Opening Dates :
Thursday 17 – Sunday 27 October, 2024
10:00am – 4:00pm daily
Pop Up Performance :
4pm, Thursday October 24
Paintings that elevate the everyday, with the richness of oil paint bestowed upon imperfect, ephemeral fruit.
Melbourne cellist Zoe Knighton will do a pop-up performance responding to the paintings in How Sweet To Know You. 4pm Thursday October 24. All are welcome.
10am – 4pm daily
Moving Creature Studio members exhibition of printmaking looking at love, gender adventure, fascination, history and family.
Workshop Dates :
Sunday 6 October 2024, 10:00am – 3:00pm AND
Sunday 13 October 2024, 10:00am – 4:00pm
NOTE: If you’d like to only do one Sunday you can come along a single day class. There is $40 discount to book into both days.
Price :
$215 for a Single Day
or $390 for both Days
Includes all materials and personalised tuition.
In this Workshop you will be learning and exploring four of Catriona’s favourite basketry techniques with materials you can easily access after the class so you can easily keep on weaving :
• random weaving with cane + inclusions;
• random weaving with long leafy plants;
• twining with jute with a pattern;
• looping with paper string;
• BONUS string / cordage demonstration.
By the end of this course you will be confident in multiple basketry techniques. Tapping into your creativity, like all of Catriona’s Workshops, it is so much more than just learning techniques, it’s an opportunity to tap into powerful creativity that is ready to surface. Learning at your own pace, in this hands on, practical workshop is all about exploration and experimentation not perfection. While learning basketry techniques, you will be reconnecting with your imagination and creativity.
It’s a small class so you get hands-on tuition from expert weaver, Catriona Pollard.
Suitable for beginners, or weavers who are looking to learn these techniques. If you’ve never done weaving before – perfect! You’ll love it and leave with finished basketry sculptures and the confidence to do more.
Catriona Pollard is a contemporary artist who uses traditional fibre techniques to transform foraged plant fibres and recycled metals into evocative sculptural works which investigate human’s personal connection with the natural world.
Her practice has been recognised as a skilful exploration of ideas around nature and human’s relationship, the invisible forces and the movement of energy within it. Central to her work is the investigation of transformation and humanity’s connection, dependence, and the possibility of harmony with the ecological world.
Catriona has been selected for multiple solo exhibitions and exhibits extensively selected, group and touring exhibitions including the Australian Design Centre and Sturt National Craft Centre. She has been a finalist in many art awards including Australian Textile Art Award, International Art Textile Biennale, National Capital Art Prize, Environmental Art & Design Award, North Sydney Art Prize, Australian Fibre Arts Award, Ravenswood Women’s Art Prize and many more.
Her artwork is profiled across major art and design media and is featured nationally in galleries, high end design spaces and private collections. Watch her talk about her art at ABC TV and Gardening Australia and read in the feature in Good Weekend, SMH/The Age. She is profiled in the Book: Woven Together: Weavers and Their Stories. See her website for more talks and media.
As a dedicated professional educator, she holds sold out sculptural basketry weaving workshops in Australia and internationally and teaches for design and craft centres. She holds demonstrations for organisations including Museums, and gives artist talks at galleries and community groups. She also established the online SchoolofBasketryArt.com with students from around the world.
Anne and Jay Sykes
Hannah Blackmore
Jo Soszynski
Daily Opening Times :
Thursday 3 – Sunday 13 October 2024
Thursday – Sunday 11:00am – 4:00pm
Monday – Wednesday CLOSED
The sculptures of foraged vines and recycled metal wire references the ancient basketry technique of looping that has been used across human cultures for tens of thousands of years. The looping creates patterns and a harmonious rhythm that the artist witnesses in nature.
The exhibition explores how the invisible, non-material realm can uncover the psyche of our place in the landscape, with the objective of reaching beyond the human narrative of the landscape.
By sharing dialogue with the materials and allowing them to inform the narrative of the artwork, it means that stories are formed and shared from the landscape in transformational ways – in a language that provides new meanings and relationships with spirit, nature, humans, and the landscape – and the interconnectedness of all.
In conjunction with the exhibition and Arts Residency, Catriona will be running a Two Day Basket Weaving Workshop teaching four basketry techniques.
Catriona Pollard is a contemporary artist who uses traditional fibre techniques to transform foraged plant fibres and recycled metals into evocative sculptural works which investigate human’s personal connection with the natural world.
Her practice has been recognised as a skilful exploration of ideas around nature and human’s relationship, the invisible forces and the movement of energy within it. Central to her work is the investigation of transformation and humanity’s connection, dependence, and the possibility of harmony with the ecological world.
Catriona has been selected for multiple solo exhibitions and exhibits extensively selected, group and touring exhibitions including the Australian Design Centre and Sturt National Craft Centre. She has been a finalist in many art awards including Australian Textile Art Award, International Art Textile Biennale, National Capital Art Prize, Environmental Art & Design Award, North Sydney Art Prize, Australian Fibre Arts Award, Ravenswood Women’s Art Prize and many more.
Her artwork is profiled across major art and design media and is featured nationally in galleries, high end design spaces and private collections. Watch her talk about her art at ABC TV and Gardening Australia and read in the feature in Good Weekend, SMH/The Age. She is profiled in the Book: Woven Together: Weavers and Their Stories. See her website for more talks and media.
As a dedicated professional educator, she holds sold out sculptural basketry weaving workshops in Australia and internationally and teaches for design and craft centres. She holds demonstrations for organisations including Museums, and gives artist talks at galleries and community groups. She also established the online SchoolofBasketryArt.com with students from around the world.
Anne and Jay Sykes
Hannah Blackmore
Jo Soszynski
Mon – Fri | 10am – 4pm
Sat | 10am – 3pm
Sun | Closed
These works explore the interplay between the weather, the water and the shores. Sun, clouds, rain, wind and tides are instrumental in the change that constantly refreshes our experience. They dramatically influence the intensity of colour, change the shapes, affect the movement, and ultimately create the mood of a place.
These impressionistic, enlarged segments are inspired by details from the artist’s photos taken around Tasmania.
Opening Dates :
Thursday 22 August – Sunday 1 September 2024
10:00am – 4:00pm daily
CLOSED Monday 26 August 2024
Presented by the Australian Antarctic Festival
The artwork will fill the gallery with data driven visuals surrounded by immersive spatialised sound.
Antarctic DataSpheres will be presented at Salamanca Arts Centre in Hobart as an invited exhibition at the 2024 Australian Antarctic Festival. As part of their Australian Antarctic Arts Fellowship, John McCormick and Adam Nash captured the ship, crew and expeditioners, assisting and documenting the many scientific experiments along the journey. Antarctic DataSpheres transforms this data, sound and imagery into a walk-in immersive experience relating Antarctica’s aesthetic grandeur and Australia’s ongoing Antarctic engagement.
John McCormick – Concept, Visuals, Interaction
Adam Nash – Sound Recording, Composition
Casey Richardson – Visual Effects, Interaction
Presented by Jay Sykes
Opening Dates :
August 1 – 11, 2024
10:00am – 4:00pm daily
Opening Event :
August 11, 2024, 5:30pm
‘Painting my Thesis’ is intended to bridge the gap between art and science. It is inspired by a brief conversation I had with my PhD supervisors, Professors Michael Charleston and Barbara Holland, in which they (very flatteringly!) compared a graph I produced to a Monet.
All works in this exhibition are based on figures from my PhD Thesis “Protein Structure and Evolution”. The style of the pieces depends on the nature and meaning of the figure it is based on. Each is accompanied with the original figure, as well as a brief explanation concerning its meaning for those interested.
This project is important to me as an ex-academic. Many people, upon hearing that I completed my doctorate and then withdrew from the career path I invested so much time in to pursue life as a creative, rhetoric their way around the fact that they think to do so was a waste. With these works, I intend to prove that no experience in life is wasted. My university experience informs my practice constantly. This exhibition is intended to celebrate this fact.
Opening Dates :
Thursday 11 – Sunday 14 July 2024
10:00am – 4:00pm daily
Opening Event :
Friday 12 July 2024, 5:30pm – 7:30pm
Using the portrait as the subject, the themes of beauty and identity have been explored and presented. Exploring the fleeting and everlasting nature of beauty coupled with the currency for a needed conversation on the positive and negative impact digital identity has on our identity, the work will reflect a new vision of how artificial intelligence can be used as a tool in the arts.
“To take the exhibition to another level I have referenced my analog video (vhs) documentation from various performance art installations (from Darlinghurst, Melbourne, Wagga Wagga and Hobart between 1987-1993) in which early investigations of identity were investigated. I converted these tapes to digital mp4 files. Handing them over, (in collaboration with Dylan Oswin) he has run a lens of artificial intelligence (using stable diffusion) over the moving image. The result has created images of hallucinogenic qualities. The forms take on the likes of Piccininni’s hybrid creatures, visions of metamorphic entrails like that used in dissection performances by Nitsch and the mangled distorted and grotesque forms of which I use in my expressive figurative painting style. This further impacts on the two-dimensional work and takes the show to another level.
AI now, is here and is proudly the first digital body of artwork using Artificial Intelligence presented in Hobart. I hope this show evokes a valuable conversation and the place artificial intelligence has in the visual arts.”
– David Hearne
Taroona Collage Club hosts a weekly open drop-in collage session for beginners and dedicated collage enthusiasts alike to flip through vintage books and create weird and wonderful artworks.
Cost : $10 (+BF)
All materials are provided (abundant books, magazines, glue sticks, scissors), all you need to bring is yourself.
No experience necessary!
Opening Dates :
Friday 7 – Sunday 16 June 2024
10am – 5pm Monday – Saturday
10am – 4pm Sunday
Opening Event :
Friday 7 June 2024, 5pm – 7pm
Workshop : Taroona Collage Club x SAC :
Sunday 9 June 2024, 2pm – 4pm
Botanical art traditionally aims to convey scientific truths about the natural world. This series of works instead invites the viewer to turn that enquiry inward, and to contemplate what the observation of nature and natural rhythms has to teach us about ourselves, our secret truths and our impermanence.
Depicting natural cycles of genesis and death, the images of this series are a meditation on our place in the universe. They are a quiet invocation to be patient with life’s unfolding, and to be present while it does.
Patience is also about the creative act itself. It functions as a visual metaphor for artistic cycles of creation and destruction, the role of repetition in art-making, and the value of patience for all artistic development and practice.
Sarah White works across painting, drawing, printmaking, and mixed media. Her background in science and health research informs her work in terms of an interest in how close, careful observation yields heightened awareness, a greater understanding of ourselves, and a more compassionate view of the world.