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Selections by Junction’s Creative Director, Greg Clarke
Junction returns to Launceston for 2019
A collision of art + performance + music
Ephemeral Art at UTAS
The Unconformity
A contemporary arts festival that explores the paradoxes of Tasmania’s wild and mountainous West Coast.
Stories in September
There's an untold story inside everyone.
Explainer: how Tasmania’s Aboriginal people reclaimed a language, palawa kani
Tasmanian wins 2018 Hadley’s Art Prize
Neil Haddon has won $100 000 for his textural painting, The Visit.
Junction Arts Festival 2018
Five days and five nights of Tasmania's finest artists.
Project Planet
A Tasmanian school's journey to sustainability stars in ABC show.
Into the Calm – An exhibition from Richard Stanley
A collection of landscape and seascape paintings and fine art prints.
Storytellers set to captivate community
The Storyteller's Cup returns to the Huon Valley Mid-Winter Festival.
Tasmanian luminaries at Dark Mofo
Program highlights from Tasmanian artists
Diversity shining through in 2018 Hadley’s Art Prize
32 finalists announced from a record 640 submissions.
The Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra in 2018
Tassie duo Sumner drop new single ‘Pictures’
Underground newcomers to the music scene are ones to watch.
Six Tasmanian books to read this Summer
Tasmanan booksellers give us their picks for summer reading
Celebrating the best Tasmanian stories and writers
Tasmania’s vibrant arts and cultural sector is gaining an international reputation and fast becoming a recognised drawcard for visitors to the state. Literary talent is flourishing in Tasmania and our state is a source of inspiration for writers around Australia and the world.
An artist’s reflection on the natural connectors between the obvious and the hidden
Joanna Gair employs papermaking, light and painting techniques in her latest exhibition Within in the Middle Gallery. Drawing on certain, imbued qualities of traditional papermaking as a vehicle for contemporary interpretation in the context of a personal response to her father’s recent demise. Within also explores persistent, symbols of memory, loss, transit and love and allows for the materials themselves to be part of the subject matter.
Generous gift of Modern Australian artworks to the Tasmanian people
Anna and Richard Green were both raised and educated in Tasmania before leaving to pursue work opportunities nationally and internationally. Anna is the daughter Tasmanian artist and teacher Winifred Knight and grew up visiting exhibitions, galleries and artist studios. Her interest and love of art continued with Richard as they began collecting work by contemporary Australian artists from galleries in Sydney and began to create a collection of great significance. They have donated a total of 73 significant artworks from contemporary Australian artists to the collection of the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery.
Celebrating the best Tasmanian stories and writers
Tasmania’s vibrant arts and cultural sector is gaining an international reputation and fast becoming a recognised drawcard for visitors to the state. Literary talent is flourishing in Tasmania and our state is a source of inspiration for writers around Australia and the world.
The Art of Science: Baudin’s Voyagers 1800 – 1804
The Art of Science: Baudin’s Voyagers displays art works made during the French expedition to the southern continent from 1800 – 1804. Funded by emperor Napoleon and inspired by the European Enlightenments quest for knowledge and understanding through science, this impressively displayed and wide ranging show spans across TMAG’S three main Argyle exhibition galleries.
‘Little J and Big Cuz’ and their Tasmanian family
Little J & Big Cuz is a new 13 part animated television series that explores the home and school lives of young Indigenous Australians. It is the story of two cousins living with their Nanna and pet Old Dog, following them on their adventures at school, in the playground, home and the outback. It is the first children's television show in Australia that targets a young Indigenous audience and captures the joy and excitement of the contemporary lives of the Aboriginal characters as they discover their world.
French illustrations from Nicolas Baudin’s 1800s exploration
An exhibition that celebrates a partnership with TMAG, QVMAG and Museum of Natural History, Le Harve and other Australian museums.
Meet the philanthropists behind Australia’s richest prize for landscape art
Don Neil and Annette Reynolds, owners of Hadley's Orient Hotel, have launched a new art prize that they hope will create a legacy to benefit Australian artists and be another reason to visit Tasmania. The Hadley's Art Prize, Hobart will provide one of the world's richest prizes for landscape art with the winning entry receiving $100 000 and an exhibition of finalists work to be displayed at the iconic hotel after which the prize is named.
Celebrating contemporary Australian landscape artists with a new $100 000 art prize
Hobart is to host the richest prize for landscape art with the Hadley's Art Prize, Hobart - an acquisitive $100 000 prize promoting and celebrating the work of contemporary Australian landscape artists.
kanalaritja (kah nah lar ree tchah) – An Unbroken String
Shell stringing is a celebration of culture and a symbol of identity – an unbroken string that connects the Tasmanian Aboriginal Community, to Ancestors, culture and Country. kanalaritja (kah nah lar ree tchah) – An Unbroken String is a stunning exhibition at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG) in Hobart. It features beautiful, delicate and rare shell necklaces created by Tasmanian Aboriginal makers including Lola Greeno, Dulcie Greeno, Corrie Fullard, Jeanette James, Rachell Quillerat and others including a work by 5 year old Eve Plank.
Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra’s memorable performance of Tristan und Isolde
In a TSO first, proving that high-end cultural tourism is a very real phenomenon, interstate and international visitors comprised 55% of individual ticket buyers at the Orchestra’s concert performance of excerpts from Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde in Hobart last Saturday night, 19 November. In an extraordinary coup for the TSO, Swedish soprano Nina Stemme – who was described by the New York Times as “the world’s reigning Isolde” – and Australian tenor Stuart Skelton sang the title roles of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde.
Behind the scenes of Rosehaven
Rosehaven is a small (fictional) town in Tasmania, it is proper country, beyond the reach of tree changers. Daniel (Luke McGregor) is moving home to take over the family real-estate business while his domineering and frankly terrifying mother is incapacitated. Daniel’s best friend and perpetual teenager, Emma (Celia Pacquola), arrives at Daniel’s door, hiding out from a marriage that didn’t last the honeymoon.
Katherine Johnson’s journey from prize to publication
Katherine Johnson's prize-winning manuscript has been released as a novel, The Better Son. Set in Mole Creek, the literary thriller was inspired by the true story of two young boys who discovered one of Tasmania’s most popular tourist caves in 1906 only to keep it secret for years.
Wilderness strengthens creativity of Tasmanian artists
Tasmania, re-wilding their artists for the last 20 years. The modern world is a fast, technically driven and socially connected place. It is also a place where paleo diets and human re-wilding have become popular ways to reject modern living and plug into a simpler and natural way of being. In Tasmania they have been re-wilding their artists for the last 20 years by setting them free in a wilderness environment where they can disconnect from daily life and focus completely on making art.
Meet Stanley, Tasmania’s latest film star
Tasmania is quick becoming a well-known destination in Hollywood, with iconic scenery and charm of our towns captivating some of the world’s best known producers. The historic town of Stanley in Tasmania's north west hosted some of the biggest names in Hollywood during the shoot of The Light Between Oceans, one of the latest films to feature our favourite island.
Tasmanian gothic, faces from childhoods past
Photographic portraits of children from the Robinson Collection 1920-1940 that part of the Devonport Regional Art Gallery collection.
Sculpture trail on the banks of the Meander River in Deloraine.
Deloraine is the start of the Great Western Tiers Sculpture Trail which begins with public artworks on either side of the Meander River in Deloraine, follow the artwork trail to nearby regional attractions such as Liffey Falls, Mole Creek Caves and more
Art and wilderness at Tassie’s Three Capes Track
Tasmanian artist, Alex Miles has created five fantastic artworks to complement the Three Capes Track, a four day walk along the coast taking in Cape Pillar and Cape Hauy on the Tasman Peninsula.
Chalk + spit = clouds
Leading British artist Tacita Dean has created a new blackboard drawing for the Tempest exhibition at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG).
A modern day pirate girl tale – personal data is the new treasure chest of gold.
Nancy Mauro-Flude is a Tasmanian artist and provocateur whose work lies somewhere in the space between performing arts and computer science.
Celebrating Tasmanian women artists
A snapshot of some of Tasmania's most talented visual artists, designers and writers.
Constance ARI finds a new fluid style of operation
Constance, an artist run initiative, trials a new method of operation.
Sawtooth ARI – artist run initiative in Launceston
Sawtooth ARI, a Launceston based artist run initiative that showcases contemporary visual art.
The Art Exhibition: Gilbert and George
Photos of MONA's Gilbert and George exhibition.
Last Tuesday at GASP! Glenorchy Art Sculpture Park!
A taste (in pictures) of the Glenorchy Art and Sculpture Park
Tassie Summer Music Festival Calendar
Guide to the standout Tasmanian art and music festivals in the 2016 summer.
Uncover some of Hobart’s hidden gems
Discover unique art and design in the artist studios and collectives of Salamanca Arts Centre.
Guide to art galleries and cultural hotspots on Hobart’s waterfront
Find the best arts and culture destinations around Hobart's waterfront.