Address: Top Gallery

Daily Opening Times :
19 September – 27 October, 2024
Weekdays: 9am – 5pm
Saturday & Sunday: 10am – 4pm

Embark on a journey into the ethereal realm of Tasmania’s threatened marine species through an art experience that connects you with their world. Tasmanian artist Wendy Steinberg invites you to explore the fragile beauty of the threatened creatures that dwell beneath and soar above the waves of Tasmania’s unique waters.

‘Living Ghosts: Above and Below the Waves’ is a follow up to Wendy Steinberg’s 2018 debut exhibition, ‘Creatures of the Deep’. Representing an evolution in the artist’s practice, this collection of work brings these threatened marine species to life, portrayed through a range of evocative artistic media.

Discover the Living Ghosts under threat

In Tasmania, we are fortunate to have some of the most distinctive marine environments on Earth. Yet, our marine species and the habitats that support them are in danger. The theme of ‘Living Ghosts: Above and Below the Waves’ underscores the very real risk of these species disappearing in our lifetime. The exhibition explores the mutual interdependence between the submarine and aerial worlds and how anthropogenic pressure in either domain threatens both.

Step into the mesmerising realm of Tasmania’s endangered marine species, brought to life through ink, watercolor, and mixed media artworks. Encounter the haunting elegance of the Maugean Skate, discover the elusive Spotted Handfish, marvel at the graceful flight of the wandering Albatross. These captivating species and more beckon you to delve deeper into their world, where each encounter reveals a story of survival and interconnectedness.  

The Fight to Save the Living Ghosts

Don’t miss this rare opportunity to witness “Living Ghosts: Above and Below the Waves”. Delve into the enchanting world of Tasmania’s endangered marine species and learn about the conservation efforts underway to save these enchanting species from extinction.  

Join Wendy in raising awareness about Tasmania’s marine biodiversity and the urgent need for conservation efforts to protect these living treasures, and recognising the immense value they represent to our living world.

Daily Opening Times :
Saturday 3 August – Monday 16 September 2024
Monday – Friday 9:00am – 5:00pm
Saturday 10:00am – 2:00pm

Material Desires by Lorenz Cherry is an enquiry that delves into the intricate relationship between individual consumer choices and the pursuit of joy and happiness.  This exhibition invites viewers of all ages and walks of life to contemplate their own diverse material desires.

The core premise of Material Desires revolves around the idea that consumerism, often criticized for its excesses and negative environmental impact, can also be a source of genuine happiness and personal fulfillment. The exhibition seeks to challenge conventional stereotypes surrounding consumer culture by exploring the emotional and personal dimensions of our favourite purchases.  The core objectives of the exhibition are:

1. To Celebrate Diversity in Consumer Choices : Material Desires aims to showcase the vast spectrum of consumer items that people find joy in, highlighting the rich tapestry of tastes, interests, and backgrounds that make up our society.

2. To Challenge Assumptions : By examining the positive aspects of consumerism, the exhibition challenges stereotypes and encourages a more nuanced understanding of how our favourite things contribute to our well-being.

3. To Promote Self-Reflection : The artworks prompt visitors to reflect on their own cherished purchases and the personal significance of these objects in their lives.

4. To Foster Dialogue : The exhibition provides a platform for visitors to engage in meaningful conversations about consumerism, happiness, and the role of material possessions in our lives.

In summary, Material Desires, invites viewers to contemplate the emotional and personal dimensions of their acquisitions and explore the intersection of materialism, values, and identity

Daily Opening Times :
Friday 12 – Monday 29 July 2024
9:00am – 5:00pm Monday – Friday
**Weekends TBC**

Opening Event :
Friday 12 July 2024, 4:00pm – 7:30pm

Sarah Wells, AKA, Freekshow, is an emerging, Hobart based artist, who works with a range of mediums and scale in the dedication to bring to life her own multicoloured, fictionalised worlds.

Daily Opening Times:
Tuesday 4 June – Monday 1 July 2024
Monday – Friday 9:00am – 5:00pm
Saturdays 10:00am – 2:00pm
Sundays & Public Holidays CLOSED

“Articulating silence, documenting the reoccurring motifs, images and landscapes which have influenced my internal world.

Just as we pause for understanding as we read, painting can be this silence in life. With this body of work, I am documenting the reoccurring motifs, images and landscapes which have influenced my internal world.

The matters which entertain my mind when I paint range from; coastal habitation, love, grief, reverence of nature, genealogy and theocracy.

Somewhat idealised and romantic the imagery is watery and mutable, blues and greens are implemented as contemplative colours, nothing is absolute. I have also begun to appreciate the interplay of organic forms alongside the geometry of architectural shapes. The human figure is mutable, unsettled and extending outside of the body in the way of two faced heads and bodies which could reveal themselves as trees.

This semi abstract approach to painting allows me to fold and unfold the repetitiveness of being or come to terms with the shock of a new feeling. I find myself painting in a state of gratitude for the good and bad. In this way each painting is an articulation of my internal world, they are an effort to observe and communicate feeling. I can only hope to capture something which others recognise in the world around them.

Contextual artists include; Clarice Beckett, Ken Kiff, Marc Chagall, William Blake.”
– Ellyn Anderson

May 3 – 27

Daily opening times:

9am – 5pm Weekdays
10am – 3pm Weekends

An exhibition of work from home educated students

Every week home educated students come together to create art in a fun, social environment. This is our first class exhibition from students of all age groups.

Daily opening times:
Saturday 30 March – Sunday 28 April 2024
Monday – Friday 9:00am – 5:00pm
Saturdays – Sundays 10:00am – 4:00pm
Public Holidays CLOSED

A series of dreamy landscapes by Jaclyn Poke, evoking a sense of awe and wonder experienced in beloved scenes of Tasmania.

“The beach near my home is where I see life unfolding; the revealing of age-old stories through nature. A presence that is infinitely more wise and powerful than me.

I am an artist, former teacher and current art therapist who lives on the NW coast of Tasmania. An art school graduate, I facilitate therapy sessions whilst pursuing my arts practice. I create abstract impressions of local landscape, based predominantly on the coastal area where I live.

In recent times I have been exploring places of sentimentality, that evoke a feeling of reminiscing. The landscape around me is full of childhood memories and significant events from my family’s history, so I am endeavouring to harness the energy from those moments and replicate the familiar from a childlike sense of wonder. My vision for this exhibition is to explore these local landscapes and create a series of abstracted visual narratives of my ‘home spaces’.

I have lived in Tasmania for most of my life, and am enjoying returning to the places of earlier significance, that have taken on new meaning and importance in my adult years. Hence why creating a romantic, dream-like quality to the work is an  important part of my creative process.”
– Jaclyn Poke

Daily opening times:

2 – 29 February, 2024
9:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Variations to opening hours:

Saturdays 10:00am – 2:00pm
Closed on Sunday

The palette of this body of work evokes the sacred feminine energy soft, grounded and nurturing.

Flow of life is based on the everyday gestures of a fleeting moment. It is within the everyday mundane that we are able to see the value of a single moment. When you sit in the present you allow your mind to observe that which is unfolding in front of you. “Stop and smell the roses.” When we are able to sit in a state of gratitude, we allow space within the mind to appreciate the simple gestures that the world is presenting to us. The works are responding to basic forms that are present within everyday living.

Female energy, always plays an integral role in the work. With each work evolving beyond its simplistic form. Each work embodies a feminine energy hidden behind the façade of the everyday object.

The palette of this body of work evokes the sacred feminine energy soft, grounded and nurturing. Pulling forms from Nature and the human body because of the essence the elements evoke. A key strategy used when creating the works is minimalism and space. Negative space is used as a way of exposing the essence, essentials or identity of a subject by eliminating non- essential forms.

The simplistic approach towards the compositions of the works allows the focus to be on the softness of the essential forms created.

PLEASE NOTE our lift is currently undergoing maintenance and repairs. Wheelchair access to levels 2 and 3 of the arts centre is currently unavailable.

Daily opening times:

4 – 23 March, 2024

Monday – Friday  9:00am – 5:00pm

Saturdays – Sundays  CLOSED

+ Also Open  Saturday 23 March 2023 10:00am – 2:00pm

Moss
Graffiti

Both trying to reclaim spaces that they’ve been forbidden by mankind from occupying; one coming from nature in unwitting defiance, the other a biproduct of the same control mechanisms which seek to eradicate it, equally defiant. 

Both will inevitably triumph as neither is intentionally opposed to the other, they just coexist, oblivious to their duality, immune from the unavoidable toll of breath, death and taxes. 

As we all busy ourselves with our artificial lives in an attempt to postpone the inevitable, we have lost sight of the fact that death is the only part of life that will always remain beyond our control.

The works presented herein seek to illustrate the necessity of duality in all things and the beauty that can be found if we can relinquish the need for control and appreciate what just is. These works are a harbinger of the new world order, a world that will have no memory of or need for us, a far simpler world unabashedly futile without the need for meaning. Welcome to our glimpse of the world without us: Abyssinia.

PLEASE NOTE our lift is currently undergoing maintenance and repairs. Wheelchair access to levels 2 and 3 of the arts centre is currently unavailable.

December 1, 2023 – Jan 28, 2024


Daily opening times:

9 AM – 5 PM

Variations to Daily Opening Times :

Saturdays and Sundays 10am – 3pm

The surface of the body has no edge. It folds and involutes into spaces of breath, sustenance and reproduction. At the same time, the skin is a membrane between the internal and the external: a threshold within the continuum of embodied experience.

Emma Bingham is a resident artist at Salamanca Arts Centre. Her studio-based research draws on theoretical and philosophical ideas of the body as a site of inheritance, encounter, and transformation, and on the combined aspects of her life: as mother, partner and nurse. She considers how abstract form can highlight the evocative and affective capacity of process, and how the material properties of paper, cloth and wax can evoke the body, a sense of holding and the traces of touch: the connections and residues which are formed through our lives and our encounters with others.

Opening Event
Saturday 11 November 2023
1:00pm – 3:00pm

Featuring works by Nolan Art‘s Adult Students, this annual exhibition features oil and acrylic painting, watercolour and drawing.