RACT INSURANCE TASMANIAN PORTRAIT PRIZE 2019
MAIN GALLERY Exhibition Dates: 23 November 2019 – 19 January 2020 The prize, which started in 2008, is open to artists 30 years old and under, across many disciplines, with past award recipients working in mixed media, print, photography, painting, video and drawing. The objective of the award is to foster the development of emerging […]
The Natural Estate
Laura Gillam, Joey Gracia and Callum DonoghueLITTLE GALLERYExhibition Dates: 19 October – 24 November, 2019 In the peak of Tasmania’s tourism boom, The Natural Estate explores the alternate narratives and landscapes neglected by glossy pamphlets and travel magazines. It questions the popular representations of Tasmania as an island of dreams and possibilities, abundant with pristine […]
Flatland: Tricky Walsh
MAIN GALLERY Exhibition Dates: 28 September – 17 November, 2019Official Opening: Friday 27 September, 6pm Fundamentally we live in a two-dimensional world. Everything we see around us is flat images arranged on a continually shifting series of planes. It is Light and its movement around us which allows us to perceive three-dimensionality, or Solidness. It […]
Here at Earth’s End
UPPER GALLERYCurated by Erin WilsonExhibition Dates: 7 September – 24 November, 2019Official Opening: Friday 6 September, 6pm Here at the Earth’s End features artists from the DCC permanent collection who act as both artists and activists through their practice, whether in relation to environmental, social or political issues of Tasmania’s past, present and future. These […]
Shattered
Anne O’ConnorTHE LITTLE GALLERYExhibition Dates: 7 September – 13 October, 2019 Shattered glass, graffiti, abandonment, the Royal Derwent is no more. As walls crumble and glass shatters, nothingness is left to signify the many who called this place home. Where are they, the lost, uprooted and vanished people of the Derwent? Image; Tears, Statistics, A […]
Threads of Childhoods Past
Threads of Childhoods Past: Jennifer Frost and Jan Larcombe Little Gallery – Emerging Artist Program THE LITTLE GALLERY Exhibition Dates: 27 July – 1 September 2019 Opening: Friday 2 August, 6pm In Threads of Childhoods Past, two artists with a shared childhood growing up in the remote area of Trowutta in the far North West […]
As Far as The Eye Can See
MAIN GALLERY Exhibition Dates: 8 June – 28 July 2019 As far as the eye can see celebrates celebrates the contemporary topography of both landscape and printmaking. The exhibition challenges these doubly conventional themes through the work of twenty-two Australian artists whose work reflects the breadth and depth of print practice in Australia today. The […]
Placing Things: Kelly Austin
Little Gallery Exhibition Dates: 16 March – 19 May 2019 With this exhibition, Placing Things, Kelly Austin continues to question the connections between perception and expectation. Writing on Kelly’s work, Dr Patsy Hely has said: “Kelly Austin continues to experiment with form-types while shifting her focus from the generalised contemplation invited by still life works […]
Del Kathryn Barton: The Nightingale and The Rose
Exhibition Dates:16 March – 26 May 2019 Main Gallery Showcasing the hauntingly beautiful collaboration between Del Kathryn Barton and Brendan Fletcher, this milestone exhibition traces the interpretation of Oscar Wilde’s 19th century classic through an artistic lens. Featuring a screening of their award-winning film alongside material from the production archives, Del Kathryn Barton: The Nightingale […]
Littoral
Exhibition Dates: 2 March – 2 June 2019 Upper Gallery Curated by Marilyn Raw. Littoral was the first major airing for several years of Devonport Regional Gallery’s collection of ceramics. The exhibition was timed to coincide with The Australian Ceramics Triennale Tasmania 2019. The works selected were made by ceramic artists living in Tasmania or […]
