Seeing Time, on NOW.! …………by artist June Hope. It’s a textile/mixed media body of work including wet-felting, papers, fibres, collaged into works inspired by the history held in aged surfaces.
“As I time-travel through Tasmania’s early settlement era, I wonder what quiet stories are preserved, hidden in texture and time. Seeing Time is my visual response to such history. The medium I prefer, which best gives expression to my concepts is the ancient technique of wet hand-felting. Combined with other mixed media techniques plus papers, fibres and fabric these collaged works attempt to bring cohesive interpretation to my concepts.”
Nature as Artifice:
- Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:00 Sat, 18 July 2026 21:59
- Narryna Heritage Museum Inc (map)
Featuring artworks by Llewellyn Negrin, Jane Slade, Denise Rathbone, Frances Watson, Ruth Frost, Linda Erceg, Chantale Delrue, Chrystil Berg, Jan Dineen and Janine Combes.
Nature as Artifice explores the often-overlooked ways colonial women in Tasmania engaged with the unfamiliar natural world around them. While male artists tended to depict sweeping, picturesque landscapes, women focused on the intimate details of nature—through botanical drawings, specimen collecting, and decorative arts. Their creative practices, from embroidery to the display of preserved birds and insects, reveal how they sought to understand, domesticate, and aestheticise a strange environment. Drawing on collections at Narryna and beyond, the exhibition brings this rich yet under-recognised visual legacy into focus.
Still Here, Still Queer:
Social Art Gallery, 67 Salamanca Place, Hobart.
Exhibition dates: 14th to 24th May, 2026 (10am to 4 pm, Saturday to Wednesday; 10 am to 7 pm Thursday and Friday.)
Art from Trash:
Long Gallery and Sidespace Gallery
Exhibition Dates:
Saturday May 16 – Sunday May 24, 2026
Open 10:00am – 5:00pm Daily. “Art From Trash” is an annual exhibition that encourages the reuse of discarded materials in the production of amazing visual art. Makers of all ages, styles and stages—from emerging talent to established practitioners, as well as schools and community groups—exhibit alongside each other in a showcase of increasingly accomplished and thought-provoking works of art.