrated into community-based and pedagogical settings. Under this project umbrella they are working on a short collaborative book, a series of radio shows, graphic scores commissions, and community workshops.
Their sound work for commercials, documentary and fiction film has played around the world, including in the prestigious Venice Biennale, Locarno Film Festival, FIDMarseille, Cannes, and for films which have won awards in Torino and Monterrey. Their musical performance highlight is playing the main stage at Mona Foma January 2021 with the UTAS Experimental Music Ensemble.
This project was made possible with support from the City of Hobart.
Roger Imms. Bow Wave 2 Crossing Storm Bay, Sailing Fast
Artists across Tasmania present their own interpretation of the broad theme of water in any medium.
As an island we are surrounded by water so there is ample opportunity to capture its mood and beauty.
The Water Ways exhibition has artwork across all styles and media including painting, sculptures and photography. The works range from representational and abstraction to environmental commentary.
Art is for everyone. All artists create in an individual way and viewers will connect with a work for a very personal reason. Reflecting this unique but valid bond the major prize of $2000 will be decided not by judges, but by people’s choice vote. We invite visitors to engage with the art by voting for their favourite art work.
Prominent members of our community are asked to select their favourite artwork and give a reason for their choice. The diversity of choices is interesting to see.
