Address: SOCIAL

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Opening Event
Sunday 12 February 2023
6:00pm – 8:00PM
Exhibition to be opened by Lucienne Rickard (speeches at 6:30pm)

New paintings by Jane Flowers, furniture and sculpture by Ned Trewartha This joint exhibition examines the connection between the ‘Elements’ and ‘Shelter’. At sea amongst it, in an anchorage seeking it and ashore being comforted by it.

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At the end of 2019, Tasmanian-born Kristina Vermey set herself a challenge: to swim each day in nature.

One year turned into two until the days reached a thousand. A thousand days of anticipation, trepidation and exhilaration. Of noticing the shifting seasons: The changing illustration of sun and tide; the sea sparkle in Summer and snow melt in Spring; the morning adornment of river and sky. 

A Thousand Days at Sea documents this journey in a series of transcendental seascapes. It is at once a story of homecoming and a celebration of beauty, ritual, healing, addiction and finding comfort in pain.

Opening Event
Thursday 8 December 2022
5:30pm – 7:30pm

Double Sun is a series of illustrations and sculptural works by Jamie Edward inspired by childhood drawings. In attempt to find a simple beauty in both process and outcome, the exhibition offers a light-hearted examination of our world and the significance of the sun.

The selection of sculptures and drawings in the exhibition capture both the small cycles of plants turning to the sun, and the longer cycles of the turning seasons. Double Sun illuminates the loose mess of making art, and the joy of living with nature. 

The works in Double Sun developed in response to an attempt to make sense of the political and environmental turbulence of recent years. Through open and exploratory work – where a loose and tactile approach allowed for a narrative to gently develop – the sun emerged as a unifying symbol that shapes and informs the human experience. The exhibition orients itself towards the sun, as an essential site of nature, joy and pleasure; as well as part of a cycle of darkness and light. 

From the temperate climate of Bruny Island, the works were produced from a location where the presence of the sun is always welcome. The relative remoteness of the island encourages a creative attention with shifts in the weather and light, and the works in Double Sun reflect how the sun provides this vitality and energy. The sun falls on the petals of native orchid flowers that turn towards the light through the day, tomato plants grow tall towards it, people stretch their limbs into it. 

These artworks capture personal experiences of the sun, and also reflect on the significance of the sun in art, philosophy, astronomy and literature throughout history. While there is warmth and joy in this work, Double-Sun also references the cold and darkness experienced in the sun’s absence as we turn and transition into night and move through the seasons. 

Double Sun attempts to document the intrinsic nature of the sun, through a simple and raw form of ark making. The exhibition is a celebration of the messy, naive and uninhibited expression of creativity. The process of allowing for mistakes and exploratory techniques results in work that catches a glimpse of an elusive moment or idea through abstract representation. Both the subject matter and the art making process are honest, natural and unfiltered. 

The exhibition expands upon the artist’s previous work that repeats a simple idea through showing a motif at scale. The every-day quality of the sun – an essential but seldom considered part of  daily lives – is brought into focus through this repetition and isolated attention. Double Sun continues the artist’s distinctive approach of using a lighthearted and humorous energy that is underscored with themes of waste and darkness. The works are both bright and grubby, but always joyful in their murkiness.

This exhibition is supported through Arts Tasmania.

Curated by Ainslie Macaulay and proudly presented by Salamanca Arts Centre
4 November – 3 December 2022

Wona Bae and Charlie Lawler’s Micro Macro explores ideas of causality as they relate to the self regulating balance between entities. It represents Wona Bae and Charlie Lawler’s first presentation in Tasmania. Interested in the ritual of the everyday experience, their practice probes the periphery of the natural and cultural landscape. For Micro Macro Bae and Lawler look at the fascinating life of Lichen, its unique symbiotic relationship and role as a bio indicator in our environment. In this exhibition the pair present a series of paintings and installation works characterised through abstraction, distortion and repetition. Bae and Lawler emphasise structure and material, using charcoal, ash, synthetic polymers to create highly textured surfaces. Bae and Lawler draw on references from the microcosmic world of lichen, to create works that take on a macrocosmic state.

마이크로 매크로
배원아 + 찰리 롤러
Micro Macro 는 개체 간의 자기 조절 균형과 관련하여 인과 관계의 아이디어를 탐구하는 배원아와 찰 리 로우러 작가의 태즈메이니아에서의 첫 전시회입니다. 그들은 일상 경험의 의례에 관심을 갖고 자연 과 문화 경관의 주변부를 탐구하고 실험한다. Micro Macro 전시에서 Bae와 Lawler는 Lichen의 놀라 운 삶, 독특한 공생 관계 및 환경에서 생물학적 지표로서의 역할을 살펴본다. 이번 전시에서 두 사람은 추상화, 왜곡, 반복을 특징으로 하는 일련의 회화와 설치 작업을 선보인다. Bae and Lawler는 구조와 재료를 강조하여 목탄, 재, 합성 폴리머를 사용하여 높은 질감을 만들어낸다. Bae와 Lawler는 이끼의 소우주 세계에서 참고 자료를 활용하여 거시적 상태를 취하는 조각 표면을 보여준다. 

Gallery Hours

Thursday – Monday
10am – 2pm

Closed Tuesday and Wednesday

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  Salamanca Art Centre’s 2022 programs are supported by the Commonwealth Government’s Office of the Arts via the RISE Fund.

Opening Event :
Thursday 13 October 2022, 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Free to attend, subject to capacity.
The opening event for Vacancy is sponsored by Spotty Dog Brewers

This exhibition showcases the highlights from the ‘outsider’ artist studio, a pilot program that aimed to find the best outsider artists in Tasmania and facilitate a tailored professional development program throughout 2022.  

An ‘outsider artist’ was defined here as an artist working outside of the mainstream visual arts industry or educational institutions, who may be self-taught or have no formal training in their chosen mediums.

This exhibition features new work from Lynn Avrillon, Hanna Batstone, Rosie Brennan, Kerrie Dare, Kjell Erskine, Sketch Kelly, Anna Mykhalchuk, Lisa Rime, and Faheem Sumar.

This activity was assisted through Arts Tasmania.

A Hunter Island Press Pop-Up Print Sale and Exhibition.
Postcards and artwork sales will raise funds for the Ukraine Crisis Appeal.

Hunter Island Press (HIP) provides a place for artists to create work and pass on their skills to the community.

HIP members have produced images for postcards to raise funds for the Ukraine Crisis Appeal.

Artists represented include: Maggie Aird, Anastasiia Ananieva, Sally Beech, Rowena Bond, Alicja Boyd, Carolyn Canty, Rebecca Coote, Tina Curtis, Cath de Little, Jeanie Edwards, Ailsa Ferguson, Abbey J Green, Janice Luckman, Pat Martin, Rob McKenna, Anna Mykhalchuk, Linda Pollard, Julie Race, Sarah Robert-Tissot and Amalea Smolcic.

HIP thanks Monotone Art Printers for sponsoring postcard printing. 

How many bodies have passed through this hotel room? Those empty cupboards, tight sheets, and lumpy pillows, just an illusion of comfort and homeliness. I contort, conform, disrupt and seek respite in the voids, using my body as language and location as parameter.

Opening Event
Thursday 15 September 2022
5:30pm – 7:30pm
Free to attend, subject to capacity.
The opening event for Vacancy is sponsored by Spotty Dog Brewers

Vacancy is a series of self-portraits representing my body as language, within parameters of specific, often confined, space. Body placement is expressed through a process of conformity and contortion within a space that holds everyday normalcy. The form is both disruptive and illusionary — seeking comfort and filling the void through isolation and retreat.

I once thought hotels to be romantic places, and maybe they were at one time. These days I find them mostly clinical, attempting to lull me into a false sense of comfort and security. Despite this, the hotel room has been my sanctuary for many years. I traveled a lot for work. A nomadic life that appeared glamourous but in actuality was bound by limited space and time. Whilst being on the road, I found myself fighting to make space, to discharge and find retreat in a time-poor reality. The hotel room was often my only respite from the rushed, high-energy experience of putting on a show. These transient spaces gave me both limitations and opportunities for experience and expression to shape my work.

While the elements of interior/exterior maintain plausibility within the work, placing my body within these spaces interrupts a seamless reading, prompting the viewer to question the presence of the body as landscape… Vacancy draws attention to the body’s purpose, flexibility and limitations in relation to space…

Bodies are markers of self … and what is self but a body that relates to space, holds space, takes up space, finds space, makes space and leaves space.

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Eddie James

Eddie James is an emerging artist based in nipaluna, Hobart, Tasmania. Influenced by a career on the road, her practice explores the human capacity to see and read body language. She engages with the mind/body connection in creating action, reaction, emotion and physicality. James uses the body, movement and the tactile processes of analogue/alternative photography and printmaking to create a visual tension that highlights displacement, comfort, isolation and freedom. With the use of architecture, light and form, James translates a deep listening of space into a visual experience.

Eddie James trained at Swinburne University, School of Theatre and Performance, completed a Diploma of Visual Arts at the Newcastle Art School in 2019 and is now completing her BFA at The University of Tasmania. In 2020 she received the ‘Cobra’ Award from Contemporary Art Tasmania with which she then created the work ‘Walk On’. This project was picked up by 10 Days On the Island and a further iteration was created specifically for the festival. James has been selected as a finalist in numerous art prizes, including, twice, the Newcastle Emerging Art Prize. She is the current (2022) winner of the Women’s Art Prize Tasmania. The Judging Panel for this award was unanimous in its choice, saying; “In this work, Eddie James offers a multitude of narratives in a soft-focus ambiguous world. Room 18 is a strong well-conceived work with a timeless quality using the body as a disrupter in a transitory, illusory and disquieting space.”

Other-Worldly is a collection of oil paintings centered around the idea that home in its truest sense exists outside our walls in the great outdoors.

In Other-Worldly, Britt Fazey plays with the definition of home and connection to the natural world.  Could the practice of nurturing our connection with the natural world help us to re frame the overwhelming distractions of modern life? Could it help free us and make us more effective participants in our own lives?

Opening Event : **Event has reached Capacity**
Wednesday 7 September 2022
5:30pm – 7:30pm
Free to attend, subject to capacity.
The opening event for Other-Worldly is sponsored by Spotty Dog Brewers

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SOCIAL is a new space proudly presented by Salamanca Arts Centre (SAC). 

SOCIAL stands on the land of the traditional owners, the palawa people and we pay respect to Elders, past and present.

SOCIAL aims to bring our community together through a celebration of culture. This multi-modal space is for experimentation, play and discovery.
 
This accessible and centrally located space will be open to expressions of interest soon – subscribe to our newsletter for more information.
 
 At SOCIAL, we hope you feel inspired, challenged and connected.

Opening Event 
Thursday 7 July
5:30pm-7:30pm
RSVP here

I Will Survive is concerned with the stories of caution, superstitions, and instructions for survival that were passed on to Hayley Millar Baker while growing up in the wilderness as a child. The underlying stories in I Will Survive are rooted in early experiences of being in bushland with her parents and grandparents. Stories of myths and warnings of sinister spirits, pumas stalking the mountain range, sharks waiting to ravage you, and witches watching in the bushland.

The works consider the ways that memories shift over time. Carried from a young age, these experiences and stories have become embellished, or accrued heightened emotional resonances – they have shifted and changed in their constant retelling. Some have become completely false memories, others more cinematic and profound.

The stories and memories that are planted as early seeds grow and change as we experience life.

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  Salamanca Art Centre’s 2022 programs are supported by the Commonwealth Government’s Office of the Arts via the RISE Fund.