Event Type: All Ages

Opening Event :
Friday 18 July 2025, 7:00pm – 9:00pm

Exhibition Dates :
Saturday 19 – Sunday 27 July 2025
10:00am – 4:00pm daily

Join us once again for the unstoppable force that is Art From Trash! 

One of the largest community exhibitions in Tasmania, AFT explores every possible aspect of creative re-use, displaying an incredible range of talent from a range of artists from every walk of life.

Art From Trash is an annual exhibition that encourages the reuse of discarded materials in the production of amazing visual art.

Established in 1993, the Art From Trash exhibition has become an iconic and much loved exposé of creativity. Attracting over 120 artists and 5000 visitors annually, this event has proved itself as a powerful and much needed change agent for a better future.

Makers of all ages, styles and stages, from emerging talent to established practitioners, schools and community groups exhibit alongside each other in an exhibition of increasingly accomplished and thought-provoking works of art.

Held in the historic precinct of Salamanca in the Salamanca Arts Centre’s Long Gallery, this exhibition is for everyone.

Opening Event :
Friday 11 July 2025 @ 5:30pm – 7:30pm

Exhibition Dates :
Thursday 10 – Monday 21 July 2025
10:00am – 4:00pm daily

Elevation is an exhibition of works on paper by Grace Gladdish, exploring the alpine landscapes of Tasmania.

“Elevation includes my recent printmaking and works on paper, exploring Tasmania’s wild alpine landscapes.  I create complex linocuts and paint them with watercolour, creating hybrids that straddle the disciplines of both painting and printmaking. I love the push and pull between the strong, stark linocut and the subtleties of watercolour. I enjoy the way the oil-based ink and water-based paint both repel each other, and work together to form an image. It seems to be resonant with the landscape I am portraying and it’s a satisfying process that keeps me curious to explore its possibilities. 

Alpine landscapes have captured my attention since moving to live on the foothills of kunanyi/Mt Wellington. The wonder of an alpine environment so accessible to a capital city, like the one at the summit of kunanyi, is one of the things that makes Hobart a special place to live. I am fascinated by the harshness of the place – wild and untamed; an unsafe environment where we would struggle to survive and yet close in proximity to our built environment. I find symbolism within the landscape that speaks to my own life and experience. Visually too, it seems to endlessly fascinate me with its colour, texture and quality of light. Most make a pilgrimage to the top of the mountain for the view of the land stretched out below. It is breathtaking! But I also love the landscape of the summit itself; treeless and patch-worked by the boulders and plants that make their home in that extreme environment. 

I’ve recently begun cutting and tearing up my lino prints which has as subversive feeling that I’ve enjoyed. I’ve found these destructive forces to be invigorating and creative, and a new series of collages has emerged. Cutting along ‘found’ lines in the ripped elements and re-fitting pieces of separate prints to create entirely new imagined landscapes is a process akin to drawing. I love finding ways that the ripped pieces connect, as if the landscape itself is dictating the journey the lines travel. These connections have had me thinking about my own connections with both the landscape and the people around me. The resulting collages can be seen as autobiographical, mapping paths both literal and poetic, re-fitting parts of my life and making my own new connections.”
– Grace Gladdish

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“Grace’s linocut prints are meticulous and breathtakingly complex. They are reproductions of the environs of the mountain that Grace now lives upon, but the rich intricacy is also analogous of an intricate life. In her myriad leaves and trees, Grace sees the arc and shape of her own existence.

… She takes her beautiful intricate prints and tears them.

They are no longer images of the mountain; they are something else. The images on paper are not end points; they are sites and material for more experiments. She tears them, changes their alignment, moves them, and she sees something new. She cuts away edges, leaving forms, still recognizable as lichen-tattooed rock from an alpine scene, but changed. The torn edges are not hidden; they show that this is paper, worked on and shifted, made into forms like islands. Grace takes the mountain and her interpretation of it and makes an archipelago, makes islands out fragments on paper, and it’s as if she’s making her own new place to be, or a map of the place she finds herself in, made of the fragments and the moments and the shape of her life, literal and allegorical.

Grace makes maps, from the art she makes that she shapes and re-shapes and experiments with, making more art, making a space for herself. The works that emerge from this complex, deeply personal process are floating islands of calm wonder.”
– Andrew Harper, Arts Writer

Opening Event :
Thursday 5 June 2025, 6:00pm – 8:00pm

Exhibition Dates :
Friday 6 – Saturday 21 June 2025
10:00am – 6:00pm daily

Join us for Bob Brown Foundation’s Art for Takayna 2025 exhibition. A curated exploration of Takayna, combining artistic expression with environmental advocacy.

Featuring fine art and performance works inspired by the region’s diverse landscapes and ecosystems, this exhibition showcases artists’ work depicting the significant landscape of Tasmania’s Takayna.

This year, one hundred artists travelled from every state in Australia to Tasmania’s Takayna for the 11th annual Art for Takayna residency hosted by Bob Brown Foundation.

The residency hosts each year’s artists to sit and gather inspiration for 5 days in this incredible landscape under threat from logging, mining and recreational vehicle use. 

From the windswept dunes on the west coast, to the rugged mountains and Gondwana rainforest valleys, artists were led by Bob Brown Foundation’s campaigners and scientists on a deep immersion like no other. 

In a unique and breathtaking installation, for the first time in Australian arts history, a grand piano was placed in a threatened forest for pianist Dave McEvoy to compose music to help save Takayna.

Pianist Dave McEvoy travelled from South Australia to compose and record music every day on the grand piano in an untouched rainforest on Forestry Tasmania’s logging schedule.

“My experience making music in this ancient place has given me an overwhelming sense that the forest is holding out a lifeline to us as a species. Takayna is home to one of the world’s last great temperate rainforests—a globally significant ecosystem—and I think we need to do everything we can to preserve it for the well-being and survival of future generations” – Dave McEvoy

Also joining the residency was one of Australia’s most famous political cartoonists, Jon Kudelka, who spent four days immersed in the rainforests threatened by mining company MMG’s proposed tailings waste dump.

“Takayna is a miracle of nature which the original owners managed to avoid clearfelling or poisoning with mine tailings for tens of thousands of years. Having been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, I feel a certain affinity with it, though I could hardly be described as a miracle of nature.

A few days in the rainforest making art was a tonic for me and I understand why people are willing to devote their lives to protecting it. Unlike my particular strain of cancer, which would require a medical miracle to cure, Takayna can be protected with a World Heritage listing and becoming a National Park, an entirely achievable result requiring basic good faith and a small amount of imagination.

If I manage to beat the odds and survive another twelve months, and Takayna hasn’t been vandalised beyond recognition for toilet paper and a tip, I would love to visit again. If you’re not convinced, go and take a look” – Jon Kudelka.

“The global heirloom of Takayna must have parliamentary leaders declare it a World Heritage-listed National Park. Our artists’ residency has recruited another cohort of ambassadors who will broadcast the urgent call for its protection through their art” – Jenny Weber, Bob Brown Foundation Campaigns Manager

Performances :
Saturday 12 July 2025
Matinee @ 2:00pm
Evening @ 7:30pm

Doors Open 30 minutes prior to performance

Duration : 75 minutes | NO Interval

Tickets* :
Adult $36
Concession $28

This production is suitable for all ages.

*Tickets can be purchased online up until performance time.

The celebratory and joyous story of the first women’s cricket match in Australia .

“If they’re playing cricket, who is making the sandwiches?”

In Bendigo in 1874 two women’s teams play cricket for the very first time in Australia! Money is raised for charity, the women are praised for their sporting endeavours and then – all hell breaks loose – as the press decide (surprise, surprise) that women should stay home, know their place and sit down.

Written by Christine Davey and presented by award-winning regional theatre company – Skin of our Teeth Productions – this joyous, musical, and uplifting story explores this event and what it means for all of us. These glorious women have been lost to history, and it’s time to bring them back to centre stage where they rightfully belong.

Join us for a tale of extraordinary women doing extraordinary things and the very ordinary men who tried to stop them.

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Skin of our Teeth Productions is a regional, female and disability-led theatre company celebrating diversity.

Performance :
Saturday 24 May 2025
Doors Open 7:00pm | Performance from 7:30pm – 9:00pm (includes Interval)

Tickets :
Full Price $30 (+BF)
Concession $25 (+BF)

Ruby Rocket is an intoxicating, intoxicated private eye who always gets her man…

Except, of course, when she doesn’t. In this hilarious improvised show, Stacey Hallal plays Ruby, weaving vivid noir storytelling, physical comedy, Jon Timm’s innovative multimedia imagery. Featuring a guest cast of Hobart’s top improvisers. Not to be missed!

Stacey Hallal and Jon Timm have toured Ruby Rocket across North America and Europe to packed houses and amazed audiences.

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“Hallal’s strong improv skills and comedic timing take audiences on a ride where there’s no guessing what’s in store.” -­ Vue Weekly

“Hallal is a stage dynamo. Fast and fearless.” -­ Winnipeg Free Press

“She’s a genuine talent.” -­The Oregonian

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PROTEA Impro’s 2025 season is supported by Salamanca Arts Centre

Performance :
Saturday 10 May 2025
Doors Open 7:00pm | Performance from 7:30pm – 9:00pm (includes Interval)

Tickets :
Full Price $30 (+BF)
Concession $25 (+BF)

The new works of Shakespeare, unscripted!

What if the Bard had written one more play—tonight, right before your eyes? Under the masterful direction of Dr. David Charles, Improvised Shakespeare weaves an entirely new tale in the style of the greatest playwright of all time—completely improvised and utterly unpredictable. Expect grand soliloquies, star-crossed lovers, mischievous fools, and tragic downfalls, all crafted on the spot with wit, wordplay, and wild imagination.

Prepare for an evening of iambic pentameter, period-accurate absurdity, and Elizabethan drama like you’ve never seen before—because no one has!

PROTEA Impro’s 2025 season is supported by Salamanca Arts Centre

Exhibition Dates :
Friday 4 – Saturday 26 July 2025
Monday – Friday 9:00am – 5:00pm
Weekends CLOSED

Opening Event :
Friday 4 July 2025, 5:30pm – 7:30pm

The Meehan Range, Pontville and Surry Hills, Sydney, each gave rise to a visual puzzle.  How to depict the blue-teal spring growth of the Risdonii slopes against dull Stringybark? What would the resurrection look like at Pontville? How the dark cavern of street trees contrasts with the scorching Sydney  sun?

“Inspired by my landscape painting practice, recent classes with Jake Walker, and visiting my daughters, Three places explores the relationship between place and person. How our perception and depiction of place is redefined by its connection with people we know.

The works have their origin in three very different locations. The Meehan Range as a backdrop to Flagstaff Gully and Mornington, the historic township of Pontville, and the inner city, Sydney suburb of Surry Hills.

The Meehan range is partly suburban (my eldest daughter lives close by), partly tamed countryside. Mountain bikers cross it. Yet it is home to eucalyptus risdonii which seems to require a stony, dry, north westerly aspect. Only this allows it to survive and gives rise occasionally to a brilliant blue flush of growth amid the dull greens of other gum trees.

Pontville – Brighton is a mixture of historic graveyards churches, and emerald green sporting areas. Scenes enjoyed by our second daughter.

Surry Hills with its nineteenth century dock workers terrace houses is a place in transition. The street trees are a constant but add a dimension of change when providing deep shade or filtered light over the Victorian facades. Our youngest daughter’s home is here. 

I have used a less descriptive, partly abstract method to try to communicate the transformations these places show and their meaning for those who observe them.

“Transformation” and “meaning”, has taken me towards an attempted portrayal of the magic or spirit of the places, while speculating on the relationships between place, the people there and the observer. St Matthews Cemetery Pontville is the frame for the ultimate transformation, the resurrection!”
– Kevin Crowe

Exhibition Dates :
Thursday 29 May – Sunday 29 June 2025
Monday – Friday 9:00am – 5:00pm
Saturday & Sunday 10:00am – 4:00pm

Opening Event :
Friday 30 May 2025, 5:00pm – 7:00pm

The Tracings unique-state monoprints of Frances Malcomson and Julie Todd draw attention to Nipaluna/Hobart’s untended urban plant growth  and Lutruwita/Tasmania’s fragile coastlines.
What appears at face-value to be unchanging, may be at risk.
What is changing is often overlooked.
Multi-layered, monochromatic and nuanced imagery conveys nature’s  entangled tracings.

The Tracings exhibition is a localised response to a global emergency. Delicate, unique monoprints highlight the value and vulnerability of natural environments. The engaging works draw attention to untended urban plant growth within Nipaluna/Hobart and fragile coastlines throughout Lutruwita/Tasmania. What appears at face value to be acceptable and beautiful, may in fact be at risk. What is overlooked, may be valuable. 

Artists Frances Malcomson and Julie Todd have deep-felt connections to their surroundings. As fellow printmakers, they employ complementary monoprinting methodologies in their unique-state works. The monochromatic tonalities and abstracted elements complement and enhance their nuanced and subtle imagery. The tracings and layerings of the identified environments are embodied in imagery created through multiple steps of printing and over-printing each work.

Frances’s artworks depict weed species that flourish within overlooked nipaluna/Hobart urban sites: “Walking within local neighbourhoods, I observe the tension between human ordering of nature and disordered weed growth. Through printmaking directly with plants gathered from neglected sites, my work exposes the adaptive entanglement of damaged nature. In The Tracings exhibition I present red valerian, an escaped garden species now prevalent as weed growth throughout nipaluna/Hobart verges. My exhibition works reference small pockets impossibly scattering the cliff face of The Courtyard at Salamanca Arts Centre. ”

Julie’s artworks reflect waterways and coastlines of lutruwita/Tasmania: “Working as a printmaker, I explore my long-felt connection to the coastal waters and edges of my island home. Each unique print is an emotional response to the shifting, sometimes damaging, traces of time and tide. Through multi-layered printmaking processes, I build imagery that reflects our planet’s environmental intricacies and interconnectedness where one action leads to another, which leads to another…”

Exhibition Dates :
Thursday 29 May – Sunday 29 June 2025
**Installation viewable 24/7

Market by Mark du Potiers, is a colourful range of Australian food items, with each piece hand-made in plush and paper… How many of these are familiar to you?

Market is an ongoing project celebrating Australia’s culinary diversity, drawing inspiration from the artist’s upbringing, and incorporates almost 100 items (and counting) of a variety of foods available in our country. 

In pursuit of acceptance, many people come to be ashamed of their history and culture from a young age. Market is a visual reminder that there are many ways to be Australian and there are also many ways to belong.

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Mark du Potiers is a sculptor born, raised, and based in Magandjin (Brisbane). He has Australian, Hong Konger, and Chinese migrant heritage, and happens to be queer. With his lived experience of dancing between multiple cultures, Mark is interested in how images, ideas, and meanings are interpreted across different cultural contexts. 

Performance :
Thursday 17 April 2025, 7:00pm

Duration : 60 minutes | NO Interval
Doors Open 20 minutes prior to performance

Tickets :
Adults $15
Children under 16 $5

An evening of energetic feel-good ensemble singing featuring the Youth Week Tas workshop choir and more!

Join us for an evening of energetic feel-good ensemble singing.

The A Cappella Challenge workshop choir will showcase their work, and will be joined by local groups Vocalis and Young Voices of Hobart.

This concert is proudly supported by Youth Week Tasmania and Salamanca Arts Centre.