Exhibitions Archive 2007

Lucia Rossi Installation

Jacqui Stockdale Installation

 Isola Corpo: adventures of the island psyche

Thursday 22 November 2007 - Sunday 6 January 2008

Participating Artists: Lucia Rossi and Jacqui Stockdale

Curator: Victoria Hammond

In this exhibition Lucia Rossi and Jacqui Stockdale present new work in photography, moving image and mixed media. Themes of landscape, mythology, the self as subject, portrait and performance are explored by the artists in this exiting new exhibition.

Installation

 kidspeak: we're talking.....anyone listening

Thursday 4 October - Sunday 11 November 2007

Participating Artists: Angela Blakely and David Lloyd

A photo documentary exhibition by artists Angela Blakely and David Lloyd. This exhibition gives a voice to marginalised and indigenous youth in North Queensland. Blakely and Lloyd have collaborated on a number of social documentary projects over many years including, the documentation of sensitive health care issues in the former USSR with the World Health Organisation.

Installation

Mutant Hybrid's - Penny Smith

Thursday 16 August - Sunday 23 September 2007

A solo exhibition of ceramics by eminent Tasmanian artist, Penny Smith.

This exhibition explores ideas about "place and placement". Ideas about migration, identity and imposition are reflected in a series of abstract forms, textures and colours that are accompanied by some of the stories that have inspired them, to pose the question "are we exotic species or imported pest".

Justin Trendall

Parthenon 2007

silk

Installation

Making and Breaking Pattern

Thursday 28 June - Sunday 5 August 2007

Participating Artists: Elizabeth Day, Judith Duquemin, Kate MacKay, Shaun Morrow, Giles Ryder and Justin Trendall.

Curator: Judith Duquemin

"The works in this exhibition are linked by each artist's acknowledgement that pattern making, and pattern breaking, are important mechanisms for the development of personal, professional and cultural identity. The outcome is a mixed installation of complex art forms requiring intense contemplation and navigation on the part of the observer." curator's statement.

Sally Brown

Lapping Screens 2007

organza and stainless steel

ExtraOrdinary

Thursday 17 May - Sunday 17 June

Curator: Richard Skinner.

Participating Artists: Sally Brown, Matthew Butler, Zoe MacDonell, Samantha Parsons, Richard Skinner and Tomoko Taira.

Extraordinary is an exhibition of Tasmanian and interstate designers exploring new ways of presenting and understanding contemporary design. In the catalogue essay for the exhibition Curator Richard Skinner notes, "The designers have been chosen because of their selection and use of materials - the mundane, found, overlooked or reused - and their active re-examination and reordering of the ordinary."

Installation

Bayeux Soldat II - US Medic 2004

Two plate colour etching

In Harm's Way - Raymond Arnold

Thursday 12 April - Sunday 13 May

Raymond Arnold's recent etchings explore the theme of war and shielding the body. The etchings illustrate the artist's emotional and intellectual fascination with the theme of body armour.

"In this talismatic projection of line and pattern into sheet/shield I am interested in protection" Raymond Arnold 2006

Arnold is the recent winner of the 2007 Glover Prize for Landscape and is part of the Carnegie Gallery's Eminent Tasmanian Artist's program.

Austins Ferry 1 & 2 Tasmania 2004

Type C Photograph

Installation

Marking Time - David Stephenson

Friday 16 March - Sunday 8 April 2007

David Stephenson’s recent large format colour photographs explore the passage of time within the Tasmanian environment. Representations of momentary or extended natural processes - including human actions such as forestry, mining, hydroelectric, and residential development – mark the environment as a site of continuous change, its balance contested by these various forces and their competing value systems.

Wendy Fairclough

Leaving

Hand blown engraved glass 2006

Installation

Ranamok Glass Prize 2006

Thursday 8 February - Sunday 11 March 2007

The Ranamok Glass Prize features 41 contemporary glass artists from Australia and New Zealand in an exhibition which explores the medium and pushes the boundaries of glass art. The exhibition includes established artists Richard Whiteley, Wendy Fairclough, Hilary Crawford, Mark Thiele and Richard Clements as well as emerging talent Matthew Ryan and Zara Collins in an exhibition not seen in Hobart before.

James Newitt

Familiar Strangers

25 channel sound installation 2007

Installation

Made Public

Thursday 11 January - Thursday 1 February 2007

Curator: Paula Silva

Participating Artists: James Newitt, John Vella, Judith Abell, Kevin Leong

An exhibition of four installations that reflect the plurality, paradoxes and differences that constitute public space, as seen through the diverse perspectives of the curator and invited artists.

"As soon as we go beyond the fences surrounding our gardens, we enter a space where the meaning of unity is constantly negotiated and put at risk." Paula Silva

Box Compass

Exploring the South Land - Maps and Charts from the Lamprell Collection

Thursday 23 November - Sunday 7 January 2007

Curator: Rona Hollingsworth

An exhibition presented by the Maritime Museum of Tasmania and the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery featuring maps and charts of European cartographers and the gradual delineation of Australia.