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Tasmania
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Please contact Bett Gallery Hobart on +61 3 6231 6511.
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Taking a stand 2009 |
Michael McWilliam’s second solo exhibition at Bett Gallery Hobart is already creating a buzz
among clients keen to catch a pre-opening glimpse of his new body of work. Following his
sell out show in 2007, McWilliams continues to delight with his exquisite painting ability
and delightful sense of humour. The finely painted realism of his landscapes, furniture and
animals is matched with wit and an elegant sense of design.
An exhibition of paintings on canvas, wooden panels (including Cedar, Blackwood and
Huon Pine) and antique furniture, these works feature McWilliams much loved animals and
depictions of furniture, such as the legendary Jimmy Possum chair, set against the backdrop
of the Tasmanian landscape.
Price range: $800 – $20,000
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Bett Gallery Hobart in association with Holmes à Court Gallery, invite you to the opening of
an exhibition of recent Tasmanian painting to be held at Holmes à Court Gallery, Level 1, 11
Brown Street, East Perth, Western Australia. This quality exhibition showcases some of
Tasmania’s leading landscape painters and is accompanied by a catalogue essay by Peter
Timms. Dick will be guest speaker at the opening in Perth and would love to see you there.
Or click here to view the entire exhibition online.
Price range: $3,000 - $20,000 |
| David Keeling Witness – if you listen you can hear the birds sing 2009 |
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Giving you away 2009
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The upcoming stockroom display features sculpture by Joel Crosswell from his Wombs and Stitches
series. Crosswell has exhibited both locally and interstate including Lust for Life, CAST, Hobart; Three
Whispers, bettgallery@raincheck, Hobart and Port Jackson Press, Melbourne.
A recent graduate from the Tasmanian School of Art, Crosswell works across both sculpture and
printmaking disciplines. Using creative imagination as a way of connecting with reality, Crosswell’s
characters represent his processing of personal thoughts about life, death, darkness and hope in a
somewhat childlike, dark but comical fashion.
Price range: $500 – $1,000 |
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Unnatural landscape 16 2009
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Exhibiting at bettgallery@raincheck is Hobart artist Adam Cuthbert. Adam works with plasticine,
cardboard and natural materials to construct intricate models, which are then photographed. Adam
has had solo exhibitions at the Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, CAST, Hobart and the
Hobart Fringe Festival, Hobart.
‘The idea for this body of work came from viewing moss and rock formations in the Tasmanian
bush that resembled landscapes in miniature form. This inspired me to use these natural materials
to produce my own landscapes indoors for the purpose of photographing and video productions of
scenes that vary from moonscapes to rivers, forests and mountains.’ Adam Cuthbert 2009
Price range: $95 – $395 |
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Bett Gallery Hobart is well known for the successful development and
management of art collecting groups over a 25 year period both in Australia
and New Zealand.
An enthusiastic group of collectors met in Hobart in June to launch two
new collecting groups in Southern Tasmania, focusing on developing
major collections of Tasmanian Contemporary Art. A third collection will be
launched in the North West of the State in August.
These groups will each focus on building a collection of the very best of
Tasmanian painting, drawing, works on paper, photography, digital media,
sculpture and ceramics. People interested in more details about the
collection in the North West, or other art collecting group opportunities,
please email: carol@bettgallery.com.au |
 Bett Gallery Hobart, in collaboration with the
Tasmanian School of Art, University of Tasmania,
is proud to announce the Bett Gallery Hobart Honours
Award.
This annual award will provide an opportunity to
feature the work of a Bachelor of Fine Arts with
Honours graduate from the Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS, in a group
exhibition at Bett Gallery Hobart.
This opportunity provides the recipient with a chance to exhibit their work
alongside established gallery artists, receive significant promotion and
exposure and gain professional feedback and experience in a commercial
gallery environment at this important stage of their career.
The Tasmanian School of Art is extremely grateful to Bett Gallery Hobart
for its vision in offering this opportunity for graduating Bachelor of Fine
Arts with Honours students. The Bett Gallery Hobart Honours Award
recognises the talent and potential of emerging artists, and rewards
them with an exhibition in the prestigious North Hobart Gallery. It will
give a significant boost to an emerging creative artistic career.
— Professor Noel Frankham, Head of School, Tasmanian School of Art
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| We are pleased to report that Parliament House, Canberra have recently
acquired The wait, a sculpture by Julie Gough along with three drawings
by Richard Wastell from the Whalers Camp series, and a shell necklace by
Muriel Maynard. |
| Congratulations to gallery artist Jonathan Kimberley who has been
awarded the $12,000 Alcorso Foundation Italian Arts Residency. While in
Italy he will visit famous rehistoric Italian rock engravings to investigate
possible similarities between Tasmanian Indigenous and early western
representations of place. Kimberley will have an exhibition at Bett Gallery
Hobart in September on his return. |
Cold and ugly II 2009
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Rob O’Connor’s paintings are essentially
about the remaking of other people’s works.
Delving into art history O’Connor’s works are
a ‘friggin maelstrom of references’ with this
upcoming exhibition tackling the physical
anomalies of renaissance painting created by
the inadequacies of image reproduction.
O’Connor graduated with Honours from
the University of Tasmania School of Art in
2007 and was the 2008 Moorilla Scholarship
recipient. A talented painter with an exciting
career ahead.
Price range: $1,000 – $3,500 |
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A graduate in Fine Arts from the University of
Tasmania, Mebourne based fashion designer
Alexi Freeman is returning to Tasmania to launch
his Spring Summer 09/10 Collection of relaxed
glamour with a distinctly Australian twist.
The collection offers a signature onochromatic
palette of grey, black and silver highlights with a
splash of risqué coral. Informed by his grounding
in printmaking and sculpture, incorporating
elements of hand drawn & printed textiles
combining these elements to create must have
pieces for the Spring Summer 09/10 season.
Please come and have a drink with the designer,
view the collection first hand, try it on, and preorder
your favourite pieces
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| Congratulations to Jack and Maya on the birth of a healthy baby girl on the 26th of April. Fourth generation gallerist in the making? |
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