Event Type: Exhibitions

Opening event: Feb 29 – 5.30pm

Daily opening times:
Feb 28 – Mar 4, 2024
10am – 5pm

Variations to daily times:

Fri 1st March open 10am – 3pm
Mon 4th March open 10am – 12pm

Walk through various initiation life points with award winning, visual and ceramics, Tasmanian artist Lee-Anne Peters, as she takes you on a transformative journey of healing, depth, connection, sound and light.

Featuring Lee-Anne’s earthy and organically formed sculptures, characters and colourful paintings depicting transformation, healing, death, birth, ageing, fun and mystery.

Journey in, and be greeted by a line of Lee-Anne’s popular and fun Dragon Character Jars.

The Dragons are a symbol of initiation as they are the keepers and guardians of this ‘rite of passage’ into the unknown.

The back area of the gallery will feature Lee-Anne’s brilliantly white porcelain ‘hanging curtain’ – resembling bones as well as flowers, seed pods, twists and turns.

Gently part this curtain with great sacredness, and enter into the quiet and dimly lit area featuring Lee-Anne’s major exhibition work. It’s a very large floor lamp called: ‘Light Shining from Within (Lamp)’.

This is a large sculpture of a lady, formerly broken into pieces and assembled with cracks, gaps and crevices shining light outward in patterns that dance across the room. She is a symbol of light, renewal, recovery, hope and strength.

You’ll also discover: thought-provoking paintings, an indoor water feature, ‘grandmother flower pot and vase’ collection, flowing forms, inspiring cups and other unique and surprising creations.

Lee-Anne has been preparing works for this exhibition for almost seven months, and during that time has dived into the challenges and opportunities of personal matters (which are reflected in her works) on: surrendering, taking a leap of faith, ageing, preparing for death and the actual passing of her grandmother, change, transformation, and self-exploration. Everything within this exhibition has manifested from Lee-Anne’s willingness to see herself, her life and the stages of life as openly and honestly as she can.

We trust that you enjoy participating and journeying inward during the showing of ‘Inititation: into the unknown.’

Lee-Anne will be creating a large sculptural form during the duration of this exhibition.

Events:

Opening Event – Thursday Feb 15, 5:30pm

Artist Talks – Sunday, February 18, 2pm – 3:30pm

Walk Through and Meet with the Artist – Saturday, February 24, 12pm – 4pm

Daily opening times:

14 – 25 February, 2024
10AM – 4PM

Variations to opening hours:

Fridays 10AM to 6:30PM

An exhibition of abstract aerial landscape imagery from remote regions of Australia and around the globe evoking figurative, symbolic and emotional interpretations  

Flying is a lot like dreaming. The world feels both familiar and alien. The concrete objects of everyday reality transform into abstract shapes and colours, frequently taking on dreamlike qualities. As one takes to the wing, a whole new perspective and relationship with the world unfolds and evolves.  Physical structures and hidden intricacies begin to reveal themselves with unanticipated complexity, majesty and depth. The true immensity of natural formations, their levels of interconnectivity and the impact of man are unveiled in ways that are simply not possible from the more linear perspective of the earth. The realization of our own and humanities insignificance becomes more apparent when the scale and diversity of nature’s creative capacity are revealed. Human created landscapes can also have their own distinct beauty and fascination. Yet, seeing the scale at which humans can and have altered the natural landscape provokes questions and concerns about humanity’s responsibilities toward the planet in which we live.

In this exhibition, Paul Hoelen and Tom Polacheck present a collection of aerial imagery captured throughout remote regions of Australia and around the globe. Often devoid of recognisable features or obvious visual cues, the images lose their sense of scale and take on more mysterious and illusionary qualities.  The viewer is invited to move beyond the literal into more fluid and figurative pathways of interpretation and into broader realms of emotion, symbolism and metaphor. Such is the magic, power and allure of abstraction. An echo of the dreamtime stories of the land’s creation might even whisper through the images if one listens closely enough

PLEASE NOTE our lift is currently undergoing maintenance and repairs. Wheelchair access to levels 2 and 3 of the arts centre is currently unavailable.

Presented by the Hobart Photographic Society

Daily opening times:
Feb 7 – 19, 2024
Sunday – Thursday – 10am – 6pm
Friday – Saturday – 10am – 8pm

This is a public exhibition of original photographic works produced by members of the Hobart Photographic Society.

This is an annual exhibition with a collection of works by our members covering a wide range of genres including but not limited to landscape, portraiture, wildlife, macro, urban and creative images.

It is expected that there will be 60 large format images on display plus a video display of a further 200 images. It will be open to the public and is anticipated to attract local, interstate and overseas visitor as it has in past years. HPS members include winners of numerous national and international photographic awards.

We believe that as with any art form unless it is shared with the public audience, colleagues, and friends it is not fully appreciated and is often lost forever. The exhibition offers an opportunity for our diverse and talented members to showcase their best or most meaningful work with others in our community.

The exhibition also provides us with an opportunity to describe the workings of the society and encourage new membership.

Past exhibitions have been reviewed by local media and been described as being of the highest order of presentation and diversity.

This exhibition offers visitors from interstate and overseas an opportunity to view our images and share something of the experiences and lives of the people living in our community.

As the majority of images on display are sourced from Tasmanian based suppliers they demonstrate the expertise and professionalism available in this state.

PLEASE NOTE our lift is currently undergoing maintenance and repairs. Wheelchair access to levels 2 and 3 of the arts centre is currently unavailable.

Opening event: February 8, 2024. 6pm

Daily opening times:
Feb 6 – Mar 11, 2024

Monday – Friday 9am – 5pm

Closed on weekends

2023 was an interesting year. Half the way through the year I moved into my new studio at the Salamanca Arts Centre. This move has had a significant effect on both how I paint and what I paint. After more than five decades of painting it is still fascinating and exciting to see my work continue to change and evolve. The paintings in this exhibition, all painted in 2023, are from both before and after my move to the new studio.

PLEASE NOTE our lift is currently undergoing maintenance and repairs. Wheelchair access to levels 2 and 3 of the arts centre is currently unavailable.

‘In Memoriam’ is a tribute to the melancholic beauty of the animal remains that we see around us every day.

When I was eleven, I saw some older kids messing around with a dead bird in a fountain. They didn’t want to touch it, so they were flicking it at each other with a shoe. I waited until they were gone, and then I picked it up in my hands, apologised to it, took it to a garden bed, and buried it. I was a weird, unhygienic child, but I still think my heart was in the right place.

‘In Memoriam’ is intended to present animal remains in a way that inspires the same devastating awe with which one might regard images of a human skeleton. It is my wish to banish disgust, or any desire to dispose of or look away from dead animals. Whether they are killed by other animals, humans or the elements, their bodies are still evidence of something beautiful. Sometimes that beauty persists in an obvious way after they have passed, sometimes the manner of their passing makes it difficult to see, but I hope to convince you that it is still there.

PLEASE NOTE our lift is currently undergoing maintenance and repairs. Wheelchair access to levels 2 and 3 of the arts centre is currently unavailable.

Daily opening times:

2 – 29 February, 2024
9:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Variations to opening hours:

Saturdays 10:00am – 2:00pm
Closed on Sunday

The palette of this body of work evokes the sacred feminine energy soft, grounded and nurturing.

Flow of life is based on the everyday gestures of a fleeting moment. It is within the everyday mundane that we are able to see the value of a single moment. When you sit in the present you allow your mind to observe that which is unfolding in front of you. “Stop and smell the roses.” When we are able to sit in a state of gratitude, we allow space within the mind to appreciate the simple gestures that the world is presenting to us. The works are responding to basic forms that are present within everyday living.

Female energy, always plays an integral role in the work. With each work evolving beyond its simplistic form. Each work embodies a feminine energy hidden behind the façade of the everyday object.

The palette of this body of work evokes the sacred feminine energy soft, grounded and nurturing. Pulling forms from Nature and the human body because of the essence the elements evoke. A key strategy used when creating the works is minimalism and space. Negative space is used as a way of exposing the essence, essentials or identity of a subject by eliminating non- essential forms.

The simplistic approach towards the compositions of the works allows the focus to be on the softness of the essential forms created.

PLEASE NOTE our lift is currently undergoing maintenance and repairs. Wheelchair access to levels 2 and 3 of the arts centre is currently unavailable.

Opening event: January 18 – 6pm

Daily opening times:
Jan 18 – Feb 2, 2024
Everyday – 9am – 5pm
+ extended open hours of 9am – 8:30pm on 19 & 26 January, 2024

In 2015, M. Rene Ariston gave the world PEGSpressionism. 2024 is Phoenix Year Zero. What happened in between is another story.

In 2015, M. Rene Ariston gave the world PEGSpressionism – his critically and artistically (and almost financially) successful debut solo exhibition.

Not long after that – his finest achievement – his life fell apart at the seams, bringing him to the lowest of a lifetime of lows.

Now he’s back – with a renewed will to live and create – and a new show. 2024 is Phoenix Year Zero.

Daily opening times:

4 – 23 March, 2024

Monday – Friday  9:00am – 5:00pm

Saturdays – Sundays  CLOSED

+ Also Open  Saturday 23 March 2023 10:00am – 2:00pm

Moss
Graffiti

Both trying to reclaim spaces that they’ve been forbidden by mankind from occupying; one coming from nature in unwitting defiance, the other a biproduct of the same control mechanisms which seek to eradicate it, equally defiant. 

Both will inevitably triumph as neither is intentionally opposed to the other, they just coexist, oblivious to their duality, immune from the unavoidable toll of breath, death and taxes. 

As we all busy ourselves with our artificial lives in an attempt to postpone the inevitable, we have lost sight of the fact that death is the only part of life that will always remain beyond our control.

The works presented herein seek to illustrate the necessity of duality in all things and the beauty that can be found if we can relinquish the need for control and appreciate what just is. These works are a harbinger of the new world order, a world that will have no memory of or need for us, a far simpler world unabashedly futile without the need for meaning. Welcome to our glimpse of the world without us: Abyssinia.

PLEASE NOTE our lift is currently undergoing maintenance and repairs. Wheelchair access to levels 2 and 3 of the arts centre is currently unavailable.

Daily opening times:
11 – 21 January, 2024

10am – 3.30pm

The elevation of Joy through artistic creation in the face of Climate Change.

Expressing colour, light, & beauty through visual creative expression, lifts our spirits to ‘higher ground’, and sharing with you, adds to our joy.

Maggi

We are 2 best friends, 2 creatives who met in the Northern Rivers region of NSW in the late 70’s…when there was a chance to avert the effects of Climate Change.

We have shared together 2 climate-caused calamities … the fearful threat of fire to Inara’s farm in 2019, … then the sadness & despair from the horrendous floods of February 2022 when the heart of our old town of Lismore was mashed with water and mud.

Despite the background hum of anxiety that remains & is now forever created by Climate Change uncertainties and traumas, we delight in creativity.  It lifts us to ‘higher ground’ within.

Making images of colour and light that are inspired by the beauty, shapes and bounty of nature on our beautiful planet, this, is joyful.

Having this opportunity to share, helps me remember how important it is to feel safe, with feet dry, in the company of good friends.

Inara

In these works my descriptions and awareness of the diverse aspects of the landscape of the Northern Rivers region of NSW are intended to be viewed as a perception of my emotional connection to place rather than a representation of a locality.

The art works are a portrayal of my being spiritually in tune with and connected to the land.  Respecting the relationship between spirit and matter as being the source of joy and wellbeing in my life, with a recognition of the divine; of something greater at work in our lives.

Using pattern. colour, collage and texture, the artworks attempt to reflect this kinship and relationship to the natural world.

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Opening event:
11 January, 2024 – 5pm

Times and dates:
9 – 16 January, 2024
9.30am – 5pm

Mapping the paradoxes

‘Confined / Unconfined’ presents a body of work from a paradoxical period of my life. As a family we moved, for a year, to the other side of the world, to live in a city to which I was both alien and familiar, where I was both liberated and confined, mobile and sedentary. It was a year of progress and of standing still.

My art practice was both constrained and released to run in new directions.  

Restricted mainly to drawing, life in Dublin’s outer suburbs allowed the evolution of a number of ideas that I had been waiting to develop for several years. These ideas form the core of the exhibition.

Thematically they cover themes to which I return frequently: humanity’s relationship to the environment, the alienation of the virtual world, and modern working life. However a common element to these works is a sense of claustrophobia with the systems, processes and networks of human civilisation.

The two exceptions are ‘Species’ and ‘Unconfined Spaces’ which view the world from an uncharacteristically liberated perspective.