Event Type: Exhibitions

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

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. 

Presented by the Corrective Services Department of Justice

Exhibition Dates :
Saturday 2 – Sunday 10 November 2024
10:00am – 4:00pm daily

Artists with Conviction is an annual exhibition that provides prisoners within Tasmania Prison Service as well as offenders serving orders with Community Corrections with the opportunity to display their art and written pieces in the community.

The annual Artists with Conviction exhibition is a unique showcase of creativity and resilience. This year’s theme, Behind These Eyes, invites you to explore the profound and personal stories of prisoners of the Tasmania Prison Service facilities, offenders serving orders with Community Corrections, and Department of Justice staff.

Through a diverse range of art forms including painting, drawing, sculpture, woodwork and writing, these artists offer a rare glimpse into their inner worlds. Each piece reflects elements of their journey, emotions and perspectives, providing a powerful testament to the human spirit and the transformative power of art.

Now in its fourteenth year, this exhibition provides you with an opportunity to support and celebrate the artistic talents of those who often remain unseen. Experience the raw and compelling expressions of individuals striving for redemption and connection in our community.

Opening Dates :
Wednesday 30 October – Sunday 10 November 2024
10:00am – 4:00pm daily

Opening Event :
Thursday 31 October 2024, 6:00pm – 8:00pm

Terre by Audrey Durbridge is a collection of artworks articulating the textures, tonality and resonance of coastline.

Terre is a collection of artworks articulating the textures, tonality, and resonance of coastline. Made primarily from materials gathered and processed within their place of origin, Bellerive, and Barrett’s Bay as these are my studio sites and are the constant informants of my creative impetus.

Earth pigments, inks and stains infuse the cloth and paper with colour that creates a rich surface for embellishment. Collage, appliqué and stitch then provide the unexpected placements and connections. Using coastal detritus and salvaged metal gives form to the patterns and rhythms of place.

This work is situated between the unexpected and the intentional. The combining of various materials is the process through which the artwork forms, with mixed media becoming its own content. Terre is the language that represents my relationship to place.

---

Opening Event :
Friday 20 September 2024 @ 5:30pm

Daily Opening Times :
Wednesday 3 – Friday 27 September 2024
Monday – Friday – 9:00am – 5:00pm
Saturdays 10:00am – 2:00pm
Sundays CLOSED

An exhibition of works by Greg Wood, SAC’s current Artist in Residence.

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.

Exhibition Dates :
Thursday 3 – Sunday 27 October,2024
**Installation viewable 24/7

It’s a cake!

Celebrating Nolan School of Art‘s 25th Anniversary, and artists past and present.  

Opening Dates :
Thursday 17 – Sunday 27 October, 2024
10:00am – 4:00pm daily

Pop Up Performance :
4pm, Thursday October 24

An exhibition of fruitscapes by Jen Franklin

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.

---

Daily Opening Times :
Friday 25 October – Monday 4 November 2024
Monday – Friday 10:30am – 5:00pm
Saturday & Sunday 10:00am – 4:00pm

Opening Event :
Friday 1 November 2024, 6:00pm – 8:00pm

Point of Reference by Michelle van Pelt is an inquiry into how, and why, we respond to landscape through painting.

Feelings of distance and isolation, enclosure and safety, or clear eyed wonder and joy can arise spontaneously when viewing a landscape. This collection of paintings attempts to delve a little deeper into those initial responses. In particular, it asks that we consider what of our selves we bring to each experience of the land. How do we view a landscape? And who are we when we are looking or responding? Does our experience of the encounter shift as we move through a place, or spend more time? In this way, the point of reference circles between that which is seen, and that which is looking.

---

Opening Event :
Friday 15 November 2024, 5:30pm – 7:30pm

Opening Dates :
Thursday 14 – Wednesday 27 November 2024
10:00am – 5:00pm daily*
* 10:00am – 12:00noon on Final Day / Wednesday 27 November 2024

“Fourteen thousand six hundred and three days had passed since I last saw the sun rise through the storms over the Ravenswood hills. After all that time – and finally – I saw its beauty. Without knowing how much. I missed it so.”
– Richard Butler

the desire to be there is an exhibition of photographs by Richard Butler at the Long Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre.

The photographs were made across an 18 month period ending in December 2023. The motivation for the series was artist Richard Butlers’ return to Launceston after a four decade absence.

Not long after his arrival he stood on the deck of his Trevallyn home and through the storms and rain saw glimpses of the misted hills far across the Tamar Valley. The view evolved without repetition each day. It held his attention as a magicians trick captures the imagination of a child. All that mystery. All that wonder.

At dawn during the day and at each days’ end for eighteen months Richard stared into the swirling weather. He saw and photographed the thinly raked light against the shadows in the thunder clouds. He loved the blankets of gold and cyan coloured mist covering the foothills of Mt Arthur, Mt Barrow and Ben Lomond. Those daily weather events provided a personal revelation. He had assumed the weather in the valley was relatively constant across each season, but was shown the colours and tone at every second of every day were remarkably different.

The experience both beautiful and mesmerising. The weather and all of its symbolism had found him and opened a new awareness. “Until recently, I have not wanted to photograph the land”.

But the land informed his thoughts on the connection between place and identity. Richard felt a sense of longing caused by the passing of unretrievable time. Everything seen today would not be seen tomorrow. “On the really wild days everything is at work. All crashing. All at the same time” Richard wrote in his note-book. “The poetic nature and interplay between time and light; of line and colour; of space and the graphic flatness of the East Tamar valley walls – these are the walls we are  climbing. The walls which must be climbed.”

“We long for connection with a permanency beyond ‘our us’.”

For this series, Richard has used colour negative and colour transparency film. He scanned the film in his studio and produced the digital files in-house. The printing of the images was a collaborative effort, in part due to the size and other challenges in handling each print. “I wanted the images to be big, almost falling off the sheet. When you stand in front of them, I hope you will stare into their colours and just wonder.”

When a small light-sensitive piece of film is shown the world by old lenses that film provides a beautifully imprecise response. “I love film – it is just like the weather – and rejects any notion of predictability” He feels the story-telling elements of film are ideal for this interpretive folio.

The most exciting photographs in this folio are those where more is inferred and less is shown. Contrary to larger format photography and different technology platforms – it is what isn’t in the photographs that Richard believes is critical. “Absences liberate. Absences provide opportunity to reflect and dream. The essential elements are interdependent and together with imagination, are interlocutory. With a bit of luck magic can happen.”

---

Opening Event :
Friday 6 December 2024 @ 6.30pm

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.

Without freedom, nothing is simple.
– Magie Khameneh

---

The Story

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.

---

Open Day : 
Saturday 5 October 2024, 10:00am – 4:00pm

Daily Opening Times :
Thursday 3 – Monday 28 October 2024
Monday – Friday 9:00am – 5:00pm
Saturdays / Sundays / Public Holidays 10:00am – 4:00pm

Off The Studio Wall by SAC Resident Artist Hannah Blackmore, explores contemporary Tasmanian landscapes and seascapes, where themes of light dance across a subtle palette, capturing the rugged yet serene essence of Tasmania’s natural beauty.

Discover the beauty of Tasmania’s landscapes and seascapes through the evocative work of local artist Hannah Blackmore in her solo exhibition, Off The Studio Wall, showing in the Studio Gallery at Salamanca Arts Centre.

Running from the Thursday 3rd to Monday 28th October 2024, the gallery will be open daily from 10:00am to 4:00pm, allowing visitors to immerse themselves in Hannah’s unique artistic vision.
Join us for an exclusive Open Day on Saturday 5 October 2024, and chat with the artist about her work.

Off The Studio Wal’ explores contemporary Tasmanian abstract landscapes and seascapes, where themes of light dance across a subtle palette of warm tones, cool greys, and white. Hannah’s innovative technique of blending plaster with paint lends a distinctive texture to her canvas, capturing the rugged yet serene essence of Tasmania’s natural beauty.

With 25 new paintings being released, this exhibition offers art and nature lovers a chance to bring Tasmania’s captivating scenery into their own spaces.

Hannah Blackmore’s artistic journey is anchored in her fascination with the power of reduction. Her works transcend traditional landscape representation, guiding viewers to connect with the essence of nature in its purest form. Through a sophisticated use of colour, texture, and form, Hannah captures the very soul of landscapes and seascapes, distilling them into compositions that pulse with emotional intensity.

While minimalist in appearance, Hannah’s paintings resonate deeply. By stripping away extraneous detail, she unveils the emotional core of each scene, inviting viewers to experience a range of feelings from tranquillity to introspection.

For an even deeper dive into Hannah’s creative process, visitors are invited to explore her studio, conveniently located next door to the Studio Gallery. Witness firsthand the inspiring environment where these atmospheric pieces come to life.