Tasmanian Art & Design: The October Round-Up
By Art & Design Sub-Editor Elliott Nimmo
Every month, Art & Design Sub-Editor Elliott Nimmo brings his round-up of the artists and designers to watch (and invest in) in lutruwita/Tasmania right now. Here’s what’s hot in October.
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NICK RANDALL
In Tasmania, the ocean is never too far away, and has long influenced Nick’s design practice. He incorporates aspects of boat-building in the construction and aesthetic of his furniture, with a timeless, streamlined result.
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BELINDA WINKLER
Tension and form; curve and touch. Belinda's three-dimensional works - encompassing ceramics, sculpture and installation - are deeply concerned with these four words, and this plays out in accomplished meditations in bronze, ceramic and steel.
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MILAN MILOJEVIC
Milan draws on his Yugoslavian heritage and the European tradition of woodblock to create fabulous (in the true sense of the word) worlds with digital manipulation. Darker, historical themes contrast with leering colours and outrageous creatures to produce a subject matter equal parts humorous and poignant.
GEORGIA BOWKER-DUNN
Georgia builds votive-like vessels with her hands and simple tools. They rise, like tree trunks, organic and imperfect, with circular holes offering points of absence in the vertical structure. Each ceramic piece undergoes an array of firing techniques, which produces a thoroughly unique patina and character.
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ALICIA KING
Alicia's sculptures offer the viewer a new kind of nature, drawn from deep time and influenced by technology and the sublime. Select sculptures are currently on view in Hobart's Artbox.
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CHRIS BURY
A fixture in Hobart's creative scene, Chris offers an exciting take on portraiture and figuration. Rooted in European expressionism, his paintings combine layered paintwork and an exploration of the human condition.
KATE MCCARTHY
Kate taps in to a lyrical inner child to make her brightly-hued, playful paintings. As a kind of antidote to the digital presence we endure in contemporary life, her paintings invite a smile and a throwback to simpler times.
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PETER YATES
The winner of the Basil Sellers Art Prize in 2020, Peter absorbs his surrounds, and expresses time and place with a devotion to realism that he has honed over many years. Definitely keep an eye out for his next exhibition.
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ROBERT RYAN
Robert Ryan’s painting is a riotous world of metaphor and colour. Over many, many years, his style has danced between figurative and abstract, and he deftly combines narrative with painterliness. Life’s myriad issues - their messiness and their little glories - play out on his canvases to much delight.
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DONNA LOUGHER
Donna has an enviable studio in the heart of Hobart's CBD, where she has made a suite of cityscapes that are as evocative as a landscape. Her brushstrokes are considered, fresh and confident, recalling the early Modernists of last century.
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NICOLA GOWER WALLIS
Nicola taps into an interior folklore to compose lyrical scenes in gouache on paper. Each vignette offers drama, humour and a point of reflection, presented in multi-layered, joyous paintwork.
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TROY RUFFELS
Are you looking at a photograph - or a painting? And does it even matter? Troy's achingly beautiful works of the Tasmanian wilderness layer time with pigment, eliciting a dazzling result.
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