Event Type: Free

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

Exhibition Dates :
Friday 6 – Saturday 21 June 2025
10:00am – 5:30pm 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

10 -25 May, 2025

Opening event:

Friday 9th May 2025 | 5pm – 7pm

Opening hours:

Mon- Fri | 9.30am – 4pm
Sat | 10am – 3pm
Sun | 11am – 3pm

2024 welcomes the 30th year of ArtRage; Tasmania’s premier state-wide student art exhibition.

Developed by QVMAG, ArtRage delivers an annual curated showcase of eclectic and diverse works by students in years 11 and 12 from across our island.

Since its launch in 1994, this exhibition continues to provide an important platform for students studying art as part of their Tasmanian Certificate of Education (TCE), while supporting and celebrating the creativity and talent of budding artists state-wide.

QVMAG is proud to have developed a statewide reputation for fostering student artistic growth and enabling many perspectives, stories, and experiences to be shared with communities across Tasmania through ArtRage each year.

Opening Event :
Thursday 5 June 2025
*TIME TBC*

Exhibition Dates :
Thursday 5 June – Sunday 15 June 2025
10:00am – 4:00pm daily

Come celebrate the talents of queer artists in Lutrawita / Tasmania

Hear Us. See Us. Know our Names. is an art exhibition dedicated to celebrating and showcasing the diverse talents and unique perspectives of gay, lesbian, gender diverse, and trans artists based in Tasmania. This exhibition seeks to highlight the cultural, social, and personal narratives that influence and shape the work of these artists, providing a platform for visibility, dialogue, and appreciation within the wider community.

Exhibition Dates :
Friday 16 – Saturday 24 May 2025
9:00am – 5:00pm daily

Panel Discussion :
True Crime False Narratives : A Panel on Wrongful Convictions in Australia
Saturday 17 May 2025

DENIED is a research-led portrait project by Brisbane based artist Sky Parra that responds to miscarriages of justice through a series of intimate oil paintings.

Since 2021, Parra has travelled across Australia painting individuals who have been wrongfully convicted of serious crimes and justice advocates seeking reform. In consultation with these communities, she works collaboratively with participants to build meaningful relationships that inform her practice. With the support of leading legal scholar Dr Robert Moles and her research team, Parra’s portraits serve as poignant testimonies to the existence of wrongful conviction.

In Australia, convicted felons face profound restrictions: the loss of fundamental human rights, prohibitions on interviews by researchers and journalists, systemic censorship, and enduring visual records that permanently mark them as unlawful. They remain subject to discrimination that is not only socially accepted but legally permissible, perpetuating cycles of subjugation. DENIED acknowledges these individuals who, despite being extensively documented, remain overlooked, vulnerable, and unjustly tethered to criminality. Undermining the prevailing ideologies of incarceration, these portraits urge viewers to critically reflect on state-sanctioned systems that shape perceptions of guilt, innocence, and human worth.

Images are powerful conduits of knowledge and essential tools for recollection that influence how we understand the past and engage with the present. Visual archives, as repositories of imagery, determine which histories are recorded, how they are accessed, and the ways in which they are remembered. Institutions of governance and authority, such as prisons and museums, control these archives, ultimately deciding whose stories are told and whose humanity is recognised. While prisons reduce individuals to criminal labels, museums curate narratives of value through selective preservation. DENIED bridges this gap, acting as a counter-memorial to institutional erasure. By preserving the complex humanity of its subjects, the project challenges the criminal profiles perpetuated by news media, political rhetoric, and cultural representation.

Through the humanising agency of painting, Parra sensitively renders each sitter visible, restoring dignity and providing a platform to those whose identities and stories have been systemically marginalised. The project emphasises the importance of collective witnessing. By unifying our understanding and awareness of wrongful convictions, DENIED fosters an act of solidarity that disrupts passive spectatorship.

Encompassing cases of factual innocence and erroneous convictions, DENIED acknowledges individuals who have been exonerated, acquitted, or who maintain their innocence in relation to the crime where substantial supporting evidence has been published. While some have been released or granted parole, many remain incarcerated, enduring the shortcomings of our legal system. As the subjects of DENIED continue to grow, the project stands as a visual testament to both resilience and grace.

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. 

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.

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

Exhibition Dates :
Friday 4 – Saturday 26 April 2025
Monday – Friday 9:00am – 5:00pm 
Saturday 10:00am – 3:00pm
Sundays open by appointment
Public Holidays CLOSED

Paintings, portrait and sculptural exhibition by emerging artist Rebekah Pybus

“Undercurrents explores the layered depths of time, memory, and emotion within place and the human psyche. This exhibit will feature portraiture, re-imagined iconic paintings, and clay sculpture. My portraits of women reveal the complexity of feminine power—her pain, intuition, and resilience—acting as mirrors to the viewer’s subconscious. Drawing from both historical and personal narratives, I reinterpret iconic paintings through my own lens, intertwining them with my lived experience. My lifelong fascination with mythical marine creatures serves as a metaphor for the fluid, unseen forces that shape us. The shoaling of ceramic hammerhead sharks is inspired by one of my sons’ love for them, while my other son’s passion for waves is reflected in the movement and energy of the work, weaving their wonder and curiosity into the exhibition. Through paintings, sculpture, and immersive installations, I invite viewers to navigate these undercurrents, where the seen and unseen converge, evoking a sense of connection and introspection.”
– Rebekah Pybus

Opening Event :
Friday 11 April 2025, 6:00pm – 8:00pm

Exhibition Dates :
Thursday 10 – Monday 14 April 2025
9:00am – 4:00pm daily

When two women of a certain age get together in an old Huon Valley apple packing shed anything is possible.

Rather than baking tarts and pies, Heather Crisp and Kerri Jacobson’s creative juices have combined to produce delicious and sumptuous works of art. Working alongside each other has allowed them to explore and create works, both abstract and figurative, featuring glorious colour and fascinating compositions.