Uncertain times are ahead.

Are we dangerously close to a cosmic shift in our way of life?

Are you ready for The Visit?

In this installation The Visit is taking place.

The Who, What, Where and When isn’t determined. We, as boxed humans filled to the brim of humanness thoughts, information, fears, desires, random useless emotions, some useful ones too, we stand and watch The Visit unfold.

We don’t know what to do, do we engage with and follow our new visitors, or do we stand back fearfully thinking they might be an enemy and here to do harm?

Taking inspiration from my employment as a gallery attendant, I observe visitors in many different stances, I closely watch their behavior – observing the observer.

Often I have seen visitors outside of their comfort zone, either being in the gallery in the first place, an alien space for some, or being confronted with ideas, visuals or sounds that disrupt their norm. I help expand their minds.

Would you dare go if you were invited to explore the unknown?

Ceramics and mosaics by Donna Ritchie.

Wire words written by Chris Hall.

Copper wire twisted by Donna and Chris.

Wire word text placed in the Lightbox Gallery reads as follows:

Nobody looks in the shadows

they assume that nothing is there

But look close into the shallows of dark

and something is shining, blinking, aware


Presented by the family of Patricia Giles

This retrospective exhibition will showcase the evolution of Patricia Giles’ artistic journey through her landscapes.

We are excited to present a retrospective exhibition celebrating the life and work of the late Tasmanian artist, Patricia Giles. This exhibition will focus on her extensive body of work, with a particular emphasis on her captivating landscape paintings.

Patricia Giles was a renowned artist known for her deep connection to the Tasmanian landscape, and her paintings captured the beauty and essence of this unique environment.


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.




15 Dec, 2023 – 3 Jan, 2024


OPENING HOURS

10 AM – 6 PM

Variations to Daily Opening Times :

Closed on Christmas Day.

Closing at 3pm on last day (Jan 3, 2024)

An evolving annual exhibition of around 40 Tasmanian artists, with links to the UTAS School of Creative Arts in its various incarnations, where artists present engaging mini exhibitions in a wide variety of media and approaches.

“Images of Tasmania” (IOT) is an annual exhibition of selected artists with links to the UTAS School of Creative Art in its various incarnations. It is the brainchild of Jan Peacock and Betsy Gamble, who saw the potential of presenting a collaborative show whereby the artists share the costs and tasks of mounting the exhibition held annually over the Christmas – New Year period.  Hobart is buzzing with visitors at this time.

The first IOT exhibition was held in 1998, as the initiative of artists and art educators who trained together in the late 1950s.  Over the past decades, IOT has evolved into a high-quality exhibition of 40 – 45 artists, each with an individual display space in which to showcase the development of their ideas over a wide range of approaches and techniques. Some artists have been exhibiting in IOT for many years, but the exhibition is annually infused with ‘new blood’ drawn mainly from art school graduates and post graduates.  

This dynamic exhibition showcases a variety of disciplines including painting, printmaking, photography, ceramics, textiles and sculpture.  


Daily opening times:
29 November – 12 December, 2023 (Sidespace Gallery)
10am – 4pm

14 December, 2023 – 28 January, 2024 (Studio Gallery)
10am – 4pm

Pivotal.  Definition;  big moments and little moments of clarity that provide us with new perspectives and opportunities for change.

PIVOTAL, big moments and little moments of clarity that provide us with new perspectives and opportunities for change.

Works in watercolour, gouache and graphite featuring the everyday, a feather, a bird’s nest, to the rare and uncommon, the tiny Tasmanian Red Handfish.

We take much for granted and in doing so, we devalue it.  This response is not necessarily intentional, but life is busy, and there is an assumption, an acceptance what we view about us will always be there.

We live in pivotal times.  Do we need to reconnect; do we need to find ‘enchantment’ in the simple and uncomplicated to rediscover balance?  I think so.  

As Author Katherine May writes in her latest publication ‘Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age’ – ‘Our sense of enchantment is not triggered only by grand things; the sublime is not hiding in distant landscapes. The awe-inspiring, the numinous, is all around us, all the time. It is transformed by our deliberate attention. It becomes valuable when we value it’.


Presented by Mosaic Support Services

November 18 – 26, 2023


OPENING HOURS

10:00 AM – 4:00 PM

MICROGRAVITY is an exhibition for 2D, 3D, multimedia and installation works that orbits organically within a group of artists whose ideas and expression are unburdened by restriction of standard rules & expectations.

Microgravity is the condition in which people & objects appear to be weightless.

Art is a realm where the usual rules don’t have to apply.

What does it look like to have a ‘microgravity’ creative expression ?

Perspective can’t be pinned down.

Ideas, characters, and objects float in space.

Creations appear weightless.

Designs & texts are both random and repetitious.

Colour has free reign.

MICROGRAVITY is an exhibition for 2D, 3D, multimedia and installation works that orbits organically within a group of artists whose ideas and expression are unburdened by restriction of standard rules & expectations.

MICROGRAVITY has been developed during Create sessions at Mosaic Support Services, and represents a curated body of work created through 2022-23.

Presented by TUSA Painting Society

November 30 – December 12 2023

OPENING NIGHT

Dec 1, 2023 – 6pm

Live music recital by Ms. Eo Greensticks


OPENING HOURS

10:00 AM – 4:00 PM

Variations to Daily Opening Times :

Thursday and Friday open until 7.00pm

An annual exhibition of contemporary art created by present students and graduates of the University of Tasmania.

An annual exhibition of contemporary art created by present students and graduates of the University of Tasmania is hosted by the TUSA Painting Society. Although drawn mainly from the School of Creative Arts and Media the exhibition is designed to showcase the artistic talents of the entire UTAS community and features works from across the disciplines in a wide range of various mediums.


Daily opening times:
15 – 27 November, 2023
10am – 4.30pm

All works $40 – original artists prints by Hunter Island Press members. Mini print size is 21 cm x 21 cm. Great to collect. Prints make unique gifts. A wide range of print media and artistic subjects on display.

The annual Hunter Island Press (HIP) Mini Print Exhibition and Sale showcases the different printmaking techniques and variety of subjects undertaken by its members.

The fine art prints are all a uniform paper size of 21 cm x 21 cm and are affordably priced at $40 each.

The work is pegged around the room and customers are encouraged to help themselves to the print they would like to purchase in an untraditional gallery style way. As a print is sold, it is replaced with another by the same printmaker. This may not necessarily be the same subject or technique as participants are unrestricted for this Exhibition. Sales are made on a first come, first serve basis.



Presented by Stephen Mallick


Featuring works by Nolan Art K-12 Students, this annual exhibition features ceramics, sculpture, fashion illustration, oil and acrylic painting, and drawing.