Join us to co-build a new initiative for respectful, cross-civilisational understanding, wisdom dialogues and common ground cooperation projects.
We’ll be starting with a wisdom dialogue of origin stories. Who are we? Who are you? We would love to hear your ancestral origin story!
Then we’ll discuss future projects, local and global, connecting Tasmania to the world. Upcoming projects in Tasmania, connecting to communities in Bangladesh, China and more.
Finally, we’ll do the boring AGM bits and then de-camp for a drink and snacks at the Gold Bar, nearby.
Beric Henderson. Monument (2024). Ink on layered Perspex. 21 x 30 x 14cm (image courtesy of the artist)
Opening Event : Studio Gallery, Level 2 Thursday 5 December 2024, 5:00pm – 7:00pm
Meet the Artist : Studio Gallery, Level 2 Saturday 7 December 2024, 10:00am – 3:00pm
Exhibition Dates : Thursday 5 December 2024 – Friday 31 January 2025 **Installation viewable 24/7
The beauty and fragility of the southern ice cap and ocean captured in a single image by a unique three-dimensional artwork made with layered Perspex.
The Great Southern Ocean project is a collection of small artworks created specifically for exhibition at the Salamanca Art Centre Studio Gallery and Lightbox. The focal piece is Monument, a 3-dimensional painting on display in the Lightbox. This artwork was created by Beric Henderson, and made by applying small amounts of paint to sequential layers of clear Perspex and then assembling them together. The resulting holographic image reveals an iceberg forever captured in time. There are human and marine visitors above and below the waterline. The Monument artwork, together with the intricate drawings and paintings in the Studio Gallery, express a unique artistic vision of the power and beauty of the Southern ocean and Antarctic region.
This artwork was created by artist Beric Henderson, and inspired by his time as former Artist-in-Residence at the Salamanca Art Centre’s Artists’ Cottage in 2023. Since 2019 the artist has been producing an ever-growing body of ocean themed paintings and drawings, many of which have been shortlisted for national art prizes including the Mission to Seafarers (2022/2023), Adelaide Perry Drawing Award (2020/2021) and recently the Waterhouse Natural Science Art Award (2024). The artist is based in the warmer climate of the NSW mid-north coast but frequently visits Hobart to seek inspiration.
CLOSED for Christmas / New Year from 5:00pm Friday 20 December 2024 | REOPENS 9:00am Monday 6 January 2025
An imaginative collection of unique paintings and drawings by Beric Henderson, inspired by the wild majestic beauty, icy landscapes and roaring seas of the Southern Ocean and Antarctica.
Great Southern Ocean is a collection of unique artworks that explore the excitement and beauty of the Southern Ocean and Antarctic ice-lands. From the ferocious stormy seas of the roaring forties to the dream-like quietude of Antarctic icescapes, this collection of small drawings and paintings will inspire the imagination!
The artworks on display were created by artist Beric Henderson, and inspired by his time as former Artist-in-Residence at the Salamanca Art Centre’s Artists’ Cottage in 2023. Since 2019 the artist has been producing an ever-growing body of ocean themed paintings and drawings, many of which have been shortlisted for national art prizes including the Mission to Seafarers (2022/2023), Adelaide Perry Drawing Award (2020/2021) and recently the Waterhouse Natural Science Art Award (2024). The artist is based in the warmer climate of the NSW mid-north coast but frequently visits Hobart to seek inspiration.
Many of the works in this exhibition reflect on the changing marine environment impacted by climate change. The drawings and paintings were drawn from the artist’s imagination with the intention of better appreciating the ocean wave patterns and rhythms, and the impact of global warming on the Antarctic ice cap. The artworks are intended to promote reflection on the power, importance and beauty of the Earth’s oceans, and the critical role ongoing research will play in understanding and maintaining it.
All artworks are for sale and priced for Christmas!
Peta Cross. Killiecrankie Bay (detail) (2023). Oil on board. 30cm x 20cm
Opening Event : Wednesday 27 November 2024, 5:00pm – 7:00pm
Exhibition Dates : Tuesday 26 November – Monday 16 December 2024 Tuesday – Sunday 10:00am – 5:00pm Mondays CLOSED
Land Bridge by Peta Cross consists of multiple small en plein air oil paintings on wood. Painted quickly with minimal reworking they are largely sea scapes. The paintings are part of a sequence completed over several years mapping the coasts of Northern Tasmania (where the artist was born) and Southern Victoria (where the artist lives).
The exhibition Land Bridge is an enquiry into The Bassian Plain or isthmus that is now submerged between Southern Victoria, (Cape Otway to Wilsons Promontory) and Northern Tasmania (Mussleroe Bay to Cape Grim). The exhibition also includes, oil sketches from Flinders Island.
The Bassian Plain or isthmus served as a land bridge for thousands of years until the last ice age, 12,000 years ago. Many species of plants, birds, marsupials, insects and of course Palawa moved freely through the extraordinary biosphere it can only have been. The Palawa oral history of this event is notably one of the oldest if not the oldest narratives in history. Recorded in the 1830’s the narrative describes the positioning of the star Canopus near the South Pole.
Researchers were able to measure the sea floor of the Bass Straight and the ability to cover the isthmus on foot. They calculated the positioning of the star by descriptions of the Palawa and discovered that both conditions occurred at least 12,000 years ago.
The “ghost land plain” reveals itself through the many tiny islands of the Bass Straight. So many histories are now secrets of the deep and as geological time reveals, our histories may be submerged in years to come or another land bridge form.
” I have been fascinated by this sense of the land yearning for itself for so many years. I have spent most of my life living on both sides of the straight. Born and raised on the North West coast now living in Narrm ,Melbourne.
As a painter I am interested in sketches or unfinished works as much as finished works. This exhibition is an effort to draw or simply “map”, light, air, sea, coast, it is more of a work in progress, the mapping is not complete and the idea around the landbridge may be developed into a larger scale exhibition in the future.” – Peta Cross
Peta Cross. Killiecrankie Mountain (2023). Oil on board. 15cm x 13cm
Explore Tasmania’s unique wildlife – both familiar backyard visitors and critically endangered icons – and meet the artists.
Approximately 35 artworks will be on display, featuring Tasmanian birds, mammals and marine life. This exhibition explores the connections between art and conservation. Original colour pencil drawings and fine art prints will be available for purchase.
Colour pencil is not a widely used artistic medium – it is painstakingly slow to work with, and a single drawing can take several weeks to complete. However, it allows for the creation of beautifully life-like drawings, full of meticulous details of fur, feathers, eyes, whiskers and scales. The detail in the work is what brings our native animals to life. The artists’ intention is to let the viewer see the animals’ personalities, to make eye contact, evoke an emotional response, and build connection.
A portion of the proceeds will be donated to local conservation organisations, including Bonorong Wildlife Sanctuary, the Raptor Refuge, the Handfish Conservation Project, and Birdlife Tasmania.
Paths to Abstraction Group Painting taught by Jake Walker
Nolan School of Art | Adults
Opening event: 15 November | 6pm Daily Opening Times : Monday 4 November – Sunday 1 December 2024
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
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.
Presented by the Corrective Services Department of Justice
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.
