Chi Ling Tabart . Inner Eddies. Wood sculpture. 90 x 180 x 100mm. Photo by Peter Whyte Photography.
Opening Event Friday 11 November 2022 6:00pm – 8:00pm
An exhibition of small sculptural works in wood by Taiwanese/Tasmanian artist Chi Ling Tabart.
We are all sentient beings. We talk about our feelings and express those complex emotions in language and in art. There are various eddies in our life we deal constantly with. Some are bigger and some are smaller caused by psychological and environmental stressors.
Eddies are rolling us and pushing us around and creating a state of unhappiness. Sometimes we get stuck, or capsized by the turbulence, but other times we learn to cope and recover emotionally with days, months or years.
Chi Ling Tabart . Inner Eddies. Wood sculpture. 90 x 190 x 90mm. Photo by Peter Whyte Photography.
Chi Ling Tabart . Fall. Wood sculpture. 140 x 90 x 110mm. Photo by Peter Whyte Photography.
String art by the participants of OnTrack Tasmania. Image courtesy of OnTrack Tasmania.
Discovering Ability showcases the participants’ experiences, stories, and incredible creative abilities.
Discovering Ability is the second annual exhibition by OnTrack Tasmania NDIS participants. Its purpose is to highlight these artists’ who, despite the challenges and constraints, have a remarkable ability to use art to express their thoughts, feelings and life experiences.
Throughout the year the OnTrack Tasmania Making Tracks program offers a variety of classes and activities where participants learn new skills and work on art pieces. OnTrack Tasmania is proud to present the result of the talent and hard work from our participants’ and to showcase their creative abilities. The Discovering Ability exhibition makes use of the artistic talents of OnTrack Tasmania’s participants and staff to give each client the chance to express and share their experiences, stories, and exceptional skills. The exhibition aims to help artists recognise the value of their art and provide them an opportunity to sell at their pieces.
Artwork by Ontrack participant.
Ontrack participant with Art Program Leader.
Ontrack participant.
Zoe Lovell. Girl with a Lobster Earring. Oil on canvas. 40cm x 50cm
Opening Event Friday 14 October 2022 6:00pm – 8:00pm
A study of identity through portraiture and still life, by Zoe Lovell.
“Portraits give us a glimpse into who a sitter is through their physical appearance. We are able to understand aspects of who they are through their facial expressions, body language and personal style. However, there’s always more to someone than what’s presented on the surface.
This body of work was born out of a frustration of being overlooked based on my outward appearance and the way I present myself. We each have our own unique experience with this sense of dismissal, regardless of how we appear on the outside and it saddens me to know that through some eyes, we’re only worth as much as our looks.
I have created a series of portraits of myself and my friends, showcasing not only the way we look, but aspects of our lives that shape our identities, whether that’s through our lived in spaces or objects of importance to us. My aim during this process has been to capture aspects of ourselves that we value most and want to be recognised for. We each have our own set of ambitions, skills and personality traits that define who we are and eclipse the significance of our outward appearances.
Whilst I have created portraits, which typically only give us a sense of personality through expression, body language and looks, these paintings aim to be a quiet celebration of individuality through the everyday and act as windows into the lives and identities of the subjects.” – Zoe Lovell
Zoe Lovell. Self Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman. Oil on canvas. 40cm x 50cm
Zoe Lovell. Sunday Morning with Rodin. Oil on canvas. 40cm x 50cm
Zoe Lovell. Successful women don’t wear ribbons in their hair. Oil on canvas. 40cm x 50cm
Earth and Land presents lutruwita/Tasmania’s natural beauty, captured within the clay of Angela Reiher’s sculptural forms and Caitlin Love’s canvas.
Opening Event Friday 30 September 2022 5:30pm – 7:30pm Top Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre
Emerging artists Angela Reiher and Caitlin Love met in 2020 after taking ceramics classes together. They soon realised their shared ambition to produce a body of work to exhibit. Angela and Caitlin’s interest in the natural landscape and obsession with the Tasmanian wilderness was the subject of many conversations which lead the pair to recognise the many ways their works speak to each other. Angela collects wild clay from different locations in lutruwita/Tasmania, to use within her work. Caitlin represents the natural environment in her paintings, including some of locations where Angela has sourced her clay from. Their work embodies the landscape in more ways than one.
Angela and Caitlin have nurtured a strong friendship over the last couple of years, consistently supporting and encouraging one another to follow their motivations as artists. Together, the pair launched their work for Earth and Land with a trip to Tasmania’s wild and captivating West Coast, early in 2022. This is the first time that Angela and Caitlin have exhibited their work.
Caitlin Love. South Cape Rivulet. Acrylic on Canvas. 38 x 82cm
Angela Reiher. Untitled (2022). Clay. Photographer: Sid Scott
Angela Reiher
Angela Reiher is an artist based in nipaluna/Hobart. Angela was born in Warragul, Victoria and moved to lutruwita/Tasmania in 2018. She came on a holiday to Tasmania in 2017 and fell in love with the amazing and diverse landscape as she travelled around the state. She has recently retired from a life of teaching to release her dreams and passion for the arts.
Angela has a deep-rooted connection with the natural world and her works reflect this. Angela’s work is inspired by what she sees around her, or literally includes elements from the environment. In her ceramic work, she uses items such as rocks for tools in shaping, trimming, carving and finishing work. Angela uses shells, rocks and leaves and other found items as inspiration and to emulate colours in glazes and in the finishing effects. Her handbuilding reflects the organic shapes in the environment and incorporates aspects of natural elements such as wild clay.
Angela loves connecting to the earth by collecting and hand processing clay found in the wild. Everything is done by hand until the final firing stage, including collecting the clay, picking up or digging out the clay with a small handheld shovel or shell. Clay is broken down and squished by hand, from large lumps into a smooth mix. Angela then pushes it through a sieve and dries it out to a usable degree, wedges it and makes it ready to use. Angela uses wild clays as finishing effects on ceramic pieces that she has either handbuilt or wheel-thrown. Angela likes her artwork to ‘create itself’. She begins with an idea but has learnt to have no boundaries. She likes the work to take on its own form and, in a way, to create itself.
Caitlin Love
Caitlin Love was born in Ngunnawal country/Canberra and she studied Art History and Curatorship at The Australian National University. She moved to lutruwita/Tasmania in 2015 and based herself in nipaluna/Hobart to further her study at the School of Creative Arts, completing her master’s degree. Caitlin currently works as an art teacher.
Painting has been a lifelong passion of Caitlin’s. In this exhibition, Caitlin captures the essence and life of Tasmania’s diverse and pristine wilderness through her exploration of the colours and vistas that have captivated her during hiking and camping trips. These paintings reflect her personal connection to Tasmanian landscapes and the profound nourishment she receives from being in nature. There is a welcoming sense of solitude and peace that can be found in Tasmania’s unique landscape, which offers Caitlin both a sense of belonging and a feeling of remoteness.
Elizabeth Barsham. Larva
This installation by Elizabeth Barsham, Betty Nolan and Rebecca Watson features ceramic and sculptural creatures, and is a preview of the upcoming exhibition FLOCK at Nolan Art throughout October 2022.
Betty Nolan. Trojan Horse
Elizabeth Barsham. Sadie the Sanitising Saurian.
Rebecca Watson. Asses
A Hunter Island Press Pop-Up Print Sale and Exhibition. Postcards and artwork sales will raise funds for the Ukraine Crisis Appeal.
Hunter Island Press (HIP) provides a place for artists to create work and pass on their skills to the community.
HIP members have produced images for postcards to raise funds for the Ukraine Crisis Appeal.
Artists represented include: Maggie Aird, Anastasiia Ananieva, Sally Beech, Rowena Bond, Alicja Boyd, Carolyn Canty, Rebecca Coote, Tina Curtis, Cath de Little, Jeanie Edwards, Ailsa Ferguson, Abbey J Green, Janice Luckman, Pat Martin, Rob McKenna, Anna Mykhalchuk, Linda Pollard, Julie Race, Sarah Robert-Tissot and Amalea Smolcic.
HIP thanks Monotone Art Printers for sponsoring postcard printing.
Tina Curtis. Gloaming (detail)
Sally Beech. Blue Dove (2022). Collagraph.
Cath de Little. Flight.
Samuel Allen. Morning Light on Cradle Mountain.
An exhibition by Landscape Photographer Samuel Allen
“My homeland of Tasmania is a natural setting for landscape photography. The untouched temperate rain-forests, world heritage areas and coastal scenery is simply breathtaking. A plethora of famous walking tracks, well-formed and sometimes not well known within the island, lead to locations perfect for capturing images that I try to showcase with my photography.” – Samuel Allen
Britt Fazey. Warm Limestone Shelf (2022). Oil on Board. 310 x210 mm.
Other-Worldly is a collection of oil paintings centered around the idea that home in its truest sense exists outside our walls in the great outdoors.
In Other-Worldly, Britt Fazeyplays with the definition of home and connection to the natural world. Could the practice of nurturing our connection with the natural world help us to re frame the overwhelming distractions of modern life? Could it help free us and make us more effective participants in our own lives?
Opening Event : **Event has reached Capacity** Wednesday 7 September 2022 5:30pm – 7:30pm Free to attend, subject to capacity. The opening event for Other-Worldly is sponsored by Spotty Dog Brewers
After travelling as far west as Shark Bay and as far north as Cook Town, Britt Fazey now resides in her hometown in Tasmania. Having spent her childhood on the waters of the Derwent river and its lower estuaries Britt again takes to the water to explore, reconnect and define home.
Anna Brooks. Giant kelp (detail) (2020). Collage. 240 x 77cm.
From marine algae to twisted trees, this exhibition by Anna Brooks explores a fascinating variety of plant forms.
An exhibition of works on paper, including printmaking, photography, drawing and collage. Intimate portraits show each plant, or plant part, as something precious and intriguing. The works emphasise form and pattern and the diversity of shapes and designs found in nature. They celebrate the mysterious nature of plants, and draw the viewer into the inner reaches of other organisms which may sometimes seem alien and sometimes familiar.
Anna Brooks has a great love of plants. This began when she was a child roaming around in bushland on the family farm, continued through a degree in Botany, and years of bushwalking in many wonderful places. Brooks completed her Honours in Fine Arts in 2021. Almost all of her art is about the natural world.
Anna Brooks. Cystophora moniliformis (2022). Digital inkjet print. 25 x 25cm
Anna Brooks. White mulberry (detail) (2022). Pen and ink. 29 x 118cm
Anna Brooks. Cystophora platylobium (2022). Cyanotype photogram. 40 x 38cm
This event is part of Winter Light 2022 and is presented by Salamanca Arts Centre
Friday 12 August CANCELLED. Sadly, this performance has been cancelled. Apologises for any inconvenience. Risa Ray + Georgia Shine 9.00pm – 9.30pm In front of the Peacock Theatre
Saturday 13 August Risa Ray + Jem Nicholas + Georgia Shine 9.00pm – 9.30pm In front of the Peacock Theatre
Friday 19 August Jem Nicholas + Georgia Shine 10.00pm – 10.30pm Long Gallery
Saturday 20 August Jem Nicholas + Georgia Shine + Risa Ray 10.00pm – 10.30pm Long Gallery
Random Acts of Weirdness – where the strange and beautiful meet. Short form performances with extreme undertakings.
Not to be missed.
Artists
Photo: supplied by the artist
Georgia Shine
Georgia Shine is a cellist, vocalist, improviser, and multi-disciplinary artist. A University of Queensland graduate in Music Performance (Hons) and an Alexander Technique practitioner and teacher, she is the founder of Moving Connections, which uses live music and improvised dance to build community with therapeutic arts practices.
Georgia has performed around Australia with the Southern Cross Soloists, the Armilla Quartet, Nessi Gomes and most recently with the Tasmanian folk duo, Yyan and Emily. Her festival appearances include Dark MOFO, Bangalow Music Festival, Beaker St Festival, The Unconformity, Cygnet Folk Festival, Mt Roland Folk Festival and Woodford Folk Festival. Georgia has performed regularly as a solo cellist at MONA for the Ladies’ Lounge, Faro Restaurant and Salon Sunday.
Being also an improvisational dancer and award-winning visual artist, Georgia is currently working on her own body of performance art that is inspired by the connection between the diversity of the Tasmanian landscape and her own ecology of artistic practices with an Arts Tasmania funded Artist in Residency Program at Cradle Mountain.
Photo: Marie Nosaka
Risa Ray
I’m a dancer from Japan. I have family there and here, and who exist in both worlds. I grew up around Tokyo, the direct opposite of Tasmania. I’ve been Tasmania for over six years and I love here. My connections are varied and contrasting. I’m not a native speaker and still studying English, but I can communicate. Dance is possibly my best way of communicating. It helps me form bridges between my worlds.
Photo: supplied by the artist
Jem Nicholas
Jem Nicholas has worked as an actor in Australia, New Zealand and New York. Jem holds a Bachelor of Performing Arts from Monash University, and has since further her studies at the Susan Batson Studio NY, 16TH Street Actors Studio and The Melbourne Actors Lab. Jem has also trained with Hollywood Director and coach Kim Farrant. Some of her notable theatre credits include playing Carrie in ‘Rules for Living’ (Red Stitch Theatre), Sylvia in ‘You Are the Blood’ (Spinning Plates Co.), various lead roles in ‘Song Contest, Almost Eurovision Experience’ (Glynn Nicholas Group), Vendla in ‘Spring Awakening’ (Monash University), and many more. Jem has also appeared in ABC’s ‘Dr Blake Murder Mysteries,’ directed by Diana Reid, and as Elizabeth in ‘The spirit of the Game’ (Shearwater Entertainment). Jem is an independent play write and physical theatre performer and puppeteer and has received a Green Room Nomination for Best Actress in an Ensemble for her role as Rose in ‘Love, Love, Love’ with Red Stitch. She is currently training in the Alexander Technique in Hobart and will graduate as a teacher in 2014.
