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Plimsoll Gallery

Locality: Hobart, Tasmania

Address: 37 Hunter Street 7000 Hobart, TAS, Australia

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21.01.2022 What does Melaleuca ericifolia, commonly known as swamp paperbark), Eucalyptus obliqua, commonly known as messmate stringybark, Eucalyptus regnans, known variously as mountain ash, swamp gum, or stringy gum and Nothofagus gunnii, also known as deciduous beech, or fagus have in common? They are all natural resources found in Tasmania and are used to make traditional aboriginal canoes. Interested in finding out more? Head over to the Plimsoll Gallery website: https://www.utas....edu.au//too-many-cooks-national-science-w #PlimsollGallery #scienceweek, #SolveitwithSTEM Image: Rex Greeno, model paperbark canoe, 2013, courtesy of the artist. Photo credit: Jane Barlow

21.01.2022 Too Many Cooks artist Tom Nicholson lives and works in Melbourne. His work often gravitates around processes of drawing, the persistence of images, and the demands of histories upon the present. Tom Nicholson (‘Interview’ 2016) explores Webber’s enigmatic scene by revisiting the place of Cook’s landing on Bruny Island to locate the exact viewpoint of the drawing. Nicholson reproduced the drawing in its original dimensions and accompanied it with text of his own interview wit...h the author on the reverse, exploring the nuance of an Aboriginal lifeworld of middens and landscape across time alongside the possibilities of Webber’s artistic project. Nicholson’s ‘Interview’ takes the form of a sculptural work, with folded sets of the drawing and text arranged in what might suggest a pedestal for a monumental Cook that is absent from the gallery. Image credit: Tom Nicholson, Interview 2016, stack of off-set printed multiple to take away. Image: Courtesy of the artist. Photo credit: Rémi Chauvin https://www.utas.edu.au//art-hobart/2020/august/too-many-c #plimsollgallery #toomanycook

20.01.2022 Congratulations to PhD student Micheila Petersfield, winner of the 2019 Henry Jones Art Prize! Micheila is studying at the School of Creative Arts and ...Media. You can check out all the finalists' work at The Henry Jones Art Hotel from 10am-5pm, until December 8. Photo credit: Rosie Hastie

17.01.2022 We’re so excited to announce our first virtual Open Day! These immersive online events give you the chance to explore our campuses, while learning all about our courses, pathway programs, scholarships and more. Register now for your chance to win a MacBook Air: https://bit.ly/3g73VqJ

16.01.2022 Too Many Cooks artist Rew Hanks (b. 1958) is a Sydney-based printmaker whose intricate linocuts combine historic imagery, wit and contemporary references; prompting critique of Australia’s cultural identity - colonialism, politics and the environment. His precise, detailed works continue a long history of printmaking as political commentary and social satire. For over 30 years Hanks has exhibited both nationally and internationally and has been awarded many prizes - most rece...ntly the Megalo International Print Prize in 2020. His works are held in the Australian National Gallery, most state and regional galleries throughout Australia, and fourteen international galleries. Have a look at the 360-degree virtual gallery tour and curatorial floor talk, and 3D interactive visualisations of exquisite cultural objects. Image credit: Rew Hanks. Photo: courtesy the artist and Michael Reid Sydney + Berlin https://www.utas.edu.au//art-hobart/2020/august/too-many-c #plimsollgallery #toomanycooks

16.01.2022 Come down Plimsoll Gallery to see the installation work of Madison Bycroft in OktoLab19. Madison's long-term interest in cephalopods also looks to octopuses as ...models for considering alternative ways of understanding or ordering the world around us; the unknowability of these animals becomes a proposition for engaging empathy without requiring understanding. Plimsoll Gallery, School of Creative Art and Media, 37 Hunter Street. Hobart Exhibition dates: Sat 14 Dec 2019 Sat 25 Jan 2020 Summer opening hours: closed between: 23 Dec 2019 1 Jan 2020 Wed - Sun 12pm - 5pm (during exhibitions) Closed Mondays, Tuesdays and Public holidays. Image credit: Madison Bycroft, installation view. Photos by Rémi Chauvin #OktoLab19 #PlimsollGallery

16.01.2022 National Science Week 2020 Tasmania’s First Scientists Investigations into Tasmanian Aboriginal canoe-making Learn how to make your own traditional Aboriginal canoe. ... Check out the online resources at #PlimsollGallery #scienceweek, #SolveitwithSTEM https://www.utas.edu.au//too-many-cooks-national-science-w Image: Rex Greeno, model paperbark canoe, 2013, courtesy of the artist. Photo credit: Jane Barlow

14.01.2022 Join Professor Greg Lehman for a webinar to mark the launch of the online exhibition ‘Too Many Cooks’ on Friday August 7th: https://bit.ly/3f9wQsK This exhibit...ion explores the competing and intertwined narratives of Captain James Cook as a figure of heroism and villainy. Take a look at just a few of the amazing pieces in this virtual exhibition

14.01.2022 OktoLab19: Madison Bycroft call out for performers http://www.okto-lab.org/Exhibitions.php What stories might someone tell who has 3 hearts pumping blue blood,... 8 independent arms and a brain scattered all throughout their body? Who has no frame and can squeeze through the tiniest of places? Who registers colors all around, through their skin, but not their eyes? And how to tell these stories? Opening 13 December at the Plimsoll Gallery, OktoLab19 brings together artists, writers and scientists from Australia and Europe to consider the wonderful world of octopus aesthetics. As part of the exhibition, an all day event of artist talks, readings, presentations and a performance by Madison Bycroft will take place on Saturday January 11. For the performance Madison needs 3 volunteers, who can commit to rehearsals on January 8, 9 and 10. Requirements are: * comfort in singing (no need to be a professional, just confidence and ability to hold a tune / hear when something is off) * willingness to learn some lines and speak/perform them publicly * willingness to follow some basic dance/gestures/choreography

09.01.2022 Right Here Right Now In 1988, Australia celebrated the bicentennial of the arrival of Governor Arthur Philip’s First Fleet of British colonists. This celebration echoed earlier commemorations of Cook’s visit, and similarly struggled to situate the First Nations of Australia, who still consider these British ‘heroes’ as invaders. The Bicentennial was met with some of the largest public protests ever seen, as sympathetic Australians from all walks of life marched alongside the...ir Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander comrades to demand an honest account of history. As part of this response, artists from Indigenous, colonial and migrant origins created a series of screenprinted posters titled Right Here, Right Now - 1988, seeking to capture a moment in Australian history that forever changed our national view of the past and our relationship with the future. The University of Tasmania acquired this series in 1988 as a major addition to its nascent Fine Art Collection. These artworks have affected political attitudes and cultural perspectives, and inflected lectures, essays and theses. Too Many Cooks brings the majority of the collection together for public exhibition in Tasmania for the first time since its acquisition, allowing reflection on their place in Australia’s art history, the events that generated this creative response and our national consciousness today. https://www.utas.edu.au//art-hobart/2020/august/too-many-c #plimsollgallery #toomanycook Image credit: (L to R) Ann Newmarch, b. 1945, Adelaide, 200 Years On...As the Serpent Struggles, 1988, screenprint, 8/12, Photo credit: Rémi Chauvin. Ann F Newmarch/Copyright Agency, 2020; Sally Morgan, b. 1951, Perth, Citizenship, 1987, screenprint, 20/30, Sally J Morgan/Copyright Agency, 2020; Marie McMahon, b. 1953, lives and works Sydney, Wooreddy's Vision - Trugananas' Sisters, 1988, screenprint, 6/10, Marie McMahon/Copyright Agency, 2020; Angela Gee, b. 1953, New Zealand, Sand Dune, Uluru, 1987, screenprint, 5/15, Angela Gee/Copyright Agency, 2020; and Brisbane Poster Group, Brisbane, Let's Have A Drink And Celebrate, 1987, screenprint, 8/30. Photo credit: Rémi Chauvi

07.01.2022 Participants explore the emerging sustainable art practice of biopolymer sculpture in Betty Sargeant’s workshop last Saturday. Thanks to those who partook! As ...part of their on-going research, Australian artist-duo PluginHUMAN (Betty Sargeant and Justin Dwyer) have been conducting extensive research and experimenting with compostable biopolymers, their aim is to establish carbon negative creative materials and working practices. Their work ‘PULSE: The Life Force of Trees’ is currently showing as part of ‘Experimenta Life Forms’ at Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart (TAS). The exhibition closes 9 May. #experimenta #experimentalifeforms #plimsollgallery #sustainableartspractice #biopolymer #BettySargeant PluginHuman Images courtesy of Plimsoll Gallery UTAS.

04.01.2022 Interested in 3D photogrammetry? Plimsoll Gallery and the UTAS Library and Cultural Collections team have been working with Michael Roach, Senior Lecturer, Life and Physical Sciences, University of Tasmania to develop this amazing 3D photogrammetry model. Find out more: https://www.utas.edu.au//too-many-cooks-national-science-w #PlimsollGallery #scienceweek, #SolveitwithSTEM... Artwork credit: Rex Greeno, model paperbark canoe, 2013, courtesy of the artist. 3D photogrammetry model: Michael Roach, Senior Lecturer, Life and Physical Sciences, University of Tasmania

04.01.2022 Last week of Experimenta Life Forms at Plimsoll Gallery!! We had the absolute pleasure of hosting Experimenta artist, Helen Pynor, in the gallery last week installing her bone china objects. A must see before the exhibition closes on the weekend. Helen Pynor’s Habitation explores how animate-inanimate boundaries are collapsing due to the widespread use of medical prosthetics and was prompted by hip replacement surgery Pynor recently undertook. This installation takes up Mon...ika Bakke’s notion of ‘lithic intimacies’: life’s diverse, intimate relationships of exchange and interspecies companionship with minerals. To honour her excised hipbone she has used it to make a series of bone china objects, and captures her transformation through surgery in lightbox imagery. This artwork seeks to challenge perceptions of the body as a passive recipient of human engineered implants. Gallery Hours all other times: Tuesday - Saturday 11am- 5pm (during exhibitions) Closed Sundays, Mondays and Public holidays image credit: ‘Capacity’ (detail) from the ‘Habitation’ series (2020) by Helen Pynor.

01.01.2022 Too Many Cooks artist Julie Gough is a Trawlwoolway (Tasmanian Aboriginal) artist, writer and curator of Indigenous Cultures at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. Her Briggs-Johnson family have lived in the Latrobe region of North West Tasmania since the 1840s, with Tebrikunna their Traditional Country in far north eastern Lutruwita (Tasmania). Gough’s art and research practice often involves uncovering and re-presenting conflicting and subsumed histories, many referring t...o her family’s experiences as Tasmanian Aboriginal people. Image credit: Julie Gough, Manifestation (Bruny Island), 2010, giclee print on Hahnemuhle photo rag paper 6/10 Photo: courtesy the artist https://www.utas.edu.au//art-hobart/2020/august/too-many-c #plimsollgallery #toomanycooks