Bett Gallery Hobart - Gallery News February 2010

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Aboriginal Masterpieces
12 January to 02 February 2010
If you haven’t already seen this show of major aboriginal paintings from the Western Desert visit the website bettgallery.com.au. This show includes some of the most important artists in the Western Desert art movement: Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Kathleen Petyarre, Minnie Pwerle, Gloria Tamerre Petyarre and Dorothy Robinson Napangardi as well as a rare and early 1981 Papunya painting by Two Bob Tjungurrayi.

2010 Preview Exhibition
03 February to 02 March 2010 Opening: Thursday 11 February, 6pm		Julie Gough *The impossible return* 2010
Join us as we kick off the year with a bang in celebration of the inaugural 2010 Annual Preview Exhibition featuring highlights from the upcoming exhibition program. Exhibiting artists include Sue Lovegrove, Idris Murphy, Ricky Maynard, Jane Burton, Philip Wolfhagen, Richard Wastell, Amanda Davies, Julie Gough, Michael Schlitz, David Keeling, Les Blakebrough, Tiffany Winterbottom, Thornton Walker, Maries Maas, Tom O’Hern and Honours Award recipient, Noni Gander.
Honours Award
	Printmaker Noni Gander, winner of the inaugural 2009 Bett Gallery/Tasmanian School of Art Honours Award, will show her work alongside gallery artists in the 2010 Annual Preview Exhibition opening February 11. This award is an exciting new initiative from the gallery to provide valuable experience in a commercial setting for the very best new talent from UTAS. Graduating in 2010, Noni is a printmaker with a bright future.
	Noni Gander Hobart, January 2010

We welcome new artists to the gallery: Ricky Maynard, Idris Murphy, Jason Benjamin, Thornton Walker and Marise Mass who are all established artists with national reputations. Also Tom O’Hern, aka Empire and Tom Bone, an exciting emerging artist with his roots in the underground street art scene in Melbourne and Hobart.

Idris Murphy
Reflection, night sky 2007

Ricky Maynard
Coming home 2008
From the Portrait of a Distant Land series

bettgallery@raincheck

Journey into a Toxic Heartland
Now showing until 22 February 2010

Exhibiting at bettgallery@raincheck is Darwin based artist Aly De Groot. Aly is an independent fibre artist whose practice focuses on sustainability in art, translating basket making techniques with plant as well as man-made materials such as steel wool and recycled fishing nets to make woven sculpture, installations and photography.

Regularly exhibiting throughout Australia as well as facilitating contemporary fibre art workshops nationally and with remote Indigenous communities, Aly was selected to exhibit at Talente, the International Art and Design Fair in Munich, Germany in 2005. That same year she was the recipient for the prestigious Freedman Travelling Artists Scholarship. Her work has been acquired by the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory and resides in private collections throughout Australia and overseas.

Aunti Corrie Fullard
Flinders Island, 2006

The prestigious Redlands Westpac Art Prize was awarded to Julie Gough for her three-piece sculptural work titled Fugitive History: Killymoon, Spear/Oar, Head Count. Julie will show at Bett Gallery later this year.

Aunti Corrie Fullard was a finalist in the 2009 Tasmanian Australian Elder of the Year Award.

Australian Art Collector, current issue, has noted Philip Wolfhagen as one of Australia’s 50 most collectable artists 2010. Philip’s exhibition of new paintings is scheduled for June 2010.

Michael Doolan’s work Cautionary Tale 01 (rags to riches) (#013) has been acquired by the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart.

Congratulations to Nicholas Blowers, winner of the 2009 Paddington Art Prize with his painting Collapsed Regrowth II.

Bronek Kozka has been announced as finalist in the 2010 National Photographic Portrait Prize, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra with his work Kew House II : Bed Time.

Barbie Kjar is the recipient of a 3 month Australia Council Residency at the British School in Rome in 2011. She will also take up the residency at Art Vault, Mildura and Bundanon Residency, NSW this year.

Jonathan Kimberley is featured in the current issue of Eyeline magazine. Number 70 – Brave New Worlds, Jonathan Kimberley and the Kayili Artists, by Anthony Gardner.

Raymond Arnold’s exhibition Western Tasmanian Paintings shows at Devonport Regional Art Gallery until the 21 February 2010.

The National Gallery of Australia has recently acquired Helen Wright’s print Double tower of cute 2008, which was also the winning image from the Burnie Print Prize last November.

Jane Burton is featured in the 50 Most Collectable Artists 2010 in the current Australian Art Collector, Issue 51 January – March 2010 as well as in the current Eyeline, #70 – Innocence and Intoxication: The work of Jane Burton by Ashley Crawford. In addition, Jane appears with a portfolio and feature in the current Photofile, #88 Dec 09 – March 10, Fatal Attraction by Natalie King. Jane Burton is exhibiting with Bett Gallery in April this year.

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Jane Burton
Ivy #9 2009

Congratulations to Emma and Tristan on the birth of Lucy on the 26 January 2010.