REPOSE
Cobra Stool 2011
Artist : John Smith
10 Nov - 15 Dec 2011
Being neither swimmer, surfer nor sailor, I nevertheless draw solace from the sea - a watcher of waves - more voyeur than voyager. This exhibition of fibreglass sculptural seating reflects a fascination with the liquid motion of the sea in its various moods - ripples, waves and tidal flows. Each piece embodies the visual energy of water whilst providing ergonomic support for the body in repose.
- John Smith
PLACE OF RESIDENCE
Clarendon House Dining Room 2011
Artist : Ruth Frost
23 Sept - 30 Oct 2011
In 2009 Ruth Frost was invited to photograph at Oak Lodge (an historic home at Richmond) as part of Ten Days on the Island. Initially drawn to the stories of some of the more celebrated occupants, over time she became more interested in the house itself. The richness and variety of its history emphasised the perception of a transient human presence and the interior space of the house became her focus. She continued this approach - using the physical character of interior space to evoke memory and a sense of the ephemeral - as the project expanded over the past year to include the historic properties of Home Hill, Franklin House, Clarendon House, Runnymede, (all managed by the National Trust in Tasmania) and Steppes Cottage. Light animates these interiors. Frost uses it as a metaphor for the lives and memories confined within the house itself and as a way of bringing these two realities together. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
DIALECTIC MOVEMENTS
Image: Chateau de La Motte-Lilly, Kevin Leong and Elizabeth Woods
Artists: Elizabeth Woods and Kevin Leong
17 June - 17 July 2011
In 2009, Elizabeth Woods and Kevin Leong were invited by the Centre des Monuments Nationaux to install a series of sculptural interventions in the Château de La Motte-Tilly, a historic home in the Champagne-Ardenne region of France. During the course of this project, the artists found themselves in the privileged position of being unsupervised in the château and in the close company of its keepers; from this position, the works in this exhibition study facets of habit, habituation and inhabitation in a setting troubled with the solemn collision between fact and design. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, and was supported by the Centre des Monuments Nationaux and Foundation Tenot.
BLUE SHADOWS
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Image Credit: Michael Muruste
Artist: Michael Muruste
23 April - 29 May 2011
The Carnegie Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition by one of Tasmania's foremost abstract painters. Blue Shadows is an opportunity to see a significant collection of Michael Muruste's works from the past decade.
"I am concerned with the formalism of plastic arts and my paintings describe a controlled and manicured world; a world into which, on occasions, a darkness intrudes, and is expressed through strong gestural marks.Formal elements like the grid appear, disappear and reappear to be abandoned to organic shapes and lines. There exists a continuing exploration with colour relationships, movement and spatial perception. I try to test and expand the possibilities by which painting can evolve." -Michael Muruste 2010
STEREOSCOPIC
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Image Credit: Billy Cowie
Artist: Billy Cowie (Scotland)
11 Mar - 10 Apr 2011
Stereoscopic, a groundbreaking projected installation of video dance works by Scottish artist/composer/choreographer/musician Billy Cowie, was presented as part of the 2011 Ten Days on the Island programme.
Cowie's three installations in the Carnegie Gallery, In the Flesh, Ghosts in the Machine and Tango de Soledad marry innovative stereoscopic filmmaking with inventive dance choreography and sound tracks to creative an immersive 3D encounter. These works deceive audience members wearing blue/red anaglyph glasses into believing that they are in the presence of actual performers dancing on the walls and writhing on the floor.
SONS OF SINDBAD - the Photographs of Alan Villiers
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Image Credit: Alan Villiers
Curator: Niki Mortimer
28 Jan - 27 Feb 2011
'Villiers' extraordinary photographs are a window of insight into the fascinating world of goods trading in the 1930's, depicting remarkable wooden sailing boats and their crews at sea and on shore across Saudi Arabia and the East African coast.' Hobart audiences will be interested to learn that Villiers began his lifelong career as a maritime adventurer, writer and photographer whilst working in the 1920s on 'The Mercury' newspaper in Hobart. Born and brought up in the docklands of Melbourne, Villiers went to sea on square-riggers at the age of 15. However, an accident aboard the barque Lawless beached him in 1922 and he gained a job as a proof reader and later as a reporter on 'The Mercury' in the bustling seaport of Hobart. Although his time here as a newspaper reporter was short, his training stimulated his remarkable career as one of the world's most prolific recorders of voyages around the world under sail, in descriptive prose and in striking photographs and film of life at sea.
INSTALL
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Image Credit: Ben Booth, Spare Screws 2009, Digital image
9 Dec - 16 Jan 2011
Artists: Pat Brassington, Anthony Johnson, Colin Langridge, Penny Malone
Curator: Ben Booth
Exhibition installation is an art form of its own accord. An understanding of space, light and the relationship various objects have to one another is developed through experience and over time. In the gallery storeroom there is an accumulated knowledge of building materials, AV cables and load bearing fixtures, substrate fillers and a well trained eye for the perpendicular and fifteen hundred centre.
The invited artists, who work in private, public and educational galleries, have been asked to interpret a diverse experience of visual art installation through the mediums of their current practice. These include digital photography, sculpture, performance, new media, textiles and installation.