Hobart Current
Hobart Current is an innovative long-term partnership between the City of Hobart and the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, which replaced the 27 year-old City of Hobart Art Prize.
Hobart Current website
This major biennial program showcases contemporary artists working across different media, which may include music, performance, film, design, visual art and literature.
A Creative Director is appointed for a two-year cycle. They set the theme and select ten artists to participate, each of whom will be commissioned to create a new work for the exhibition. At least six of the ten chosen will be artists who identify as Tasmanian.
Hobart Current: Here
The City of Hobart and TMAG are excited to announce the creative team leading the third Hobart Current exhibition program, scheduled to run from November 2025 to April 2026.
For the first time, a Tasmanian creative director has been engaged, with the role shared to extend the reach across various art forms and artists.
The two new co-creative directors are Travis Tiddy and Denise Robinson and the theme they have chosen is Here.
Expressions of interest (EOI's) are now open for artists to participate in the third Hobart Current exhibition program and will close at 10 am AEDT on Monday 4 November 2024.
For more information on Artist EOI's and other information visit the Hobart Current website.
Hobart Current: Epoch
17 November 2023 - 12 February 2024
Explore life as we step into a new era
Creative Director Chris Twite selected ten artists, including six Tasmanian artists, with the remainder selected from national and international applications.
The selected artists were Arushi Jain (US), Florence Shaw (UK), Georgia Morgan (Tasmania), Isabella Maria Foster (Tasmania), Lou Conboy (Tasmania), Nathan Maynard (Tasmania), Rochelle Haley (NSW),Tricky Walsh (Tasmania), Wona Bae and Charlie Lawler (Tasmania).
Hobart Current: Epoch
Hobart Current: Liberty
12 March - 9 May 2021
Who chooses freedom for whom, in what space and during what time?
Rosie Dennis, Creative Director of Hobart Current, selected ten contemporary artists to help find the answer.
Tasmanian artists Sinsa Mansell, Brigita Ozolins, James Newitt, Jacob Leary, Dexter Rosengrave and Nadege Philippe-Janon featured in this collection, which also spanned interstate and international talent including Uncle Wes Marne, Suryo Herlambang, Jagath Dheerasekara and Sarah Jane Pell creating new works in the mediums of film, installation, performance and visual art.
The works commissioned for Liberty offered personal and vulnerable perspectives on the theme, challenging notions of agency and representation, surveillance and exile.
Hobart Current: Liberty