Event Type: Free

Daily opening times:
7 – 12 June, 2023
10am – 4pm

Annual group art exhibition by members of Jackson Studio.

Jackson Studio proudly presents Jacksonism, an annual group art exhibition by adult art students and artists ranging in age from early 20s through to 80s. Our official opening will be by Hobart Artist, Kichikoo on Thursday 8 June at 6pm with Welcome to Country by Belinda Casey and music by Alex Buktenica and will be up until 4pm, 12 June.

Jackson artists vary from complete beginners through to experienced painters and we meet in groups (seven times a week) to explore art through a different artist and style each week. I research artists and provide videos and art exercises for everyone at the start of each session – we explore a diverse range of art from all over the world and throughout different eras, which stimulates conversation and can be a great inspiration for everyone’s artistic endeavours. After this activity everyone is free to get on with their own work for the rest of the session.

Everyone at Jackson is encouraged to find their way – to experiment and develop their own styles, and bounce ideas off each other. Our motto is “feel the fear and do it anyway!”. We keep in touch via a Facebook group, sharing our work and ideas and all meet annually at our exhibition.

Known as “The Jacksonites” there is a shared camaraderie between all attendees, even those who haven’t yet met! As we have studied so many art movements and styles – a lot of “isms” over the years, I have coined the title for our show – Jacksonism, which is intended to mean artistic freedom.

For some of our artists, this is their first experience of exhibiting. This year we have a big range of subject matter, genres and mediums -oils, acrylics, watercolours and more, with prices ranging from approximately $200 – $1500 – there’s something for everyone.

There will be a number and a QR code next to each painting in our show – the number will relate to our catalogue, available as you enter the gallery, and the QR code will take you to Jackson’s website to read statements provided by our artists. Please ask one of our friendly gallery attendants if you have any queries at all.

Jacksonism includes the Carolyn Bonny Memorial Art Prize, sponsored by Artery – the winner of the prize will be announced at our opening.

This year is Jackson’s 10th anniversary, and our 6th group exhibition. Having started with four people on a Saturday morning in 2013, we have grown to over 60, with 153 in our Facebook group and participating exhibitors are thrilled to present our work to you at the Sidespace Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre. The show will run from 7 – 12 June.

I am incredibly proud of all my members and the enthusiastic culture we have created and foster together at Jackson. This year’s exhibition coincides with our tenth year of operating (in one form or another) and I hope to continue working with everyone well into the future.

Thank you for your interest in our artistic explorations – I hope you enjoy it all and, if you are interested in joining us, please contact me through our website.

Sarah Weaver, Artist and Art Tutor, Jackson Studio

www.jacksonstudio.net

8 – 26 June 2023

OPENING HOURS

Exhibition opening hours 10am – 10pm | Extended night time viewing throughout the duration of exhibition period.  

OPENING NIGHT (Free)

Friday 9TH | 6pm – 10pm

GATHER TOGETHER EVENT (Ticketed)

A special one night event of music and performance to coincide with GATHER TOGETHER exhibition | More information via link. 

Tuesday 13th June 2023

Early Bird $35 (+BF)

General Admission $45 (+BF)

GATHER TOGETHER EXHIBITION | brings artists from across the country to celebrate art, together. Curated by FORT HEART CO.

FORT HEART CO presents GATHER TOGETHER | bringing together over 90 curated artists from across the country from various creative backgrounds, including:

Abbie Whitton

Aleks Crossan

Aleta Lederwasch

Alyce Bell

Alyssa Henderson

Armie Sungvaribud

Baxter

Ben Davis

Benjamin Knock

Bonkleigh Strut

Bradley East

Cat Parker

Catherine Mina

Charlotte Tatton

Chehehe

Chris Bury

Clay Of Fires

Clinton Gorst

Coops

Devika Bilimoria

Donna Lougher

Eli Freeman

Emily-Rose Wills

Emma Armstrong-Porter

Esther Touber

Everyday Lines

Francis Brough

Garreth Pearse

Georgia Laurie

Giant Swan

Gil Gilmour

Giovanna Da Silva

Glen Downey

Gonketa

Grace Harper

Helen Spencer

Horse Chiropractor

Hugo Mathias

HWJ

Ingmar Apinis

Iris Blazely

Isaac Williams

Isabelle De Kleine

Jack Fran

Jack Hamilton

Jack Murphy

Jimmyjhx

Jonathon Harris

Jonny Scholes

Julia Schmitt

Katie Bright

Kelly Nefer

Kerrie OJ

Kimberley Turner

Kyle KM

Kyra Hannah

Laura Alice

Laura Coad

Lauren Fahey

Leadbeater

Lena Stumpf

Liam Snootle

Libby Dorney

Lila Ward

Lucy Ray

Maki Levine

Marianna Akl

Marisa Mu

Max Mueller

Meg Kolac

Melanie Errey

Melanie Caple

Michael Ariston

Miranda Rogers

Mitchell Pinney

Moksha Richards

Nani Puspasari

Natasha Bradley

Nicole Willis

Paink

Rachael Tanner

Rachel Bremner

Rachel Derum

Reece A Lyne

Rhys Cousins

Robyn Grove

Sarah Drinan

Scott Mclatchie

Sheridan Rothwell

Steffi Koppelwell

Stephanie Jook

Tegan Iversen

Ursula Woods

Viet-My Bui

Zeekiah Pilon

Zoe Haynes-Smith

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STATION

9 – 18 June 2023

Opening event: 

Friday 9 June, 5.00–8.00pm

Artist talks: 

Saturday 10 June, 2.00–3.00pm

Daily Opening Times :

Friday 9 – Monday 12: 10am–5pm or by appointment
Tuesday 13 – Wednesday 14: by appointment
Thursday 15 – Sunday 18: 10am–5pm or by appointment

This winter, STATION is traveling south to Nipaluna/Hobart, to present an off-site exhibition during Dark Mofo at SOCIAL on Salamanca Place.

Held over ten days in the middle of June, midwinter in the southern hemisphere, the exhibition takes inspiration from the traditions and rituals associated with the winter solstice.

The word ‘solstice’ comes from the Latin ‘sol’ (sun) and ‘sistere’ (to stand), translating literally to the day the sun stands still. Marking the darkest and longest night of the year, winter solstice is celebrated both as a symbolic death of the moon and a rebirth of the sun, as the days slowly begin to lengthen again towards summer. This duality is explored in many of the works included in the exhibition, in the tension between moon and sun, dark and light, birth and death.

The exhibition will feature works by a group of STATION artists, including Jon Cattapan, Adam Lee, Clare Milledge, Nell, Jason Phu (who is presenting a major work for Dark Mofo), and Hobart’s own Heather B. Swann and Jake Walker.

plural noun: Interstice; a space that intervenes between things; especially one between closely spaced things.

Daily opening times:

Friday 2 June – Thursday 22 June 2023
9AM-5PM

Exhibition of paintings, arising out of life drawing classes exploring the ways of observing the line of the body in landscape and indoor settings.

The Body Observed

Inspired by my life drawing practice, visiting museums, and sometime experience co-caring for a person with disability, The body Observed explores the relationship between the body and the viewer, interrogating how the body may be [re]defined by the nature of its observation.

In doing so the works engage three variations on the gaze including the observant gaze, the fantasising gaze, and the mechanistic gaze.

The mechanistic gaze, looks and goes little beyond delineation, relying on line alone. The observant gaze looks and speculates…possibly about the relationship between the observed and her/his context. The fantasising gaze goes further hoping for a transformation for the body or the observer, or an outcome from observing.

These variations, in turn, have implications for the interplay between the body and its environment.

13 May – 3 June 2023
10AM – 4PM Monday – Saturday (Closed Sunday)

Developed annually by the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery in Launceston, the 2022 exhibition tour showcases a staggering 187 artworks by students in years 11 and 12 across Tasmania.

From analogue photography and traditional printmaking techniques to sculpture, video animation and more, ArtRage 2022 offers an eclectic and vibrant display of student works. As part of the ArtRage experience, students have been assessed on their works for their Tasmanian Certificate of Education.

ARTRAGE OPENING EVENT 
Friday 12th May 2023 | 5:30pm-7:30pm | The Long Gallery

SCHOOL VISITS
School groups are encouraged to visit this exhibition. As this is a popular event, we ask that you please register at the link below to avoid disappointment.

Opening event:
Friday 26 May – 5pm

Daily opening times:
27 May – 4 June, 2023
10am – 4pm

Resilience and Regeneration is a visual collaboration between John Osborne who lives in Geeveston, Tasmania and Brian Blowers (Brian B.) from the Northern Rivers area of NSW. It’s about the resilience and regeneration of two river valleys: The Huon in Tasmania and the Clarence in NSW.

The exhibition explores the resilience of nature to regenerate especially after catastrophic events such as the bush fires that devastated much of Australia’s east coast in 2019-2020, that were then followed by some of the worst floods in living memory, the combined effects of which threatened many species of plants and animals already under threat from our changing climate.

Nature has, in many areas, surprisingly begun to quickly regenerate with new forest growth and evidence of animals adapting to a changed and damaged environment.

John Osborne is a long-time resident of Geeveston Tasmania and has been involved in many art projects in the Huon Valley. Brian B. lived in Geeveston and shared a studio with John as well as working together in the Southern Design Centre Studios, Geeveston. Brian B. now lives in Maclean in the Clarence Valley of New South Wales.

Opening event:
Thursday 11 May 5:30pm

To be opened by Jane Hutchinson, co-CEO Pollination Foundation, Tasmanian Australian of the Year 2016 and co-founder of the Tasmanian Land Conservancy.

Daily opening times:
11 – 21 May, 2023
10AM-5PM

Ancestral Dreams is an exhibition of photography examining our connection to nature, literally and metaphorically, focusing on trees in the forests of Tasmania/lutruwita as a reflection of our human condition. Viewers are invited to look twice and find their own emotional and empathetic response to nature through personal experience.

Ancestral Dreams is an exhibition of photography examining our connection to nature both literally and metaphorically. Initially started as a small study in 2016, an arts residency at the Cradle Mountain Wilderness Gallery expanded the work considerably and includes the National Park, the Vale of Belvoir and the eastern edge of the Tarkine/takayna.

This collection includes images focusing on trees as “equivalents” to our human condition, drawing on the evolution of the tradition established by early 20th century photographer Alfred Stieglitz and advanced over time by others including Edward Weston, John Cato and Tasmania’s own Peter Dombrovskis.

The resulting work portrays the wilderness of Tasmania/lutruwita with an emotive and poetic sensibility. It asks the viewer to look twice and find their own emotional and empathetic response to nature through personal periods of ecstasy, solitude, peace, familial connection and awareness of our own mortality.

For artist Pete Walsh, whose previous work has focused on conservation and anthropogenic impact on the environment, this more current practice has also resulted in a sympathetic and deeper respect for Indigenous understanding around connection to nature, kinship in country. This more spiritual aspect of the work invites the reader to ponder on questions of how we understand, manage and respect the land we rely on for our existence.

Everything breathes in of itself. We separate for our minds. The space around things is connected as much as the things themselves.

When learning new skills. Everything was separate, needing its own time, place, and category. It needed to stay within these categories, or chaos would quickly follow.

Now, it all needs to merge. The Artist, Florist, Model, Mother. In spite of the possible chaos and the definite unknown. Because the comfortable categories are no longer necessary. I can no longer play different roles. I just need to be whole.

Daily opening times:
Friday 12 May – Sunday 25 June 2023
Mon – Fri 9AM – 5PM

Sonder – noun. the realisation that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as one’s own

SONDEROUS is an annual showcase of works by Salamanca Arts Centre’s Resident visual artists, with works created as part of their Studio practice.

The works presented range in mediums including but not limited to photography, painting, collage, printmaking and more.

Featured Artists:
Catherine Arsaut
Halima Bhatti
Emma Bingham
Hannah Blackmore
Michaye Boulter
Belinda Casey
Katherine Cooper
Antoinette Ellis
Phillip England
Joe Fazackerley
Jamin Kluss
Donna Oakford
Julie Payne
Emily Snadden
Linda Veska
Richard Wastell