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Nicola Gower Wallis
Cloud Chorus9 - 31 May 2025 Nicola Gower Wallis returns to the gallery for her highly anticipated fourth solo exhibition. Following the complete sell-out success of her previous shows in Hobart, this 2025 exhibition is generating significant excitement among collectors and fans across the country. I’ve been thinking a lot about the construction of a landscape,... Read more
Lucinda Bresnehan
Water that once ran wild9 - 31 May 2025 'Water that Once Ran Wild' depict the rivulets and creeks surrounding my home, and rivulets in wider Hobart. The work was created in my studio which sits beside the creek and parkland in Lenah Valley. From where I paint I can here the water running, birds calling and children laughing... Read more
Tom O'Hern
Thagomizer11 Apr - 3 May 2025 New works in oil and ceramic (fat and mud). Frogodiles, cloned thylacines, bones, prehistoric fish and flying reptiles. There’s fourish bodies of work in the show. The thread that connects them is how the world has ended and started again. People always say you’re acting like it’s the end of... Read more
PLATFORM : 2025
11 Apr - 3 May 2025 Through the annual PLATFORM series of exhibitions, including the UTAS Bett Gallery Award, Bett Gallery continues its unwavering commitment to nurturing and promoting emerging and early career artists. PLATFORM represents the diverse and compelling practices of the next generation of artistic voices. As a cornerstone of the Bett Gallery program... Read more
Hermannsburg Potters
Pmara Nurnaka - Our Country14 Mar - 5 Apr 2025 This collection of new works by Hermannsburg Potters share special stories and memories of the artists’ time spent visiting Country with their old people. These pots are about going back to Country with our families and our old people. We grew up Country visiting with Grandparents, learning with Uncles, Aunties... Read more
Troy Ruffels
When the World Goes Quiet14 Mar - 5 Apr 2025 ‘When the World Goes Quiet’ dwells within the Takayna/Tarkine, where forest and stone coexist in an evolving dialogue of endurance and transformation. Across these works, the forest is represented not merely as a backdrop but as a living force. Sinkholes, formed over millennia, emerge as both rupture and refuge, the... Read more
Gay Hawkes - Narryna
seaborne26 Feb - 30 Apr 2025 A pioneer in the use of found material... Seaborne is a solo exhibition featuring renowned Tasmanian artist Gay Hawkes held at the historic merchant's house, Narryna . Gay Hawkes is a maker of sculpture and furniture and a producer of performance events and installation. This exhibition follows on from Gay's... Read more
Imants Tillers
Metaphysical Journey14 Feb - 8 Mar 2025 What is ‘metaphysics’? According to the Oxford dictionary – ‘metaphysics’ is “that branch of philosophy that deals with the first principles of things including such concepts as being, substance, essence, time, space, cause and identity: theoretical philosophy as the ultimate science of being and knowing.” Moreover, the adjective ‘metaphysical’ has... Read more
Pat Brassington
Dear Diary14 Feb - 8 Mar 2025 Pat Brassington is one of Australia’s most significant and influential artists. With a career spanning four decades, Brassington has become well known for her incisive ability to infuse the familiar with the fantastic. Her practice is informed by an interest in surrealism, feminism and psychoanalysis. Seemingly innocent, her enigmatic photomontages... Read more
luna rrala - strong women
17 Jan - 8 Feb 2025 OPENING CELEBRATION: SATURDAY 25 JANUARY, 2025 AT 2PM VIEW ONLINE CATALOGUE HERE more works available - please enquire register your interest in future exhibitions 'It is so important we support and nurture the women participating in this exhibition, they are the future knowledge holders who will ensure the continuation of... Read more
Patrick Grieve
Reparation and Adrift17 Jan - 8 Feb 2025 OPENING NIGHT: FRIDAY the 17th of JANUARY, 2025, 5.30-7PM GUEST SPEAKER: BRENDON GALE, inaugural CEO of the Tasmania Football Club 'Patrick’s paintings are exquisitely articulated, more simply Pat is a master craftsman who appreciates colour, texture, light, shade and possesses a lifetime professional knowledge of paint and brush and charcoal... Read more
Kevin Perkins - Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery
Written in Wood: Kevin Perkins inspired by Richard Flanagan6 Dec 2024 - 30 Mar 2025 Five monumental sculptural works by Tasmanian artist, master furniture-maker and wood craftsman, Kevin Perkins, each based on a novel by the acclaimed Tasmanian writer, Richard Flanagan. Perkins and Flanagan are both Tasmanian by birth and are long- standing friends. Their work in their respective disciplines, is deeply rooted in this... Read more
Helen Wright
Some stories are worth telling22 Nov 2024 - 11 Jan 2025 The bird paintings in this exhibition form a collection of images derived from both my ongoing experience and fascination with native bird life, most often close to home at Cornelian Bay but also at Kelso, an old family property with a native garden, in the north of the state. Birds... Read more
Sue Lovegrove
Meltwater22 Nov 2024 - 11 Jan 2025 VIEW ONLINE CATALOGUE The experience of sitting still, quietly watching and bearing witness to a glacier imperceptibly melt is both compelling and horrifying. Over the next century, 80% of Europe’s glaciers will completely melt and become extinct due to irreversible human induced global warming. In 2014 a glacier in Iceland,... Read more
Amanda Davies
Premaydena Studio25 Oct - 16 Nov 2024 Painting, it's a thing that I'm into... Amanda Davies works are like no others, and yet, they are indebted to others more deeply than most. Seldom does one encounter a painter so thoroughly aware of the tropes and treacheries of paintings’ chequered history. The same can be said of Davies’... Read more
Irene Briant
Distant Fields25 Oct - 16 Nov 2024 Without the imagery words used in descriptions of the cosmos or outer space - millions of light years away, black holes, quasars, superclusters, galaxies, infinite dark voids, star fields…are enough to set the imagination whirring. Even with recent advances in our understanding of the solar system due to instruments such... Read more
David Keeling
Another time, another place27 Sep - 19 Oct 2024 When I reflect on my painting over these years I think what stands out for me is my maturing relationship to place, how slowly the landscape moved from 'object' to 'subject' in the paintings. This coincides with a growing love of the particular, such as Narawntapu National Park, the Cornelian... Read more
Richard Wastell
Fishing, painting30 Aug - 21 Sep 2024 I can't say with any certainty where my paintings come from or what they mean. They appear gradually over many months like slowly unfolding dreams. And like dreams their meanings are only ever hinted at. For all that, I'm sure these paintings have something to do with my growing up... Read more
The Footy Show
30 Aug - 21 Sep 2024 VIEW EXHIBITION Bett Gallery prides itself on it's annual community based exhibitions, and this year we are tackling footy! Football is deeply embedded in the cultural fabric of Australia and what better way to celebrate this than through art. This exhibition offers some intriguing insights into our culture, our community... Read more
Joan Ross
Those trees came back to me in my dreams | National portrait gallery canberra |24 Aug 2024 - 27 Apr 2025 Joan Ross is a master at contextualising and recontextualising Australia's colonial past, with an edginess for today's viewing audiences. - Gina Fairley, ARTShub Review, 4 November 2024 In a practice that spans collage, printmaking, sculpture and video animation, Ross probes the ongoing consequences of colonisation in Australia with wit and... Read more
David Stephenson
bone country2 - 24 Aug 2024 Is the Anthropocene the epoch of ecocide? In post-colonial lutruwita/Tasmania, land clearing, overgrazing, forestry, and hydro-industrialisation have drastically shrunk the verdant forests that once covered the island. The corpses of drowned trees rise out of hydro impoundments or stand solitary in drought-stricken paddocks. A fifty-meter thin green veneer of bush... Read more
Neil Haddon
Waymarking / Painting / Undertow2 - 24 Aug 2024 VIEW ONLINE EXHIBITION CATALOGUE READ ARTS HUB REVIEW BY GINA FAIRLEY Neil Haddon is a British-Australian artist whose compellingly diverse work explores themes of displacement and identity, influenced by his migratory experiences and lutruwita/Tasmania's colonial history. In this exhibition, the artist delves into his personal biography, exploring the legacy of... Read more
Michaye Boulter
Atmospheres5 - 27 Jul 2024 In my studio, there is a large table with a pile of ill-printed photographs; they have been drawn on, ripped up, some photocopied into black and white and drawn on again. There are plenty more in boxes; these are chosen. For a memory, I can’t quite place, nestled amid grasses... Read more
Mish Meijers
dermatologists hate her!7 - 29 Jun 2024 Mish Meijers furthers her investigation into the deluge of contemporary life. How it intersects the absurd and oblique with cat click bait (or whatever floats your boat). And then unnerves with serious and disturbing current world events. Hashed together in an ever-lasting gob stopper of information that challenges how we... Read more
Rosie Hastie
monument: passive discoveries7 - 29 Jun 2024 VIEW ONLINE CATALOGUE READ REVIEW BY ANDREW HARPER Rosie Hastie is a photographer who tames the wild, capturing the most fantastic landscapes: silhouettes of tearing oceans against ragged coastlines, glowing mist, sea spray, low-lying cloud, slender reflections—always at dawn; water like glass, skies like smoke, land like torn paper—always at... Read more
Philip Wolfhagen
PREMONITIONS10 May - 1 Jun 2024 Words are a very important part of the creative process for me. The image always comes first but immediately it comes into existence there is a need for a name. A title is an important ‘frame’ for the image, providing clues to my intentions but without proscribing its interpretation. There... Read more
Kelly Austin
minor falls, major lifts10 May - 1 Jun 2024 VIEW ONLINE CATALOGUE WITH ESSAY BY BRIONY DOWNES Kelly Austin is a ceramic artist living in lutruwita, Tasmania. She completed a Bachelor of General Fine Arts from the Emily Carr University in Vancouver, Canada in 2011 and a Master of Philosophy from the Australia National University, Canberra in 2016. Austin's... Read more
Hermannsburg Potters
Marna Mapa Mpaarama - Making Plenty of Bush Foods12 Apr - 4 May 2024 VIEW ONLINE EXHIBITION CATALOGUE Now we want to show for you our bush foods, because we been grow up on bush tuckers. Learning from our ancestors, they teach us what to do for all the seasons. There's Tjaapa (Witchetty Grub) and Yalka (Bush Onion) in the karnta / Lhurrpa time... Read more
Tim Burns
the abstract intuition12 Apr - 4 May 2024 VIEW ONLINE EXHIBITION CATALOGUE Tim Burns is a notable figure in contemporary Tasmanian painting. Living and working at Cloudy Bay on Bruny Island, his scapes are of a less familiar kind than perhaps one would expect. Cannily referent far beyond his picturesque surrounds, Burns’s works capture more than the geographic... Read more
Belinda Winkler & Kevin Perkins AM
Melaleuca15 Mar - 6 Apr 2024 VIEW EXHIBITION HERE A collaborative project between ceramicist and sculptor Belinda Winkler and Kevin Perkins AM, one of Australia's foremost furniture designers and sculptors. In Tasmania some simply call him [Kevin Perkins] the Master, a consequence of both a body of work seen to be peerless and a lifetime of... Read more
PLATFORM 2024
15 Mar - 6 Apr 2024 VIEW EXHIBITION LUCINDA BRESNEHAN BRITT FAZEY KATE LEWIS FRANCES MALCOMSON LORNA QUINN Through the annual PLATFORM series of exhibitions, including the UTAS Bett Gallery Award, Bett Gallery continues its unwavering commitment to nurturing and promoting emerging and early career artists. PLATFORM represents the diverse and compelling practices of the next... Read more
AMBER KOROLUK-STEPHENSON
Interior Topographies16 Feb - 9 Mar 2024 read Weekend Magazine review by Andrew Harper Amber Koroluk-Stephenson’s painting practice is well-known for its distinctive blend of real and artificial landscapes and interiors. Dream-like images populated with objects loaded with cultural meaning – rubber gloves, flowers, architectural structures – are all pieced together with meticulous precision. As the title... Read more
Dai Li
Tale of "Small yet Great'16 Feb - 9 Mar 2024 Unlike portraits and caricatures, I regard my ceramics creations as fictional. They are not you or me, or anyone we know, but they may contain qualities you and I are familiar with. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. Dai Li, 2023 Dai Li was born... Read more
Summer Soirée
Group Exhibition12 Jan - 10 Feb 2024 A celebration of the new year with a group exhibition packed full of artists you know and follow, new artists you are about to follow, and an exciting new collaboration. VIEW FULL EXHIBITION VALERIE SPARKS PHILIP WOLFHAGEN DAVID KEELING HELEN WRIGHT HELEN GONINON AUNTY JEANETTE JAMES STEPHANIE TABRAM YARRNYTY ALTERE... Read more
HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM ALL AT BETT GALLERY
GALLERY CLOSED21 Dec 2023 - 9 Jan 2024 Bett Gallery extends a huge thank you to our artists, clients, visitors and industry friends. Wishing you all a wonderful festive season and we look forward to welcoming you back in 2024. The gallery will close for a summer break at 5.30pm on the 21st of December and will re-open... Read more
A Room of One's Own - Women in Still Life
24 Nov - 16 Dec 2023 OPENING NIGHT: FRIDAY 24TH of NOVEMBER, 2023, 5.30PM GUEST SPEAKER: GABRIELLA COSLOVICH, award winning arts-journalist and author VIEW ONLINE CATALOGUE HERE VIEW WORKS IN A LIST HERE Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force,... Read more
Lucinda Bresnehan
Bett Gallery Award Winner - PLATFORM 202227 Oct - 18 Nov 2023 My work aims to explore the relationship between the physical and emotional body and the effects upon it by our surroundings. Exploring the transitions that evolve between the internal and external environments. Lucinda Bresnehan, 2023 The Bett Gallery Award is given to a UTAS graduating student who shows a particularly... Read more
Neridah Stockley
Farms and Other Places27 Oct - 18 Nov 2023 My work is landscape based with shelter as an ongoing subject. I live on the north east coast of lutruwita (Tasmania) where I am surrounded by farm buildings, coastal landscapes, open sky and weather. These landscapes can often operate like dioramas where shapes and structures are staged and positioned capturing... Read more
Stephanie Tabram
Lessons from the Land29 Sep - 21 Oct 2023 JOIN STEPHANIE'S WAITING LIST HERE PURCHASE EXHIBITION CATALOGUE HERE This highly anticpated exhibition by Stephanie Tabram once again establishes her as one of Australia’s most collectable painters. Almost two years to the day since Stephanie’s last show, a conscious decision was made by both artist and gallery, to provide Stephanie... Read more
Michael Schlitz
The Well in the Waterhole1 - 23 Sep 2023 Michael Schlitz is an award-winning Tasmanian artist best known for his masterfully hand-cut woodblock prints on Japanese (Kozo) paper. Though remarkably distinct, Michael’s work remains difficult to describe; uncaptured by language, his images are as sure and as fleeting as shadows. Light moves through Michael’s line work the way it... Read more
Troy Ruffels
stone tides weeping trees1 - 23 Sep 2023 VIEW EXHIBITION HERE The exhibition ’Stone Tides Weeping Trees’ is a visual and poetic response to the Miena Cider Gums of Tasmania's central highland plateau and Lake District. Walking on the plateau, through bone gardens of rock, moss, and bleached wood, I feel a sense of melancholy. There is a... Read more
Ricky Maynard
No More Than What You See 1993-20234 - 26 Aug 2023 In 1993, the United Nations International Year for the World's Indigenous People, the South Australian Department of Correctional Services presented No More Than What You See , a photographic essay by Ricky Maynard, documenting Aboriginal experiences of imprisonment. The photographs in this collection were taken at Yatala Labour Prison, the... Read more
Lynne Uptin
kunanyi - a botanical journey7 - 29 Jul 2023 kunanyi/Mount Wellington brings a Gondwanaland heritage wilderness into a capital city. Plants have evolved in this dolerite landscape in isolation since Tasmania became detached from Antarctica 45 million years ago and then separated from the Australian mainland some 12,000 years ago. The watercolour paintings in this exhibition follow the variation... Read more
Ingo Kleinert in collaboration with Robin Blau
The Anthropocene Cabinet7 - 29 Jul 2023 The term Anthropocene is now widely used as the period during which human activity has been the dominant influence on climate change and the environment - often, if not always - resulting in destructive forces. The Anthropocene Cabinet takes as its starting point the 1986 nuclear disaster in Chernobyl, USSR.... Read more
Matt Coyle
Inner City Landscapes7 - 29 Jul 2023 Several more recent paintings in acrylic, which Coyle refers to as “Inner City Landscapes,” have smoother surfaces. But Coyle’s choreography of sharp, shadow-based modelling and flat aerosol spray paint make them ravishingly strange. Using a discarded diorama retrieved from a tip and repeatedly photographed from different angles and in different... Read more
Nicola Gower Wallis
A Window Illuminated9 Jun - 1 Jul 2023 'I have never considered myself a student of realism. I've never quite reached the pinnacle of drawing a really good horse, or managed to draw a convincingly straight line. And perhaps it was then, in commiserating with a wonky looking cat, that my attachment to medieval art really began. It's... Read more
Tom O'Hern
Hell Pig9 Jun - 1 Jul 2023 Hell Pig. I’ve been thinking about mechanical megafauna rolling around and eating up all the marsupials and cutting up all the hills for roads and the sprawl. A hell pig or entelledont , a n ancient pig beast from Europe the size of a hilux with big crocodile jaws. I’ve... Read more
Sarah Rhodes
Online Exhibition | A Surrounded Beauty20 May - 20 Jun 2023 Sarah Rhodes is a photographic artist using a post-documentary practice to explore ways in which the natural environment shapes one's inner world. Living and working on lutruwita Tasmania, her focus is on how people are entwined with place, and key themes of isolation and connection, self-containment, and belonging. A Surrounded... Read more
Hermannsburg Potters
Thepa Ntjaarra Inthurra (Too Many Birds).13 May - 3 Jun 2023 The Hermannsburg Potters are a dedicated group of Western Arrarnta artists creating vibrant handmade ceramic pots that encompass collective and individually lived histories in their distinct Country. The Hermannsburg artists continue a 30-year legacy, sculpting and painting their visual histories and contemporary settings, speaking to their cultural beliefs, traditions and... Read more
Joan Ross
Don't let leaves into your house12 May - 3 Jun 2023 view exhibition Joan Ross moves between mediums deftly; whether drawing, print, animation or virtual reality, it is impossible not to recognise her poignant works, not least for the hi-vis yellow which marks them. This curious yellow—the yellow of safety warnings, of demolition crew vests, public wardens and cyclists—is everywhere. It... Read more
Barbie Kjar
Lion Tides: Stories of the Sea and Salt22 Apr - 27 Aug 2023 Barbie Kjar’s Lion Tides: Stories of the Sea and Salt Maritime Museum of Tasmania, Hobart 22 April - 27 August 2023 ‘Lion tides occur when the earth, moon and sun are aligned at perigee and perihelion. It is a tide just after a new or full moon, when there is... Read more
VALERIE SPARKS
Dark Garden14 Apr - 6 May 2023 Dark Garden is an exceptional progression of Valerie Sparks’s celebrated ‘Sanctuary’ series. This latest exquisitely detailed collection takes on an almost calligraphic form, with the vertical orientation of the images directing the eye to fall rhythmically down the picture surface. Radiant splinters of cool light coat the undersides of leaves... Read more
Brigita Ozolins
LOOKS DREAMS AWAKES14 Apr - 6 May 2023 LOOKS DREAMS AWAKES is based on a series of quotes by Carl Jung, the psychiatrist credited with founding analytic psychology. He gave us the terms introvert and extravert, synchronicity, archetype and the collective unconscious. Eight statements by Jung have been encrypted into binary code, but several significant words have been... Read more
Pat Brassington
Strike10 Mar - 4 Apr 2023 As Australia’s leading surrealist, Pat Brassington’s masterful control of unreality remains unparalleled. With a career spanning four decades, this most recent exhibition is as unmissable as her first. Brassington’s lifelong interest in psychoanalysis and surrealism, and her commitment to a feminist eroticism, is described in a suite of images that... Read more
Sara Maher
Chrysalid10 Mar - 4 Apr 2023 Sara Maher is a mid-career visual artist based in lutruwita/Tasmania. Since completing Fine Arts degrees at the National Art School (NSW) and the University of Tasmania, locating a sense of self-in-place has been central to focusing the development of her work. At the heart of her practice is deep reflection... Read more
Alex Davern
Uneasy Architect19 Feb - 12 Mar 2023 Alex Davern Uneasy Architect Haus of Vovo 24 Burnett Street, New Norfolk Curated by Tricky Walsh and Sarah Jones 19 February - 12 March MONA FOMA 2023 Rona Stern and Alex Davern destabilise the symbols of the monumental. They’re reflecting the world at the moment, watching... Read more
No Fixed Shape
Group Exhibition 10 Feb - 4 Mar 2023Read more
Caroline Rannersberger
Tree Change13 Jan - 4 Feb 2023 I have shifted place. I have extended my practice from working on Lunawanna-Alonnah/ Bruny Island with mountain views across the ocean; to also take in Hobart, where I am surrounded by tall eucalypts that cascade down from Kunanyi/Mt Wellington towards nipaluna/Hobart city waterfront. I have shifted my subject matter. I... Read more
kanalaritja tunapri : the new generation
13 Jan - 4 Feb 2023 TERESA GREEN | VERNA NICHOLS | LOLA GREENO | CHARLYSE GREENO EMMA ROBERTSON | BEC WOOLLEY | JULIE GOUGH | | ANNETTE DAY | ASHLEE MURRAY | AUNTY CORRIE FULLARD | AUNTY JEANETTE JAMES | TRACY PURDON | TRACEY TURNBULL The art of shell stringing is a valued Palawa cultural... Read more
Gallery Closed for summer recess
24 Dec 2022 - 10 Jan 2023 Bett Gallery extends a huge thank you to our clients, artists, visitors and industry friends, wishing you all a wonderful festive season. ⁣ 2022 marks the 36th anniversary year of Bett Gallery in Hobart and we are thrilled to acknowledge this momentous year with many thanks to our creative community... Read more
Mish Meijers
Low to no filter25 Nov - 17 Dec 2022 Opening night: Friday the 25th of NOVEMBER, 5:30pm Exhibition continues: Saturday the 17th of December 2022 The Exponential. Mish Meijers makes new worlds out of old, and sometimes virtual ones. In the hybrid paintings from her new body of work Low to No Filter, we see remnants of precovid travel... Read more
Annika Koops
Shadow Moves25 Nov - 17 Dec 2022 Exhibition continues: Saturday the 17th of December 2022 Shadow Moves is an exhibition about motion as seen through a painterly lens. It considers the emotional register of movement in the context of automation with a series of paintings called Double Binds. These works show inert forms that resemble squiggles made... Read more
David Keeling
Up Early28 Oct - 19 Nov 2022 David Keeling’s most recent works are so much more than classically beautiful. Though one can appreciate the classical references and technical quality, the romantic play of light and lust for a nature free of constraint, even the awe of the sublime throughout Keeling’s inimitable oeuvre, it is his contemporary sensibility... Read more
Georgia Morgan
Dreams and Effigies (to be burnt)30 Sep - 22 Oct 2022 Georgia Morgan works with thresholds: an open window, a hole in the fence, a pause for thought in conversation. Her constructions are the building of new and familiar cracks that are portals to memories that are neither hers, nor necessarily real. Morgan is quickly establishing herself as an important voice... Read more
Richard Wastell
Preservations30 Sep - 22 Oct 2022 The title of this exhibition is ‘Preservations’. Something is being preserved here in these paintings, something precious and worth protecting. Something venerated. But what? Many of the works in this exhibition contain depictions of scallop shells. They look a little out of place, appearing like dreams within these Tasmanian High... Read more
Amanda Davies
Vent10 - 25 Sep 2022 Vent is a solo exhibition of new paintings by Amanda Davies, curated by Eliza Burke. Installed across four rooms of The Barracks at Willow Court, New Norfolk, the exhibition is a response to the architectural and institutional histories of the site and an exploration of psychosomatic phenomena through painting and... Read more
Sydney Contemporary 2022
8 - 11 Sep 2022 Mish Meijers Troy Ruffels Imants Tillers Richard Wastell Nicola Gower Wallis Belinda Winkler Philip Wolfhagen Sue Lovegrove Sydney Contemporary returns in 2022 from 8–11 September (Collector Preview, 7 September) with the country’s largest and most diverse gathering of leading galleries. Staged at Carriageworks, Australia’s largest multi-arts centre, the Fair welcomes... Read more
Sue Lovegrove
The Invisible Lake2 - 24 Sep 2022 When Lake Pedder was flooded in 1972 to create a hydro dam, it was a devastating loss to both the environment and to the community of conservation minded people who value and care deeply for our natural heritage. 50 years on, the lake is still very present in our imaginations.... Read more
Tim Burns
PAINTING THE SILENT MUSIC2 - 24 Sep 2022 4’ 33” They come as a shock. They are beautiful and intriguing and confounding. The experience is is a bit like that of first seeing the James Webb Telescope’s photograph of the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 as it was 4.6 billion years ago. These new works by Tim Burns not... Read more
Amber Koroluk-Stephenson & Kelly Austin
Settings for Uncertainty26 Aug - 18 Sep 2022 Settings for Uncertainty brings together the work of Kelly Austin and Amber Koroluk-Stephenson to investigate tensions between reality and illusion. This exhibition will explore notions of suspended space between time and place, being and belonging, figuration and abstraction. Drawing on personal and collective memory to capture poetry in a fragmented... Read more
Water[shed]
50 Artists. 50 Years.6 - 27 Aug 2022 50 Artists. 50 Years. water[shed] is an exhibition conceived by OUTSIDE THE BOX / Earth Arts Rights and presented in collaboration with Bett Gallery to support the Restore Pedder campaign. The staging of the water[shed] from 5 August - 27 August 2022 coincides with the 50th anniversary of the last... Read more
Kelly Austin
An Elemental Persistence8 - 27 Jul 2022 This work is about the simultaneous state of knowing and not-knowing; an ebb and flow between the solid and translucent, heavy and light, two and three dimensional. It is about teetering on an axis between the recognisable and the abstract with the desire to instill wonder and inquisitiveness, and to... Read more
Amber Koroluk-Stephenson
A Hopeful Mirage8 - 27 Jul 2022 Amber Koroluk-Stephenson’s paintings have always provoked the question of ‘where are we?’, with liquid boundaries between domestic and exterior domains, patchwork perspectives, and conspicuously constructed mises en scène . Throughout A Hopeful Mirage, however, a heightened emphasis on ‘where are we going?’ emerges. The exhibition is a tragicomic meditation on... Read more
Megan Walch
uncanny10 Jun - 2 Jul 2022 There are, and have always been, things going on that we don’t know about. William Kentridge says, “The one thing that Covid-19 has shown us is that claims to authoritative certainty about how the world operates are very thinly based. The question of uncertainty, ambiguity, and doubt is the bedrock... Read more
Bett Gallery Award 2021
Platform I10 Jun - 2 Jul 2022 2021 marks the 12th year of the Bett Gallery award and an exciting new format for the prize. The award is now given to a group of selected graduating students who show a particularly high standard of artistic merit, imagination and determination. The winners of this award will be given... Read more
Tom O'Hern
Bum steer10 Jun - 2 Jul 2022 A month spent in a secret shack on a secret island with a bunch of artists. Long days of feral pigs, evil seabirds, stripey boys, bum mountains and sting rays. Every day I went for a swim, did a drawing and drank too much. The drawings are a diary. No... Read more
Patrick Grieve
Transit13 May - 4 Jun 2022 Patrick Grieve, one of Tasmania’s most notable landscape painters is renowned for richly coloured renditions of his home on the North-West Coast. His textured and gestural works suggest his methodological toil—a ploughing, a planting, a flooding of seasonal change—a performative replication of the agricultural work that shapes and changes the... Read more
Rosie Hastie
Once13 May - 4 Jun 2022 Rosie Hastie is a photographer who tames the wild, capturing the most fantastic landscapes: silhouettes of tearing oceans against ragged coastlines, glowing mist, sea spray, low-lying cloud, slender reflections—always at dawn; water like glass, skies like smoke, land like torn paper—always at dusk. L'heure bleue . There is a French... Read more
Neridah Stockley
New Paintings - Shacks and Sheds14 Apr - 7 May 2022 Neridah Stockley was born in New South Wales in 1973. She trained at the National Art School in Sydney, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting major in 2001. Her practice includes printmaking, painting and ceramics. Her work is held in numerous collections including; Macquarie Group, Artbank, Parliament House... Read more
Lynne Uptin
Banks’ Banksias14 Apr - 7 May 2022 Trained at the National Art School Sydney, Lynne practiced as a leading illustrator in Sydney for 13 years before owning and opening two art galleries, a ceramic and a glass art studio. In 2021 Lynne was awarded the UK Society of Botanical Artists Dip SBA (Dist.) also receiving the SBA... Read more
Troy Ruffels
Weathered Ground14 Apr - 7 May 2022 Troy Ruffels’ work is characterised by its subtly intertwined layers, where observations of the natural landscape are overlain in a richly textured palimpsest. Marked by hand and eye, these landscapes are simultaneously interior and exterior. They emerge from a deep familiarity with place, revisited as both inhabitant and traveller, a... Read more
Raymond Arnold
Elsewhere World - To See the Bones and the Tombstones at Once 18 Mar - 9 Apr 2022 Opening Friday 18 March, 5.30 - 7.00pm Artist Talk Saturday 26 March, 1.00pm Exhibition continues to Saturday 9 April There is nothing of the void about this magnificence. Instead this space, inside this cosmic envelope is everywhere vectored, scored by ordinate and abscissa, marking out the numberless sites of an... Read more
Alexander Okenyo
AMOR FATI 18 Mar - 9 Apr 2022 Opening Friday 18 March, 5.30 - 7.00pm Exhibition continues to Saturday 9 April This new work finds me more amanuensis than artist. I have spent the last year diligently writing things down, painting things up, copying things out, gathering data from the books and the news and the conversations at... Read more
A Show of Strength
Group exhibition19 Feb - 12 Mar 2022 On the back of the postponement of the water[shed ] exhibition, a group of Bett Gallery artists have rallied together in a display of solidarity to produce a remarkable exhibition of new work from their studios. Exhibiting artists: KELLY AUSTIN NICHOLAS BLOWERS PAT BRASSINGTON IRENE BRIANT TIM BURNS JANE BURTON... Read more
Stars puddled underfoot
14 Jan - 12 Feb 2022 Diaries are a funny thing. After a time they begin to map the shape of a person, with turn of phrase and spelling mistakes taking the place of misplaced hairs or a distinctive gait. And it is within this mapping of weather patterns, ducks, and an endless tangle of weeds... Read more
David Stephenson
Survivors14 Jan - 12 Feb 2022 I have always loved trees, from hiding then climbing in them as a child to my first photographs. 'Survivors' continues my long-term exploration of that quintessential Australian tree genus, Eucalyptus. We are only recently learning some of the many secrets of the arboreal world, with its complex networks and hidden... Read more
The Valley Collection
Final Hang17 - 18 Dec 2021Read more
Stockroom Highlights
19 Nov - 11 Dec 2021Read more
Explore Sydney Contemporary 2021
11 Nov - 11 Dec 2021 Sydney Contemporary, Australasia’s Premier Art Fair, In Partnership With MA Financial Group, Presents Explore Sydney Contemporary, Online From 11–21 November 2021. Featuring 80+ participating galleries from Australia and New Zealand presenting over 1800 artworks by 450+ artists from around the world, Explore Sydney Contemporary provides collectors, art buyers, and the... Read more
What stays within
22 Oct - 13 Nov 2021 Michaye Boulter’s landscapes, though undeniably Tasmanian, have a universal quality. The bulk of the headlands and the dark cuts of the escarpments are softened by a timeless mist. The ragged shorelines are washed softly by an ocean that touches shores elsewhere. These are not landscapes framed by windows, they are... Read more
The Good Year
24 Sep - 16 Oct 2021 Stephanie Tabram’s 2021 exhibition The Good Year once again establishes her as one of Australia’s most collectable painters. For The Good Year, Tabram gifts us a selection of exquisite landscape paintings and still-life compositions that are fragile and complex as only Tabram’s works are. The simplest of subjects can be... Read more
Collusion
24 Sep - 16 Oct 2021 For Collusion, Briant continues her long-time exploration of the relationality of objects, masterfully seeking, sorting and arranging Wunderkammer-like works that are as geometrically referent as they are intuitively precise. Briant’s aesthetic precision has 3-dimensional objects in such successful communication—a perfectly chaotic patterning that is as legible as it is unpredictable—... Read more
Land of the broken hearted
27 Aug - 18 Sep 2021 Joan Ross grapples with Australia’s colonial legacy through her established practice spanning drawing, painting, installation, photography, sculpture, video and virtual reality. In her works, European settlers and emblems of colonial society stake their claim across the Australian landscape. Joan’s emblematic use of high-vis colour yellow across these colonial narratives has... Read more
After the future
27 Aug - 18 Sep 2021 New paintings and drawings. Weird little beasts. They could be prehistoric or they could be post apocalyptic. Some new life forms clinging to a volcanic vent deep in the ocean. Covid hitching a lift on a deep space probe only to crash into a distant planet and start life all... Read more
Waiting for News
31 Jul - 21 Aug 2021 WAITING FOR NEWS...well there is no shortage of it these days...heavens. President of Haiti assassinated, Wildfires in the U.S and the hottest recorded temperature ever recorded on earth in Death Valley yesterday of 52c. Whoa. Then there is the U.S withdrawal from Afghanistan, Global Pandemic and now NSW in lockdown... Read more
Fierce Paradise: Paintings from Blairgowrie
30 Jul - 21 Aug 2021 Imants Tillers is an artist, writer and curator. He has exhibited extensively since the late 1960s and has represented Australia at significant international exhibitions such as the Venice Biennale (1986), Documenta 7 (1982) and the São Paulo Bienal (1975). Tillers came to prominence during the 1970s and has been an... Read more
Painting East from the Plateau
2 - 24 Jul 2021 Richard Wastell’s enigmatic works render the Tasmanian landscape with such veracity that they are almost otherworldly. He has earned his reputation as a master of composition for large works, across multiple panels, in which elements of interest and admiration are pulled forward for artistic study. These magnified details—insects, shells, lichens,... Read more
Sara Maher
In (and out of) the Grey2 - 24 Jul 2021 Sara Maher ‘ Working with consciousness’ i I recall the time I found the drift-stick along the Lunawanna foreshore...it resembled the curved neck and head of the cormorant that perched on the orange buoy, a little way out from the jetty where I sat at sundown. In October 2020, Sara... Read more
2000 - 2010: A SIGNIFICANT DECADE
4 - 26 Jun 2021 When looking at an artist's work, it is often in the deep recesses of the their homes or studios that the real gems lay hidden. Hence it was a privilege and a curatorial treat to spend an afternoon at home with Pat Brassington, delving into her collection of past works... Read more
New(ish) Work
4 - 26 Jun 2021 Dr. Sally Rees (b. 1970, Burnie TAS) is an artist based in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia who works across both time-based and static forms. Often blending autobiography and pop cultural influence with a surrealist automatism, her works position recording devices such as cameras and microphones as witnesses to uncanny human experience... Read more
Troy Ruffels
Weathering - Burnie Regional Gallery8 May - 19 Jun 2021 Entangled: Weathering at the Edge Weathering implies that what seems certain - the stone, the mountain, the ancient tree – is profoundly impermanent. Pause long enough, watch the time slip by: the stone breaks open, the seeking tide rises yet again. We are all held in this process of entangled... Read more
Melt
7 - 29 May 2021 My new body of work, a series of multiple panel oil paintings on linen, is autobiographical and is a response to my experiences in the land. It is also responding to my deeply felt concerns for the environment, in particular global warming, hence the title MELT. One event in particular... Read more
Hermannsburg Potters & Iltja Ntjarra Many Hands Art Centre
7 - 29 May 2021 THE HERMANNSBURG POTTERS are a dedicated group of Western Arrarnta artists creating vibrant handmade ceramic pots that encompass collective and individually lived histories in their distinct Country. The Hermannsburg artists continue a 30-year legacy, sculpting and painting their visual histories and contemporary settings, speaking to their cultural beliefs, traditions and... Read more
Shotgun 9: The clouds have cameras - Contemporary Art Tasmania
1 - 23 May 2021 Shotgun is a Contemporary Art Tasmania artist development program that supports selected Tasmanian artist/s through a customised and intensive program of high-level industry access, critical engagement and the production of new work. Shotgun 9 was awarded to Alex Davern. Work developed through the program is presented in The Clouds have... Read more
Iconotropy
9 Apr - 1 May 2021 A few years ago, somebody with a permanent marker wrote the words, “Question everything!” on a traffic-light box near the Moonah-New Town border. This is also a big imperative for people who write about art. When Robert O’Connor collects and displays images of street rubbish, or when he paints a... Read more
Fermented Preserves
9 Apr - 1 May 2021 Fish Becomes Bird Gaps in knowledge, mixing of metaphors, un-straight answers. Sometimes things are misunderheard, sometimes they are absorbed, taken in through a sweet form of osmosis. Georgia Morgan’s maternal grandparents migrated to Malaysia from India around 1930, as part of a second wave of Indian migration to colonial British... Read more
Disappearing
Painters and Writers Exhibition12 Mar - 3 Apr 2021 We are at a unique time in our life on these islands of Tasmania; forced to pause, reflect, revaluate, to consider, to reset, to look again at where we live with new eyes. Over the last few decades Bett Gallery has explored what it means to live or have... Read more
Dai Li
19 Feb - 6 Mar 2021 Dai Li was born in Sichuan, China in 1987. She moved to Australia in 2009 and now lives and works on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland. Dai Li is an artist mainly working on ceramics and watercolours. She graduated from Jindezhen Ceramic Institute majoring in ceramic arts in 2009. Dai’s artworks... Read more
Michael Schlitz
19 Feb - 6 Mar 2021 Michael Schlitz’s large format, relief woodblock prints not only require physical strength, manual dexterity and mental determination but relic traits such as artistic skill, knowledge, patience and time. These traits will never lose their value especially when the work is sympathetic and evocative with regard to the human condition and... Read more
Michael Doolan
19 Feb - 6 Mar 2021 Michael Doolan lives in Melbourne and works in Sydney where he is a Senior Lecturer at Sydney College of the Arts at the University of Sydney. In 1981, Doolan completed a Bachelor of Arts, a Master of Arts in 2001 and in 2013, graduated with a PhD from the Faculty... Read more
Parallel lines: Drawings from my archive
15 Jan - 6 Feb 2021 To conincide with David Keeling's major survey exhibition, Stranger, at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Bett Gallery is proud to present a suite of early drawing works from the archive of David Keeling. Two-time winner of the prestigious Glover Prize for Australian landscape painting, David Keeling’s most recent works... Read more
Abacus Wars
20 Nov - 12 Dec 2020 I am a data mine Click bait or dick bait - past my used by date Truth twists in the wind while all the madmen run the world I am a Binge Watching - Lock Down - Basic Bitch Why do Dermatologists hate her Eggs, milk, bread, Dismantle and re-imagine... Read more
The Bleeding Tree
12 - 29 Nov 2020 Amanda Davies has produced a series of new work in response to Angus Cerini's play, The Bleeding Tree. The Bleeding Tree brings one of Australia's most successful and awarded plays of the decade to Hobart. Critics have hailed Angus Cerini's moprbidly hilarious fable as 'powerful, visceral and deeply exhilarating theatre',... Read more
Out of Darkness
24 Oct - 14 Nov 2020 Philip Wolfhagen studied at the Tasmanian School of Art, Hobart from 1983 to 1984 and from 1986 to 1987 before moving to Sydney, where he studied at the Sydney College of the Arts, the University of Sydney in 1990. He returned to live and work in Tasmania in 1996. Since... Read more
Real Worlds: Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial 2020
24 Oct 2020 - 7 Feb 2021 Real Worlds: Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial 2020 Art Gallery of New South Wales 24 Oct 2020 – 7 Feb 2021 Real Worlds: Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial 2020 presents the work of eight contemporary Australian artists who create extraordinary new worlds in drawings of great complexity and invention. With drawing as... Read more
Australian Print workshop etchings
1 - 31 Oct 2020 A set of 4 hand coloured copper plate etchings created Aug. – Dec 2019 at the Australian Print Workshop, Fitzroy. Printed by Martin King, etched and hand-coloured by Julie Gough. Read more
Valerie Sparks
Sanctuary (Series II) 1 - 31 Oct 2020Read more
At the Bottom of the Garden
25 Sep - 17 Oct 2020 The Bett Gallery Graduate Award is designed to give the recipient the opportunity to experience exhibiting in a first class commercial contemporary art gallery. The award is judged yearly in collaboration with the Tasmanian College of the Arts, and awarded when one student shows a particularly high standard of work,... Read more
Surfacing
25 Sep - 17 Oct 2020 Sue Lovegrove’s paintings reflect her close relationship to the natural environment, in particular the wild and remote landscapes of Tasmania. She is well known for her serene and delicate renderings of shimmering light, air, space and the way invisible phenomena of the wind and weather imprints on the landscape. Her... Read more
Additional Works
1 Sep - 1 Oct 2020Read more
Oracle
28 Aug - 19 Sep 2020 These are some of the declarations that feature in this new body of text-based work created during the Covid 19 crisis. Backed by an ethereal, gently rhythmic sound track, the statements appear as patterned formations of text on brightly coloured fabric banners strung across the width of the gallery. They... Read more
The Long View
28 Aug - 19 Sep 2020Read more
Breaking Horizons
1 - 22 Aug 2020 In May 2020, Amber Koroluk-Stephenson completed an artist residency on the Glover Country estate in northern Tasmania. Staying in the 1830s house originally built and owned by English colonial painter John Glover and surrounded by the cultivated garden and hills of the estate, the experience allowed her to develop her... Read more
Picturing
1 - 22 Aug 2020 Pat Brassington’s photographs are not designed to easily satisfy. Her works are mysterious, leaving the viewer searching for a narrative, a solution to the psychological puzzle of familiar forms made strange. Humans seek order and familiarity, we find patterns where there are none, and Brassington’s uncanny photographs encourage this behaviour.... Read more
Everyday Counts
5 - 27 Jun 2020 Two-time winner of the prestigious Glover Prize for Australian landscape painting, David Keeling’s most recent works are so much more than classically beautiful. Though one can appreciate the classical references and technical quality, the romantic play of light and lust for a nature free of constraint, even the awe of... Read more
Prelude to Arcadia
8 - 30 May 2020 This new body of work is a prelude to “Glass House Arcadia”, a collaborative interdisciplinary public art project scheduled for 2021. This will comprise one or more exhibitions and events with a full scale artglass house. As such, ‘Prelude to Arcadia’ is the first in a series of new exhibitions... Read more
Thepa Mapa
8 - 30 May 2020Read more
Jane Burton
A Phantom Lover9 Apr - 2 May 2020 Advancing. Turning. Retreating. A spectral figure manifests from a patch of light on a roughcast wall. Part vapour, part flesh, the soft territory of a body starts to apparate with womanly volumes and a girlish face, and she is gone before she fully arrives. Light and shadow. Light and shadow.... Read more
Memory Arbor
9 Apr - 2 May 2020Read more
Juncture
13 Mar - 4 Apr 2020 Juncture can represent a point in time when the seasons change. It can be a place where fields meet. Or it can be a critical moment when we need to make a decision. Our needs and how we must live on this planet are at a significant juncture. Patrick Grieve Read more
Troy Ruffels
Watersong14 Feb - 7 Mar 2020Read more
Demain (Tomorrow)
Group Exhibition17 Jan - 8 Feb 2020Read more
Recent works 2019
7 Dec 2019Read more
the shore, the race, the other place
15 Nov - 7 Dec 2019 For some time now, I have been drawn to thinking about my life as a migrant to Tasmania. It’s odd; how long it can take to realise that the subtle undercurrent of difference that has pervaded my life here could be used more purposefully as a tool for critical thinking.... Read more
Valerie Sparks
this is not a wallflower18 Oct - 9 Nov 2019 'this is not a wallflower' brings landscape and botanical art together through a series of wallpaper installations. Floral Panel ‘Sanctuary’ provides the over-arching concept for a new long-term project. It refers to both the idea of a sanctuary as a space for us to dwell in, as well the spaces... Read more
STORMWORKS
20 Sep - 12 Oct 2019Read more
Sydney Contemporary 2019
Carriageworks10 - 15 Sep 2019Read more
Jane Burton
The Sunken Garden (Ballarat International Foto Biennale, Art Gallery of Ballarat)24 Aug - 27 Oct 2019 This new suite of photographs depicts a landscape of the Central Highlands region beyond Ballarat that was shown to the artist by a friend. This is not the kind of place found by the roadside, but a hidden place that one must walk into for some distance, crossing a kind... Read more
Transparent things
23 Aug - 14 Sep 2019Read more
Shimmering in the Age of Stupid
23 Aug - 14 Sep 2019Read more
Terrible Lizard
26 Jul - 17 Aug 2019Read more
From the bird's eye
26 Jul - 17 Aug 2019Read more
Sufficient to have stood
28 Jun - 20 Jul 2019 See what rage transports our Adversary, whom no bounds prescribed, no bars of Hell, nor all the chains heaped on him there, or yet the main abyss wide interrupt can hold. So bent he seems on desperate revenge, that shall redound upon his own rebellious head. And now through all... Read more
Holly Zeinert
Recalibrate - Bett Gallery Award 201728 Jun - 20 Jul 2019 The Bett Gallery Graduate Award is designed to give the recipient the opportunity to experience exhibiting in a first class commercial contemporary art gallery. The award is judged yearly in collaboration with the Tasmanian College of the Arts, and awarded when one student shows a particularly high standard of work,... Read more
I give you a mountain
6 - 22 Jun 2019 Joan Ross’ new work continues her obsession with colonisation and its ongoing legacy in Australia. New drawings address the 1788 Diaries of Watkin Tench, they talk to history in a way that she see’s as malleable, the telling of which is from a particular perspective and makes new connections, even... Read more
Crushing
1 - 30 Jun 2019 Crushing 1 to 30 June 2019 School House Gallery, Rosny Farm 'Responding to the energy and history of Stoner's painting, Amanda Davies enacts her desire to occupy its boundaries and revision its tensions, to awaken painting to a moment that escapes our view' Dr Elizabeth Burke Read more
Pmara nurnaka. Urrknga nurnka. Nurna lhama pmara marra inthurra nurnakanha artitjika. Our country. Our clay. We go out
1 - 25 May 2019 To coincide with the 2019 Ceramics Triennale Bett Gallery presents new works by the internationally renowned Hermannsburg Potters. For the second time, the iconic ceramic works of the group of Aranda artists brings the brilliant desert sky, the soil, the sun, the birds, and the plants of Central Australia to... Read more
INTERSTITIAL
2019 Australian Ceramics Triennial1 - 25 May 2019 The works in Interstitial describe a concomitant charge; this curated collection of ceramic forms is quietly electric. Brought together on the occasion of the 2019 Ceramics Triennial, Interstitial showcases four artist's inimitable dedication to precision, and deep intuition for affective relations. The title of the show came through the artists... Read more
The Learning
5 - 27 Apr 2019 THE LEARNING continues the artist’s ongoing exploration of the relationships between language, reading and codification. The work has been inspired by the forest as an archetype which represents a site of testing and transformation, and makes reference to two philosophical texts. The first is one of the four books of... Read more
Short Stories
5 - 27 Apr 2019 Stephanie Tabram, born in the United Kingdom, presently living and working outside of Hobart is one of Tasmania’s most collected artists. Tabram has been painting for more than thirty years, having completed her studies in Sydney in 1989. Her exquisite paintings speak of the Tasmanian landscape like no others. They... Read more
Ruminant
15 - 30 Mar 2019Read more
David Stephenson
Time Works15 - 30 Mar 2019Read more
Raymond Arnold
The "Unfinished" Print15 Feb - 9 Mar 2019Read more
The Stuff of Life
15 Feb - 9 Mar 2019 This show is about microbes and plants and big things and supernovas and protons expanding into universes. It’s about wondering and cosmic energies and reptiles and human beings colonising the universe and the green jungle growing back after the humans have become extinct. It’s about all the thoughts and inputs... Read more
Dirty Paper
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery15 Feb - 14 Jul 2019 Dirty Paper features five Tasmanian artists who have created and curated new works in response to the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG) collection. In addition, it includes works produced by two Tasmanian artists in the 1980s. Matt Coyle, Joel Crosswell, Tom O’Hern and Lucienne Rickard are well known for... Read more
Valerie Sparks
Crossing3 - 27 Feb 2019 This work was created in the period following the death of my mother. Water is an ever-present element in my work. For my mother, crossing a body of water was the way she envisaged her impending death. Like many, she had a deep emotional and spiritual connection to the sea.... Read more
Rosie Hastie
Pendulous18 Jan - 9 Feb 2019 'I see myself there where I am not'. In Michael Foucault's Of Other Places he explores the notion that we can position ourselves in a place that both does and does not exist. Pendulous is a manifestation of thought into physical place and form. Inspired by Foucault, this body of... Read more
Guillotine!
18 Jan - 9 Feb 2019 Guillotine is three suites of paintings all concerned with depiction, the portrait, and objective reality. The works are uniformly ridiculous in terms of technique, rather than masterful, but traditional mastery and conservative tastes are at the butt of these jokes. Its all dry - Dry as a Weet-Bix sandwiched in... Read more
Valerie Sparks
Cape Bruny - West East West1 Jan - 1 Feb 2019 There is a dreamlike quality to the way Tasmania’s contrasting landscapes exist in close proximity to each other. From the west to east, one side of a cape to the other, one side of a mountain to the other; so close and yet so different. This duality creates a feeling... Read more
Resonant Things
16 Nov - 8 Dec 2018 I am curious about the way we interpret things and how an understanding of one object may influence the perception of another. My work therefore explores illusion, the relationships of ceramic objects in still life compositions and asks how carefully do we look? How is what we perceive connected to... Read more
The Wake
16 Nov - 8 Dec 2018 I love the strange inexplicable atmospheres that a painting can create. My mother died earlier this year, so much of this recent work… the lying down figures, the bed in the room is informed by this time. My mother had dementia in the last few years. She was born in... Read more
Anna Eden
Further - Bett Gallery Award 201618 Oct - 10 Nov 2018Read more
Middle Ground
18 Oct - 10 Nov 2018 On the surface, Amber Koroluk-Stephenson’s paintings look like a game of dress-ups, theatrical sets designed with props and embellishments for a play about to begin. As we wait for the actors to appear, Koroluk-Stephenson’s objects begin their own dialogue, exchanging gestures and viewpoints across the spectrum of light, shadow and... Read more
Double Yolker!
21 Sep - 13 Oct 2018 These are not things you will ever see. Meijers is constructing images and objects that merge politics with theatre (as if that needs to be consciously done). She is allowing us an audience with everything that exists behind closed doors, and she is putting a spotlight on it, and as... Read more
Digital Satiety
21 Sep - 13 Oct 2018 This exhibition looks at the spectacular realm of online gastronomy and our evolving visual relationship to food. It uses painting and time-based media to explore the role of food images in mediating cultural meaning by acting as a dynamic currency of cultural exchange within the online visual economy. Re-contextualised imagery... Read more
Surface
24 Aug - 15 Sep 2018Read more
M I S T A K E
27 Jul - 18 Aug 2018 Mistake is a series of new figurative paintings in which my image manifests in ways that are inspired by real and imagined stories about loss of control and errors of judgement. Situations are established in the studio that engage the tradition of theatricality in painting – situations that don’t quite... Read more
On a Clear Day
27 Jul - 18 Aug 2018Read more
'Lurpra' Seasons
2 - 25 May 2018 Bett Gallery is thrilled to present the exhibition, ‘Lurpa’ Seasons showcasingnew works from five artists; Rahel Ungwanaka Kngwarria, Beth Inkamala Mbitjana, Dawn Wheeler Ngala, Rona Rubuntja Panangka and Anita Ratara of the Hermannsburg Potters Aboriginal Corporation. The artists live and work in the small town of Hermannsburg; a 130km drive... Read more
Breath and other basics
6 - 27 Apr 2018 Essentially, my work is nothing more than a disappearing act. Through the layering of landscape forms I want to represent the land as a series of fleeting moments in a continuous force of change. Whilst painting, often directly on site, I attempt to immerse myself in an experience that seems... Read more
Recent works 2018 - 2020
1 Feb 2018 - 4 Feb 2021Read more
The way it is out here
24 Nov - 11 Dec 2017Read more
Sonido/Sound
3 - 20 Nov 2017 The ears are our radar and antennae. In this exhibition I am investigating the connection between sound and place (In particular Barcelona and Hobart ) and sound and colour. Earlier this year I visited Barcelona, Malaga and Sardinia to record sounds and research music instruments. In Sardinia, I visited the... Read more
Hinterland
13 - 30 Oct 2017 I am working on two streams of ideas concurrently for the show. The first is the continued development of austere alpine landscapes. My interest in these paintings is the underlying geometry of the Jurassic dolerite that dominates the mountains nearest my home. Overlying the rocks with their hexagonal fissures is... Read more
Shotgun 6: A Rag or a Rip; Contemporary Art Tasmania
7 - 22 Oct 2017Read more
Gathering Light
22 Sep - 9 Oct 2017 Beginning in late 2014, a series of adverse health events kept me away from my studio. It was February this year by the time I could get back to serious work. With the first kiln packed and ready to go, I was surprised to see in the Kiln Log Book... Read more
Sydney Contemporary 2017
7 - 10 Sep 2017Read more
Suicidal Sex Marsupial
21 Jul - 7 Aug 2017Read more
Troy Ruffels
Intervals of Distance30 Jun - 17 Jul 2017Read more
Do we know what we are doing?
9 - 26 Jun 2017Read more
Jane Burton
It is Midnight, Dr._ _9 - 26 Jun 2017 THE ART OF JANE BURTON I read recently that the poet Rimbaud was keen on photography and recognised its power and potential. Foremost amongst the things he wished to write was a work called photographies des temps passes. Rimbaud saw photography as a means of freezing the past; a tool... Read more
Everyday Topologies
19 May - 5 Jun 2017 Annika Koops’ new show ‘Everyday Topologies’ evokes worlds still in the process of becoming. Remnants from Art History, geometric forms and allusions to various image making technologies coalesce to suggest the slippery nature of appearances. The title of the show suggests a questioning of the technological apparatus and informational structures... Read more
anecdote / shift / mirror
28 Apr - 15 May 2017 Haddon employs a collage-like approach to painting, using a variety of seemingly incongruous sources. Collage is interpreted broadly as the combination of different things to make a new whole. Haddon proposes that collage can be understood as movement and relocation, fragmentation and recombination, slippage in meaning and innovative translation. In... Read more
A Wider View of the New Season
17 Mar - 3 Apr 2017 My first memory of an art work was painting pictures on the walls of a shed we had on our farm. It was with red ochre. I decided to go to art school after visiting my sister at University, when I was in grade 12. I went for a walk... Read more
Tortured Earth
24 Feb - 13 Mar 2017Read more
Open Window
24 Feb - 13 Mar 2017Read more
Raymond Arnold
Prospect and Refuge3 - 20 Feb 2017 In the early 1980s I had developed several large prints about the landscape of this same western Tasmania. They were ’postcards’ for imaginary audiences far over the horizon – images of wild, desolate, indifferent places just beginning to feel the pressure of the approaching bulldozer. Imaginary Landscape – Eighteen months... Read more
Season of Unreason
13 - 30 Jan 2017Read more
Sara Maher
Of the half-light25 Nov - 12 Dec 2016 This exhibition explores landscape (inner and outer) as an amorphous and fragile entity, through an investigation of liquid processes, markings and sculptural elements on clay board, copper and paper. Nigel Farley has produced a soundscape, which serves as an underscore, providing context in which sound in the landscape played an... Read more
Rosie Hastie
The Elsewhere25 Nov - 12 Dec 2016Read more
Peter James Smith
For the Call of the Running Tide, IMAS Gallery7 Nov - 2 Dec 2016Read more
The Long Game
2 - 19 Sep 2016Read more
Household Gods
2 - 19 Sep 2016Read more
Worry Doll - A Book Launch
10 - 29 Aug 2016 Worry Doll foreword Reason can be such a thin veil: paper-thin, retina-thin, so easily warped, ruptured and scrawled upon by the irrational. We know this every time we close our eyes to sleep, allowing our minds to wander and the pillars of language to tumble upon groundless space. In the... Read more
En Route
22 Jul - 8 Aug 2016Read more
Nancy Mauro-Flude
Marique Potens13 - 27 Jun 2016Read more
Eschatalogue
13 - 27 Jun 2016Read more
Peter James Smith
Line of Sight20 May - 6 Jun 2016 L I N E o f S I G H T The current ongoing series of paintings, Line of Sight, is an examination of landscape, place and its relation to the history of that place—this relationship arcs like the tracery of a dotted line—forming a bridge that stretches from where... Read more
Unity
29 Apr - 16 May 2016 Unity is a visual exploration of two numbers – zero and one – that make up binary code and are the basis for all digital information. Binary code is a system for the representation of reality that uses two symbols that are opposite. It represents words, images, music - everything... Read more
Closer to Home
8 - 25 Apr 2016Read more
Outside the Garden Wall
18 Mar - 4 Apr 2016 They unfortunately could never be postcards: Amber Koroluk-Stephenson’s visions of the Australian landscape are picturesque, however the animating principle is a psychological undercurrent of melancholy, absence and displacement. A conversation, not immediate or immediately observable, has taken place across a long-format time scale in Australian painting. Koroluk-Stephenson is the most... Read more
TAKETAKETAKE
5 - 22 Feb 2016Read more
In a Strange Land
15 Jan - 1 Feb 2016 I’ve been wanting to learn Persian miniature painting for about 10 years now and I began to realise that the likelihood of ever being able to go to Lahore, Pakistan seemed to be receding further and further into the distance. So I went to London instead. I thought I was... Read more
Valerie Sparks
Prospero’s Island1 Jan - 1 Feb 2016 The Tasmaniam landscape provides a rich source of imagery from which to create an interpretation of Shakespeare’s Prospero’s Island. Prospero’s Island – South West and Prospero’s Island North East chart the narrative arc of ‘The Tempest’ from vengeance to forgiveness. The wild cliffs of Tasmanian’s south coast are brought together... Read more
the epic secret life of the mundane
27 Nov - 23 Dec 2015 My Work has always been concerned with describing a sense of place and producing objects that have their own life and can exist outside the constraints of a label, such as landscape painting. They are not direct representations of places that I visit and see every day, nor are they... Read more
Dregs, Bogans and Third Generation Morons
30 Oct - 23 Nov 2015Read more
Saddened Were the Hearts of Many Men
11 Oct 2015 “Where are all our men”, was a response to a body of work that was created some fifteen years ago titled “The Elders Album”. A project that was donated to the Aboriginal Elders Council in Tasmania those heart felt portraits still line the walls of the community hall of the... Read more
Ningi & Niyanta; tunapri rrala: Mother & Daughter - strong knowledge; enduring culture
2 - 23 Oct 2015Read more
Chayni Henry
Flash Mob4 - 25 Sep 2015Read more
Rosie Hastie
The Folding Truth II; Top Gallery Salamanca1 - 30 Sep 2015Read more
Raymond Arnold
Elsewhere World3 - 24 Jul 2015 An English painter friend sent me a book of Seamus Heaney’s poetry in 2011. The gift coincided with my commencement of work on a new etching series. I was developing prints of some terrain on Mt Lyell which is still heavily scarred from historic mining impacts and deforestation. Plants are... Read more
Sum of it’s Parts
3 - 24 Jul 2015 A collection of assemblage pieces and small sculpture Sum of Its Parts chronicles my latest discoveries about relationships between objects and shapes across a visual field. Objects proliferate in the studio, they come with a history with a shadow in tow they evoke a memory an association a thought almost... Read more
Robert O'Connor
Steals5 - 26 Jun 2015 Was it Mark Rothko? I think it was Rothko who when asked said that he went to New York City to “bum around and be poor for a while”. Maybe it was Jasper Johns? The Young Americans series are painted copies of photographs of sculptures; simulacra of simulacra. The sculptures... Read more
Nancy Mauro-Flude
Labyrinth5 - 26 Jun 2015Read more
New Paintings
1 - 29 May 2015Read more
Monstering and other thoughtforms
1 - 29 May 2015Read more
Endling
10 - 26 Apr 2015Read more
Everything Nothing
10 - 26 Apr 2015 “If only, we're nothing at all” Josh Homme Everything, Nothing is the third solo exhibition from the Hobart based artist Alex Davern. These new paintings continue his investigation into the transformative power of everyday objects into quiet images, inducing contemplative stillness. Sitting on the boundary between minimal abstraction and the... Read more
Materia Prima: The Rough Guide to a Soft Apocalypse
13 Mar - 1 Apr 2015 Materia prima - First matter - is the inchoate substance required for alchemy, a material to be transformed. Akin to chaos or dark matter - the nastier, stickier and more base this material is, the better. My materia prima is the medium of paint; metamorphosis occurs through the plasticity of... Read more
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Curtis Hore | Peter Whyte | Belinda Winkler13 Feb - 6 Mar 2015Read more
Valerie Sparks
Volta / Emergent1 Jan - 1 Feb 2015 Volta 1 and 2, and Emergent were created for Wildflower Restaurant at the Como Treasury in Perth . The hyper-real panoramic aesthetic references the utopian, hybrid landscapes of 19th century French scenic wallpapers. The works bring together multiple points of perspective, different locations and times of the day. Elements are... Read more
Heartland
28 Nov - 24 Dec 2014Read more
Beyond the Gate
31 Oct - 21 Nov 2014 Beyond the Gate dwells on the impossibility of utopia. At first glance, the scenes in Amber Koroluk-Stephenson’s paintings are bright and playful. They depict a kind of urban paradise with soft grassy hills, colourful and exotic flora and fauna, generous dwellings, and leisure activities aplenty. Mannequin-like figures dot the paintings,... Read more
The Painted River
3 - 24 Oct 2014Read more
Sara Maher
How We Disappear...3 - 31 Oct 2014 My work emerges through my experience of natural landscape, where I imagine time and space on a vast and immeasurable scale. Through my making I seek to mirror moments of immersion, when we slip out of temporal awareness, when we disappear into this vastness, and when our sensorium is heightened... Read more
The Sea, The Sea
5 - 26 Sep 2014 This exhibition, The Sea, The Sea has been inspired by literature based on the sea, by writers such as Jorge Luis Borges, Emily Dickenson, Adrienne Eberhard, Ernest Hemingway, Philip Hoare, Homer, David Malouf, Herman Melville, Ann Radcliffe and many more. I have a seafaring heritage; on my Father’s side a... Read more
Landscape Reinventions
13 - 17 Aug 2014 “As I looked at the extraordinary objects I was passing, I thought of ‘the little world’ which men carry about inside their heads. …However strange and unexpected the prospect before our eyes, it never seems to take us wholly by surprise; there is an echo within ourselves answering each new... Read more
Jane Burton
In Other Bodies1 - 29 Aug 2014Read more
Lifters and Leaners
4 - 25 Jul 2014 My drawing practice is based on the media for stimulus and effect. Without media coverage, comment and analysis I wouldn’t make the art I make. The major themes in my drawing: War, Globalisation, Politics, The Environment are all themes which dramatically rehearse the basic question of human justice and injustice.... Read more
The Way We Live Now - Part II
6 - 27 Jun 2014Read more
Writing the Sky
6 - 27 Jun 2014Read more
fieldwork
9 - 30 May 2014Read more
Jack Robert-Tissot
The Sixth Day: Creatures on Land9 - 30 May 2014Read more
High Country - Skittleballs to Skullbone Plains
4 - 25 Apr 2014Read more
Troy Ruffels
Tundra4 - 24 Apr 2014Read more
proppaNOW
the black line; Tony Albert, Richard Bell, Vernon Ah Kee, Jennifer Herd, Gordon Hookey, Laurie Nilsen, Megan Cope7 Feb - 1 Mar 2014 Australia’s leading Indigenous arts collective, proppaNOW, was set up in Brisbane in 2003 to give urban-based Aboriginal artists a voice. They present a unique and controversial perspective of black Australia which is sometimes confronting and always thought provoking. The name proppaNOW best encapsulates the philosophy of what the collective is... Read more
Haunted Nation
10 Jan - 1 Feb 2014Read more
Valerie Sparks
Le Vol1 Jan 2014 - 1 Feb 2016 Inspired by the 19thC French Scenic wallpaper Le Bresil by Desfossé, this work brings together birds from the collections of various natural history museums. The French term Le Vol translates as flight, flying, theft, robbery, burglary. For the birds in this work, life and flight have been stolen. Where as... Read more
Immeasurably Distant
6 - 24 Dec 2013 Within a short distance from where I live there are many plotted and worked pieces of farmland. Each has its own almost individual personality that reflects the type of crop that is grown there and the people that work it. I take great pleasure in visiting each place in turn... Read more
Lexicon
6 - 24 Dec 2013Read more
Caution and Reassurance
8 - 29 Nov 2013 My work, inspired by popular culture and finding expression in a “world of the toy” de- and re-construct childhood imagery. They engage the viewer with this world. Intentionally set up to be viewed through the eyes of an adult while still allowing us to participate childlike, in this “world of... Read more
Nicholas Blowers
Edgeland8 - 29 Nov 2013 Edgeland was a term coined by the British geographer Marion Shard and it refers to the overlooked places on our doorstep, the urban edge. In our towns and cities it is a place where the urban and rural negotiate and renegotiate their borders. The Tasmanian Edgeland exists in its own... Read more
Cut on the Cross
11 Oct - 1 Nov 2013 The exquisite and enigmatic portraits of 2013 Archibald Prize finalist Prudence Flint will be on show at Hobart’s Bett Gallery from 11 October until the end of the month. The exhibition, titled Cut on the Cross, centres around an intriguing series of women sewing: draping mannequins, machining seams and stitching... Read more
Party
11 Oct - 1 Nov 2013 As a parent, observing my child growing up fills me with wonder, but also a sense of loss. Children's birthday parties are important social rituals, and on the surface of things, joyous and festive celebrations of life. However, on another level, they are compelling indicators of time’s inexorable passing. Children's... Read more
Dead Dog
13 Sep - 4 Oct 2013Read more
Stop making sense
5 - 26 Jul 2013 In this body of work I have blended my interest in the natural world with personal memories and histories, a love of French toile and the joy of making objects by hand. I have always made work that reflects my personal responses to the state of things. Ideas of Utopias... Read more
Raymond Arnold
The Pale Show of Life5 - 26 Jul 2013Read more
Touching Other Peopleʼs Shopping
7 - 28 Jun 2013 This body of work investigates the early European colonization of Australia with particular interest in first contact and Imperialism. It is critical of High Visibility (Hi Vis) clothing and considers the 'creep' and colonising agency of Hi Vis, as a metaphor for White Colonisation . ‘The claiming of things’ video... Read more
Quill
10 - 31 May 2013Read more
Collected Pieces
19 Apr - 5 May 2013 I had, only that morning, resisted the temptations of Orhan Pamuk’s, The Innocence of Objects , in a city bookshop, and now Irene Briant had put her copy on the dining table. Again, I entered Pamuk’s museum, what he has called the ‘separate realm’ that co-exists with the outside world... Read more
Split Stream
27 Mar - 14 Apr 2013Read more
Selected works 2013- 2014
3 Mar 2013 - 14 Apr 2014Read more
Down to the Line: an exhibition of drawing
In memory of Dick Bett AM15 Feb - 3 Mar 2013 It’s all too easy to forget that, once upon a time, we were all artists. Before we were lulled into communication by words and speech and letters, and well before most of us had an inkling of the strange abstractions of mathematics, we drew. We drew on anything we could... Read more
the black mirror, back burn, opera
11 Jan - 11 Feb 2013 the black mirror, back burn, opera For the migrant creating a meaningful sense of belonging in a new community can be a fraught and emotionally nuanced journey. Neil Haddon’s work proposes a visual way of evoking this complex process in a series of paintings. To do this Haddon draws on... Read more
Troy Ruffels
Flood10 Dec - 4 Jan 2012 All works from this exhibition are either available in a 107 x 107cm plate size or 60 x 60cm plate size. Custom fit sizes are also avaialble at request. Please contact rhe gallery for more infomation. Read more
Spaces Between
7 Dec 2012 - 7 Jan 2013 My current practice draws directly from my day-to-day experience within the Tasmanian suburban landscape. I seek out points of tension within these environments in an effort to deconstruct the idealised images of suburbia seen in Australian popular culture. While surveying the suburbs I catch glimpses into the private lives of... Read more
The Medium
9 Nov - 1 Dec 2012 The works in The Medium mark a new direction - combining the video autoportraits I have been most identified with to date, with traditional animation in brief loops that attempt to transcend ‘time’ both in format and content. Reinvigorated by the current resurgence of the animated gif in online culture,... Read more
The Indelible Blue Line
5 Oct - 2 Nov 2012Read more
Windwalking
7 - 28 Sep 2012 The term 'wind-walking' originates from Mawson's Antarctic expedition, which landed in January 1912 at Cape Denison in Commonwealth Bay in Adelie Land. Adelie Land is said to be one of the windiest places in the world. One of the expeditioners, Charles F. Laseron, describes how the men developed the skill... Read more
Recent Paintings
10 Aug - 1 Sep 2012Read more
Views From The Dream Palace
1 - 30 Jun 2012 In David Keeling’s latest exhibition titled View for the Dream Palace , he represents the contemporary Australian landscape viewed from inside the architectural spaces of the built environment. These cool, high, modernist interiors frame rich jewel like glimpses of the natural world. Keeling is one of Australia’s foremost landscape painters.... Read more
David Stephenson
Light Cities: Sea Level4 - 26 May 2012 We live in the epoch of the 'Anthropocene', with the planet under increasing environmental stress caused by human activity. Since his New Monuments series (1979-81) human-altered environments have been the subject of David Stephenson’s artwork, which explores the relationship between nature and culture. Stephenson began photographing cities at night in... Read more
Jane Burton
Other Stories5 - 28 Apr 2012 Among the photographic and cinematic sources that helped inspire Jane Burton’s recent work, two stand out for their unlikely complementarity: Miroslav Tichy, the Czech recluse who surreptitiously photographed local women for forty years as he stalked his hometown of Kyjov with handmade cameras, and Hammer Horror, the 1950-70 cycle of... Read more
Nicholas Blowers
Recent Paintings10 Feb - 3 Mar 2012Read more
BBQ This Sunday, BYO
6 Jan - 3 Mar 2012 As a child I was fascinated by the fact that the important colonial painter Joseph Lycett was a forger. In a sense I am continuing his tradition of taking something and forging something new out of it. One of the reasons for Lycett's fame lay in the fact he was... Read more
Balance Point
6 Jan - 4 Feb 2012 Minimum Curvature. The circle perfectly represents Platonic idealism: static and complete, beyond time and space. Uninfluenced by the vexatious forces and contingencies that confound the mundane, the circle symbolises heaven eternal. Rotated through 360 degrees, the circle produces a sphere, a figure almost as closed and inscrutable as its progenitor.... Read more
Additional works 2012 - 2019
1 Jan 2012 - 1 Jan 2019Read more
Smeared with Toil
10 Dec 2011 - 4 Jan 2012 Each place we visit leaves an imprint on us, whether it is a memory, sound, smell or colour. We can be conscience of this lasting or at times fleeting experience, or it can live under our skin and in the distant parts of our mind to surface later. I had... Read more
Lure
11 Nov - 6 Dec 2011 I could tell you fishing stories of flathead at dawn. Flounder in the evening. The shimmer of fish skin. A bay of water coloured by sunrise, the light broken only by the silhouette of a wooden dinghy rowed quietly. But I have told those stories before. I could tell you... Read more
The Journey South
9 Sep - 1 Oct 2011Read more
Closer to Home
5 Aug - 1 Oct 2011Read more
Jane Burton
White Stain 20111 - 21 Jul 2011Read more
The Missing
3 Jun - 5 Jul 2011 My art and research practice often involves uncovering and re-presenting historical stories as part of an ongoing project that questions and re-evaluates the impact of the past on our present lives. My work is concerned with developing a visual language to express and engage with conflicting and subsumed histories. A... Read more
Cloud Exchange
3 Jun - 5 Jul 2011Read more
Pink
6 May - 31 Mar 2011 Last January, the annual Toy Fair at New York's Javits Centre displayed over 100,000 new toys. At least 75,000 of these were pink. The pink toys collected for this current project were created as accessories to children?s fantasies and imaginative play, dress-ups and parties. Their role extends beyond pure ornament... Read more
Holy Hell
11 Mar - 5 Apr 2011Read more
Selected Works 2011 - 2016
1 Jan 2011 - 1 Jan 2016Read more
Portrait of a Distant Land
5 - 30 Nov 2010 Ricky Maynard is a documentary photographer of Tasmanian Aboriginal descent based on Flinders Island in the Bass Strait, between Tasmania and mainland Australia. Through his photographs Maynard offers a journey of alternative perspectives and cultural insights, encapsulating an honest and deeply felt interpretation of his people and the land they... Read more
Woodwork
13 Aug - 7 Sep 2010Read more
Water and Reverie
4 - 8 Aug 2010 With no more sound than the mice make His hand moves to and fro. (Like a long-legged fly upon the stream His mind moves upon silence.) W.B. Yeats Tim Burns’ landscape is neither here nor there. His paintings seem to describe a place situated somewhere between Tasmania’s Central Highlands, where... Read more
Dog Boy
9 Jul - 7 Sep 2010 I was taught English, taught about God, fed, given clothes and a room to sleep in. They even found a restaurant for me to work in once a week. I started off waiting tables, but I scared the customers and they quickly found things for me to do out the... Read more
Chromium Oxide
8 Jul - 3 Aug 2010 This body of work continues my interest in those spaces where the built and natural worlds intersect. I have tried to depict familiar, ordinary places in ways that transform them into the powerful, remembered places of our dreams and shared memory. We have all walked along a track by the... Read more
The Extended Journey
11 Jun - 6 Jul 2010 The introduction of more developed foregrounds in my paintings began in the spring of 2008. The impetus for this was twofold; a desire for more compositional complexity in my paintings, and a renewed clarity of vision following the removal of a cataract in my right eye. The joy of seeing... Read more
Jane Burton
Ivy8 Apr - 4 May 2010 These works are from a series of photographs titled Ivy . Rendered in sepia tones with mottled stains in pastel hues, these images suggest a certain, timeless otherworld. Evoking vintage picture postcards and old photographs from the pages of family albums, the people and places pictured are forever anonymous and... Read more
The Coal Bearer
1 Apr - 30 May 2010Read more
The Shape of the Wind
3 Mar - 6 Apr 2010 My work has always been about an intimate and personal experience of particular places where I have spent time. These are often remote and isolated places that are relatively free of the presence of human beings: Antarctica, Macquarie Island, Maatsuyker Island and most recently, Tasman Island. These are all places... Read more
Selected works 2010 - 2016
1 Jan 2010 - 1 Jan 2016Read more
Clouds on a Distant Horizon
11 Mar - 21 Apr 2009 Layering, repetition and variation are the central tenets of my art practice. Since 1981 I have been working primarily on canvasboards, arranged together in grids to form larger composite images. The individual paintings, which include imagery sourced from reproductions, are also part of a larger ‘canvasboard system’, in which each... Read more
Works on paper 2009 - 2010
1 Feb 2009 - 1 Dec 2010Read more
Selected Works 2009 - 2012
1 Jan 2009 - 1 Jan 2012Read more
Valerie Sparks
This Weather1 Jan 2009 - 1 Feb 2010 The ‘ this weather’ series focuses on the beauty, seductiveness and sense of danger of the sea and on the growing anxiety around erratic weather patterns that we are vulnerable to. By bringing different times and locations into the same visual field I create an impossible but seamless and seductive... Read more
Raymond Arnold
Timber Mill / The Fetish of the Painted Subject13 Aug - 20 Sep 2008Read more
Jane Burton
Motherland9 Jul - 12 Aug 2008 Photography is undergoing liberation. Thirty years ago some still questioned photography’s legitimacy as an art form. Now photography’s status as art is a given.1 Recent technological advancement has furthered the freedom of photography, that in the hands of amateurs produces awkward excruiating fakes, but in the hands of accomplished artists... Read more
Fugitive history
11 Mar - 8 Apr 2008 Fugitive History presents recent artworks about historic Tasmanian places and associated stories that are often concealed from the mainstream or everyday. These works gather together as trace evidence of what came before, what happened here. My aim is to offer for fresh reconsideration aspects of cryptic or unresolved histories that... Read more
Additional works
1 Jan 2008 - 1 Jan 2015Read more
Valerie Sparks
Luminist1 Jan - 1 Feb 2008 Luminist takes its name from a movement of 19th Century artists who were preoccupied with light and idealized combinations of architecture and nature. In this new media interpretation these elements are taken from inner urban locations of the City of Port Phillip at different times of the day. It reflects... Read more
Vapour Trails
17 May - 13 Jul 2007 To be confronted with a room full of John Constable’s oil sketches, as I was in March last year, is to be at once exhilarated and intimidated. What breathtaking freshness these have: nature crystallised in exuberant paint. The exhibition was Constable: Impressions of Land, Sea and Sky at the National... Read more
We are making a new world
8 - 29 Jul 2006 LOVE WALKS NAKED RICHARD FLANAGAN Cruel Tasmania, an island of secrets, threats, lies; of an often pitiless exploitation of both its own land and its own people, has wounded Richard Wastell into an extraordinary response—a series of beautiful paintings and drawings inspired by the ongoing clearfelling of Tasmania’s old growth... Read more
The Nature of Things - Silvershot Gallery Melbourne
24 Apr - 6 May 2006Read more
Vanishing - paintings from Antarctica
1 Mar - 1 Apr 2006Read more
Selected Works 2006 - 2010
1 Jan 2006 - 1 Jan 2010Read more
Additional works
2 Feb 2005 - 19 Feb 2008Read more
David Stephenson
Domes: 1993 - 200514 Jan 2005 - 5 Feb 2006 With poetic symmetry the Domes series considers analogous ideas. It is a body of work which has been ongoing since 1993 and now numbers several hundred images of domes in countries including Italy, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, England, Germany and Russia. The typological character of the series reveals the shifting history... Read more
Jane Burton
The Fall12 Nov - 8 Dec 2004 Jane Burton has travelled to an ancient lost city, a place so fabulous it seems more the stuff of dreams than an actual location. But these beautifully composed photographs, where the ecstatic architectural forms of a forgotten civilisation crumble back into nature or submit to the jungle’s embrace, prove that... Read more
Jane Burton
Available Light1 - 31 Mar 2003Read more
Selected Works 2003 - 2013
1 Jan 2003 - 1 Jan 2013Read more
Selected Works 2003 - 2011
1 Jan 2003 - 1 Jan 2011Read more
Jane Burton
The Other Side1 - 31 Mar 2002Read more
Jane Burton
Badlands1 - 31 Mar 2001Read more
Raymond Arnold
Body Armour / Char Corps1 Jan - 22 Oct 2001 In the summer of 1997 Raymond Arnold visited the Historial de la Grande Guerre museum in Péronne, France. While viewing the display of machine guns, rifles and trench mortars from WW I, he came across a ‘tunic-waistcoat’ of dark suiting fabric and pin-striped silk, armoured on the front with a... Read more
Jane Burton
Cul-De-Sac1 - 31 Mar 2000Read more
Returning to Places that Name Us
1 Jan - 2 Feb 2000 These photographs are available in two sizes: 45 x 55cm (image size) 95 x 120cm (image size) Please contact the gallery for pricing and availability These five portraits were inspired by the Wik people’s hard-fought battle for custodianship of their traditional land at Cape York in northern Queensland. The Wik... Read more
Selected Works 2000 - 2005
1 Jan 2000 - 1 Jan 2005Read more
Raymond Arnold
Memory / History1 Jan - 14 Dec 1998 Much of Raymond Arnold’s Memory/History inspiration came from the artist’s walking tours of the battlefields of World War One, where his great-grandfather, William Hancock had fought in the AIF alongside thousands of other Australians between 1914 and 1918. During 1997 Arnold camped by historic sites, recorded material in his sketchbook,... Read more
Selected Works 1992 - 2002
1 Jan 1992 - 1 Jan 2002Read more
Selected Works 1984 - 1999
1 Jan 1984 - 1 Jan 1999Read more

Exhibitions

Nicola Gower Wallis

Lucinda Bresnehan

Tom O'Hern

PLATFORM : 2025

Hermannsburg Potters

Troy Ruffels

Gay Hawkes - Narryna

Imants Tillers

Pat Brassington

luna rrala - strong women

Patrick Grieve

Kevin Perkins - Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery

Helen Wright

Sue Lovegrove

Amanda Davies

Irene Briant

David Keeling

Richard Wastell

The Footy Show

Joan Ross

David Stephenson

Neil Haddon

Michaye Boulter

Mish Meijers

Rosie Hastie

Philip Wolfhagen

Kelly Austin

Hermannsburg Potters

Tim Burns

Belinda Winkler & Kevin Perkins AM

PLATFORM 2024

AMBER KOROLUK-STEPHENSON

Dai Li

Summer Soirée

HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM ALL AT BETT GALLERY

A Room of One's Own - Women in Still Life

Lucinda Bresnehan

Neridah Stockley

Stephanie Tabram

Michael Schlitz

Troy Ruffels

Ricky Maynard

Lynne Uptin

Ingo Kleinert in collaboration with Robin Blau

Matt Coyle

Nicola Gower Wallis

Tom O'Hern

Sarah Rhodes

Hermannsburg Potters

Joan Ross

Barbie Kjar

VALERIE SPARKS

Brigita Ozolins

Pat Brassington

Sara Maher

Alex Davern

No Fixed Shape

Caroline Rannersberger

kanalaritja tunapri : the new generation

Gallery Closed for summer recess

Mish Meijers

Annika Koops

David Keeling

Georgia Morgan

Richard Wastell

Amanda Davies

Sydney Contemporary 2022

Sue Lovegrove

Tim Burns

Amber Koroluk-Stephenson & Kelly Austin

Water[shed]

Kelly Austin

Amber Koroluk-Stephenson

Megan Walch

Bett Gallery Award 2021

Tom O'Hern

Patrick Grieve

Rosie Hastie

Neridah Stockley