Chi Ling Tabart . Inner Eddies. Wood sculpture. 90 x 180 x 100mm. Photo by Peter Whyte Photography.
Opening Event Friday 11 November 2022 6:00pm – 8:00pm
An exhibition of small sculptural works in wood by Taiwanese/Tasmanian artist Chi Ling Tabart.
We are all sentient beings. We talk about our feelings and express those complex emotions in language and in art. There are various eddies in our life we deal constantly with. Some are bigger and some are smaller caused by psychological and environmental stressors.
Eddies are rolling us and pushing us around and creating a state of unhappiness. Sometimes we get stuck, or capsized by the turbulence, but other times we learn to cope and recover emotionally with days, months or years.
Chi Ling Tabart . Inner Eddies. Wood sculpture. 90 x 190 x 90mm. Photo by Peter Whyte Photography.
Chi Ling Tabart . Fall. Wood sculpture. 140 x 90 x 110mm. Photo by Peter Whyte Photography.
Zoe Lovell. Girl with a Lobster Earring. Oil on canvas. 40cm x 50cm
Opening Event Friday 14 October 2022 6:00pm – 8:00pm
A study of identity through portraiture and still life, by Zoe Lovell.
“Portraits give us a glimpse into who a sitter is through their physical appearance. We are able to understand aspects of who they are through their facial expressions, body language and personal style. However, there’s always more to someone than what’s presented on the surface.
This body of work was born out of a frustration of being overlooked based on my outward appearance and the way I present myself. We each have our own unique experience with this sense of dismissal, regardless of how we appear on the outside and it saddens me to know that through some eyes, we’re only worth as much as our looks.
I have created a series of portraits of myself and my friends, showcasing not only the way we look, but aspects of our lives that shape our identities, whether that’s through our lived in spaces or objects of importance to us. My aim during this process has been to capture aspects of ourselves that we value most and want to be recognised for. We each have our own set of ambitions, skills and personality traits that define who we are and eclipse the significance of our outward appearances.
Whilst I have created portraits, which typically only give us a sense of personality through expression, body language and looks, these paintings aim to be a quiet celebration of individuality through the everyday and act as windows into the lives and identities of the subjects.” – Zoe Lovell
Zoe Lovell. Self Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman. Oil on canvas. 40cm x 50cm
Zoe Lovell. Sunday Morning with Rodin. Oil on canvas. 40cm x 50cm
Zoe Lovell. Successful women don’t wear ribbons in their hair. Oil on canvas. 40cm x 50cm
Samuel Allen. Morning Light on Cradle Mountain.
An exhibition by Landscape Photographer Samuel Allen
“My homeland of Tasmania is a natural setting for landscape photography. The untouched temperate rain-forests, world heritage areas and coastal scenery is simply breathtaking. A plethora of famous walking tracks, well-formed and sometimes not well known within the island, lead to locations perfect for capturing images that I try to showcase with my photography.” – Samuel Allen
Anna Brooks. Giant kelp (detail) (2020). Collage. 240 x 77cm.
From marine algae to twisted trees, this exhibition by Anna Brooks explores a fascinating variety of plant forms.
An exhibition of works on paper, including printmaking, photography, drawing and collage. Intimate portraits show each plant, or plant part, as something precious and intriguing. The works emphasise form and pattern and the diversity of shapes and designs found in nature. They celebrate the mysterious nature of plants, and draw the viewer into the inner reaches of other organisms which may sometimes seem alien and sometimes familiar.
Anna Brooks has a great love of plants. This began when she was a child roaming around in bushland on the family farm, continued through a degree in Botany, and years of bushwalking in many wonderful places. Brooks completed her Honours in Fine Arts in 2021. Almost all of her art is about the natural world.
Anna Brooks. Cystophora moniliformis (2022). Digital inkjet print. 25 x 25cm
Anna Brooks. White mulberry (detail) (2022). Pen and ink. 29 x 118cm
Anna Brooks. Cystophora platylobium (2022). Cyanotype photogram. 40 x 38cm
Marinelle Basson. untitled (2021). Digital print on paper. 42cm x 30cm.
Life Drawing : charcoal studies, constructed objects, and photographs that draw on Medieval tapestries, industrial diagrams, wunderkammers, natural history collections, and maps to explore the multiple meanings of Drawing and Life, by Marinelle Basson.
“Life draws : squiggles, paw-prints, and traces – imprints of brachiopod shells from hundreds of millions of years ago in the mudstone of our garden. Less fixed are the flight-lines of insects and birds; harder to spot are the underground drawings of worms, roots, and billions of microscopic creatures. Life is everywhere, even in the darkest underwater. How it wriggles, squeezes out of tight spots, returns after disasters and thrives, or hangs by the thinnest of threads… fragile threads so easily cut: species lost, links severed.
We draw too : tens of thousands of years ago, our ancestors drew with charcoal and ochre on rocks and in caves. Humans have drawn with enormous stone structures, and tiny shell beads, with feet leaving footprints and tracks like wallabies do. We continue to mark the world as we cut and build, dig and dredge. We remove mountain tops, re-route waterways, change everything… our marks getting bigger and bolder.
For me, drawing is mark-making and conversation, listening and responding with charcoal on paper, or tearing, scrumpling, wrapping, pinning. It’s a way of getting to know intimately, distilling the essence of something; a way to explore edges: animate|inanimate, animal-self|human-self. I draw upon life which has drawn me, which still draws me: not just the lines on my hands, but my whole way of being in the world, and what I cherish the most.” – Marinelle Basson
Marinelle Basson. untitled (2021). Charcoal and collage on paper. 42cm x 58cm
Marinelle Basson. untitled (2021). Charcoal and collage on paper. 42cm x 30cm.
Marinelle Basson. untitled (2022). Charcoal on paper. 100cm x 80cm.
Haetaek Choi. Untitled 1 (2022). Oil on canvas. 40cm x 40cm
New abstract works by Haetaek Choi comprising of a combination of Automatism, Serendipitous, coincidental expression and Eastern calligraphy.
Automatism Through subconscious, automatic acts of creativity, l strive to express how one is able to visually put to canvas the subconscious visual reality that comes to mind without meticulous planning. Through brush strokes, this instant interpretation of the chaotic unconscious world explores the concept of automatism.
Serendipitous, coincidental expressionism A coincidence is contrary to logos-centred rational thinking. This form of expression combined with automatism produces surprisingly serendipitous artistic results. Although I commence my artwork with a certain image or purpose in mind, I can’t help but accept the end result because it is a result of the convergence between the intentional and unintended.
Eastern calligraphy Amongst the oriental style of brushstrokes, the calligraphy handwriting, which is called chaucer, is a tool where one communicates a clear linguistic message. The varied strength of the brushwork on the canvas however, results in an amazing pictorial image that can be left to further creative interpretation.
“When the three visual elements of Automatism, Serendipity and Eastern calligraphy are combined, I float colours, blend and permeate the paint on canvas, which draws out the contrast between primary and complementary colours.” – Haetaek Choi, Hobart, September 2022
Haetaek Choi. Untitled 2 (detail) (2022). Oil on canvas. 40cm x 50cm.
Haetaek Choi. Untitled 4 (detail) (2022). Oil on canvas. 90cm x 160cm.
Haetaek Choi. Untitled 3 (detail) (2022). Oil on canvas. 60cm x 60cm.
Justine Wake. Pedros Garden (detail) (2022). Acrylic on Canvas. 68cm x 48cm
Opening Event Friday 22 July 2022 5:30pm – 7:30pm
Paintings, drawings and assemblages from Justine Wake’s recent Arts Residency at Salamanca Arts Centre. The exhibition includes one of Justine’s ‘busking walls’ for people to interact and purchase from, with offerings of their choice.
Working away from home, with kunanyi mountain in sight, Justine Wake’s exhibition focuses on the small things and the very big things of life, using painting, drawing and assemblage. Justine’s exhibitions often incorporate a playful and interactive body of work and in this exhibition there is a ‘busking wall’ taking up an entire wall of the gallery. The wall is covered in paintings and drawings of all sizes and mediums, giving you the chance to spend time considering what stands out and whether any of the works might have a use or meaning for you. If a work ‘lands’, just as a busking musician’s music might ‘land’, the work can be taken home at a price of your own choosing. Works on the busking wall can be marked with a red dot for collection later or removed and taken home on the day.
Justine is a family woman and psychotherapist who has been working in mental health for 22 years and in the field of art psychotherapy for over a decade. Justine has practised as a painter for even longer. The last seven years have seen a more focussed approach to art making for Justine with a number of residencies and solo exhibitions in Meanjin/Brisbane and in Naarm/Melbourne.
Justine Wake. Red tree. Acrylic on canvas!. 20cm x 30cm.
Justine Wake. Busking wall (detail) (2022). Multiple works.
Justine Wake. Kisses (2022). Mixed media assemblage. 8cm x 10cm.
Photo by Kate Atkinson.
Justine Wake
Justine Wake is from Meanjin, Queensland and her recent Arts Residency at Salamanca Arts Centre has focussed on harvesting the crops grown from seeds planted over the past few years of her family life and work as a psychotherapist.
The majority of Justine’s art making is a response to ideas and experiences that run through her mind as she goes about daily life. In these reflections, she is often interested in the experience of being ‘betwixt and between’ – who do we become when we are in a space that has no context or a space that exists only due to being between two different states.
“I am in middle age now, an interesting kind of in between time. As a psychotherapist I also spend a lot of my working life in this space with people- supporting emergence from unwelcome or uncomfortable places in between. I am intuitively and also professionally comfortable inhabiting this realm. To explore this in my imagery, I am drawn to the metaphorical richness of colour, the botanical world, animals and the elements.” – Justine Wake
Photo: Nicole Robson
The Sidespace Gallery is a professional exhibition space that is accessible and affordable for solo artists and small group exhibitions.
A quirky gallery with perfect proportions, the Sidespace Gallery is the gallery of favour for artists wishing to exhibit contemporary work in the public domain.
The Sidespace Gallery is part of Salamanca Art Centre’s subsidised Access Galleries Program and is available to Salamanca Arts Centre Associate Memberson the acceptance of an exhibition proposal.
Applying for the Sidespace Gallery : 2026 Calendar
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Last Dance Orange Roughy depicts the final Australian voyage of the RSV Aurora Australis to the Antarctic continent. The Aurora Australis has been carrying expeditioners and resupply to Antarctica for over 30 years. This final voyage was special in many ways. It departed with COVID-19 just a whisper and returned to a fundamentally changed world. The extra protocols instituted on the ship in response to COVID-19 reinforced the interdependency and collaborative actions of such a tightly knit microcosm, already essential for survival in Antarctica, but with a renewed sense of urgency in the emerging emergency. At that time Antarctica became the last COVID-19 free continent and we had a duty to preserve that status.
Using laser and photogrammetry scans and ambisonic sound recordings of the ship, crew and expeditioners, Last Dance Orange Roughy presents a virtual experience depicting the intricate choreography of ship and expeditioners. Using an artistic rendering of the ship along with choreographed impressions of the crew and expeditioners, Last Dance Orange Roughy portrays the final voyage as an intricate dance sustaining life.
Last Dance Orange Roughy is an immersive visual and sonic feast of three-dimensional environments and spatial sound visualising and sonifying the last grand Antarctic dance of the Aurora Australis, crew and expeditioners. John McCormick and Adam Nash (Wild System) were the 2020 Australian Antarctic Arts Fellows on the final Australian voyage of the icebreaker Aurora Australis to the Antarctic continent.
Antarctic Art Fellows: John McCormick, Adam Nash 3D Artists: Casey Richardson, Casey Dalbo Choreography: Kim Vincs, John McCormick Dancers: Valentina Dillon, Wendy Feng Ambisonic Sound: Adam Nash Antarctic Arts Program: Sachie Yasuda, Tiffany Brooks Drone Filming: Simon Payne, John McCormick 3D Stereo development: Joshua Reason Ambisonic sound consultant: Simon Maisch
John and Adam would like to extend their thanks to all the crew and expeditioners aboard the final voyage of the RSV Aurora Australis to the Antarctic Continent.
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If you’re unwell, it is recommended that you stay at home, and we look forward to welcoming you at Salamanca Arts Centre another time.
Artists
Photo John McCormick
John McCormick
John McCormick is a technology based artist with a major interest in movement. John is a lecturer and researcher at the Centre for Transformative Media Technologies, Swinburne University of Technology where he investigates artistic practice in mixed reality environments, robotics, artificial intelligence and human movement. John has collaborated on works worldwide, including at ISEA, SIGGRAPH, Melbourne Festival, SIGGRAPH Asia, Ars Electronica Futurelab and Art Science Museum Singapore.
Photo: John McCormick
Adam Nash
Adam Nash is an artist, composer, programmer, performer and writer working in virtual environments and generative platforms. His work has been presented all over the world, including SIGGRAPH, ISEA, ZERO1SJ, the National Portrait Gallery and Venice Biennale. He is Associate Professor (Virtual Interior) in the Interior Design discipline, School of Architecture and Urban Design, RMIT University.
Consisting of paintings and a musical composition, Notation by Hann Pärssinen is a loosely woven abstract diary of contemplation and dialogue with loved ones over a period of 5 years.
The paintings are figurative. Oil on canvas and timber.
when the world feels it has endedthe equator is in prayer
with love
grief
continue
still like trees, living
under the one sun
The works have been a language in the dialogue with family, before and after the death of a parent in 2021.
