Resident Type: Artists

Recent Honours Graduate and emerging visual artist; recipient of 2022 Graduate Scholarship from SAC situated in temporary studio over Summer 2022, 23 and culminating in exhibition “Emerge” 1-14 March at “Social” in Salamanca Arts Centre

My recent body of work looked at issues of identity and history as experienced through travel. I paint objects as symbolic traces of human experience, revealing depth through layering. I portray chairs as symbolic nomadic homes in the semi-public domain as contained within moody interior spaces. I have an interest in the gap between utopian design ideals and sustainable everyday objects and environment. My paintings have some realistic qualities transitioning to a carefully semi-abstracted form, hinting at imagination and connections with psychological narrative and history. I make art to connect and create a sense of belonging through visual cues.

In my new body of work “Emerge”, I make a word play with the notion of being an emergent artist, simultaneously exploring the boundaries and tensions between interiors and exteriors, addressing the agoraphobic nature of living in individual dwellings, yet wanting to experience the social. Using doorways, chairs and interior spaces I will play realistically and abstractly to deconstruct these notions, culminating in an exhibition 1-14 March 2023 at Social in the Salamanca Arts Centre, coinciding with Ten Days on the Island.

Halima is an Arabic Calligraphy visual artist.

Halima is an Arabic Calligraphy Artist from Lahore; Pakistan. Her artwork reflects deep connections and
sacred knowledge with every stroke and letter. Halima creates art that is deeply lyrical, spiritual,
and calligraphic.

Honing her skills as a calligraphist during the pandemic lockdown, Halima modulated the ancient art with a unique contemporary touch. Her paintings are deeply poetic and are seeped in meditational practices, where she creates intricate patterns in her work which draws from Arabic and Urdu quotations and verses from Holy Quran and Sufi poems, by which she expresses the element of peace and connectedness in her paintings.

Halima has been an artist in residence at Youth Arts and Re-creation centre, where she presented her debut exhibition “The Butterfly Effect” with the launch of the YARC Gallery (2021) and have recently moved to her studio in Salamanca Arts centre. She has presented her arts at various venues and shows as Winter Light Festival (UTOPIA NOW), Light up the lane, Hobart Artists market, Royal Hobart Art Show, Minds do matter Arts exhibition, Story Telling Festival, and now actively facilitating Arabic Calligraphy workshops at various venues, designed for community cohesion to promote inclusivity, belonging and connectedness.

Halima is also a Medical Research student (UTAS) and is currently working as Admin Officer at Mental Health State services. Halima is passionate about Mental Health awareness, where she wishes to correlate the brain research to her artworks as an ultimate art-therapy. Her work delves into universal values of love, faith prayer and tranquillity that integrate feelings and pictograms through distinctive strokes and lettering, that remains a manifesto inspired by classic Islamic Art. As an artist and thinker, Halima aspires to spread a positive influence of unity and balance through her work, that go on to create emotional bonds with eternity, empowering the heart, body, and soul, and believes that her artworks are gifts to be shared.

Mixed medium textile and 2D worker.

Donna Oakford is an abstract intuitive artist who works in textiles and 2D medium on paper and canvas. She is an emerging artist, Tasmanian by birth (and current residence), who has lived and exhibited around Australia particularly Central Australia, Melbourne and Adelaide. She has a passion for colour, texture and exploring her process with a stream of consciousness approach, without overt patterns or intention to discover new images and ideas. The adversity of the Australian bush and earthy colours is reflected in her bushfire Kimono series and her current exploration of transmuting textile into a series of abstract patterned pieces on paper and canvas.

Contemporary designer / maker.

With a passion for designing and creating and an eclectic mix of interests, I like to experiment with various creative techniques and materials. Over the years this has included wood, fabric, paints & pencils, metal and stone.

I had been woodturning for some years before studying jewellery, so it was no surprise that I began to combine timber with sterling silver to create my unique pieces of jewellery. Using predominantly Tasmanian species, the different timbers create a diverse palette of colours and textures to draw inspiration from.

With the old adage in mind “Variety is the Spice of Life”, I will continue to design and create, with inspiration coming from playing with shape and texture, experimenting with new materials and techniques and the simple desire to try something new and make something unique.

Old school photographic magic in a throw away digital world.

In Phillip England‘s photographic studio you can sit for your tintype portrait or arrange one for someone you care about. Wet plate collodion tintype photography, invented in the 1850s and commonly used for portraiture until the end of the 19th century, exemplifies a return to hand crafted image making. The beguiling materiality of a tintype photograph is unique in modern photography. Philip’s artistic practice also embraces other analogue and digital photographic media.

Drawn to worn, textured surfaces, colour and pattern, Antoinette Ellis works primarily in mixed media and collage.

Often using hand coloured papers and found materials, Antoinette seeks to recreate scenes in an alternate form.

Catherine Arsaut is a French-Australian artist and printmaker, working primarily with linoleum, with the most recent focus being the creation of multi-layered relief prints.

Having moved from Europe to Tasmania over a decade ago, Catherine’s prints are a direct reflection of her surrounding environment and depict an endless wonder at Australia’s and most particularly Tasmania’s unique and bountiful fauna and flora.

Emily Snadden is a contemporary Jewellery designer / manufacturer

Emily Snadden’s practice includes production works inspired by Tasmanian flora, contemporary wearable art pieces and one of a kind commission works.

Emily completed a BFA (with Honours) at the University of Tasmania in 2003 before embarking on training to become a qualified manufacturing Jeweller. She graduated from the JAA accredited BA (Jewellery) in 2006 and completed a Master of Arts Practice (Jewellery) with High Distinction in 2009. Emily has worked in the Jewellery industry for over 11 years, both in sales and subsequently as onsite manufacturing Jeweller in a respected high end Jewellery store in Hobart. For the last two years she has concentrated on establishing a small business – Emily Snadden Design. Emily works in precious materials and natural gemstones; my range includes contemporary production works, exhibition pieces and one off commissions.

Emily’s work is heavily influenced by the natural beauty of the Tasmanian landscape and our native flora. She takes inspiration from the unique natural forms within the local environment. Emily is intrigued by the variety of flora, its abundance and the proximity of it to the built up environment. She spends a lot of time wandering in the native bush land collecting specimens to sketch or work from directly through the process of lost wax casting. Her work is both organic and structured – a reference to the proximity and integration of flora and infrastructure within the built up environment. Emily often combine handmade and machine made/cast components which reference the contrast of the forest to the architecture of the city. Her work is both delicate and whimsical; Emily hopes to capture the intricate details, textures and geometry within the Tasmanian environment.

Established in 1994, Hammer & Hand Metal and Jewellery Collective is a working Metal collective with the Workshop and Gallery

Displaying works ranging from forged iron pieces, contemporary jewellery, hand cut and set gems, stainless steel utensils and sculpture, with the emphasis on Metal, recycled or new, and always designed and made by the Members of the Collective.

Every day of the week you will find a different Member in Hammer & Hand, at the bench, working on their own creations.

Creating landscapes and seascapes, Hannah Blackmore‘s work allows her to continually explore new places and painting techniques, inviting the viewer to see nature in different ways.

Hannah Blackmore comes from a creative family and has made art all her life. Working primarily in acrylic, her work has significantly evolved over the years since completing a Fine Arts degree. Hannah is passionate about helping artists succeed and has created a membership site and community for artists called This Business of Art.