Exhibitions Archive

Installation shot L to R : Jon Williamson, Sonia Heap, Sandy Wrightson

 In Light Relief

Sonia Heap, Sandra Wrightson, Fiona Tabart and Jon Williamson.

 Friday 22 August - Sunday 27 September 2009 

In Light Relief presents the work of four Tasmanian artists and combines jewellery, sculpture, graphic art and costume design. Sonia Heap, Fiona Tabart, Jon Williamson and Sandy Wrightson share a darker vision of natural forms that suggest art nouveau and gothic influences. Despite the diversity of mediums, the structures, patterns and motifs used link all the work and suggests that nature isn't necessarily the benign force we imagine but can also have a surreal mysterious side.

View video of Sonia Heap's dress designs produced by Brady Denehey 

  Champagne Lady 1950

  Maggie Diaz – Into The Light

  Thursday 2 July - Sunday 9 August 

'Maggie Diaz - Into the Light'  was a touring retrospective exhibition of the American born photographer Maggie Diaz, curated by Gwendolen De Lacy, a friend and admirer of the past twenty five years. Into the Light was not only a celebration of Diaz's photographic career, spanning more than fifty years, but gave an insight into her particularly humane portrayal of the social backdrop of 1950's Chicago and of Melbourne, Victoria, between the 1960's and 1990's.

Installation shot

 Working Fire

Ben Richardson, Neil Hoffmann, Michael Stephan

  Thursday 14 May - Sunday 21 June 2009 

This exhibition presents the work of three Tasmanian ceramic artists who are renowned for working with woodfire processes; a technique that leaves traces of the fire marks within the work. Working Fire will be a rare opportunity to see three differing approaches to this technique in the one exhibition.

Videos

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Biography videos: Michael - Neil - Ben

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Place of Contemplation 1984 - 86

Mixed Media 300 x 300 x 300 cm

Paul Zika: Home and Away - reconstructing artifice

Thursday 26 March 2009 - Sunday 3 May 2009

Following periods of travel to key European architectural sites, each characterised by highly embellished decor and ornament, Paul Zika has returned to Hobart to construct complex painted structures. The work is concerned with a radical fusion of surface and form, in stark contrast to Modernist notions of decoration as embellishment.

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CODEX

Thursday 5 February 2009 - Sunday 15 March 2009

In this new installation, Brigita Ozolins continues to explore her interest in the themes of language, knowledge, history and identity. CODEX creates an inner world and an outer world, two spaces inspired by the links between writing, mystery, subjective experience and a yearning to access the unknown and the ineffable. 

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