Exhibition Dates :
Wednesday 18 December 2024 – Monday 6 January 2025
10:00am – 6:00pm daily
CLOSED Christmas Day
Closing Early on Final Day : Monday 6 January 2026 10:00am – 3:00pm

A high-quality exhibition covering a wide range of approaches and disciplines and showcasing the artworks of up to 45 Tasmanian artists, each with an individual display space.

Images of Tasmania (IOT) is an annual exhibition of selected artists with links to the Tasmanian School of Creative Art in its various incarnations. It is the brainchild of Jan Peacock and Betsy Gamble, who saw the potential of a collaborative show using the Long Gallery and Sidespace Gallery over the Christmas – New Year period.  Hobart is buzzing with visitors at this time.  The first IOT exhibition was held in 1998, as the initiative of artists and art educators who trained together in the late 1950s.  

The integral aim of the show is to display coherent bodies of work rather than single pieces hence the inclusion of mini exhibitions where audiences can get a sense of individual styles.

Some artists have been exhibiting in IOT for many years, but the exhibition is annually infused with ‘new blood’ drawn mainly from art school graduates. The exhibition is entirely self-funded, and all costs and tasks of mounting and running the exhibition are shared by participating artists.