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Despard Gallery

Locality: Hobart, Tasmania

Phone: +61 3 6223 8266

Address: 15 Castray Esplanade 7000 Hobart, TAS, Australia

Website: http://www.despard-gallery.com.au/

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25.01.2022 O P E N I N G E V E N T tonight! We are proud to launch the our last solo exhibition of the year, REPLICA. Please join us tonight, along with the artist from 5:30pm to celebrate this standout new body of work by contemporary photographer Micheila Petersfield. . "Petersfield's work is characterised through a flawless finish, drawing on digital manipulation and postproduction to shape her multiple personas into compelling portraits." . #contemporaryart #photography #despardgallery #soloexhibition #tasmania #opening

25.01.2022 A huge thanks to venue partner Despard Gallery for hosting three festival events last weekend. Artists performed surrounded by the work of Tasmanian contemporar...y photographer Micheila Petersfield. If you'd like to enjoy live performance in this beautiful setting, there are still tickets available for this weekend's performances of: Burning Words https://www.burningdesire.com.au/events/burningwords Do Not Go Gentle https://www.burningdesire.com.au/events/donotgogentle NB The second performance of What I Did On My Pandemic will also be at Despard, but tickets for this have sold out.

25.01.2022 I N S T A L L D A Y at Despard Gallery! Shaping up to be a truly stunning presentation for our final solo exhibition of the year, REPLICA by emerging photographer Micheila Petersfield. Open to view in person and online from Wednesday 11 November. Within her narrative images, Petersfield adopts multiple roles, including choreographer, costume designer, model, photographer and retoucher, maintaining complete artistic and technical control. Her work is characterised through a flawless finish, drawing on digital manipulation and postproduction to shape her multiple personas into compelling portraits. . #contemporaryart #photography #despardgallery #soloexhibition #selfportrait #install

25.01.2022 P R O F I L E Rosella Namok first appeared on the contemporary art scene in the late 1990s as one of the more prominent members of the Lockhart River ‘Art Gang’. Growing up, she experienced traditional life - such as camping, fishing, gathering berries - within and around Eastern Cape York Peninsula. Rosella's distinctive style has been developed from a technique influenced by watching her grandmother drawing in the sand. Her work combines both traditional stories and co...ntemporary themes associated with social and environmental concerns, specific to the North Queensland coastal landscape and its natural habitats. Painted marks are often made directly on the surface with her fingers, distinctively etched with a powerful yet measured approach. . See Rosella's work as part of our current exhibition, Lockhart River Artists, online and in person until 6 March. . #despardgallery #contemporaryart #exhibition #hobart #tasmania #lockhartriver #painting #indigenous #art #fireworksgallery See more

23.01.2022 T H A N K Y O U to everyone who turned up last Friday night for the opening of Island Images: From Home to Manus, solo exhibition by Anthea Boden! It was such a great event, with everyone celebrating Anthea's unique talents and reflecting on her touching portrait tributes for the many asylum seekers and refugees. . Please come by the gallery to view in person or online vis our website. New Artist interview video coming soon! Exhibition closes 12 September. . #opening #contemporaryart #despardgallery #hobart #manusisland #asylumseekers

23.01.2022 E X H I B I T I O N C A T A L O G U E Just published - Online Exhibition Catalogue for Anthea Boden's solo exhibition 'Island Images: From Home To Manus'. View and download via our website. Catalogue includes all exhibition artworks as well as individual statements that reveal the sometimes heartbreaking stories that have inspired Boden's return to portraiture. . #despardgallery #contemporaryart #exhibitioncatalogue #painting #publication

23.01.2022 O P E N I N G event tonight! We are excited to officially launch Anthea Boden's solo exhibition 'Island Images: From Home to Manus' from 5:30pm. Please join us, along with the artists, to celebrate this thought provoking new body of work. . "I hope this exhibition draws attention to issues surrounding offshore detention and the refugees who have been processed on Nauru, Christmas and Manus islands. Globally, there are now over seventy-five million displaced persons and twenty-six million refugees, almost half of which are children. . #contemporaryart #painting #despardgallery #soloexhibition #tasmania #manusisland #asylumseekers

21.01.2022 P R O F I L E Samantha Hobson grew up learning traditional ways in the small community of Lockhart River going on to be one of the founding members of the Lockhart River ‘Art Gang’, established in 1995. Hobson’s paintings describe her home country, specifically depicting her community and stories from the ‘old people’, learning about the land, traditional dance and bush food. Thick layers of paints are regularly applied using bright marine colours, reflecting Hobson’s memor...ies of life on the reef. Greens are often used in the background with multi-coloured linear representations in the foreground to represent the vines and creeks of the rainforest. . See Samantha's work as part of our current exhibition, Lockhart River Artists, online and in person until 6 March. . #despardgallery #contemporaryart #exhibition #hobart #tasmania #lockhartriver #painting #indigenous #art #fireworksgallery See more

20.01.2022 N O W S H O W I N G Open to view in person and online, our new exhibition 'In The Clear Night Of Day', by established contemporary artist Graham Lang. For this exhibition we are excited to be able to host an exhibition opening event! Please join us, along with the artist at the gallery on Friday 18 September from 5:30pm for a celebratory glass. . #contemporaryart #painting #despardgallery #soloexhibition #tasmania

20.01.2022 N O W S H O W I N G Open to view in person and online, our new solo exhibition 'Replica', by emerging contemporary photographer Micheila Petersfield. "Replica explores self-imaging in the contemporary digital era where photo editing is now accessible through smartphones, enabling us to easily modify our appearance through filters and apps. My work is concerned with the tensions and anxieties that occur as the digitally altered self-image encroaches on our lived reality, blurring the boundaries between our material and digital bodies." To celebrate please join us, along with the artist at the gallery on Friday 13 November from 5:30pm

19.01.2022 A R T I S T V I D E O Listen to Micheila discuss the motivations behind her practice and the intricate process behind each image. Step inside a creative world of digital manipulation and flawless self-portraiture that questions visual culture online and routine visual consumption. . 11 November - 5 December 2020 . #despardgallery #contemporaryart #photography #soloexhibition #artistvideo #interview

19.01.2022 I N S T A L L D A Y at Despard Gallery! An enjoyable hang hang for one of our favourite longstanding Despard artists, Anthea Boden. Along with her unique semi-abstract interpretation of the local landscape and its psyche, Boden has returned to portraiture, inspired to honour the stories of asylum seekers trying to find a new home in Australia. View in person from Wednesday 19 August. . #contemporaryart #painting #despardgallery #soloexhibition #manusisland #asylumseekers

18.01.2022 I N S T A L L D A Y at Despard Gallery! Shaping up to be a truly stunning presentation for our final solo exhibition of the year, REPLICA by emerging photographer Micheila Petersfield. Open to view in person and online from Wednesday 11 November. . Within her narrative images, Petersfield adopts multiple roles, including choreographer, costume designer, model, photographer and retoucher, maintaining complete artistic and technical control. Her work is characterised through a flawless finish, drawing on digital manipulation and postproduction to shape her multiple personas into compelling portraits. . #contemporaryart #photography #despardgallery #soloexhibition #selfportrait #install

18.01.2022 S N E E K P E E K We are excited to announce the upcoming solo exhibition 'In The Clear Night Of Day', by established contemporary artist Graham Lang. Open to view 16 September. . 'With a career spanning four decades, Lang's work is essentially biographical in nature. His broad ranging practice evokes both the external and internal realities of place and being, frequently centring on themes relating to migration, identity and cultural dislocation. Lang adopts an intuitive... approach to painting, allowing process to steer his ideas, with compositions naturally evolving from the collision of memory, intuition and technique. As such, strange juxtapositions emerge, often seen through his animal surrogates, denoting how identity is complex and commonly composed of opposites' . Register your interest now and view an exhibition preview via our website https://buff.ly/3bIPMia . #painting #despardgallery #soloexhibition #contemporaryart See more

17.01.2022 N O W S H O W I N G Open to view in person and online, our powerful new exhibition 'Island Images: From Home to Manus', by established Tasmanian painter Anthea Boden. For this exhibition we are excited to be able to host an exhibition opening event! Please join us, along with the artist at the gallery on Friday 21 August from 5:30pm for a celebratory glass. . #contemporaryart #painting #despardgallery #soloexhibition #tasmania

15.01.2022 I N S T A L L D A Y at Despard Gallery! The hang of Graham Lang's new solo exhibition 'In The Clear Night Of Day' shaping up nicely. Through an intuitive approach to painting, Lang allows process to steer his ideas, compositions naturally evolving from the collision of memory, intuition and technique. Strange juxtapositions emerge, often seen through his animal surrogates, denoting how identity is complex and commonly composed of opposites. View in person, or in full online, from Wednesday 16 September. . #contemporaryart #painting #despardgallery #soloexhibition

15.01.2022 L A S T D A Y to catch Anthea Boden's exhibition 'Island Images: From Home To Manus'. If you can, make sure you drop by the gallery to view this significant body of work. Exhibition concludes Saturday 12 September. . #despardgallery #painting #soloexhibition #lastday

14.01.2022 L A S T D A Y to catch Michael Vale's exhibition 'The Guests'. If you can, make sure you drop by the gallery to view this powerful body of work. Exhibition concludes Saturday 7 November. . #despardgallery #painting #soloexhibition #lastday #gothic

13.01.2022 C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S to Ellyn Anderson, Despard Gallery NEXT award winner for 2020! . Despard Gallery has always strived to be a cultural ambassador for Tasmania, sharing the work of our artists, both nationally and internationally. This annual award, set up in association with the School of Creative Arts and Media, recognises standout new talent and provides a fine art graduate from the University of Tasmania an opportunity to exhibit work in our upcoming Annual ...Summer Show, alongside established artists from the gallery stable. . I seek to paint the traces of my being within a place and in turn, that place within me. Here, the common plaid blanket carries meaning beyond the household and identifies the narrative which exists together with the Australian landscape. . See Ellyn’s paintings in our Summer Show, opening 9 December, continuing till 6 February 2021 . #art #award #new #tasmania #artschool #graduate #talent #despardgallery #exhibition See more

13.01.2022 C U R R E N T E X H I B I T I O N Continuing this week, 'In The Clear Night Of Day' solo exhibition by contemporary artist Graham Lang. . If you haven't been in already, do drop by the gallery to view this striking and original new exhibition. Essentially biographical in nature, Lang’s broad ranging practice evokes both the external and internal realities of place and being, frequently centring on themes relating to migration, identity and cultural dislocation. . Exhibitio...n concludes 10 October. . #despardgallery #painting #contemporaryart #exhibition #hobart See more

12.01.2022 O P E N I N G EVENT! We are proud to officially launch Graham Lang's solo exhibition 'In The Clear Night Of Day' from 5:30pm tonight. Please join us, along with the artists, to celebrate this powerful new body of work. . "The underlying impulse behind these paintings therefore is to imagine the seemingly irreconcilable as inseparably together humans festooned with fellow-creatures, wandering the wilderness they are biologically part of, yet seek to transcend, nemeses locked in the endless tango of life. Such juxtapositions remind us that opposites are, for the most part, complementary, interconnected and interdependent. . #contemporaryart #painting #despardgallery #soloexhibition #tasmania

12.01.2022 T H A N K Y O U to everyone who came last Friday night for the opening of REPLICA, solo exhibition by Micheila Petersfield! Such a great event, with family, friends and collectors all celebrating a bold new body of work. . Please drop by the gallery to view in person or online via our website. New Artist interview video coming soon! Exhibition closes 5 December. . #openingnight #contemporaryart #despardgallery #hobart #photography #selfportrait

10.01.2022 P R E V I E W We are very proud to announce the upcoming a survey exhibition 'Selected Works From The Artist's Studio' by Geoff Dyer. . Geoff Dyer (1947-2020) will remain firmly etched into Tasmania’s cultural history as one of our most celebrated contemporary painters. His artistic legacy continues to live on through his work. . Geoff had a unique capacity to evoke light through paint, capturing a sense of atmosphere and charging each work with an unmistakable strength and... intensity. Key to each interpretation was the overall tone. This included the damp cold greens reminiscent of Cockle Creek, the thick heavy blues of Ocean Beach and the fierce reds and oranges from his Fire Series. . 'Selected Works From The Artist’s Studio' represents an exhibition planned with Geoff over the past 12 months. It aims to acknowledgethese key underlining tones found in Geoff’s work and has been curated to share the vivid contrasts captured across his practice, presenting sixteen major oils, a suite of smaller studies, as well as a small selection of works on paper, painted plein air from Dolphin Sands.. . Register your interest now and view exhibition preview via our website. . #abstract #painting #landscape #geoffdyer #despardgallery #tasmania #contemporaryart See more

10.01.2022 L A S T D A Y S to visit 'Lockhart River Artist' presented in association with Fireworks Gallery and featuring three amazing indigenous women painters; Fiona Omeenyo, Samantha Hobson & Rosella Namok. Do drop by the gallery to view these exciting bodies of work in person. Exhibition concludes Saturday 5 March. . 'A small and remote community, Lockhart River is located eight hundred kilometres north of Cairns on the Eastern Cape York Peninsula. Growing up, they experienced the traditional ways of the area, including fishing and gathering food. Each artist remains influenced by this area, using paint to reflect and speak to the traditions and experiences of their birthplace.' . #despardgallery #contemporaryart #exhibition #hobart #tasmania #lockhartriver #painting #indigenous #art #fireworksgallery

10.01.2022 C E L E B R A T I N G our amazing Tasmanian talent on International Womens Day, with emerging artist Maggie Jeffries. Maggie is off to King Island in May for a six week residency where she will be creating new work for her inaugural solo exhibition opening October 2021. Register your interest via our website now. . 'Maggie's work explores our connection to nature, including how native plants often hold symbolic importance. Through her work Maggie explores the crossover between both universal and personal connections, including how flowers can represent identity and memory.' . #IWD2021 #despardgalery #tasmania #painting #contemporaryart #soloexhibition

09.01.2022 R E P L I C A continuing until 5 December, the transformative and visually stunning solo exhibition by contemporary photographer Micheila Petersfield. Step inside a world of digital manipulation and flawless self-portraiture that questions our routine visual consumption online. . "This new body of work explores the tensions and anxieties that occur as the digitally altered self-image encroaches on our lived reality and the increasingly blurred boundaries between our material and digital bodies." . #contemporaryart #photography #despardgallery #soloexhibition #selfportrait #digitalmaniplulation

05.01.2022 L A S T W E E K to view Anthea Boden's powerful solo exhibition 'Island Images: From Home to Manus'. View online, read the digital exhibition catalogue, enter the virtual viewing room or drop by the gallery to view in person. Exhibition concludes Saturday 12 September. . #despardgallery #painting #manusisland #asylumseekers #soloexhibition #lastweek

05.01.2022 T H A N K Y O U to everyone who come along to make last Friday night a fabulous opening event for Graham Lang, helping to celebrate his fourth solo exhibition with Despard Gallery 'In The Clear Night Of Day'. . Please drop by the gallery to view in person or online via our website. New Artist interview video coming soon! Exhibition closes 10 October. . #opening#soloexhibition #contemporaryart #despardgallery #hobart

04.01.2022 E X H I B I T I O N C A T A L O G U E Make sure you jump online to read and download our recent digital exhibition catalogue for 'Replica', detailing all artworks by Micheila Petersfield, as well as artist statements and bio. . #despardgallery #contemporaryart #exhibitioncatalogue #photography #selfportrait #publication

04.01.2022 A R T I S T V I D E O Listen to contemporary artist Graham Lang discuss the concepts and inspiration behind his new body of work currently on display as part of his solo exhibition 'In The Clear Night Of Day'. Take a look inside Graham's studio and listen to Graham unpack the processes and techniques that guide his painting. . 16 September - 10 October 2020 . #despardgallery #contemporaryart #painting #soloexhibition #artistvideo #interview

03.01.2022 SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY PRESENTS 2020 Despard Gallery is proud to be participating in the new experimental online arts platform Sydney Contemporary Presents 2020. . Dive into an unique online art buying experience that allows you to explore, discover and buy from unique contemporary artworks, all created in 2020. Rediscover five of our unique artists work through a curated selection of their best work. Mark what has be a truly memorable year with a original artwork created in 20...20! . Selected artworks by: Patrick Hall, Anne Morrison, Michael Vale, Julienne Harris and Glen Clarke. . View selected artworks via our website or visit the entire virtual art fair via Sydney Contemporary. [Image: Michael Vale 'Strange Rain' 2020 oil on linen 139 x 102cm] See more

02.01.2022 Our new double page spread filling pages of the latest issue of Artist Profile Magazine! Two bold contemporary painters with solo exhibition opening next week by Graham Lang, followed in October with solo exhibition by Michael Vale. Jump on our web site for exhibition previews! . #artmagazine #artistprofile #despardgallery #painting #exhibition #contemporaryart @artistprofile @michaelcharlesvale

02.01.2022 P R O F I L E Born in the remote community of Lockhart River on the Eastern Cape York Peninsula, Fiona Omeenyo was taught the traditional ways of the area including fishing and gathering food; activities that she still enjoys and has passed down to her children. Omeenyo’s figurative compositions symbolise bloodline, which connects ancestral spirits with family and her homeland amidst coastal beach and reefs. Her paintings reflect on ancestry, connectivity and a continuous ...relationship with past and present. The symbols and figures used within her paintings are described by Omeenyo as a personal interpretation of togetherness, specifically her family and spirit. . See Fiona's work as part of our current exhibition, Lockhart River Artists, online and in person until 6 March. . #despardgallery #contemporaryart #exhibition #hobart #tasmania #lockhartriver #painting #indigenous #art #fireworksgallery See more