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Cradle Mountain Wilderness Gallery

Locality: Cradle Mountain

Phone: +61 3 6492 1404

Address: 3718 Cradle Mountain Road 7306 Cradle Mountain, TAS, Australia

Website: http://www.wildernessgallery.com.au

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25.01.2022 'Impressions from the Reserve' by Olivia Hickey is N O W O P E N This exquisite exhibition of jewellery, photography and monoprint is Olivia's response to the diversity of place and echoes the stories written in the rocks and the ancient plants. Olivia has spent the last three years exploring, roaming, romping and wandering through the Reserve, Cradle Mountain Lake St Clair and Walls of Jerusalem National park. Whilst travelling on foot and often sleeping in a tent she ha...s collected impressions leaving the land mostly undisturbed and investigated new ways of responding to and working in place. Capturing the intimate details of land as it is now she creates permanent records of impermanent places. Talismans that connect people to the ephemeral elements of place that when placed on the landscape of the body become tangible reminders of the place from which they originally came. Impressions of the Reserve Gallery 2 Cradle Mountain Wilderness Gallery Sun 15 Nov, 2020 - Sun 14 Mar, 2020 Images: Courtsey of Olivia Hickey - Artist

25.01.2022 ONE WEEK to go until submissions close for our 2021 Exhibition Call Out! Spread the word ... The Cradle Mountain Wilderness Gallery invites applications from Tasmanian artists and curators for exhibitions that respond to the themes:... WILDERNESS, ENVIRONMENT OR PLACE ... Full details on at: https://www.wildernessgallery.com.au/call-out-2021/

24.01.2022 The Wilderness Gallery invites applications from Tasmanian artists and curators for exhibitions that respond to the themes: WILDERNESS, ENVIRONMENT OR PLACE Submissions close on Sunday at midnight!... Full details at: https://www.wildernessgallery.com.au/call-out-2021/

24.01.2022 While the Gallery is closed we will continue sharing updates and news from our exhibiting artists, current and upcoming. Australian photographer Mark Darragh was in residence as restriction came into effect across Tasmania. About this experience he writes: "Its been a little surreal to spend a week as artist in residence while the Corona virus crisis continues to grow across the country and indeed the world. Walking through ancient forests with trees that far surpass genera...tions of human lifespans gives pause for reflection on how fragile and fleeting our existence can be. Art, in my case Large Format Photography, is not essential to our existence. Hopefully though it is able to serve a greater purpose beyond personal vanity and remind us of our responsibility to continue to care for our planet and for each other. Its been a privilege to be able to work in such a special place. Thank you to the Wilderness Gallery team for the opportunity. I hope in the future to be able to share some of the 4x5 and 8x10 film images that I made during our stay." We look forward to sharing Marks exhibition Relicts: Exploring the Flora of Gondwana when the Gallery reopens. www.markdarraghphotography.com

24.01.2022 FINAL DAYS to see Mark Darragh's 'Relicts: Exploring the Flora of Gondwana' and Tassie's Waratahs are flowering! This beautiful image taken by Mark and is now showing as part of the exhibition in Gallery 3. 'Relicts: Exploring the Flora of Gondwana' closes Sunday 14 Nov, 2020... A reminder if you are making the trip this weekend! Our current opening hours are: 9am - 12noon Mon - Fri 9am - 1pm Sat - Sun Image: Mark Darragh 'Tasmanian Waratah (Telopea truncata), Cradle Mountain - Lake St Claire National Park, Tasmania' 2019 16 x 20 Giclee Print - Canson Platine Fibre Rag Courtesy of the artist.

23.01.2022 We wish to advise that due to the current situation in relation to COVID-19, the Wilderness Gallery will be closed from 23 March until further notice. Please reach out to us if you have any questions. We hope that everyone stays safe and well during this time and look forward to welcoming you all again soon.

23.01.2022 What a way to start the day!

23.01.2022 Cradle Mountain Hotel are offering one nights accommodation and a $100 food and beverage credit from just $212 with their Wine and Dine Package. With the Cradle Mountain Wilderness Gallery on site - what a perfect mini winter getaway!

22.01.2022 The snow keeps coming this Spring!

22.01.2022 The second exhibition that we can't wait to opening this week is Jillian Brady’s ‘Floundering’. This exhibition is an extension of her book ‘Floundering: Stories from Cradle Mountain’ and uses photographs, ideas and text to further explore our often tangled relationships with each other and with the natural environment. Floundering opens on Friday 23 Oct, 2020 in... Gallery 7 Image: Jillian Brady, 'this is me floundering', Dove Lake circuit track.

21.01.2022 *FINAL DAYS* to catch the layered and incredibly intricate exhibition Softly Speaks the Stillness by Jen Frost Gallery 3... Cradle Mountain Wilderness Gallery Closing Monday 09 March, 2020 https://www.wildernessgallery.com.au/softly-speaks-the-sti/

21.01.2022 Have you heard?! Cradle Mountain Hotel opens on the 15th of June. Book your post lock-down getaway before that 5th of June and SAVE UP TO 40% when you stay two nights or more. To book visit: cradlemountainhotel.com.au/winter-in-tassie

20.01.2022 We are excited to announce that the Wilderness Gallery will be opening Friday to Sunday from the 19th of June! This aligns with the reopening of Cradle Mountain Hotel on the 15th of June, where you can now book your post-lockdown getaway with savings of up to 40% when you stay two nights or more but be quick! The sale ends today, 5 June: cradlemountainhotel.com.au/winter-in-tassie Read all the details in our latest blog, including insights from exhibiting artist GINA on how... her residencies at the Wilderness Gallery have informed the development of her latest exhibition The Absence of Presence. https://www.wildernessgallery.com.au/wilderness-gallery-to/

19.01.2022 From today Tasmanian residents are able to undertake exercise in national parks and reserves within 30 kilometres of their place of residence. There are not too many people lucky enough to live that close to Cradle Mountain - Lake St Claire National Park but it is an exciting step in that direction. Enjoy your local park!

19.01.2022 *LAST WEEKEND* It is also the last weekend to catch Susan Simonini and Tarsh Bonnices collaborative ceramic exhibition: Disparate Dialogue... Gallery 2 Weekend roadtrip sorted. https://www.wildernessgallery.com.au/disparate-dialogue/

17.01.2022 FINAL DAYS to see GINA's ‘The Absence of Presence’; an exhibition that celebrates the trees that line the roads bringing you to Cradle ... Gallery 2... Remember our current opening hours are: Mon - Fri 9am - 12noon Sat - Sun 9am - 1pm ‘The Absence of Presence’ closes on Sunday 8 Nov, 2020

17.01.2022 Carol Barnett is one of the many Tasmanian artists currently featured in the exhibition Tarkine in Motion: A Retrospective now showing at the Wilderness Gallery. Please note, we are currently operating with the reduced opening hours of: Thursday to Saturday: 9am - 5pm, Sunday 9am - 3pm. For the most up to date info on all that is happening on the mountain dont hesitate to call us at Cradle Mountain Hotel on: ... +61 3 6492 1404 Image: Carol Barnett, The Witness I, II & III, oil on wood. Carol Barnett Tarkine In Motion

17.01.2022 We are looking forward to a good fall of snow tonight!!! This beautiful image by Cam Blake Photography

16.01.2022 Its snowing!!!

15.01.2022 It was an amazing day of installs at the Wilderness Gallery today with two new exhibitions to open at the end of the week: ‘Of Wet and Wildness’ Helene Boyer + ... ‘Floundering’ Jillian Brady Opening Friday 23, October, 2020

14.01.2022 Perfect weather for a winter adventure!

13.01.2022 * N O W O P E N * Navigating the Boulder-fields of kunanyi Adrian Bradbury Showing in Gallery 3 until 21 March, 2021... Based on the optical and physical navigational challenges involved in ascending the steep Lost World Track high on the flank on kunanyi. "... As one ascends this steep track, scrambling with hands and feet over rough dolerite, avoiding the deep-dark-clefts between the rocks, one gets a sense of the mark of humans fading into the depth of an ancient, slow geology. These dolerite boulders having been formed during the Jurassic Period 170 million years ago ... " Paintings by Adrian Bradbury

12.01.2022 We are excited to introduce you to one of two new exhibitions opening at the Wilderness Gallery this week: 'Of Wet and Wildness' is an exhibition of exquisite glass sculptures by Launceston based artist Helene Boyer. Opening Friday 23 Oct in Gallery 8... Full exhibition details here: https://www.wildernessgallery.com.au/exhibitions/ Image: Helene Boyer, 'Fungi Fiesta' (large dome), 2020. Image Credit: Scott Adams Photography

11.01.2022 Do you recognise these trees? Just some of the many featured in Gina Fynearts exhibition The Absence of Presence that can be seen on the drive from Devonport to Cradle Mountain. "I am taken by the beautiful shapes of (mainly) Eucalypus" says Gina, "and how, while they often have similar growth habits, yet each one is individual in its presence. My work focuses on this individuality and over the years, travelling to and from Cradle, one or two individuals have become like fr...iends..." The Absence of Presence is now showing in Gallery 2 Cradle Mountain Wilderness Gallery School Holiday Opening Hours: 9am-5pm, 7 Days

11.01.2022 Its going to be a white weekend!

10.01.2022 While Tasmanias national parks remain closed the fagus is still turning and you can read all about it this recent article from the abc. ttps://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2020-04-26/true-blue-autumn-leaves-are-turning/12147698

10.01.2022 INSTALL TODAY! In The Absence of Presence Gina turns her gaze from our sometimes, too wondrous landscape, to trees within it. Dying. Large tracts of land have... become, are becoming denuded of trees. Trees make rain. The wind blows and there is no rain. Gina is drawn to the beautiful shapes of individual trees, mainly Eucalypts, highlighting them by isolating the tree from its landscape. Blue, to catch the eye, creating Presence; solitary, fragile, gentle. A moment of contemplation, to the loss, to the Presence of Absence. Where Absence may be comprehended as a mode of Presence; it is not-yet or no- longer. There is a trace; of Presence, and Absence, (like the empty chair at the dinner table). When enough things are absent, the Absence takes on a Presence of its own. https://www.wildernessgallery.com.au/the-absence-of-presen/

10.01.2022 We are opening 7 days a week, 9am - 5pm for the school holidays!

09.01.2022 Winter is here and we cant wait to light the fires and welcome you back to the Wilderness Gallery, 9am - 5pm from June 19 on Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. Exhibitions on show include Mark Darraghs, Relicts" Exploring the Flora of Gondwana Gallery 3... Featuring this image: Pencil Pine (Athrotaxis cupressoides) branchlet in ice, Walls of Jerusalem National Park, Tasmania, 2019. Until then have a safe and enjoyable weekend!

09.01.2022 A few moments of wilderness and calm in this crazy world.

06.01.2022 On This Day 1st July (1983) High Court rules to block construction of the Gordon below Franklin Dam We will be judged, not by what we built, but by what... we destroyed. 37 years ago today, in a historic and landmark decision, the High Court of Australia ruled by a 4 to 3 majority in favour of the Federal Governments legislation to overturn a Tasmanian government decision to build the Gordon below Franklin Dam. It was standing room only inside the Banco Court in the Supreme Court building in Brisbane to hear the judgment delivered. It took just 45 minutes for the Chief Justice, Sir Harry Gibbs, and four other judges to read out the answers given by all seven High Court judges to a series of questions of law framed by the Commonwealth and Tasmania to determine the case. The dam was a significant issue in the March 1983 federal election. Its argued that the photo "Morning Mist, Rock Island Bend, Franklin River by Peter Dombrovskis which portrayed a section of the Franklin River that was to be submerged by the proposed Franklin Dam actualy swung the 1983 federal election. History tells us that soon after Bob Hawke led the Labor Party to a landslide victory in the March 1983 election (by a majority of 75 seats to 50 seats). When a fresh attorney-general, Senator Gareth Evans, swept into his first cabinet meeting following the election of the Hawke Labor government in March 1983 he brought a new aggression to the battle to stop the Gordon Below Franklin dam in Tasmania. The Tasmanian government demanded that the Federal Government withdraw the application for world heritage listing of the area. On March 16 Cabinet decided that if the Tasmanian government refused to stop the project it would invoke the external affairs power and make regulations under the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation act. If these were ignored the commonwealth would seek a High Court injunction to stop the dam and also seek to pass the World Heritage Properties Protection Bill. The Tasmanian government refused to stop work on the dam and the issue went to the High Court on May 31. After the court ruled 4-3 in favour of the Commonwealth on July 1. this decision also largely ended the building of dams for the generation of hydroelectricity in Australia. The High court found the World Heritage Properties Conservation Act 1983 to be substantially valid law under the Commonwealths power over external affairs, corporations, the power to make laws with respect to Aborigines and the inherent power. Since the Federal Act is valid, Tasmanian legislation providing for construction of the proposed $453 million dam is inconsistent and therefore rendered invalid under Section 109 of the Constitution which provides for Commonwealth law to prevail over inconsistent State law. The campaign galvanised the Wilderness Society and the Australian Greens Party as a national force, sparking a new environmental era in Australia. The Franklin-Gordon WIld Rivers National Park, located in Tasmanias rugged south west, is now protected for ever and lies in the heart of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage area. The rivers are wild, the landscape is rugged and the mountain peaks are dramatic and imposing. Pristine fresh waters stained by tannins from surrounding vegetation weave their way through breathtaking gorges. This case illustrates that the importance of environmental implications of water structures must never be under-estimated. We will be judged, not by what we built, but by what we destroyed.

04.01.2022 While the Wilderness Gallery is closed we can continue to showcase our artists online and nourish our souls with their imagery on this the International Day of Forests. Image: Mark Darragh, Red Beech (Northofagus Fusca), Fiordland National Park, New Zealand, 2019. www.markdarraghphotography.com... "Today is International Day of Forests - aimed at raising awareness of the importance of all types of forests. We all know Tassie has some of the most amazing forests going around, so highlighting the vital role they play in maintaining our ecosystem, providing essential habitats, promoting biodiversity and contributing to our own survival, is well worth celebrating!" Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service

04.01.2022 Now is the time. Submissions for the Wilderness Gallery 2021 Exhibition program must be received by midnight tonight. Full details at: https://www.wildernessgallery.com.au/call-out-2021/

04.01.2022 Good morning from Cradle!

04.01.2022 Its going to be a white weekend at Cradle! Stay safe and warm

03.01.2022 After all the disruption of 2020 it is wonderful to have a gallery full of fresh, new exhibitions here at the Wilderness Gallery (with two more installs to come this week)! 'Devotional Pictures' by Loralee Newitt is one of these ... Created during the covid-19 pandemic this collection of original works by Tasmanian born, Queensland based artist Loralee Newitt are painted on 400gsm Fabriano fine art paper; woven impressions and suggestions of decadent moments grasped and held ...together in place. Created from a combination of, a preference for what is beautiful and an endeavour to give sensation, 'Devotional Pictures' is a hope to solidify the feelings of one moment, in order to preserve and keep them from inevitable decay. 'Devotional Pictures' N O W S H O W I N G Gallery 8 Sat 1 Nov, 2020 Sun 14 Feb, 2021 Image: Loralee Newitt, 2020 ‘Dancing with trees the size of churches’ Oil on 400gsm primed Fabriano fine art paper, 50 x 70 cm.

01.01.2022 We are OPEN! And, looking forward to welcoming you back to the Wilderness Gallery this weekend. Our current exhibitions are:... + The Absence of Presence - Gina Portside Studio/Gallery of GINA + Relicts: Exploring the Flora of Gondwana - Mark Darragh + Tarkine in Motion: A Retrospective - Bob Brown Foundation For full exhibition details visit: www.wildernessgallery.com.au For now, our opening hours are Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays: 9am - 5pm.