Event Type: Kid Friendly

Opening Event :
Thursday 14 August 2025, 5:30pm – 7:30pm

Exhibition Dates :
Wednesday 13 – Monday 18 August 2025
10:30am – 4:30pm daily
*exhibition viewing after 2:00pm on Wednesday 13 August / after completion of install**

Daily Painting in action from 1:00pm (Monday – Friday)

An awe inspired exploration of Tasmania’s mountain wilderness through the poetry of paint, touching on light gilded rock faces and alpine wildflowers tenaciously bejewelling the edges of blue shadowed chasms.

Perhaps ‘I lost my compass’ would be an apt title too.

After many years of ‘getting around to it’ Mel Hills has finally started this series of mountain celebration paintings. 

Come for the ultimate lightweight bushwalk.
Guaranteed no scrub.
Fitness level optional.

Leave your heavy gear behind and prepare to have your breath snatched by awe inspiring mountain vistas, yawning chasms, towering peaks nd scintillating waterfalls. See the mist veils rising- giving glimpses of blue shadowed cliffs, studded with the gems of alpine flowers.

Imagine an icy dip in a mountain tarn while the last light gilds the surrounding peaks in gold and the cold mountain wind whispers through the crags..

With evident inspiration and influence from great Tasmanian landscape photographers such as Dombrovski and Truchannas, Mel composes poetic and breathtaking paintings of our iconic landscapes and details the flora and fauna that help make them so special.

Each painting is meticulously researched and may have a supporting folio of work, enabling a glimpse into the creation process.

The main body of this exhibition is a series of oil paintings on triple primed board and hand framed in timber. All have hanging wires and  D rings attached. Full interpretation information is presented with the artwork and also attached to the rear of the painting. 

The artist will be present for the duration of the exhibition for ridicule, track notes, general chit chat as desired and is likely to be plying a brush for part of each day.

Opening Event :
Friday 8 August 2025, 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Includes an introduction by the artists, followed by a short dialogue between the artistic and scientific perspectives of aurora photography. This conversation will explore how visual art can reveal scientific phenomena in ways that create emotional connection and deeper understanding.

Exhibition Dates :
Friday 8 – Monday 18 August 2025
Sunday – Friday 10:00am – 5:00pm
Saturdays 9:00am – 5:00pm

A contemplative visual collaboration between art and science showcasing Tasmania’s unique connection to the southern lights, where award-winning photography reveals the awe-inspiring beauty of this natural phenomenon during the 2025 solar maximum.

Featuring works by Dr Andrew Phipps, Luke Tscharke, Paul Hoelen, and Benjamin Alldridge

A powerful photographic journey revealing Tasmania’s unique connection to the southern lights. During the 2025 solar maximum, this exhibition showcases award-winning photography that captures one of nature’s most elusive phenomena, the aurora australis, as it illuminates Tasmania’s night skies. The collection celebrates our island’s position as Australia’s best aurora viewing location, presenting the southern lights as both an artistic subject with remarkable visual impact and a scientific phenomenon demonstrating interactions between solar activity and Earth’s atmosphere.

Each photograph is paired with accessible scientific insights into the processes creating these auroral forms, offering understanding of space weather, solar activity and atmospheric interactions. Interactive elements include a live aurora dashboard displaying real-time solar conditions, time-lapse presentations revealing aurora movement patterns, and educational material highlighting Tasmania’s pristine dark skies and ideal viewing conditions.

Presented as part of National Science Week 2025 with support from Inspiring Tasmania, Dark Sky Tasmania, and Beaker Street, this exhibition brings together artistic vision and scientific understanding during Solar Cycle 25’s peak. Southern Nights explores how looking south across Tasmania’s dramatic landscapes reveals these magnificent nocturnal displays that have captivated sky-watchers for generations.

Opening Event :
Thursday 31 July 2025, 5:30pm – 7:30pm

Exhibition Dates :
Friday 1 – Sunday 24 August 2025
Monday – Friday 9:00am – 5:00pm
Saturdays 10:00am – 3:00pm
Sundays 10:00am – 2:00pm

“RAW Exhibition is a unique perspective on how I capture my photography,
turning everyday objects into beauty. I create my images by experimenting
with different concepts, lighting and techniques. Each photo gives a unique
visual experience.

RAW exhibition is about my personal journey of discovery with photography, exploring this in a digital age, through non figurative abstract photography. I utilise the power of the camera while working in a controlled environment as well as being strongly focused on the use of objects which exist in our immediate physical world. I find inspiration in the simplest things, and notice beauty in things that most people don’t, then exploring something so mundane and creating something so unique. The relationship I have with the object, lights, and my camera, tells a unique story of what I see through my lens. Every photo captures a moment in time.

I’ve always had a passion and respect for traditional photography and draw inspiration from it. However it has been done time and time again in the photographer’s own style. I want to create and capture something new. When an observer walks into my exhibition, or looks at one of my photos, I want to challenge them and their emotional response.

In the digital age we live in, and now with AI, I feel the fundamental skills of photography haven’t been given the appreciation, respect and recognition they deserve. The journey of photography from those early processes of the 1800s to the digital age is truly remarkable and fascinating. I feel it is slowly being lost and I hope that I challenge the observer to question and research the history of photography and to use it in their own photography.

My style and passion for the use of the camera removes the need for post production tools like photoshop, unless used as if I was in a dark room. I want to use my camera to its full potential and to show how powerful the camera is on its own. This exhibition is a series of unique abstract and dynamic non figurative style photographs, exploring how powerful the camera is, pushing it to its absolute limits, while using and exploring traditional methods in a digital format.”
– Rachael Windress

Opening Event :
Thursday 14 August 2025, 6:30pm – 8:30pm

Exhibition Dates :
Thursday 14 – Monday 18 August 2025
10:00am – 4:00pm daily
**Closes at 1:00pm on final day**

An exhibition of artwork by the members and tutors of The Colour Circle

Kaleidoscope will showcase a wide range of media represented including watercolour, soft pastels, oils, acrylics, printmaking, drawing and mixed media. Traditional, contemporary, impressionist, graphic, botanic and abstract styles will all be represented. 

The Colour Circle is a vibrant community organisation of over 260 members from all walks of life. It provides high quality tutored art classes and workshops as well as social activities and opportunities for members to exhibit their work.

Opening Event :
Wednesday 20 August 2025, 5:30pm – 7:30pm

Exhibition Dates :
Wednesday 20 – Monday 25 August 2025
11:00am – 4:00pm daily

Improvised Performances @ 1:00pm daily

Palimpsest-as-Process by Andrea Breen questions the processes of art-making, in the gallery and by showing work that has already been ‘transformed’.

Palimpsest-as-Process will interrogate how we make decisions around discarding or reinventing art & how art practices might celebrate the processes of creativity. Andrea Breen has spent the past twelve months re-inscribing & reimagining extant texts from her oeuvre of previously shown creative work, including paintings, collages, drawings, poetic texts & acoustic compositions. 

The exhibition will include sound installations (in the gallery space and on headphones), and ‘in-gallery’ change processes. Visitors will be invited to offer contributions.

Improvised performances (collaborations and solo) are programmed for 1:00pm each day in the gallery. 

Recordings and art work will be available for sale on request.

Performanes :
Sunday 8 & Monday 9 June 2026
Doors Open @ 6:30pm | Performance from 6:45pm – 7:15pm

Duration : 30 minutes | NO INTERVAL

Tickets :
Flexible Ticket (pay as you can) $19 – $50
Concession $14

Tickets are limited. We recommend booking early to avoid disappointment.

Standing Event or bring a cushion and sit on the ground surrounded by the incredible works of artists from the Art for Takayna residency

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

Now, you’re invited to immerse yourself in David’s compositions, created during his time in the threatened Que Forest. Experience this 30-minute sound journey as Dave plays a grand piano in the Long Gallery, surrounded by powerful artworks from our Art for Takayna residency, created by artists who spent time in Takayna: one of Earth’s last wild places.

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

Opening Event :
Friday 18 July 2025, 6:00pm – 8:00pm

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