Exhibition Dates :
Thursday 29 May – Sunday 29 June 2025
Monday – Friday 9:00am – 5:00pm
Saturday & Sunday 10:00am – 4:00pm

Opening Event :
Friday 30 May 2025, 5:00pm – 7:00pm

The Tracings‘ unique-state monoprints of Frances Malcomson and Julie Todd draw attention to Nipaluna/Hobart’s untended urban plant growth  and Lutruwita/Tasmania’s fragile coastlines.
What appears at face-value to be unchanging, may be at risk.
What is changing is often overlooked.
Multi-layered, monochromatic and nuanced imagery conveys nature’s  entangled tracings.

The Tracings exhibition is a localised response to a global emergency. Delicate, unique monoprints highlight the value and vulnerability of natural environments. The engaging works draw attention to untended urban plant growth within Nipaluna/Hobart and fragile coastlines throughout Lutruwita/Tasmania. What appears at face value to be acceptable and beautiful, may in fact be at risk. What is overlooked, may be valuable. 

Artists Frances Malcomson and Julie Todd have deep-felt connections to their surroundings. As fellow printmakers, they employ complementary monoprinting methodologies in their unique-state works. The monochromatic tonalities and abstracted elements complement and enhance their nuanced and subtle imagery. The tracings and layerings of the identified environments are embodied in imagery created through multiple steps of printing and over-printing each work.

Frances’s artworks depict weed species that flourish within overlooked nipaluna/Hobart urban sites: “Walking within local neighbourhoods, I observe the tension between human ordering of nature and disordered weed growth. Through printmaking directly with plants gathered from neglected sites, my work exposes the adaptive entanglement of damaged nature. In The Tracings exhibition I present red valerian, an escaped garden species now prevalent as weed growth throughout nipaluna/Hobart verges. I was inspired by small pockets impossibly scattering the cliff face of the Rektango Courtyard, Salamanca Place. ”

Julie’s artworks reflect waterways and coastlines of lutruwita/Tasmania: “Working as a printmaker, I explore my long-felt connection to the coastal waters and edges of my island home. Each unique print is an emotional response to the shifting, sometimes damaging, traces of time and tide. Through multi-layered printmaking processes, I build imagery that reflects our planet’s environmental intricacies and interconnectedness where one action leads to another, which leads to another…”