William Rhodes presented by Handmark Gallery
Welcome to the first video post from Handmark Gallery in Tasmania. This is a behind the scenes visit to the studio of William Rhodes who is exhibiting his work in our Hobart Gallery opening Friday 8 November.
We have over 100 Tasmanian artists in our stable and are looking forward to sharing an insight into their studio practise with you.
Allanah Dopson
Introducing Allanah Dopson and her Handmark Hobart and Handmark Evandale – two much celebrated Tasmanian art galleries.
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Tasmania unveils travel art
A series of forgotten travel posters depicting an idyllic Tasmania have gone on exhibition in Hobart.
Hobart Travel Guide - Australia Amazing Adventure
Hobart Travel Guide - Australia Amazing Adventure
Hobart is the capital city of the Australian state of Tasmania. Hobart is small and intimate compared to larger mainland Australian cities, reflecting the small size of the state. The metropolitan area stretches north and south along the Derwent River, crossed by several bridges. Notable for being one of the coldest Australian cities, it has a mild temperate oceanic climate, with four distinct seasons.
Founded in 1804 by Colonel David Collins, Hobart is the second oldest city in Australia. It grew out of the penal settlement on the island at Risdon Cove, eight kilometres up river, which was founded in 1803 and abandoned five months later for the present site of Hobart. The city has many beautiful historic buildings and precincts, especially in the area around the river. There are many fine examples of Georgian and Victorian architecture, such as Salamanca Place, which has a terrace of warehouses dating back to the whaling days of the 1830s. Nearby Battery Point, the original seamen's quarters of the city and Macquarie and Davey Street offer more than 60 buildings classified by the National Trust.
Hobart is a harbour town – a port city where the world rushes in on the tide and ebbs away again, bringing with it influences from afar and leaving the locals buzzing with global zeitgeist. Or so the theory goes. These days, Hobart’s waterfront precinct is certainly abuzz, with old pubs alongside new craft-beer bars, myriad cafes, museums, festivals, ferries, fishing boats, yachts, accommodation and a floating pier upholding fine restaurants…all of it washed with sea-salty charm and a sense of history. On a sunny afternoon, there are few more pleasant places to find yourself.
Riding high above the city is kunanyi/Mt Wellington, a craggy basalt beast seemingly made for mountain biking and bushwalking. Known as kunanyi by local Aboriginal people, and just 'the mountain' by everybody else, this 1271m-high monolith both defines the city below and shelters it. Drive to the summit in any season – you're assured of either a show-stopping view or an out-of-time, lunar, cloud-shrouded experience, wandering around between snowdrifts, lichen-dappled boulders and the stunted plants that somehow survive in these lofty skies. Finally, barrel back down to the waterfront on a mountain-bike tour like no other.
Hobart has a profusion of eating establishments ranging from the cheap to the luxuriously expensive. Freshly caught seafood is a specialty of the region, and there are several excellent seafood restaurants. Deep-sea Trevalla is unique to Tasmania and must be tried. Tasmanian lobster is also excellent. Scallop pie is also unique to Tasmania and can be easily purchased from the Salamanca Market food stalls. Restaurants are concentrated in the Salamanca and North Hobart areas.
There are several good options when it comes to getting around Hobart. By and far the most convenient would be having a private vehicle but biking, walking, public transit, and taxis are all good options too. The public bus system in Hobart can actually be fairly complicated. There are more than a dozen different fare types (and prices) depending on route/location, planned destination, concession types, time of day (sometimes) and more. On the plus side, schedules tend to be clearly posted, buses tend to be on time, staff is generally very patient, friendly, and helpful, and drivers can give change, so exact coin when purchasing a ticket is not necessary.
A lot to see in Hobart such as :
Mount Wellington
Mona
Salamanca Market
Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
Wrest Point
Cascades Female Factory Historic Site
Salamanca Place
Constitution Dock
Zoodoo Zoo
Farm Gate Market
kunanyi / Mount Wellington
Tasman Bridge
Maritime Museum of Tasmania
Pennicott Wilderness Journeys
Brooke Street Pier
Hobart Convict Penitentiary
Sullivans Cove
Mawson's Huts Replica Museum
Salamanca Arts Centre
Cape Bruny Lighthouse
Shot Tower
Franklin Wharf
Narryna Heritage Museum
Salamanca Square
Iron Pot
Hobart Rivulet
Hobart Zoo
Derwent
St David's Cathedral
Franklin Square
St David's Park
Waterworks Reserve
Kelly's Steps
Mt Nelson Signal Station
Tolosa Park
Secret Falls
Art Mob - Aboriginal Fine Art
Handmark Gallery
Tasmanian Transport Museum
Runnymede Street
Long Beach
Taroona Beach
Risdon Cove
Hinsby Beach
Princes Park
( Hobart - Australia ) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting Hobart . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in Hobart - Australia
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Tasmania Wood Work in our Art Gallery
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36 Hours in Hobart (and Environs)
Reported today on The New York Times
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36 Hours in Hobart (and Environs)Pristine nature, an unhurried vibe, incredible food: The popularity of Hobart, and Tasmania in general, is growing, and for good reason.Tasmanians have heard all the tired jokes from mainland Australians. The country's isolated southern island state has been so overlooked in the past, it's even been left off maps of Australia. In recent years, however, Australians have changed their tune. Tasmania is experiencing a surge of weekenders and property buyers, driven by a newfound interest in its pristine nature, unhurried way of life and an increasingly diverse food and art scene that really started to take off with the arrival, in a Hobart suburb, of the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) in 2011. The biggest transformation has taken place in the once-sleepy capital of Hobart, which now boasts a plethora of creative new restaurants and an edgy spirit, particularly during the winter Dark Mofo festival. (A highlight: the nude solstice swim in the chilly River Derwent.) Tasmania's profile is rising overseas, as well. International visitors jumped by 21 percent from mid-2017 to mid-2018 - the biggest rise by far of any Australian state. Tasmanians have always known how good the life is here. The rest of the world is only now starting to find out.Friday1) 3:30 p.m. Gallery hoppingWhile MONA has put Tasmania on the international art map in recent years, Hobart's gallery scene has actually been showcasing the best of Tasmanian art for decades. Both Despard and Handmark galleries - set in renovated 19th-century Georgian sandstone warehouses on the waterfront - exhibit works by well-known local artists like the landscape painter Geoff Dyer and the animal portraitist Michael McWilliams, as well as dozens of emerging artists. And Bett Gallery, which
Tasmanian Gothic at Nolan Art Gallery
Elizabeth Barsham talks about a selection of her paintings at Nolan Art Gallery, Salamanca Place, Hobart. Learn how she finds ideas and the process behind creating her incredible and disturbing works of art. Video by Greg Nolan, Nolan Art Gallery, 77 Salamanca Place, Hobart, Tasmania.
Pat Brassington: À Rebours, Opening Night at Devonport Regional Gallery, Tasmania
Devonport Regional Gallery's young members, The Droogs, interview guests at Gallery for the opening of Pat Brassington: À Rebours, Friday 3 October 2014.
Pat Brassington: À Rebours
4 October – 2 November, 2014
An Australia Centre for Contemporary Art Touring Exhibition
À Rebours is the first extensive exhibition of Brassington’s 30 years of practice and explores her ongoing aesthetic language derived from surrealism and cinema reinterpreted through photography.
Pat Brassington: À Rebours has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.
Michaye Boulter, Tasmanian Artist
An amazing and unique childhood set Tasmanian artist Michaye Boulter on course for a life steeped in creativity and appreciation.
Michaye’s evocative seascapes set her apart as an artist who creates space and allows the admirers of her art to just, imagine.
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Ron De Long Gallery Spring 2015 Exhibit
An Island Inspired - Artists in Tasmania
An Island Inspired explores the depth of artistic practise in Tasmania highlighting the spectacular beauty of the Island.
200 Treasures of the Australian Museum in the Westpac Long Gallery
200 Treasures of the Australian Museum in the Westpac Long Gallery
Studio Tour - Tasmania 3 - The Artist's Vlog
This is my third vlog since my arrival in Tasmania. I am doing a series of these on my artist's in residency with the LARQ program in Tasmania.
Creative Tasmania - Finegan Kruckemeyer
Jane Longhurst in conversation with award-winning playwright Finegan Kruckemeyer.
'Speak to us' at Poimena Gallery - Opening speech
Originally uploaded on 14 May 2011
One of the works in Kim Lehman's art show 'Speak to us' at Poimena Gallery in Launceston, Tasmania, was a performance work titled '3 models at an art exhibiition'. Incorporated in this work was the opening speech by Veronique, a famous fashion model.
© 2014 Kim Lehman
Creative Tasmania - Glen Murray
Glen Murray, a classically trained ballet dancer who worked for two decades with Australia's finest ballet and contemporary dance ensembles, has returned to Tasmania and created MADE - the Mature Artists Dance Experience.
Artentwine Symposium - Marcus Tatton
Marcus Tatton is a public space sculptor who brings inspiration from where he lives amongst the wild landscapes of Tasmania. Through his work Marcus explores the relationship between the natural and non-natural environments, how we humans interact with nature and the effect we have on the landscape.
Tatton has presented several solo exhibitions including ‘The Spirit Within’, Beaver Gallery, ACT 1996, ‘Monument to the Forests’, Object Galleries 1998, ‘Carved Interiors’, Handmark Gallery, Tasmania, 2000 and ‘The Wreckage Principle’, Cast Gallery, Tasmania, 2006. Tatton has also exhibited in ‘One Tree’, travelling exhibition in 2001, ‘Selected Works’, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, SOFA Chicago with del Mano Gallery in 2003, ‘Connections: International Turning Exchange 1995 – 2005’, Philadelphia, 2005 and Helen Lempriere Sculpture Awards in both 2006 and 2007. For his 2006 work Tatton was awarded with the Judges Encouragement Award. He has received the Montalto Sculpture Award in Victoria, the LANDCOM Sculpture Award at the University of Western Sydney and the Sydney Water Sculpture Prize for Environmental Sculpture. Marcus received the Curator’s Sculpture Prize at, Artscape Biennial, Byron Bay and The Andrea Stretton Memorial Invitation Award at Sculpture by the Sea in Bondi 2010. In 2011 Tatton installed a firewood sculpture at Headland, Sculpture on the Gulf at Waiheke Island, New Zealand, where the work received the Westpac Merit award. That year he also installed sculpture in Cottesloe, Aarhus, Denmark and in Bondi Sculpture by the Sea exhibitions.
Tatton currently designs and produces public art works in Australia. These range from natural and industrial waste material constructions, to cast concrete and fabricated steel projects.. His largest sculpture was installed in June 2010 in the ACT, a 42m long corten steel ‘scraggle of old fence wire’ at the Canberra Arboretum entitled ‘wide brown land’. Tatton installed a 6m high stainless steel work ‘Sine Language’ in the brand new Kingston Learning Project in Tasmania in 2011 and recently completed a community consultation at Risdonvale near Hobart that culminated in a 6m diameter corten sculpture in the village.
AIR 2014 - Laura Hindmarsh at Guilford Young College, Hobart, Tasmania
This short film of Laura Hindmarsh at Guilford Young College, Hobart is one of seven snapshots of the Tasmanian AIR 2014 artist in residence program.
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Patricia Adams | Student Exhibition | Inveresk Art Gallery 2013
Patricia Adams along with fellow students produced and promoted an exhibition as part of their assessment for the Winter School Uni Tas Inveresk Launceston Tas.
Extraordinary: Music, Creative and Performing Arts at the University of Tasmania in 2015
There has never been a better time or place to be an artist. Tasmania is very much a home of the creative arts, there is an appreciation of culture and the ability to compete globally in terms of quality. The 2015 Dark Mofo festival was the first year where UTAS was able to be front and centre, our Hunter Street campus was used as the location for a number of installations and our students were also involved with artist's from Indonesia to create a number of sculptures. Students also relished in the opportunity to work with artists such as Marina Abramović and Patricia Piccinini. Tasmania is a remarkably unique and inspiring place to practice.