Event Type: Free

Workshop Date :
Sunday 9 June 2024 
2pm – 4pm

Taroona Collage Club is bringing its weekly goodness to Salamanca Arts Centre in June – in conjunction with the exhibition Patience by Sarah White.
Come along for a relaxing session of cutting, pasting and creating.

Taroona Collage Club hosts a weekly open drop-in collage session for beginners and dedicated collage enthusiasts alike to flip through vintage books and create weird and wonderful artworks.

Cost : $10 (+BF)
All materials are provided (abundant books, magazines, glue sticks, scissors), all you need to bring is yourself.
No experience necessary!

Presented by Lorenz Cherry

“A Clown’s Selfie Saga: An Emotional Odyssey” explores the complexities of human emotions. Inspired by the concept of ‘selfies’ and staged moments in life, this artwork utilizes a melodramatic clown to convey the diverse range of feelings we reveal or conceal.

“A Clown’s Selfie Saga: An Emotional Odyssey” delves into the profound intricacies of human emotions and the façades we present to society. Inspired by the concept of staging moments and the ubiquitous ‘selfie’ culture, this artwork employs the symbolic figure of a melodramatic clown to convey the complex range of feelings we share or conceal.

Crafted from vintage machine knitting yarn meticulously sewn onto fabric, the material serves as a metaphor for life’s arduous journey, while the vibrant colors symbolize the joy that can be found amidst hardship.

At the heart of the exhibition lies a glimpse into the saga of life. From infectious laughter to profound sorrow, the clown mirrors the kaleidoscope of human emotions we either share with the world or keep hidden within.

Overall, “A Clown’s Selfie Saga: An Emotional Odyssey” seamlessly blends whimsy with societal reflection. It aims to ignite deeper conversations about empathy and understanding through its drama, humor, and storytelling.

Daily Opening Times:
Tuesday 4 June – Monday 1 July 2024
Monday – Friday 9:00am – 5:00pm
Saturdays 10:00am – 2:00pm
Sundays & Public Holidays CLOSED

“Articulating silence, documenting the reoccurring motifs, images and landscapes which have influenced my internal world.

Just as we pause for understanding as we read, painting can be this silence in life. With this body of work, I am documenting the reoccurring motifs, images and landscapes which have influenced my internal world.

The matters which entertain my mind when I paint range from; coastal habitation, love, grief, reverence of nature, genealogy and theocracy.

Somewhat idealised and romantic the imagery is watery and mutable, blues and greens are implemented as contemplative colours, nothing is absolute. I have also begun to appreciate the interplay of organic forms alongside the geometry of architectural shapes. The human figure is mutable, unsettled and extending outside of the body in the way of two faced heads and bodies which could reveal themselves as trees.

This semi abstract approach to painting allows me to fold and unfold the repetitiveness of being or come to terms with the shock of a new feeling. I find myself painting in a state of gratitude for the good and bad. In this way each painting is an articulation of my internal world, they are an effort to observe and communicate feeling. I can only hope to capture something which others recognise in the world around them.

Contextual artists include; Clarice Beckett, Ken Kiff, Marc Chagall, William Blake.”
– Ellyn Anderson

Opening Dates :
Friday 7 – Sunday 16 June 2024  
10am – 5pm Monday – Saturday
10am – 4pm Sunday

Opening Event :
Friday 7 June 2024, 5pm – 7pm

Workshop : Taroona Collage Club x SAC :
Sunday 9 June 2024, 2pm – 4pm

Patience is a series of experimental works on paper by Hobart-based artist Sarah White that reflect on the lessons and consolations of nature.

Botanical art traditionally aims to convey scientific truths about the natural world. This series of works instead invites the viewer to turn that enquiry inward, and to contemplate what the observation of nature and natural rhythms has to teach us about ourselves, our secret truths and our impermanence.

Depicting natural cycles of genesis and death, the images of this series are a meditation on our place in the universe. They are a quiet invocation to be patient with life’s unfolding, and to be present while it does.

Patience is also about the creative act itself. It functions as a visual metaphor for artistic cycles of creation and destruction, the role of repetition in art-making, and the value of patience for all artistic development and practice.

Sarah White works across painting, drawing, printmaking, and mixed media. Her background in science and health research informs her work in terms of an interest in how close, careful observation yields heightened awareness, a greater understanding of ourselves, and a more compassionate view of the world.

Daily Opening Times :
Friday 3 May – Thursday 27 June 2024
Monday – Friday 9:00am – 5:00pm
Public Holidays CLOSED
Weekend Opening Hours as below (selected Saturdays / dates only):
Saturday 15 June 2024, 10:00am – 4:00pm
Saturday 22 June 2024, 10:00am – 4:00pm

Opening Event :
Thursday 9 May 2024, 5:30pm – 7:30pm

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MORSEL is an annual showcase of works by Salamanca Arts Centre’s Resident Visual Artists, with works created as part of their Studio practice.

Works range from photograph to painting to collage; drawing to sculptural; figurative to abstract; from Artists in the Willis, Stanmore and Morrison Studios.

MORSEL
– a noun [mor·​sel]
A morsel is a small amount of something, a tid-bit, a sliver, usually of something of high-quality and much desired — like a morsel of dark chocolate or a morsel of secret information.

Featured Artists :
Emma Bingham
Hannah Blackmore
Jack Braudis
Lucinda Bresnehan
Katherine Cooper
Antoinette Ellis
Phillip England
Katelyn Geard
Jane Hodgetts
Melissa Kenihan
Jamin Kluss
Kwony Kwon
Julie Payne
Julien Scheffer
Emily Snadden
Julie Stoneman
Michael Vivarelli
Richard Wastell

Presented by Hobart College

Opening Dates :
May 8 – 19, 2024 
9am – 5pm daily

Opening Event :
May 10, 2024 – 5pm

An exhibition of visual art by Hobart College’s class of 2023.

Every year art students from across the state work hundreds of hours to produce art as part of their course, left unseen expect by peers and teachers.

HoCo Now aims to bring the astonishing talent and diligence of Hobart College visual art students into public, showcasing the skills and vision of our 2023 cohort across ceramics, photography, painting, drawing and everything in between.  

Presented by the artists Natasha Bradley, Bliss Sandhu, Keryn Fountain, Annie Geard, Nancy Mauro-Flude, Brigita Ozolins and Sally Rees.

Daily Opening Times:
30 May – 16 June 2024
10:00am – 4:00pm daily

Opening event :
30 May 2024 – 5.30pm

A small curated group show featuring 6 emerging and established Tasmanian artists working across a diverse range of mediums including installation, video, photography, assemblage and performance explore the idea of invisible power and forces.

Power is a natural force in our structures, our networks and our environment. The invisible forces of power acting around us in our buildings and earth and our bodies, the powers of tension and physics holding walls and barriers and regulating the way we engage and carry out our lives. This includes the power of one’s own body and mental power through the ability to have power over oneself or regulate or change individual behaviour.  Poet and musician, Lou Reed talked about how his practice in martial arts and tai chi put him in touch with the power of ….’ the universe’. He said, “the best of energies become available, and soon your body and mind become an invisible power” (2023).

Many of these forms of power are not manifest nor are we conscious of them all at any one time. At any time we might feel powerful or experience power, conversely we feel powerless or inferior to another force but what are the power dynamics at play that make this so? Is it society, technology, our position, our internal feelings of control, our environment?

May 4, 2024 – 10am – 3pm

Come along and meet your new favourite author. This exciting event features Tasmania’s best selling and award winning writers from a variety of genres.

From Crime and Thrillers to Romance, Fantasy and non-fiction of every variety, the Tasmanian Indie Author Book Fair features many of Tasmania’s best selling and award winning Indie authors. Meet your new favourite author, buy a book and get it signed.

The 2024 Tassie Indie Author Book Fair runs from 10 am until 3 pm on Saturday May 4th. There will be lots of givaways and new books to discover.

Opening Dates :
Wednesday 22 May – Monday 3 June 2024
Monday – Saturday 10:00am – 4:00pm
Sundays 10:00am – 3:00pm

Opening Event :
Saturday 25 May 2024 @ 11:00am

Crossing Kingdoms is a celebration of our visual and innate connection to fungi and the transformative power of decomposition.

Crossing Kingdoms is a celebration of our visual and innate connection to nature and the transformative power of decomposition. In particular, the unique ability of fungi to colonise decomposed organic matter will be a central thread throughout our work.

Our fascination of fungi and it’s ability to decompose organic matter, and to communicate and share nutrients throughout its mycelium threads, has opened up opportunities for visual exploration.

Megan’s wearable art and soft sculptures represent this fascinating connection between the human body, its decomposition as a natural matter, and the bodies visual similarities to the mycelium network. Natural and/or reused mediums have been utilised in this exploration to create playful and earthy pieces.

Jennifer’s paintings mimic the intricate patterns that are worked below the soil surface, from the branching patterns of the tree roots to the delicate mycelium fungi webs.

Inspired by the comparable visual and nutritional similarities of the fungi mycelium to the veins of the human body, Jennifer has illustrated these intricities in her works.

from the branching patterns of tree roots to the delicate mycelium structures of fungi.

Inspired by the comparable ability of the sharing of nutrients within the fungi mycelium webs and human veins, Jennifer also used thread like veins in her works.

Presented by The Spindle Tree

The Spindle Tree’s installation in the Lightbox is a “Looking Forward | Looking Back” over thirty years of creating beautiful fibre handicrafts, exhibiting craftsmanship and skills rarely seen. Classics, as well as contemporary design will be on display.

The Spindle Tree’s installation in the Lightbox is a “Looking Forward | Looking Back” over thirty years of creating beautiful fibre handicrafts, exhibiting craftsmanship and skills rarely seen.

Classics, as well as contemporary design will be on display.

Can you remember 35 years ago?

The 1st of June 1989 to be precise.

That’s the day The Spindle Tree opened its doors for the first time.

Way back when the members of the Guild wanted an outlet for their works, mainly weaving, so a group of Guild friends got together, discussing the possibility of a ‘shop’. So many questions to answer : where to open, costs, legality, membership, a co-op?

With the dedicated help of the Guild members a plan was formed. Meetings held. Mrs Sheila Beattie was by agreement voted Chair. Luckily her son Ian was a lawyer and was a great benefit in setting up the Co-Operative and how to frame the Constitution.

Today The Spindle Tree is still run on the same lines and conditions. Over the years many things have changed, but not the core objectives or values.

Tasmanian made. All natural fibres.

Where to place out ‘shop’? Not an easy task. Finally it was agreed the Salamanca Arts Centre would be ideal. The Spindle Tree was originally located where the main stairs are now. Eighteen months later The Spindle Tree moved to it’s present location in Space 009; it has been ‘home’ for over thirty years.