Art Almanac is the essential guide to Australia's art galleries - a monthly magazine listing the exhibition schedules of over 550 art galleries throughout Australia, packaged in an easy-to-use format, supported by gallery maps, an artist index, and profiles of current art exhibitions. Tasmainia art galleries and their September exhibition schedules are listed below, for listings of art galleries in other Australian states please use links above.
Academy Gallery
Academy of the Arts, School of Visual and Performing Arts, University of Tasmania, Invermay Road, Inveresk, Launceston 7250. (03) 6324-4410 fax 6324-4463. Malcom.Bywaters@utas.edu.au Director: Malcom Bywaters. Free entry. Mon-Fri 9.00 to 5.00, closed weekends and public hols. To Oct 15 Hands Up Academy Gallery volunteers, curated by Georgie Parker To Oct 17 KP11: Producing Communities by Australia Council Community Cultural Partnerships Key Producer organisations, curated by Malcom Bywaters and Faces of Launceston – the next generation by PHILIP KURUVITA. Also Primed: Painting Tasmania – AMANDA DAVIES, NEIL HADDON, JONATHAN KIMBERLEY, ANNIKA KOOPS, MEGAN WALCH, RICHARD WASTELL and CATHERINE WOO, curated by Catherine Wolfhagen.
Art Mob
29 Hunter Street, Hobart 7000. (03) 6236-9200, 0419-393-122. euan@artmob.com.au www.artmob.com.au Director: Euan Hills. Open daily 10.00 to late. Aboriginal fine art, including Tasmanian Aboriginal artists. Sept 17 to Oct 3 Canning Stock Route show works from artists and communities along the route.
Bett Gallery Hobart
369 Elizabeth Street, North Hobart 7000. (03) 6231-6511 fax 6231-6521. dick@bettgallery.com.au www.bettgallery.com.au Director: Dick Bett (member of ACGA). Mon-Fri 10.00 to 6.00, Sat 10.00 to 4.00. To Sept 7 Woodwork new paintings by RICHARD WASTELL. Sept 10 to 30 The Stillness in Movement new paintings by THORNTON WALKER. Sept 10 to Oct 31 Smell of Dreams new paintings by AMANDA DAVIES.
Burnie Regional Art Gallery
Burnie Arts & Function Centre, Wilmot Street, Burnie 7320. (03) 6430-5875. gallery@burnie.net www.burniearts.net Free entry. Mon-Fri 10.00 to 4.30, Sat-Sun and public hols 1.30 to 4.30. To Sept 12 Littoral works by six contemporary artists inspired by the marine works of CHARLES ALEXANDRE LESUEUR, an artist on the Baudin voyage to Australia 1800-1804, Curated by Vivonne Thwaites. Also The Garden of Forking Paths a d/lux Media Arts Production, curated by Neil Jenkins, and Through Botanical Eyes by the North-West Botanical Artists. Sept 25 to Oct 16 TASART mixed-media show, curated by the Burnie Coastal Art Group Inc.
CAST
Contemporary Art Spaces Tasmania
27 Tasma Street, North Hobart 7000. (03) 6233-2681. info@castgallery.org www.castgallery.org Wed-Sun 12.00 to 5.00. To Sept 12 Laughter - STEPHEN BIRD, BEN BOOTH, ANDREW HARPER, HENRI PAPIN, RAOM & LOBA, NICOLE ROBSON curated by CAST’s emerging curator Victor Medrano. Sept 18 to Oct 17 Shotgun - SCOT COTTERELL, SARA MAHER, and CATH ROBINSON. Floor talk September 18, 2pm.
Colville Gallery
91a Salamanca Place, Hobart 7004. (03) 6224-4088. trudi@colvillestreetartgallery.com.au www.colvillestreetartgallery.com.au Mon and Wed-Sun 11.00 to 5.00. Sept 10 to 30 Agency by Dr COLIN LANGRIDGE.
Criterion Gallery
12 Criterion Street, Hobart 7000. (03) 6231-3151 fax 6224-7973. admin@criteriongallery.com www.criteriongallery.com.au Director: Michael Welch. Tues-Fri 11.00 to 4.00, Sat 11.00 to 3.00. To Sept 4 (I must confess… ) new prints by NEIL EMMERSON. Sept 9 to Oct 2 new work by ANTHONY JOHNSON.
Despard Gallery
Salamanca Place, 15 Castray Esplanade, Hobart 7000. (03) 6223-8266, 0419-355-758 fax 6223-6496. hobart@despard-gallery.com.au www.despard-gallery.com.au Director: Steven Joyce. Mon-Fri 11.00 to 6.00. To Sept 22 ANNE MORRISON. Sept 24 to Oct 13 STEVEN CARSON.
Devonport Regional Gallery
45-47 Stewart Street, Devonport 7310. (03) 6424-8296. artgallery@devonport.tas.gov.au www.devonportgallery.com Free entry. Mon-Sat 10.00 to 5.00, Sun and public hols 12.00 to 5.00. Sept 4 to Oct 10 (opening Fri Sept 3, 6pm) In Partnership - RAYMOND ARNOLD, ROBERT HABEL, NEIL HADDON, JACOB LEARY, ROBYN McKINNON, MICHAEL MURUSTE, MAIRI WARD and PHILIP WOLFHAGEN. Curated by Jane Deeth. Making art is only half the story. In Partnership acknowledges the relationship between artists, artwork and the viewer.
Entrepot Art Gallery
Centre for the Arts, 37 Hunter Street, Hobart 7000. (03) 6226-4313. Mon-Fri 9.00 to 4.00. To Sept 9 Shot in a Box OLIVIA BOWMAN and LAUREN VINEY, and The Long History of the Pineapple - I Want to be a Better Person OLIVIA HITTMANN. Sept 13 to 30 outside/inside ANN MEDLOCK installation of sculpture and drawing investigating the natural environment through sky, wind, and weather. Also, Chronicles from my Father by ELISABETH REDMOND family memories through black-and-white digital photography.
Handmark Gallery - Hobart
77 Salamanca Place, Hobart 7000. (03) 6223-7895. www.handmarkgallery.com Open daily 10.00 to 5.00. To Sept 8 Emerging Artist Exhibition prints and paintings by BLAIR WATERFIELD, and jewellery by EMMA BUGG. Sept 10 to Oct 8 new works by established and emerging Tasmanian printmakers, and winners of the 2010 Commissioned Prints for the National Print Council of Australia.
Handmark Gallery - Evandale
2 Russell Street, Evandale 7212. (03) 6391-8193. www.handmarkgallery.com Open daily 10.00 to 5.00. Sept 3 to Oct 6 paintings by JUNKO GO.
Inflight ARI
New Venue: 100 Goulburn Street, Hobart 7000. gallery@inflightart.com.au www.inflightart.com.au Wed-Sat 1.00 to 5.00. Sept 3 to 25 Psychometropolis an evolving installation by DANIELLE CLEJ & CLAIRE ROBERTSON. See website for details.
New Gallery
University of Tasmania
Newnham Drive, Newnham 7248. (03) 6324-3144 fax 6324-3303. Poppy.Fay@utas.edu.au Free entry. Mon-Fri 9.00 to 5.00, closed weekends and public hols. Sept 2 to Oct 14 Birchalls Tertiary Art Prize 2010 judged by Raymond Arnold and Bala Starr.
Plimsoll Gallery
University of Tasmania
Centre for the Arts, Hunter Street, Victoria Dock, Hobart 7000. (03) 6226-4309. Patricia.Brassington@utas.edu.au Open daily 12.00 to 5.00. Sept 3 to Oct 1 Seeing Double: Malaysian and Australian artists in conversation survey exhibition of current work produced at the Faculty of Art and Music at Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris in Tanjong Malim, Perak, Malaysia, and the University of Tasmania's School of Art.
Six_A Inc
6a Newdegate Street, North Hobart 7000. six_a_ari@hotmail.com www.myspace.com/six_a Thurs-Sun 1.00 to 5.00. Sept 3 to 26 BEN RYAN and LOUISE JOSEPHS.
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
40 Macquarie Street, Hobart 7001. (03) 6211-4177. www.tmag.tas.gov.au Daily 10.00 to 5.00. To Nov 14 Essence Australian prints and drawings from the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery’s collection of contemporary Australian art, exploring the artists’ use of line and tone to extract and convey the essence of their subject matter. From Sep 16 C20 highlighting some of the finest works from the TMAG Art and Decorative Art Collections, C20 – a grand tour of the major stages in Australian art history 1900–2000.