Address: Studio Gallery

Opening Event :
Friday 4 July 2025, 6:00pm – 8:00pm

Exhibition Dates :
Friday 4 – Wednesday 28 July 2025
Monday – Friday 9:00am – 5:00pm 
Weekends TBC

What is my self?
What is my mind?
And what happens when they fall out of alignment?

“My work confronts the internal struggle between mind and self. Each piece becomes a site of resistance — a space where conflict is not hidden but revealed. At its darkest, the mind attempts to silence the self. But the self does not vanish. It endures — fierce, luminous, and unbroken.

This body of work tells a story of disconnection, resilience, and the quiet power of reclaiming one’s truth. It is about the act of minding my self — not as weakness, but as strength.
– Michael Vivarelli

Exhibition Dates :
Tuesday 5 – Wednesday 13 August 2025
Monday – Friday 9:00am – 5:00pm
Saturday 11:00am – 3:00pm
Sunday CLOSED

An expression of the mixed emotions — joy, sorrow, and everything in between — that come from living between two cultures, Australia and Korea, by Eun Ju Cho.

“I was born and raised in Korea, and came to Australia over 20 years ago, following my husband who had come here to study. Since then, I have developed my art career in this country and learned how to express myself through art.

Just before the COVID-19 pandemic began five years ago, I returned to Korea and continued my art practice there—until I came back to Australia last year.

My work is rooted in Korean aesthetics, but it aims to express the emotions I’ve experienced while living between Korea and Australia.

There is joy and happiness in life here, but also sorrow and a sense of longing that comes from being an outsider. When I returned to Korea, I felt similar emotions—familiar, yet strangely distant. Though I was born Korean, I had become used to life in Australia, and Korea began to feel unfamiliar.

As a resident artist at CAT this time, I wanted to explore and express these feelings in my work. Feelings that are beautiful and joyful—but also delicate and bittersweet.”
– Eun Ju Cho

Daily Opening Times :
Tuesday 13 May – Saturday 28 June 2025
Monday – Friday 9:00am – 5:00pm
Public Holidays CLOSED
Weekend Opening Hours are TBC

Opening Event :
Friday 16th May 2025, 5:00pm – 7:00pm

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CONTOUR is an annual showcase of works by Salamanca Arts Centre’s Resident Visual Artists, with works created as part of their Studio practice.

Works range from photograph to painting; drawing to sculptural; figurative to abstract; from Artists in the Willis, Stanmore and Morrison Studios, as well as Cottage Artist’s in Residence throughout 2024.

Featured Artists :
Emma Bingham
Hannah Blackmore
Michaye Boulter
Jack Braudis
Lada Dedic
Kirra-lea Caynes
Laura Cope
Antoinette Ellis
Katelyn Geard
Jon Kudelka
Marlize Myburgh
Catriona Pollard
Julien Scheffer
Jo Soszynski
Julie Stoneman
Michelle van Pelt
Fiona Verdouw
Zoe Sernack

Celyna Ziolkowski

Exhibition Dates :
4 April – 3 May 2025
Daily 10am – 4pm

What happens when everyday items are re-purposed?

Mass production and super consumerism have created a throw away culture. We easily dispose of items without a second thought.

While we deal with the issue of sustainability, recycling, re-purposing and finite resources…what happens when we re-imagine what something could be?
Can we give it a new life, a new purpose?
How can we keep it out of landfill?
And what if we could have some fun with it?

To give a few seconds joy to someone, to put a smile on a face, to bring back a memory, communicate a message, decorate a wall or a wearer, summon attention or simply be a bit of fun?
Could we imagine?
Re-IMAGINE?

This collection takes everyday items and re-purposes them…re-imagining what they could be. Providing a second life to otherwise landfill, these “new pieces” have made a comeback as something else…an item of jewellery, a garment, an accessory, a wall hanging, etc…

Taking inspiration from the Pop Art movement and artists who elevated everyday common objects to iconic status symbols, Celyna Ziolkowski has taken easily recognisable objects and transformed them to wearable art pieces, costumes and decoration.

Next time you’re about to throw something out, perhaps you might also stop, and consider what that piece could possibly become with a little imagination.

Exhibition Dates :
Friday 7 – Friday 28 March 2025
Monday – Friday 9:00am – 5:00pm
Saturday 8 & 15 March ONLY 10:00am – 2:30pm
Sundays & Public Holidays CLOSED

Opening Event :
Friday 7 March 2024, 5:30pm – 7:30pm

Meet Bevan.  Bevan likes flowers.  If Bevan could wear clothes he would wear florals.  Preferably velvet, maybe a jumpsuit. But Bevan is a bee, and bees don’t do that.

This narrative series by Jo Soszynski (Plum Birdy) follows Bevan the bee through his day.  Full of whimsy and borderline nonsensical musings, these paintings and accompanying text draw on the complexities of our inner worlds to explore themes of conformity and society’s inclination towards busyness.

Made for outdoor display, these works are created with exterior paints and materials and are intended to bring colour and quirky fun to a back fence or outdoor area.

Come and enjoy a fantastic escapade with Bevan.

Exhibition Dates :
Thursday 6 February – Monday 3 March 2025
Monday – Friday 9:00am – 5:00pm
Weekends CLOSED

A collection of landscape and seascape paintings on paper, by Hannah Blackmore.

Between Land and Sea is a captivating collection of miniature framed paintings on paper inspired by the ever-changing beauty of the Tasmanian coastline. These works explore the land and ocean meeting point, capturing the rhythmic interplay of light and atmosphere unique to this rugged environment. Each painting reflects the raw power of the sea, the subtle hues of coastal terrain, and the quiet moments of transition between tides. Intimate in scale yet expansive in vision, this collection invites viewers to experience the Tasmanian coastline through a lens of delicate detail and poetic abstraction.

Opening Event :
Thursday 5 December 2024, 5:00pm – 7:00pm

Meet the Artist :
Saturday 7 December 2024, 10:00am – 3:00pm

Exhibition Dates :
Thursday 5 December 2024 – Friday 31 January 2025
Monday – Friday 9:00am – 5:00pm
Saturday & Sunday CLOSED

CLOSED for Christmas / New Year
from 5:00pm Friday 20 December 2024 | REOPENS 9:00am Monday 6 January 2025

An imaginative collection of unique paintings and drawings by Beric Henderson, inspired by the wild majestic beauty, icy landscapes and roaring seas of the Southern Ocean and Antarctica.

Great Southern Ocean is a collection of unique artworks that explore the excitement and beauty of the Southern Ocean and Antarctic ice-lands. From the ferocious stormy seas of the roaring forties to the dream-like quietude of Antarctic icescapes, this collection of small drawings and paintings will inspire the imagination!

The artworks on display were created by artist Beric Henderson, and inspired by his time as former Artist-in-Residence at the Salamanca Art Centre’s Artists’ Cottage in 2023. Since 2019 the artist has been producing an ever-growing body of ocean themed paintings and drawings, many of which have been shortlisted for national art prizes including the Mission to Seafarers (2022/2023), Adelaide Perry Drawing Award (2020/2021) and recently the Waterhouse Natural Science Art Award (2024). The artist is based in the warmer climate of the NSW mid-north coast but frequently visits Hobart to seek inspiration.

Many of the works in this exhibition reflect on the changing marine environment impacted by climate change. The drawings and paintings were drawn from the artist’s imagination with the intention of better appreciating the ocean wave patterns and rhythms, and the impact of global warming on the Antarctic ice cap. The artworks are intended to promote reflection on the power, importance and beauty of the Earth’s oceans, and the critical role ongoing research will play in understanding and maintaining it.

All artworks are for sale and priced for Christmas!

Nolan School of Art | K -12 Students

Daily Opening Times :
Monday 4 November – Sunday 1 December 2024

Monday – Friday 9:00am – 5:00pm
Saturdays 10am – 4pm
Sundays 1pm – 4pm

Our after school classes show their responses to the art of the past in an exhibition that includes painting, drawing, ceramics, sculpture, puppetry, and animation.

In this exhibition you will see modern Gods, contemporary mask making, a spirited puppet theatre, and contemporary cave painting.

Opening Event :
Friday 20 September 2024 @ 5:30pm

Daily Opening Times :
Wednesday 3 – Friday 27 September 2024
Monday – Friday – 9:00am – 5:00pm
Saturdays 10:00am – 2:00pm
Sundays CLOSED

An exhibition of works by Greg Wood, SAC’s current Artist in Residence.

Greg Wood’s paintings offer moments of reprieve and contemplation. At once both closely observed and deeply imagined, they depict landscapes not quite locatable. Records of light, colour, and atmosphere, his paintings are the stuff of memory itself.
–Amelia Wallin

Greg Wood is a painter of the earthy and ethereal. During the last 25 years his practice has involved the observation of landscape and the natural world. He paints places traversed through sensory impression
For Wood the essence of place is more important than specifics of location. He creates art that alludes to the mysterious impressions left by landscape, the emotional afterimages that endure. His delicate, layered canvases invite us to enter a felt sense of place, imbued with memory and emotion. Wood describes his work as a ‘slow release’ –the nuance of his paintings gradually revealing themselves to the viewer. A formative influence is Melbourne tonalist, Clarice Beckett, who has informed his use of thin, gestural layers of muted colours, flattened forms, merging tones and diffuse light.

Wood’s paintings are psychologically and visually alluring. The more we look, the more we are invited to come into communion with the subtle aspects how place shapes us, how we dwell in landscapes both literal and interior.

Open Day : 
Saturday 5 October 2024, 10:00am – 4:00pm

Daily Opening Times :
Thursday 3 – Monday 28 October 2024
Monday – Friday 9:00am – 5:00pm
Saturdays / Sundays / Public Holidays 10:00am – 4:00pm

Off The Studio Wall by SAC Resident Artist Hannah Blackmore, explores contemporary Tasmanian landscapes and seascapes, where themes of light dance across a subtle palette, capturing the rugged yet serene essence of Tasmania’s natural beauty.

Discover the beauty of Tasmania’s landscapes and seascapes through the evocative work of local artist Hannah Blackmore in her solo exhibition, Off The Studio Wall, showing in the Studio Gallery at Salamanca Arts Centre.

Running from the Thursday 3rd to Monday 28th October 2024, the gallery will be open daily from 10:00am to 4:00pm, allowing visitors to immerse themselves in Hannah’s unique artistic vision.
Join us for an exclusive Open Day on Saturday 5 October 2024, and chat with the artist about her work.

Off The Studio Wal’ explores contemporary Tasmanian abstract landscapes and seascapes, where themes of light dance across a subtle palette of warm tones, cool greys, and white. Hannah’s innovative technique of blending plaster with paint lends a distinctive texture to her canvas, capturing the rugged yet serene essence of Tasmania’s natural beauty.

With 25 new paintings being released, this exhibition offers art and nature lovers a chance to bring Tasmania’s captivating scenery into their own spaces.

Hannah Blackmore’s artistic journey is anchored in her fascination with the power of reduction. Her works transcend traditional landscape representation, guiding viewers to connect with the essence of nature in its purest form. Through a sophisticated use of colour, texture, and form, Hannah captures the very soul of landscapes and seascapes, distilling them into compositions that pulse with emotional intensity.

While minimalist in appearance, Hannah’s paintings resonate deeply. By stripping away extraneous detail, she unveils the emotional core of each scene, inviting viewers to experience a range of feelings from tranquillity to introspection.

For an even deeper dive into Hannah’s creative process, visitors are invited to explore her studio, conveniently located next door to the Studio Gallery. Witness firsthand the inspiring environment where these atmospheric pieces come to life.