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Tasmanian art galleries and their DECEMBER 2024 | JANUARY 2025 exhibition schedules are listed below, grouped by region. For listings in other Australian states please use the What’s On menu above.
Hobart, Sullivans Cove, Battery Point
Art Mob
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29 Hunter Street, Hobart 7000.
(03) 6236-9200, 0419-393-122.
euan@artmob.com.au
www.artmob.com.au
Director: Euan Hills.
Daily 10.00 to 6.00. Check public holiday opening times on our Google listing.
Bett Gallery
Level 1, 65 Murray Street, Hobart 7000.
Mon–Fri 10.00 to 5.30, Sat 10.00 to 4.00. Closed Sun and public holidays.
Colville Gallery
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Ground Floor, 15 Castray Esplanade, Battery Point 7004.
(03) 6224-4088, 0419-292-626.
info@colvillegallery.com.au
www.colvillegallery.com.au
Mon–Sat 9.30 to 5.30. Closed public holidays.
Colville Gallery presents works by contemporary Tasmanian and Australian artists featuring paintings, works on paper, photography and sculpture in an annual program of curated exhibitions.
Contemporary Art Tasmania
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27 Tasma Street, North Hobart 7000.
(03) 6231-0445.
info@contemporaryart.org.au
www.contemporaryarttasmania.org
Wed–Sat 12.00 to 5.00. Closed Mon–Tues.
Feb 1 to March 8, 2025 Gravity Portal by Sarah Maher.
Sarah Maher, Echo of a very old poem, 2024. Courtesy the artist and Contemporary Art Tasmania
Handmark Gallery
Unique Tasmanian Art & Design
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77 Salamanca Place, Hobart 7000.
(03) 6223-7895.
hobart@handmark.com.au
www.handmark.com.au
Mon–Sat 10.00 to 4.00, Sun 11.00 to 4.00 or by appointment.
Nov 29 to Dec 16 At first light by Melanie McCollin-Walker.
Dec 20 to Jan 13, 2025 Over a shining Sea by Anna Fitzpatrick.
Jan 17 to Feb 10, 2025 Summer Salon – Handmark Artists.
Anna Fitzpatrick, Boxing Day on Sydney Harbour, 2024, oil on canvas, 140 × 155cm. Courtesy the artist and Handmark Gallery
Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania
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37 Hunter Street, Hobart 7000.
(03) 6226-4353.
Jane.Barlow@utas.edu.au
www.utas.edu.au/creative-arts-media/events/plimsoll-gallery
Gallery open to the public: Nov 30 to Dec 8, 10am–2pm.
Visit website for additional gallery days/opening times.
The Plimsoll Gallery showcases touring and curated exhibitions of innovative local, national and international contemporary art and design, in addition to the work of the School of Creative Arts and Media, Research Higher Degree and Honours examinations. students.
Nov 30 to Dec 8 (opening Fri Nov 29, 5.30–7.30pm) Janine Combes – MFA Examination.
Tasmanian artist/jeweller Janine Combes uses sites of historical resource exploitation as a poetic vantage point to explore the unfinished work, for settler Australians, of learning to belong. She harnesses jewellery-making techniques to explore how we may “unforget” our past, harnessing embedded text, patina, and the fragment as both form and potential material.
Floor talk: Sat Dec 7, 11am.
Janine Combes, The pretence, 2024, vintage brass compact, engraved brass, patina, 24 × 18 × 4cm. Courtesy the artist and Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania
Janine Combes, The words are here, 2024, vintage book box, engraved copper, patina, 12 × 8.5 × 7cm. Courtesy the artist and Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania
Salamanca Arts Centre
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65–77 Salamanca Place, Hobart 7000.
sac.org.au
Office: Mon–Fri 9.00 to 5.00.
Visit individual event pages on website for venue opening times.
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
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Dunn Place (enter via the Watergate), Hobart 7000.
(03) 6165-7000.
tmagmail@tmag.tas.gov.au
www.tmag.tas.gov.au
Daily 10.00 to 4.00 (Dec 26 to March 31).
Tues–Sun 10.00 to 4.00 (April 1 to Dec 24).
Closed Good Friday, Anzac Day, and Christmas Day. Open 10.00 to 4.00 on Monday public holidays year-round.
Visit website for full exhibition program.
To Feb 9, 2025 Artists to Ice presents works from the TMAG collection by Australian artists Stephen Eastaugh, Bea Maddock, Jan Senbergs, and Jörg Schmeisser, who travelled to Antarctica between 1987 and 2009.
Greater Hobart
Glenorchy Art and Sculpture Park (GASP)
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Elwick Bay Foreshore, Brooker Highway, Glenorchy 7010.
gcc.tas.gov.au/discover-glenorchy/arts-and-culture
GASP is a dynamic and inspiring open space providing unique ways to interact with art and create memorable experiences in the natural environment.
Mona, Museum of Old and New Art
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655 Main Road, Berriedale, Hobart 7011.
mona.net.au
Facebook + Instagram: @monamuseum
Fri–Mon 10.00 to 5.00.
Visit website for pre-bookings.
To April 21, 2025 Namedropping. This exhibition of some 200 artworks and objects poses questions: What makes the big names big: Porsche, Picasso or Pompidou? What is the nature of status and why is it useful? Is status all about culture, or is there something deeper?
Danh Vo, We the People (detail), 2011–16, copper, installation view, Namedropping, Mona, Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, 2024. Photograph: Mona/Jesse Hunniford. Courtesy the artist and Mona, Museum of Old and New Art
Launceston
Design Tasmania
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Cnr Brisbane and Tamar streets, Launceston 7250.
(03) 6331-5506.
info@designtasmania.com.au
designtasmania.com.au
Wed–Sat 10.00 to 3.00, Sun 10.00 to 2.00. Closed Mon–Tues and public holidays.
Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery
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Museum at 2 Invermay Road, Launceston 7250.
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Art Gallery at 2 Wellington Street, Launceston 7250.
(03) 6323-3777.
www.qvmag.tas.gov.au
Daily 10.00 to 4.00.
Museum at Inveresk:
To Feb 2, 2025 Unbound: Books Reimagined.
A book contains words and information on pages, bound together and protected by a cover. At least, that’s what we generally understand a book to be. Unbound: Books Reimagined challenges this perception and reimagines the many forms a book could take. The exhibition focuses on two types of books: artists’ books, works of art that utilise the book form, and pop-up books, containing three-dimensional features that must be activated by a user. Discover the book form as you’ve never seen it – or imagined it – before. Free entry.
Jánis Nedéla, Codex no.5, 2009, coloured headed pins through printed text, acrylic paint, nail varnish, 40 × 50.5cm (framed). Photograph: QVMAG. Courtesy the artist and Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery
To Feb 16, 2025 This Vanishing World: Photography of Olegas Truchanas.
The story of a man who loved Tasmania and its wild places. For 20 years, Olegas Truchanas explored Tasmania’s wild places, pushing his body and practice to the limit. Motivated by a love of nature and natural beauty, his legacy is a story told in images. Through the lens of his camera, This Vanishing World shares the journey of Truchanas and his campaign for Tasmanians to have greater awareness of their incredible home state – alongside the major influence he left on the wilderness photographers who followed him. Free entry.
Olegas Truchanas, Showers, Frankland Range, Lake Pedder, 1968, Cibachrome print. Courtesy the artist and Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery
Art Gallery at Royal Park:
Dec 14 to March 23, 2025 The Gentle Protagonist: Art of Michael McWilliams.
In 2024, QVMAG will present the first-ever public exhibition of the works of much-loved Tasmanian artist Michael McWilliams. McWilliams is one of Australia’s most successful and widely recognised artists. His quirky and whimsical landscapes, depicting wildlife, and domestic and feral species, in Tasmanian bushland, farmyards, gardens and houses, have captivated audiences around Australia and internationally. His works project a great affection for his subjects and while often humorous, can also carry a darker observation on human effects on the environment. The exhibition and companion publication will be the first holistic survey of McWilliams’ art, exploring his life and career, his place in the canon of Australian and international art, and his empathy with the wildlife and natural environment of Tasmania. Free entry.
Michael McWilliams, A Pointed Reminder, 2021, acrylic on linen, 100 × 120cm. Private collection, Tasmania. Courtesy the artist and Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery
Sawtooth ARI
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58 Lindsay Street, Invermay 7248.
sawtoothari@gmail.com
www.sawtoothari.com
Thurs–Sun 11.00 to 4.00.
North West Coast
Devonport Regional Gallery
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paranaple arts centre – Market Square, 145 Rooke Street, Devonport 7310.
(03) 6420-2900.
artgallery@devonport.tas.gov.au
www.paranapleartscentre.com.au/devonport-regional-gallery
Free entry.
Mon–Fri 9.00 to 5.00, Sat and public holidays 9.00 to 2.00. Closed Sun.