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:Life Had Me X-WR-CALDESC:Salamanca Arts Centre X-WR-TIMEZONE:Australia/Hobart BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Australia/Hobart BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+1000 TZOFFSETTO:+1100 DTSTART:20251004T160000 TZNAME:AEDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+1100 TZOFFSETTO:+1000 DTSTART:20260404T160000 TZNAME:AEST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Australia/Hobart BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+1000 TZOFFSETTO:+1100 DTSTART:20251004T160000 TZNAME:AEDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+1100 TZOFFSETTO:+1000 DTSTART:20260404T160000 TZNAME:AEST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Life Had Me DESCRIPTION:George Kennedy\, Leigh Rigozzi\, Max Mueller\, Lucinda Bresn ehan\, and Esther Touber\n\n\n\nExhibition Dates:Thursday 2 – Monday 1 3 April\, 2026Open 10:00am – 5:00pm dailyClosing Event: Friday 10 Apri l 5:30pm – 7:30pmThe artists included within the exhibition share some thing in common: their affinity for the natural world and a drive to por tray unique connections and fascinations through their artworks. The art ists work within painting\; despite working within the same medium\, the artists respond to the theme of nature in diverse ways.“We are not se parate from this Earth\; we are part of it\, whether we fully feel it in our bodies yet or not.” If Women Rose Rooted\, Sharon Blackie.\n\n\n\ nThe odd becomes the norm in Leigh Rigozzi’s multifaceted work. An int ersection of Pieter Bruegel with art comics results in the comical and c ryptic work of Rigozzi. Rigozzi's landscapes use symbolism and narrative to create busy\, fantastical scenes that reimagine the works of Bruegel and help him to process his ambivalence toward the modern world. His co lourful and chaotic paintings teeter between optimism and despair\, keep ing the eye busy on these ever-changing worlds. \;\n\n\n\nWithin thi s exhibition Esther Touber includes three varied series of paintings tha t all follow the theme of nature\; for Touber\, depicting nature as read ily comprehensible holds little interest. Touber is focused on layering ambiguous marks to represent the layers of life. These marks are open to be interpreted\, but Touber generally perceives them as stars\, suns\, striations (lines in rocks)\, snowflakes\, scratches on whales\, water r ipples\, and clouds. \;\n\n\n\nTouber is drawn to repetitive mark an d image-making\, holding Georgia O’Keeffe’s series of 20-22 painting s of her courtyard door as inspiration\, as Touber is struck by the obse ssiveness that shows a love of the marks of the everyday that she can re late to. \;\n\n\n\nTouber has included a series of 9 paintings of wa ter goddess-like figures\, who take on the forms of half female/half sea creatures. These figures are painted in a naive-style to involve a folk loric element. These works are not to represent anything particularly co mprehensible but to capture a devotion–a call to idolise the sea and a ll that it holds.\n\n\n\nLucinda Bresnehan paintings focus on the creeks and rivulets of Hobart\, these waterways—often hidden or overlooked act as arteries of identity\, winding through both our urban environmen t and our internal lives. I explore the fluid connection between the hum an psyche and the natural world across the transition of day and night.& nbsp\;\n\n\n\nBy capturing the essence of light and nocturnal mood of th ese terrains\, Bresnahan's work dissolves the boundaries between the sel f and the moving water. These paintings remind us that we are inextricab ly intertwined with these places\; we cannot be separated from nature.\n \n\n\nThere’s a quiet vibrancy in the paintings of Max Mueller. His la ndscapes are secluded\, focused on the simplicity of wildlife scenes. De spite the teetering sense of loneliness\, the palette is warm\, surfacin g a sense of nostalgia. Nostalgia is exactly what Mueller paints to repr esent\, alongside a tenderness of a past landscape and his memories atta ched to it. Mueller paints childhood images of places he once visited an d grew connected to. Mueller describes capturing “lingering feelings within his expressionistic works. \;\n\n\n\nThrough multi-layered and vibrant paintings George Kennedy investigates the clash between natu re and human-made objects and spaces. Kennedy finds inspiration for his work by walking around and sketching the bushland in Rokeby where expans ive urbanisation rapidly encroaches on natural spaces. During his walks Kennedy often encounters burnt out cars and other rusting and rotting hu man-made objects\; Kennedy uses extensive layering to represent the laye rs of life that have been haphazardly gathered together. While there is chaos within the fracturing lines of the heaps of spoiling objects\, ima gery of capitalism finds itself comfortable in these landscapes of Rokeb y.\n\n\n\n\n\nAccessibility\n\n\n\nAccessible Toilet (located in the Co urtyard)Registered Assistance Animals welcomeWheelchair Accessible\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEsther Touber\, Blue Ringed Octopus Figure\, 2026\, mi xed media on board\, 25 cm x 25 cm\n\n\n\n\n\nLeigh Rigozzi\, The Tempta tion of St Anthony\, 2024\, gouache on paper\, 76x76cm URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.sac.org.au/events/life-had-me/ UID:urn:uuid:6265277e-8b24-47a0-b863-fb7b38bf8f24 STATUS:CONFIRMED ORGANIZER: DTSTAMP:20260410T223350Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260402 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260413 LOCATION:67 Salamanca Place END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR