Umbrella Event: SAC Resident Artists

Exhibition Dates :
Friday 7 – Friday 28 March 2025
Monday – Friday 9:00am – 5:00pm
Saturday 8 & 15 March ONLY 10:00am – 2:30pm
Sundays & Public Holidays CLOSED

Opening Event :
Friday 7 March 2024, 5:30pm – 7:30pm

Meet Bevan.  Bevan likes flowers.  If Bevan could wear clothes he would wear florals.  Preferably velvet, maybe a jumpsuit. But Bevan is a bee, and bees don’t do that.

This narrative series by Jo Soszynski (Plum Birdy) follows Bevan the bee through his day.  Full of whimsy and borderline nonsensical musings, these paintings and accompanying text draw on the complexities of our inner worlds to explore themes of conformity and society’s inclination towards busyness.

Made for outdoor display, these works are created with exterior paints and materials and are intended to bring colour and quirky fun to a back fence or outdoor area.

Come and enjoy a fantastic escapade with Bevan.

Jo Soszynski

Exhibition Dates :
6 March, 2025 – 6 April, 2025
**Installation viewable 24/7

“If you don’t know the trees you may be lost in the forest, but if you don’t know the stories you may be lost in life.” – Siberian Elder

Ancestry often reads like a story.  

Based on family letters and documents, this installation of sculpture, painting and objects explores the intersection between memory and reality.

It draws on stories of a family’s deportation out of Poland and of childhoods lost during World War Two.  From imprisonment in a Siberian working camp, to being orphaned in the Uzbeki cottonfields, to a new life in the West.

Here is a place where narratives overlap, and time and space merge.

Dedicated to Ludmila Goggin (1931 – 2024) who passed away during the making of this exhibition.  She was the last of the Bartniczak children.

Exhibition Dates :
Thursday 6 February – Monday 3 March 2025
Monday – Friday 9:00am – 5:00pm
Weekends CLOSED

A collection of landscape and seascape paintings on paper, by Hannah Blackmore.

Between Land and Sea is a captivating collection of miniature framed paintings on paper inspired by the ever-changing beauty of the Tasmanian coastline. These works explore the land and ocean meeting point, capturing the rhythmic interplay of light and atmosphere unique to this rugged environment. Each painting reflects the raw power of the sea, the subtle hues of coastal terrain, and the quiet moments of transition between tides. Intimate in scale yet expansive in vision, this collection invites viewers to experience the Tasmanian coastline through a lens of delicate detail and poetic abstraction.

Anne and Jay Sykes

Exhibition Dates :
Thursday 6 February, 2025 – Monday 3 March, 2025
**Installation viewable 24/7

‘A Collaboration’ features works and ideas from Anthony and Bridget Sutton, brought to life in an eccentric mix of media by their child and grandchild, Anne and Jay Sykes.

A doll house and a set of animals for an ark. Two unfinished projects from a man who made so, so many things for his grandchildren, rediscovered after he left us. We intend to honour his memory by finishing and sharing what he started.

A compulsive doodling habit, the same patterns present without ever being taught. A desire to indulge the imagination, forever and a day. A love of board and card games bordering on the obsessive. These were the things she wanted her grandchildren to keep with them. We will weave them around the carpentry of her husband.

We feel their absence deeply every day. Waves of grief hit, break and return to the ocean.

‘A Collaboration’ addresses family, childhood and grief. The wooden pieces at the centre of the installation were started by Anthony Sutton and the influence of Bridget Sutton is also present throughout.

‘The weeks spent staying with my grandparents on their rural property in Maydena were some of the most formative experiences of my childhood. Hiking in Mt Field, barbecues at Lake Peddar and just romping around, I felt the shadows of what I would later find out was mental illness melting away. My troubles socialising, my anxiety and my dark moods all had a much harder time reaching me up there. The space my grandparents’ made was a haven of fun and wonder that I am forever grateful for. I hope, with this piece, to share some semblance of that place.’ – Jay Sykes

‘While clearing my parents house after my dad had passed I found art projects started and carefully stored away in tins and boxes, toys for my kids lovingly crafted by their grandad, and design ideas by their Granny B. My parents started me on my artistic journey very early in life, always encouraging and facilitating. It will be a wonderful way to honour their memory, to work with Jay using their creations as a starting point and incorporating our own ideas to bring it to fruition. They would be so excited and proud.’ – Anne Sykes

Opening Event : Studio Gallery, Level 2
Thursday 5 December 2024, 5:00pm – 7:00pm

Meet the Artist : Studio Gallery, Level 2
Saturday 7 December 2024, 10:00am – 3:00pm

Exhibition Dates :
Thursday 5 December 2024 – Friday 31 January 2025
**Installation viewable 24/7

The beauty and fragility of the southern ice cap and ocean captured in a single image by a unique three-dimensional artwork made with layered Perspex.

The Great Southern Ocean project is a collection of small artworks created specifically for exhibition at the Salamanca Art Centre Studio Gallery and Lightbox. The focal piece is Monument, a 3-dimensional painting on display in the Lightbox. This artwork was created by Beric Henderson, and made by applying small amounts of paint to sequential layers of clear Perspex and then assembling them together. The resulting holographic image reveals an iceberg forever captured in time. There are human and marine visitors above and below the waterline. The Monument artwork, together with the intricate drawings and paintings in the Studio Gallery, express a unique artistic vision of the power and beauty of the Southern ocean and Antarctic region.

This artwork was created by artist Beric Henderson, and inspired by his time as former Artist-in-Residence at the Salamanca Art Centre’s Artists’ Cottage in 2023. Since 2019 the artist has been producing an ever-growing body of ocean themed paintings and drawings, many of which have been shortlisted for national art prizes including the Mission to Seafarers (2022/2023), Adelaide Perry Drawing Award (2020/2021) and recently the Waterhouse Natural Science Art Award (2024). The artist is based in the warmer climate of the NSW mid-north coast but frequently visits Hobart to seek inspiration.

Opening Event :
Thursday 5 December 2024, 5:00pm – 7:00pm

Meet the Artist :
Saturday 7 December 2024, 10:00am – 3:00pm

Exhibition Dates :
Thursday 5 December 2024 – Friday 31 January 2025
Monday – Friday 9:00am – 5:00pm
Saturday & Sunday CLOSED

CLOSED for Christmas / New Year
from 5:00pm Friday 20 December 2024 | REOPENS 9:00am Monday 6 January 2025

An imaginative collection of unique paintings and drawings by Beric Henderson, inspired by the wild majestic beauty, icy landscapes and roaring seas of the Southern Ocean and Antarctica.

Great Southern Ocean is a collection of unique artworks that explore the excitement and beauty of the Southern Ocean and Antarctic ice-lands. From the ferocious stormy seas of the roaring forties to the dream-like quietude of Antarctic icescapes, this collection of small drawings and paintings will inspire the imagination!

The artworks on display were created by artist Beric Henderson, and inspired by his time as former Artist-in-Residence at the Salamanca Art Centre’s Artists’ Cottage in 2023. Since 2019 the artist has been producing an ever-growing body of ocean themed paintings and drawings, many of which have been shortlisted for national art prizes including the Mission to Seafarers (2022/2023), Adelaide Perry Drawing Award (2020/2021) and recently the Waterhouse Natural Science Art Award (2024). The artist is based in the warmer climate of the NSW mid-north coast but frequently visits Hobart to seek inspiration.

Many of the works in this exhibition reflect on the changing marine environment impacted by climate change. The drawings and paintings were drawn from the artist’s imagination with the intention of better appreciating the ocean wave patterns and rhythms, and the impact of global warming on the Antarctic ice cap. The artworks are intended to promote reflection on the power, importance and beauty of the Earth’s oceans, and the critical role ongoing research will play in understanding and maintaining it.

All artworks are for sale and priced for Christmas!

Nolan School of Art | Adults

Opening event:
15 November | 6pm

Daily Opening Times :
Monday 4 November – Sunday 1 December 2024

Monday – Friday 9:00am – 5:00pm
Saturdays 10am – 4pm
Sundays 1pm – 4pm

On the shoulders of giants, the adult students of Nolan School of Art are inspired by art movements and art practice from the past.

On the 25th year of Nolan School of Art, we celebrate the many students who have past through our doors with an exhibition form the classes of Phoebe Webb, Jake Walker, Josh Lamb, and Caroline McGregor. You will see contemporary gestural abstraction, sensual life drawing, funky still life, and various spirited daubings.

Nolan School of Art | K -12 Students

Daily Opening Times :
Monday 4 November – Sunday 1 December 2024

Monday – Friday 9:00am – 5:00pm
Saturdays 10am – 4pm
Sundays 1pm – 4pm

Our after school classes show their responses to the art of the past in an exhibition that includes painting, drawing, ceramics, sculpture, puppetry, and animation.

In this exhibition you will see modern Gods, contemporary mask making, a spirited puppet theatre, and contemporary cave painting.

Opening Event :
Friday 11 October 2024, 6:00pm – 7:30pm

Exhibition Dates :
Saturday 12 – Saturday 26 October 2024
10:00am – 4:00pm daily

Opening Event :
Friday 11 October 2024, 6:00pm – 7:30pm

Artist Talk :
Sunday 13 October 2024 @ 2pm

To light up or illuminate; well-lit

This dictionary definition is a repeating theme behind this collection of latest works. The title of “Luminous State” is a duality and can refer to both a literal geographical location, such as in this case, the state of Tasmania, and a condition of the mind.

“Over the years I’ve researched and examined many of Tasmania’s remote and rugged landscapes. This group
of works which has formed the “Luminous State” exhibition, is a collaboration of these sojourns and a
memory filled revisiting of this visual and emotive discovery.

Despite the variety in locations represented, the one repeating factor in this exhibition is the quality and
transient nature of Tasmania’s light and my ability in harnessing this light quality in paint. Tasmania’s light is recognised across the nation as having a clarity and warmth that bathes it subjects. Particularly at certain times of the year as the sun tracks a low trajectory across the sky.

The illumination of this direct light through clear alpine air or filtered light through a heavy atmosphere, provides an unending and ambient form of communication to the viewer. Recording these moments literally in the field by means of plein air studies, sketches and photographs has provided me with the means back in the studio of giving to the viewer of my work the same emotive response I experienced when on location.

If the viewer can feel the bite of a southerly breeze or the desperate warmth of alpine sun late in the day emanating from these paintings, then my work has found its purpose.”
– Clifford How

Opening Event :
Friday 20 September 2024 @ 5:30pm

Daily Opening Times :
Wednesday 3 – Friday 27 September 2024
Monday – Friday – 9:00am – 5:00pm
Saturdays 10:00am – 2:00pm
Sundays CLOSED

An exhibition of works by Greg Wood, SAC’s current Artist in Residence.

Greg Wood’s paintings offer moments of reprieve and contemplation. At once both closely observed and deeply imagined, they depict landscapes not quite locatable. Records of light, colour, and atmosphere, his paintings are the stuff of memory itself.
–Amelia Wallin

Greg Wood is a painter of the earthy and ethereal. During the last 25 years his practice has involved the observation of landscape and the natural world. He paints places traversed through sensory impression
For Wood the essence of place is more important than specifics of location. He creates art that alludes to the mysterious impressions left by landscape, the emotional afterimages that endure. His delicate, layered canvases invite us to enter a felt sense of place, imbued with memory and emotion. Wood describes his work as a ‘slow release’ –the nuance of his paintings gradually revealing themselves to the viewer. A formative influence is Melbourne tonalist, Clarice Beckett, who has informed his use of thin, gestural layers of muted colours, flattened forms, merging tones and diffuse light.

Wood’s paintings are psychologically and visually alluring. The more we look, the more we are invited to come into communion with the subtle aspects how place shapes us, how we dwell in landscapes both literal and interior.