On the shoulders of giants, the adult students of Nolan School of Art are inspired by art movements and art practice from the past.
On the 25th year of Nolan School of Art, we celebrate the many students who have past through our doors with an exhibition form the classes of Phoebe Webb, Jake Walker, Josh Lamb, and Caroline McGregor. You will see contemporary gestural abstraction, sensual life drawing, funky still life, and various spirited daubings.
Our after school classes show their responses to the art of the past in an exhibition that includes painting, drawing, ceramics, sculpture, puppetry, and animation.
In this exhibition you will see modern Gods, contemporary mask making, a spirited puppet theatre, and contemporary cave painting.
Opening Event : Friday 11 October 2024, 6:00pm – 7:30pm
Artist Talk : Sunday 13 October 2024 @ 2pm
To light up or illuminate; well-lit
This dictionary definition is a repeating theme behind this collection of latest works. The title of “Luminous State” is a duality and can refer to both a literal geographical location, such as in this case, the state of Tasmania, and a condition of the mind.
“Over the years I’ve researched and examined many of Tasmania’s remote and rugged landscapes. This group of works which has formed the “Luminous State” exhibition, is a collaboration of these sojourns and a memory filled revisiting of this visual and emotive discovery.
Despite the variety in locations represented, the one repeating factor in this exhibition is the quality and transient nature of Tasmania’s light and my ability in harnessing this light quality in paint. Tasmania’s light is recognised across the nation as having a clarity and warmth that bathes it subjects. Particularly at certain times of the year as the sun tracks a low trajectory across the sky.
The illumination of this direct light through clear alpine air or filtered light through a heavy atmosphere, provides an unending and ambient form of communication to the viewer. Recording these moments literally in the field by means of plein air studies, sketches and photographs has provided me with the means back in the studio of giving to the viewer of my work the same emotive response I experienced when on location.
If the viewer can feel the bite of a southerly breeze or the desperate warmth of alpine sun late in the day emanating from these paintings, then my work has found its purpose.” – Clifford How
Film Screening : Tuesday 8 October 2024, 7:00pm – 9:00pm (includes interval) Doors @ 6:30pm | Screening from 7:00pm
Mountainfilm on Tourbrings you a selection of the best short films from the renowned Mountainfilm festival in Telluride, Colorado. Join us on this expedition, where the magic of film, art, and ideas will transport you to a world pulsing with adventure and the potential to create a better world.
Mountainfilm on Tour presented by Osprey is coming to Australia starting 8th October 2024. Join us for an evening of inspiring and captivating films handpicked from the Mountainfilm festival in Telluride, Colorado.
Founded in 1979, Mountainfilm is one of America’s longest-running film festivals. The annual festival is held every Memorial Day weekend in Telluride, CO. Mountainfilm is a dynamic nonprofit organization and festival that celebrates stories of indomitable spirit and aims to inspire audiences through film, art and ideas.
Mountainfilm on Tour will feature a collection of culturally rich, adventure-packed and engaging documentary short films that align with Mountainfilm’s mission to use the power of film, art and ideas to inspire audiences to create a better world. A Mountainfilm presenter will guide the audience through the program providing insight on the films, filmmakers and subjects.
TICKETS : Adult $32.79 (incl BF) Concession $26.60 (incl BF) Family & Group Ticket Options
Henrietta Manning. The Larder, Home Grown Series. Acrylic on masonite. 84.5 x 50cm. Photographer Simon Olding
Exhibition Dates : Tuesday 29 October – Monday 2 December 2024 **Installation viewable 24/7
In contrast to a fast world demanding instant gratification, the Series Home Grown by Henrietta Manning celebrates the joy of planting, harvesting and eating the produce of your own hands. Paintings inspired by the artist’s garden. Slow down and immerse yourself in the soil and the changing seasons, it’s good for the soul.
For the series Home Grown the artist is sharing her connection and pleasure derived from the just over one-acre block of land surrounding her home in Tasmania’s Huon Valley. Originally sparsely planted, and still a work in progress, it has been a steep learning curve, landscaping, and developing two working vegetable bunkers. Produce taken into the house, whether edible or as floral decoration, has been painted from life as intimate works combined with the trappings of home life or with glimpses through windows to the garden outside.
A garden is an extension of you and your home. It matters not whether it is in a single pot or on acreage, growing and nurturing life expands your world. Whatever your taste and passion leads you to grow, trees, shrubs, flowers, succulents, vegetables, fruit, nuts or herbs, you see life in the round. You become more aware of the small things, of life around you; butterfly’s moths, bees, the caterpillars, slugs, snails and worms, skinks and snakes. You reconnect with the seasons and changing weather. The struggle for life becomes more apparent as you nurture and then defend from predators.
Sometimes it can even be hard to pick or prune, to end the life of those you have tended for so long, at others it is a race to harvest at the perfect time before plants bolt or birds and possums get there first. The taste is sweeter and the satisfaction greater at every meal.
Not for you the anonymous supermarket flowers, fruit and vegetables but those carefully chosen by you from seed or seedling, nurtured into life, protected from predators and blight and harvested straight into your kitchen or carefully arranged in a vase. You know where they came from and how they were grown. You can choose varieties not mass produced and can grow free from chemicals. You can make a difference by keeping heritage varieties alive.
In a world of increasing financial, climate and food insecurity there is also a sense of safety and self-reliance looking at your own produce growing or stored in larder and freezer.
What better way to start your day than to let the chickens out, collect eggs and watch for every bud and burst of new life?
Henrietta Manning. Tomatoes, Home Grown Series. Acrylic on masonite. 25.5 x 30cm. Photographer Simon Olding
Henrietta Manning. Eggs on the Mantel. Home Grown Series. acrylic on masonite 25.5 x 30cm. Photographer Simon Olding
Studio Waterloo
Special Event at Studio Waterloo Monday 25 November – Sunday 1 December 2024 : Open daily 11:00am – 4:00pm 57 Glocks Road, Waterloo, Tasmania 7109
In conjunction with the last week of the Lightbox installation the extended series Home Grown will be exhibited in the Artist’s Huon Valley studio, open to the public for one week only. An opportunity not only to view more of the current series but also to meet the artist and explore her working studio and art practice inside the heritage Apple Packing Shed that is her studio. Bring a picnic and enjoy stunning views extending down the Huon River to Sleeping Beauty and Kunanyi/Mount Wellington.
Henrietta Manning is a Contemporary Realist exhibiting since 1984 and currently living in Tasmania. A versatile artist, painting predominately from life, plein air and in the studio, series are developed for exhibition. Drawn to historic sites a recurring theme is the passage of time and how we live with and build upon the past. A recipient of an Australia Council Visual Arts/Craft Board ‘New Work Established Grant’ and finalist in Australian art awards such as The Wynne, Glover, Portia Geach, Waverly, Alice, Fishers Ghost, Eutick, Waterhouse and The Summer Exhibition in England.
Hobart’s favourite dance party returns… it’s time to get Footloose AGAIN! 👟🎉Come and shake your groove thing with Hugo Bladel for a special 2 hour DJ Set, jam-packed with Disco Classics 🕺🏻
We will be spinning artists such as : Chic Sister Sledge ABBA Diana Ross Earth, Wind and Fire Bee Gees Kool & the Gang KC &. The Sunshine Band Patrice Rushen Madonna Pointer Sisters Hall & Oates
Located in the Founders Room on a Friday Night – starting right after Rektango! 🎶
Music kicks off at 8:00pm with support from local legend JUNIPER 🎧
Greg Wood’s paintings offer moments of reprieve and contemplation. At once both closely observed and deeply imagined, they depict landscapes not quite locatable. Records of light, colour, and atmosphere, his paintings are the stuff of memory itself. –Amelia Wallin
Greg Wood is a painter of the earthy and ethereal. During the last 25 years his practice has involved the observation of landscape and the natural world. He paints places traversed through sensory impression For Wood the essence of place is more important than specifics of location. He creates art that alludes to the mysterious impressions left by landscape, the emotional afterimages that endure. His delicate, layered canvases invite us to enter a felt sense of place, imbued with memory and emotion. Wood describes his work as a ‘slow release’ –the nuance of his paintings gradually revealing themselves to the viewer. A formative influence is Melbourne tonalist, Clarice Beckett, who has informed his use of thin, gestural layers of muted colours, flattened forms, merging tones and diffuse light.
Wood’s paintings are psychologically and visually alluring. The more we look, the more we are invited to come into communion with the subtle aspects how place shapes us, how we dwell in landscapes both literal and interior.
Paintings that elevate the everyday, with the richness of oil paint bestowed upon imperfect, ephemeral fruit.
A pop up performance by Zoe Knighton
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.
Jen Franklin. SL56 Lemons (2023). Oil on Canvas. 54 x 61cm
Daily Opening Times : Friday 6 December 2024 – Sunday 5 January 2025 Monday – Friday 9:00am – 5:00pm Saturday – Sunday 11:00am – 4:00pm
CLOSED for Christmas / New Year from Monday 23 December 2024 | REOPENS Saturday 4 January 2025
Joy resides in simple things : the warmth of the sun on your skin, the breeze in your hair, the freedom of dance within… But what if these simple pleasures slip away?
Simple things define our childhood, shaping our experiences, exploration, and growth. Without them, childhood fades, halting our development.
Within us reside various personas: the playful child, the mature adult with desires, moments of sadness or confidence. On the surface, we embody a blend of these identities.
To reveal our true selves demands courage, requires us to dive deep. Self-discovery hinges on the freedom to explore this life.
Mona’s story starts with following the peacock, the Persian metaphors which sent Eve out of heaven. She wants to feel, experience, indulge in what we call living. To feel the breeze in her hair, to see the dazzling colours under the dancing brims of sun. Simple as it seems but not where she lives. She refuges to her imagination to build what has taken from her, to flee from pain, shame and suffocation.
Her story is a testament to her resilience as she navigated enforced modesty and the suppression of her true self, ultimately shaping her life and proving that the ideas of freedom can evolve into reality when nurtured within one’s mind.
Magie Khameneh. Exploration (2024). Digital painting
