BEGIN:VCALENDAR METHOD:PUBLISH VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:-//NONSGML Sandhills Development\, LLC//NONSGML Sugar Calendar Fe eds v3.8.2//EN X-WR-CALNAME:Green X-WR-CALDESC:Salamanca Arts Centre X-WR-TIMEZONE:Australia/Hobart BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Australia/Hobart BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+1100 TZOFFSETTO:+1000 DTSTART:20250405T160000 TZNAME:AEST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Australia/Hobart BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+1100 TZOFFSETTO:+1000 DTSTART:20250405T160000 TZNAME:AEST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Green DESCRIPTION:Presented by CUCKoO Tasmania\n\n\n\nOpening Event :Friday 5 September 2025\, 5:30pm - 7:30pm\n\n\n\nExhibition Dates :Wednesday 3 - Monday 8 September 202510:00am - 4:00pm daily*Sunday 11:00am - 3:00pm\n\ n\n\nAn exhibition exploring the many shades of green — as colour\, sy mbol &\; force of nature. From regeneration and growth to envy\, inex perience\, and the environment\, Green invites artists to interpret this complex hue through personal\, political\, and ecological lenses.At onc e a colour\, an idea\, a warning\, and a promise\, Green is an exhibitio n that invites artists to explore this complex and deeply symbolic hue. Across cultures and contexts\, green carries a multitude of meanings: it is the colour of renewal\, fertility\, and hope — but also of naivety and envy. In contemporary discourse\, green has become a loaded word\, standing in for sustainability\, climate urgency\, political movements\, and the push-and-pull between nature and human industry.\n\n\n\nThis ex hibition brings together a diverse range of artists who work across medi ums — from painting\, ceramics\, installation and sculpture to photogr aphy and the hand crafted. Each contributes a unique interpretation of g reen\, offering perspectives that range from the poetic and personal\, t o the political and planetary.\n\n\n\nSome works examine green as an aes thetic gesture — using its chromatic presence to evoke the lushness of growth or the eeriness of toxicity. Others take a more conceptual route \, looking at green as a symbol of environmental beauty and fragility an d the shifting state of our ecosystems. In many works\, green becomes a lens through which to view connection — to place\, to memory\, to seas ons.\n\n\n\nIn regional and rural contexts\, particularly here in Tasman ia\, green holds a powerful resonance. It conjures the dense canopy of f orests\, cultivated agricultural land\, and the political debates that c ontinue to shape the island’s future. For some artists\, green is a si te of beauty\, belonging and abundance. For others\, it is a reminder of loss\, erosion\, or contested ground.\n\n\n\nAs a group show\, Green in vited artists to contribute work without any agenda\, encouraging a plet hora of readings. The exhibition opens a space for dialogue — between works\, between artists\, and between visitors and their own association s with this much-loved and multifaceted colour &\; theme. It invites reflection on how we live alongside the natural world\, how we mythologi se it\, explore it\, care for it\, and imagine its future. \;\n\n\n\ nAccompanying the exhibition\, CUCKoO will have a curated retail offerin g from it's Huon Valley store to introduce Hobartians and those from fur ther afield to the range of hand-crafted and artisan products stocked by us.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEleanor Kramer.Puddlesticks with Blue (detail). Acryli c on canvas. 25.4cm x 25.4 cm\n\n\n\n\n\nAnna Dusk. Revelation (detail). Oil on canvas. 66cm x 56cm\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIncluded Artists\n\n\n\nPrue Hu tton- printmakingCatherine Rogers- printmakingEmma Targett- ceramicsChri stie Lange- ceramicsGrace Gladdish- printmakingIssy Daguts- printmakingM ichelle Van Pelt- paintingCindy Aulby- paintingSarah Quine- jewellerKath ryn Camm- mixed mediaPenny Ruthberg- mixed mediaMargaret Vandenberg- ass emblageSmall Fires Studio- ceramicsChris Salmon- mixed mediaKirsten Tayl or- assemblageLisa Moroney- paintingAverill Lawler- paintingJude Mainwar ing- ceramicsEleanor Kramer- paintingRachel Bremner- mosaicDeborah Brear ley- mixed mediaSarah J Clarkson- paintingNanna Bayer- ceramicsAmanda St eel- mixed mediaJennifer Hillhouse- ceramics\n\n\n\n\n\nAccessibility \n \n\n\nAccessible Toilet (located in The Courtyard)Registered Assistance Animals welcomeWheelchair Accessible URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.sac.org.au/events/green/ UID:urn:uuid:19305b99-7359-4119-ae2b-30cab3e0e953 STATUS:CONFIRMED ORGANIZER: DTSTAMP:20260531T125946Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250903 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250908 LOCATION:67 Salamanca Place END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR