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Contemporary Art Tasmania

Locality: North Hobart, Tasmania

Phone: +61 3 6231 0445

Address: 27 Tasma St, North Hobart 7000 North Hobart, TAS, Australia

Website: http://www.contemporaryarttasmania.org

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25.01.2022 Journal #14 Forest in a Court by Eleanor Peres (on re-member) is now available on our website and in your email inboxes. To sign up for our mailing list and to receive future dispatches from Journal, our digital archive for new thinking on contemporary art, click here: https://contemporaryarttasmania.org/mailing-list/ https://contemporaryarttasmania.org/14-forest-in-a-court-b/... Image: Takani Clark, Number 36, 2020. 2020 Curatorial Mentorship exhibition, re-member, curated by Caitlin Fargher. Photo: Remi Chauvin

25.01.2022 The CAT Members' Exhibition: From me to you continues until December 13. Gallery hours: 12 - 5pm, Wed - Sun. If you are an exhibiting artist don't forget to pick up your print pack from the gallery!

25.01.2022 Join us at 12 noon, Saturday 27 February 2021 for the performance lecture, The Archive of we. Free but bookings essential and very limited capacity. https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/139796762881 ... Exhibiting artist Fernando do Campo delivers The archive of we. Fernando will discuss the knotted histories we come across in urban multispecies encounters. The presentation focusses on the House Sparrow Society for Humans (HSSH) archives, an entity that the artist has been working with as an amateur volunteer historian since 2015. Fernando will share a box of slides and correspondence between the HSSH and the Abstract Expressionist American painter Barnett Newman in the 1950s. The archive of we is part of the exhibition To companion a companion, presented at CAT 23 January 28 February 2021. To companion a companion is presented by project partners CAT Hobart 2021, UNSW Galleries Sydney 2021, PICA Perth 2022. This project was assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body. #fernandodocampo #tocompanionacompanion #thearchiveofwe #contemporaryarttasmania See more

25.01.2022 A fascinating event organised by Denise Thwaites and Nancy Mauro-Flude, happening at Bett Gallery Hobart, Ainslie+Gorman Arts Centre, ACT, and live streaming on 5 and 6 November 2020. You can also contribute to the scrapbook (link below): " MoneyLab #X - Economythologies Myth is very precisely the incantation that gives rise to a world Jean-Luc Nancy, The Inoperative Community (1986)... We are thrilled invite you to join us for MoneyLab #X Economythologies as we navigate the iridescence of money its symbols, systems, artefacts and technologies that give rise to worlds in transition. Responding to the constraints of COVID-19, conveners Denise Thwaites and Nancy Mauro-Flude have designed a multidisciplinary project featuring, presentations, talks, conversations and artworks distributed across Ainslie+Gorman Arts Centres (Canberra), Bett Gallery (Hobart), and the aether. *Free event* Please note registration is required for in-person attendance (in accordance with COVID-19 safety measures), and to subscribe to our remote artistic programme updates through 2021." https://economythologies.network/ Co-presented by Centre for Creative and Cultural Research (University of Canberra), Institute for Culture and Society (Western Sydney University), School of Art and Design (Australian National University), Holistic Computing Aesthetics Network and Cultural Value Impact Network (RMIT University), Ainslie+Gorman Arts Centres and Bett Gallery with the support of Despoinas Media Coven and the Institute of Network Cultures.,

24.01.2022 Submission forms for the annual CAT Members' Exhibition are due on Sunday 25 October Art work submission date: Sunday 8 November 2020 To join or renew, or download the submission form, head to our website:... https://contemporaryarttasmania.org//2020-annual-members-/ See more

23.01.2022 Looking for a new job opportunity in the arts? Ten Days has something for you...

23.01.2022 Three issues of Journal on the three exhibitions of Circumbinary Orbits. #15 A clinical and artistic interpretation on the vulnerability of the human condition Jon Marthick on The Cut by Julie Fragar... #16 Take Care Vivienne Cutbush on An Unsteady Compass by Lou Conboy #17 Heavenly Underworld Kartanya Maynard on Transmission Line by Matt Coyle Journal is Contemporary Art Tasmania's digital archive for new thinking on contemporary art. https://contemporaryarttasmania.org/journal/

22.01.2022 Did you know at CAT we stock your favourite art magazines? Available in our gallery shop now are titles from across the Australian art spectrum. Interested in something we don't have? Let us know your favourites!

22.01.2022 This Friday head on down to Salamanca Arts Centre for the opening of an exhibition of new work by all four CAT studio residents! https://www.facebook.com/events/1066166350503774

21.01.2022 Today at CAT we are hosting Lost Futures of Me at the Zoo, a workshop with Jon Smeathers. This project was funded through our Cobra program.

21.01.2022 Circumbinary Orbits: The Cut Julie Fragar curated by Amanda Davies 25 September - 4 October 2020 Gallery hours: 12 - 5pm (no bookings required)... The Cut closing & An Unsteady Compass opening event bookings (strictly limited): https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/120493119163 The Cut is the first presentation in the Circumbinary orbits suite of exhibitions. Amanda Davies has worked with Julie Fragar to develop an intimate installation of paintings that focus on the relationship between conscious and unconscious bodies in the context of the operating theatre. Circumbinary Orbits is a suite of three solo exhibitions curated by three artists presented in rapid fire succession across three consecutive Fridays. Project Curator: Kylie Johnson. Supported by DarkLab. Image: Julie Fragar, Baby Dreams, 2020. Photo: Carl Warner.

21.01.2022 Beginning Wednesday 9 December: Bella Dower's Delayed Translation in the CAT Project Space Event (with Wesley Miles): Friday 11 December free but registration essential: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/128719476419 Through Delayed Translation Bella Dower lingers over the space within the half a second of the act of remembrance. The layers in which our world is perceived and remembered are stretched thin; the fragile membrane of our present is a complex, layered, and shiftin...g reality. Dower’s practice is a hybrid of image making and small-scale sculpture. In this presentation the artist explores both the notion of the present moment as being immediately past, and the assumption of ‘flawed’ recollection. This project was supported through Contemporary Art Tasmania’s Cobra program Image credit: Bella Dower, Delayed Translation, variable dimensions, scanned partially destroyed analogue 35mm film, 2020.

21.01.2022 In 2021 we are kicking off the year with not one, but two projects for MONA FOMA At CAT: Fernando do Campo's To companion a companion, and in Launceston at QVMAG, the Instrument Builders Project 5, presented with Volcanic Winds and Liquid Architecture. For more information head to our website or check out the Mona Foma program

21.01.2022 This Friday! Circumbinary Orbits: Transmission Line Matt Coyle curated by Joel Crosswell 10 - 25 October 2020... Transmission Line opening / An Unsteady Compass closing: 9 October 2020 (strictly bookings only): https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/120493714945 Location: Contemporary Art Tasmania Presenting artist Matt Coyle and curating artist Joel Crosswell have developed Transmission Line, the final exhibition in the Circumbinary orbits suite. Matt Coyle is fascinated by the darkness that sets in after unfortunate events occur. He uses fragments of objects to create chilling scenes reminiscent of frames from schlock horror films. See more

20.01.2022 We are pleased to be stocking Constance's beautiful book in our gallery shop. Available for in-person purchase only. $20 each.

20.01.2022 Opening this Friday! Circumbinary Orbits: An Unsteady Compass. Lou Conboy curated by Mark Shorter 3 October - 18 October 2020 Gallery hours: 12 - 5pm (no bookings required) Friday 2 October: The Cut closing & An Unsteady Compass opening event... Bookings (strictly limited): https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/120493119163 An Unsteady Compass is the second presentation in the Circumbinary orbits suite of exhibitions. Presenting artist Lou Conboy and curating artist Mark Shorter have considered how we navigate the mythologies that have been written over the top of a landscape. Sited in the isolated mining town of Queenstown on the West Coast of Tasmania An Unsteady Compass questions the frontier legends that have shaped its culture. To chart this path Lou Conboy deploys her alter-ego Sisyphina, a figure first introduced in her eponymously titled show at Mona Foma in 2018. In this second chapter Sisyphean cyclic futility is turned inward to critique frontier myths and the bodies that have carried and inscribed them, like a palimpsest, onto invaded terrain. The Circumbinary Orbits suite is curated by Kylie Johnson and deals with sentience, trust, mortality, decay and mythology. Image credit: Lou Conboy, An Unsteady Compass, production still, 2020. Photo Mark Shorter

20.01.2022 Join us for this suite of three solo exhibitions curated by three artists presented in rapid fire succession across three consecutive Fridays. The Cut: Julie Fragar, curated by Amanda Davies Opens to the public on Friday 25 September (no opening event) Continues until 4 October 2020... An Unsteady Compass: Lou Conboy, curated by Mark Shorter Opens to the public Friday 2 October The Cut closing event and An Unsteady Compass opening event - 2x free ticketed sessions: 5.30 - 6.20pm and 6.30 - 7.20pm Bookings essential (limited spaces) https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/120493119163 Continues until 18 October 2020 Transmission Line: Matt Coyle, curated by Joel Crosswell Opens to the public Friday 9 October Transmission Line opening event and An Unsteady Compass closing - 2x free ticketed sessions: 5.30 - 6.30pm and 6.30 - 7.30pm Bookings essential (limited spaces) https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/120493714945 Continues until 25 October 2020 The Circumbinary Orbits suite is curated by Kylie Johnson and has been supported by DarkLab.

20.01.2022 Applications for the 2021 Curatorial Mentorship have been EXTENDED due to unforseen technical issues with our website. The new due date is Monday 10 August 2020. Email [email protected] for an info sheet or [email protected] for questions about your application. Image: Takani Clark, Number 36, 2020. 2020 Curatorial Mentorship exhibition, re-member, curated by Caitlin Fargher. Photo: Remi Chauvin.

19.01.2022 We are proud to present: Muwinina Country Drawing inspiration from her people, her culture and her Country, Luana Towney’s work will take visitors on a journ...ey through a child friendly history lesson about first contact in nipaluna (Hobart) in both palawa kani and English. She has written a travelling book about the Muwinina people of nipaluna (Hobart), that sits on 5 story panels along the South Hobart Rivulet track, starting at the Wynyard Street entrance and finishing at Hobart Linear Park. Opening to the public THIS Saturday 7th Nov. Luana is a Palawa Wiradjuri painter, basket weaver, shell stringer, poet and photographer. This project is supported by the City of Hobart. In partnership with the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre.

18.01.2022 Bethany van Rijswijk's book 'The Invisible Harvest: A Microhistory of Heretical Herbs' is launching at Black Swan Books, New Norfolk 5pm 19th December 2020 Limited copies of the The Invisible Harvest: A Microhistory of Heretical Herbs will be available at Black Swan bookshop after the launch event. This project was supported through Contemporary Art Tasmania’s Cobra program and Black Swan Book Shop.... Image credit: Bethany van Rijswijk, Bread of Dreams, hand-cut collage on paper, 19 x 29 cm, 2020

16.01.2022 Don't forget to book your ticket for this Friday's artist talk with Michaela Gleave at CAT (very limited booking numbers!) https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/126895881999

16.01.2022 Beginning today! THINGS CHANGE - Jake Walker CAT Project Space 25 September - 25 October 2020 ... Gallery hours: 12 - 5pm (no bookings required) To join us for the concurrent Circumbinary Orbits opening events please book here (strictly limited) - LINKS IN PROFILE THINGS CHANGE will present a selection of paired works to be re-hung at different stages of the exhibition offering the audience a unique insight into the artist’s studio practice. Jake Walker is represented by Station Gallery, Melbourne. Solo exhibitions of Walker’s work have been held in New Zealand and Australia. Walker has been included in numerous group exhibitions in Sydney, Melbourne, Hobart and New Zealand. The CAT Project Space is offered to CAT Studio Residents during their tenure for works-in-progress and experiments. Image: Jake Walker, Untitled, 2020. Courtesy of the artist. See more

16.01.2022 A wonderful opportunity for a Tasmanian artist for a paid residency at Launceston Grammar. Click below for more information.

16.01.2022 We are pleased to announce that the recipient of the 2021 CAT Curatorial Mentorship is Sofie Burgoyne. Sofie's artistic practice is "interested in the "mesh-ing" together of environments, processes, articulations, imaginations and correspondences of artists, audiences and the more-than-human alike". Sofie will work with the CAT team to develop an exhibition for the 2021 CAT gallery program. For more information about the Curatorial Mentorship, head to our website.

16.01.2022 A bat. A turtle. The last Human. Listen to the latest episode of our podcast, What are you looking at? now. Featuring Extinction Studies artist Lucienne Rickard, scientist Dr Ian Cresswell, and writer Andrew Harper (whose piece FURY was originally published in Island magazine #159). https://contemporaryarttasmania.org/s6e4-extinction-studies/

15.01.2022 Don't forget to book for Jon Smeathers' sound workshop: Lost Futures of Me at the Zoo, Tuesday 10 November from 12.30pm - 5:30pm. All skill sets and abilities welcome! Link to book in bio: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/126495456315 Image: Jon Smeathers solo performance, nowNow Festival 2014. Photo by Marco Cheng

15.01.2022 CAT Studio resident, Dexter Rosengrave, is presenting their new work 'Letter of Resignation' for Michael Bugelli Gallery, in the new online arts platform Sydney Contemporary Presents 2020 this October. Click below to see more.

15.01.2022 Touring exhibition, The Partnershipping Project opens at Burnie Regional Art Gallery today

15.01.2022 "The answer to my ignorant Google search: 'Can Magpies remember?' is a resounding yes" - from Talia Liz's Beautiful Vagabonds, www.companioncompanionreader.com To companion a companion continues at CAT until 28 February. ... Image: Detail of Fernando do Campo's 365 Daily Bird Lists (January 3rd 2019 - January 2nd 2020)

14.01.2022 Book now for OPEN SANDWICH, a screening event at 5.30pm Friday on 13 November 2021 CAT Gallery - Free, bookings essential: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/128068328819 Featuring: James Brennan, Aliansyah Caniago, Dale Gorfinkle, Raisa Kamila, Willyday Namali, Andreas Siagian, Natasha Tontey, Willoh S. Weiland... Contemporary Art Tasmania shares the ingredients that will feed our future exchange programs with artists and organisations in Indonesia. This one-night-only screening event will showcase collaborations and projects that highlight current alignments and networks of artistic exchange between Tasmania and Indonesia. Screenings will include past and present iterations of work from the Instrument Builders Project, a long-term cultural exchange between Australia and Asia Pacific founded in 2013 by curators Kristi Monfries (Volcanic Winds) and Joel Stern (Liquid Architecture) to be hosted by CAT for Mona Foma 2021, work by Indonesian artists to be included in CAT’s upcoming exhibition Composing Archipelagos curated by Jasmin Stephens, a video work from the 2020 Performance Space Experimental Micro-Fellowship initiative and some extra special collaborations of the future. This program was made possible by the Australian Government's Regional Arts Fund, which supports the arts in regional and remote Australia. Image credit: Natasha Tontey, The Order of Autophagia (2017-2021) a work-in-progress. Supported by Performance Space Micro-Fellowship 2020 and Kyoto Experiment. Photo directed by Natasha Tontey and photographed by Fajar Riyanto (2020)

14.01.2022 Book now to join us for the opening of the 2020 CAT Members' Exhibition: From me to you. Curated by Stevie S. Han and Nadia Refaei. Opening: 5.30pm 27 November 2020 - free but bookings essential. Click below to book: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/2020-cat-members-exhibition

14.01.2022 Join us at CAT next Friday 6 November for a special Shotgun 9 Public Program: Time and Space, with artist Michaela Gleave. This remote, live event will take place in the gallery and spaces are limited so book now! https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/shotgun-9-public-program-mi Time and Space is presented through the Shotgun 9 program.... Shotgun is a Contemporary Art Tasmania artist development program. It is an awarded opportunity that supports selected Tasmanian artist/s through a customised and intensive program of high-level industry access, critical engagement and new work. The Shotgun 9 artist is Alex Davern. Image credit: Doing Time/Time Doing, Michaela Gleave, 2014. 48 hour endurance performance executed in former police detention cell: clocks, CCTV cameras, video monitors, live web feed, camping equipment and supplies. Installation view: The Lock-up, Newcastle. Photography: Jamieson Moore

14.01.2022 New podcast episode! This episode is a special edition produced by Liquid Architecture and co presented by Contemporary Art Tasmania featuring interviews and audio from the recent instrument builders project as part of Mona Foma 2021 a durational performance held at the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania. IBP5 is a partnership project presented by Contemporary Art Tasmania, Liquid Architecture and Volcanic Winds. Curated by Kristi Monfries, Joel S...tern and Lisa Campbell-Smith, featuring artists Richie Cyngler, Julia Drouhin, Dylan Sheridan and Pip Stafford IBP5 is supported by Australia Japan Foundation, Asialink, Regional Arts Fund, Mona Foma and The School of Architecture & Design, UTAS With very special thanks to Mara Schwerdtfeger (sound producer) and Mish Szekelyhidi (documentation and audio). https://soundcloud.com//s07e01-instrument-builders-project #IBP5 #monafoma2021 #instrumentbuildersproject

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13.01.2022 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS - 2020 Members Exhibition: From me to you. Curated by Stevie S Han and Nadia Refaei. This year our Members' Exhibition is a little bit different. You’ll submit your work, but this time, you’ll get something back too. So far, 2020 has been a year of disruption, terrifyingly quick change, and forced slowness. But what has also emerged are cycles of giving, gestures of care, reminders of connection.... For this year’s exhibition there will be no big party, or big artworks. Instead we ask you to submit one A5 size work, preferably black and white, which will be printed and exhibited in the CAT Gallery, online, and as a limited edition postcard series. Each exhibiting artist will receive one curated postcard pack back as an exclusive gift. Submission form deadline: Sunday 25 October 2020 Download the form: https://contemporaryarttasmania.org//submission-form-Membe Can be filled in digitally (preferred) or printed and submitted in person. Email to [email protected] Artwork deadline: Sunday 8 November 2020 Please digitally submit one artwork. Preferably A5 (148mm X 210mm), 300dpi min, black and white. Works can be in any medium but must be portrait orientation. Each work will be printed as an A5 black and white image on white paper. Email or wetransfer artworks to: [email protected] If you are unable to, or need help with, digital submission please email the curators: [email protected]

13.01.2022 Something very special at the State Cinema featuring CAT alumni, Megan Walch.

12.01.2022 Babies, we are back online! And these super cosy, super limited edition hoodies by Scot Cotterell (exclusively for CAT) are not waiting around for anyone. To snap one up head to our online store or come visit us at 27 Tasma St, 12pm - 5pm Wed-Sun. https://contemporaryarttasmania.org//scot-cotterell-x-con/

12.01.2022 You have ten more days to apply for our new funding streams, Cobra and Venture Capital. Link in profile. Video: Alex Davern, Deep Fry, 2019. Image courtesy of the artist and Bett Gallery.

12.01.2022 We are very pleased to announce that the recipient of Shotgun 9 is... (drum roll) Hobart-based artist Alex Davern. Shotgun 9 is Contemporary Art Tasmania's flexible artist development program. For more information about Shotgun head to http://www.shotgunonline.net ***... Image credits: Alex Davern, Villa Lena 2018, Photo: Lottie Hampson Alex Davern, Transparent things, Installation view, Bett Gallery, 2019. Photo: Peter Whyte Photography

12.01.2022 Julie Fragar's The Cut, continues until this Sunday as part of Circumbinary Orbits. To join us for the closing event (and opening of An Unsteady Compass) on Friday night, book your tickets https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/circumbinary-orbits-event-t (only a few left!)

12.01.2022 Do you need something special for someone special this holiday season? We have you covered with our artist edition commissions, including but not limited to ceramic dishes by Pat Brassington & Studio Zona, hoodies by Scot Cotterell, scarves by Mish Meijers, tea towels by Brigita Ozolins and Tom O'Hern, pillow cases by Di Allison and Patrick Hall, earrings by Champ Co and Carolyn Wigston, and patches by Tricky Walsh Head to our website to buy! Last orders 17 December https://contemporaryarttasmania.org/shop/

11.01.2022 Got some landscaping happening in the gallery ahead of Matt Coyle's Transmission Line

11.01.2022 Remember! Works are due in for the CAT Members' Exhibition: From me to you this Sunday 8 November. We can't wait to see how you've responded to our call out. All works to be emailed to [email protected]

11.01.2022 THINGS CHANGE - Jake Walker CAT Project Space 25 September - 25 October 2020 ... Gallery hours: 12 - 5pm (no bookings required) To join us for the concurrent Circumbinary Orbits opening events please book here (strictly limited) - LINKS IN PROFILE THINGS CHANGE will present a selection of paired works to be re-hung at different stages of the exhibition offering the audience a unique insight into the artist’s studio practice. Jake Walker is represented by Station Gallery, Melbourne. Solo exhibitions of Walker’s work have been held in New Zealand and Australia. Walker has been included in numerous group exhibitions in Sydney, Melbourne, Hobart and New Zealand. The CAT Project Space is offered to CAT Studio Residents during their tenure for works-in-progress and experiments. Image: Jake Walker, Things Change, 2020. Courtesy of the artist. See more

09.01.2022 You have a week to get your submission forms in for the 2020 CAT Members' exhibition: From me to you. You have a week to get your submission forms in for the CAT 2020 Members Exhibition: From me to you. Things are a bit different this year so don't forget to read the form carefully. It's a two step process with works are due in on the 8 November. https://contemporaryarttasmania.org//2020-annual-members-/

09.01.2022 We invite you to have a look at this new work by CAT Studio Resident Maria Blackwell, which has been commissioned by Sawtooth ARI Gallery - begins tomorrow!

09.01.2022 This Friday we are hosting Michaela Gleave for a Shotgun 9 Public Program. Gleave will discuss a selection of her projects that involve compressions or expansions of time and space. Join us at 5.30pm, 26 February 2021. No bookings required but numbers will be limited (first in, best dressed) Image: Michaela Gleave, A Galaxy of Suns, 2016. Photo: Roser Diaz

09.01.2022 Don't forget to book your place for Eddie James' Walk On. Beginning this weekend with the Silver Falls walks. Click here to book: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/129782955313

09.01.2022 Don't forget you have until Monday 10 August to get your applications in for the 2021 CAT Curatorial Mentorship! https://contemporaryarttasmania.org/curatorial-mentorship/ Image: Georgia Morgan, Floating Signifiers, 2020. From 're-member' curated by 2020 Curatorial Mentorship recipient, Caitlin Fargher. Photo: Remi Chauvin.

08.01.2022 It's all happening at CAT this weekend! Vibrance Festival is taking over our carpark for two days and we can't wait. You'll be able to head into the gallery for a look during both events, come and say hi!

08.01.2022 Our current exhibition, re-member, curated by Caitlin Fargher and featuring the work of Takani Clark, Selena de Carvalho and Georgia Morgan continues all weekend. Gallery hours 12 - 5pm. In the Project Space we are also hosting work by Abigail Giblin, About 400,000 Leaves. Image: Selena de Carvalho, Ready Made (Burn Out), 2020 (Installation detail). Photo: Remi Chauvin.... In the Project Space we are also hosting work by Abigail Giblin, About 400,000 Leaves. Image: Selena de Carvalho, Ready Made (Burn Out), 2020 (Installation detail). Photo: Remi Chauvin.

07.01.2022 In 2020 CAT is celebrating 25 years of the curatorial mentorship program. Looking back on two and half decades of exhibitions, Lisa Campbell Smith speaks to Scot Cotterell and Sarah Jones, and 2020 recipient Caitlin Fargher. To learn more about this program head to our website The 2020 CAT Curatorial Mentorship exhibition, re-member, continues until Sunday 6 September.... This episode was produced and edited by Lisa Campbell Smith, additional editing and mixdown by Brendan Walls. Additional sounds for this episode come from Scot Cotterell Sonic Systematics, Live at Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery for Hobiennale, 2017 and Selena de Carvalho, whose work is featured in the 2020 Curatorial Mentorship exhibition, re-member. The field recordings are collected from Tasmanian forests earmarked for clearfelling. Including: Styx underground creek, sumac bird, swift parrot in the division of Denison, 2019. https://contemporaryarttasmania.org/s5e3-25-years-of-the-c/

07.01.2022 We are very pleased to announce the Cobra funding recipients: Eddie james Bethany van Rijswijk ... Jon Smeathers Wesley Miles Timothy Coad Bella Dower CAT will be working with these emerging artists over the next few months on various, exciting outcomes. Stay tuned. --- Images: Eddie James, Digital Photography. Meander. featuring Bert Spinks, April, 2020. Bethany van Rijswijk, The Witch Wound, collage on paper, 2019 Bella Dower, Peripheral, 2020 Southern ice porcelain with fired decal, 925 silver wire, 9.4x15cm Timothy Coad, Documentation of works being made on site post bushfire, at Fourfoot Road, Geeveston, 2020 Jon Smeathers, 2020. Courtesy of the artist. Wesley Miles, HumidCarbonRichAtmospheres, 2019

07.01.2022 Tim Coad has built a drawing machine where detritus retrieved from the fire ravaged Geeveston landscape is used to expand on methods of expressive mark making. Located in Town Hall Underground - close to the earth and other times - Coad’s machine will make dry-point images that evolve over the course of the Tracing Impacts project and reflect upon the interdependence of nature and culture. Presented through Contemporary Art Tasmania's Cobra program and supported by City of H...obart. Tim Coad's Tracing Impacts: Town Hall Underground, 16 Argyle Street Hobart 7000 18-22 November 2020 Open to the public: 12 - 5pm, Wednesday Sunday Closing Event: Saturday 21 November 2020, 4-6pm - free but bookings essential: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/128702656109 Image credit: Tim Coad, '01-Oct-2020 11:57AM - 12:51PM’, 2020, dry-point print on Hahnemuhle 300 gsm, 106 x 79cm, courtesy Penny Contemporary

06.01.2022 Beginning on December 7 at CAT - 'a week' by Wesley Miles Contemporary Art Tasmania (garage) Monday 7 Friday 11 December 2020, Midday 5pm daily (no bookings required)... The performance concludes at 5pm on Friday 11 December Closing event (with Bella Dower): Friday 11 December Free but registration essential: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/128719476419 a week is a performative endurance work developed by Wesley Miles. Working across ideas of repetition, endurance, discipline, time, mechanics and labour, Miles has set himself the mammoth task of making his own printing press which will be installed in the CAT garage where the artist will work for one week, creating drypoint etchings. This project was supported through Contemporary Art Tasmania’s Cobra program with support from Pete Mattila and Lewis Allen. Image credit: Wesley Miles, creating round bar stock from train tracks, 2020. Photo Pete Mattila. See more

06.01.2022 Our mates at The Unconformity have prepared this special broadcast for you - a socially distanced buffet of cultural goodness, from the heart of the West - beginning on Saturday 17 October. You might see a few familiar names and faces from the CAT program archive to boot. To check it out: https://untv.theunconformity.com.au/

05.01.2022 Next Thursday join the curator of The Partnershipping Project, Pat Hoffie, and some special guests to discuss the project at a zoom event - open to all. Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82386093714 Passcode: 115783... The Partnershipping Project has returned to Burnie Regional Art Gallery for the last stop on its itinerary of regional galleries in Tasmania, Queensland, NSW and South Australia. This innovative evolving project, with a different lineup of artists at each venue, addressed issues of place and regionality in a globalised world. Image: Installation shot The Partnershipping Project, Burnie Regional Art Gallery, 2020, Photo by Rick Eaves.

05.01.2022 Beginning today 7 December is Wesley Miles' 'a week' in the CAT Garage. Head on over between 12 and 5pm to check out his process performance. a week is a performative endurance work developed by Wesley Miles. Working across ideas of repetition, endurance, discipline, time, mechanics and labour, Miles has set himself the mammoth task of making his own printing press which will be installed in the CAT Garage where the artist will work for one week, creating drypoint etchings. a week is supported by Contemporary Art Tasmania's Cobra program, Pete Matilla and Lewis Allen.

05.01.2022 Today is your last opportunity to Julie Fragar's The Cut as part of Circumbinary Orbits.

05.01.2022 CAT Touring exhibition Systematic, curated by Dr Eliza Burke opened tonight at Artspace Mackay.

04.01.2022 This Friday 27 November we open the annual CAT Members' Exhibition. This year titled, From me to you, the exhibition is curated by Stevie S. Han and Nadia Refaei. There are still a few spaces left for the opening event - click here to book: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/129632695883

04.01.2022 CAT Studio Resident Jake Walker has an exhibition at Gallery 9, Sydney. Continuing until 12 December, 'I am in Hobart' reflects on "Walker’s growing concern with screen-based modes of viewing". https://www.gallery9.com.au/exhibition/i-am-in-hobart

03.01.2022 Put this date in your diary! Blackspace Creative are launching their online space - full of goodness from lutruwita and beyond.

03.01.2022 Join us next Tuesday 8 December for a special online streaming of Open Sandwich - 8pm AEDT and 8pm GMT + 7. 8pm Australia AEDT - https://youtu.be/IQJoeccQKSU 8pm Indonesia GMT+7 - https://youtu.be/XDcKhRAxrBs ... Program includes: Nada Laut As Above So Below, Andreas Siagian (Yogyakarta) and Dale Gorfinkle (Victoria), 2013 and 2020 Gold, Natasha Tontey (Yogyakarta) and Willoh S.Weiland (Tasmania), 2020 Tanah/ Air (Land/ Water), Raisa Kamila (Bandung) and Aliansyah Caniago (Bandung), 2020 Grindcore on the dancefloor, James Brennan (Tasmania), 2020 and The Story of Gender Namali and Axon Breeze, Willyday Namali (Yogyakarta), 2020 The Order of Autophagia (work-in-progress), Natasha Tontey (Yogyakarta), 2017-2021 This program was made possible by the Australian Government's Regional Arts Fund. Image credit: Gold, A eulogy for a speculative future collaboration between Tontey and Weiland, Natasha Tontey, 2020. See more

03.01.2022 Dexter Rosengrave's work is now back in action! Thanks for your patience as we dealt with our soggy floor. In the Wake of Your Loudness continues in the CAT Project Space until 28 Feb.

02.01.2022 Don't forget! You have until Monday 31 August to get your applications in for our artist opportunities - Cobra (early career) and Venture Capital (mid/established). Click below to read more. https://contemporaryarttasmania.org/cobra/ https://contemporaryarttasmania.org/venture-capital/... Image: Alex Davern, Deep Fry, 2019. Courtesy of the artists and Bett Gallery.

02.01.2022 We have been very fortunate to support and learn through the development of walantanalinany palingina, and we encourage you to go and have a look at this exhibition at the LongHouse over the next couple of weeks.

02.01.2022 Book now for the first of our COBRA projects - Lost Futures of Me at the Zoo: Mark Fisher, Non-Musicology & YouTube Mixtapes. A sound workshop with Jon Smeathers. Very limited numbers - link to book and more info: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/126495456315 When: Tuesday the 10th of November 2020... Time: 12.30pm 5.30pm Location: Contemporary Art Tasmania 27 Tasma St, North Hobart TAS 7000 LFMZ is open to all disciplines and age groups. No technical skills are required. Anyone who is interested to explore the possibilities of sound collage, the boundaries of one's aural capacity and an ‘out of joint thinking-through-sound’ is welcome. Refreshments will be provided on the day. Image credit: Beadle_design, lfmz, 2020. 3D Render: Beadle. See more

02.01.2022 Book now for 'Walk On' a sensory walk by Eddie James supported by CAT's Cobra program. There are four walks to choose from, at Silver Falls and Knocklofty. Click below to find the booking links: https://contemporaryarttasmania.org//cobra-walk-on-eddie-/

02.01.2022 Make kabsah with CAT staffer Nadia Refaei - available to watch through 4A's Digital program. Click Below! http://www.4a.com.au/nadia-refaei-make-kabsah/

02.01.2022 Here is a very interesting and timely call for submissions from the Hobart City Council. Click below for more information. https://www.hobartcity.com.au//Crowther-Reinterpretation-P

01.01.2022 Matt Coyle's Transmission Line is open tonight (booked out!) but you can catch it all weekend, alongside Lou Conboy's An Unsteady Compass as part of Circumbinary Orbits. Gallery open 12 - 5pm. Image: Matt Coyle, Head VIII, 2020.

01.01.2022 It's cold outside but it is in our gallery shop with beautiful items from AM Assembly and Georgie Vozar and of course our new hoodie in collaboration with Scot Cotterell - did you know each one comes with a unique print? Head to our website to buy online or head to CAT between 12 and 5pm, Wed - Sun. https://contemporaryarttasmania.org/shop/

01.01.2022 Circumbinary Orbits continues at CAT, with Matt Coyle's Transmission Line (pictured, detail) and Lou Conboy's An Unsteady Compass. Gallery open 12 - 5pm today until Sunday.

01.01.2022 We are very excited to announce TWO new opportunities for Tasmanian artists. Cobra - for early career artists, and Venture Capital - for mid-career and established artists. We strongly encourage applications from people who have not had opportunity through Contemporary Art Tasmania previously. We want to hear from YOU. To learn more head to our website. https://contemporaryarttasmania.org/cobra/ https://contemporaryarttasmania.org/venture-capital/... Image Credit: Alex Davern, DEEP FRY, 2019 HD video projection (looped, colour, stereo sound), wood, acrylic and used frying oil dimensions variable. Image courtesy of the artist and Bett Gallery, Hobart.