Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery

Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG) is Tasmania’s leading natural and cultural heritage organisation. It is a combined museum, art gallery and herbarium which safeguards the physical evidence of Tasmania’s natural and cultural heritage, and the cultural identity of Tasmanians.

TMAG is Australia’s second-oldest museum and has its origins in the collections of Australia’s oldest scientific society, the Royal Society of Tasmania, established in 1843. The first permanent home of the museum opened on the corner of Argyle and Macquarie streets in 1863 and the museum has gradually expanded from this corner to occupy the entire city block.

Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery

Dunn Place, Hobart TAS, Australia

03 6165 7000

tmag.tas.gov.au

Tue to Sun 10am–4pm.
Free entry.

Exhibitions

Oliffe Richmond

23 May - 12 Oct

This Too Shall Pass

Permanent exhibition

20 Dec

The World of Beetles

20 Mar - 27 Jul

re/JOY

Vipoo Srivilasa

11 Jul - 24 Aug

Lucienne Rickard: Extinction Studies

Ongoing Exhibition

18 Feb

On Island

6 Dec - 21 Sep

In Pictures

Evie Adasal: Nature through colour and shape

Evie Adasal’s show Light and Space unveils a series of works that look at the intersection of design, light and space at The Garden Gallery in Sydney.

Art Guide Australia

Feature

Resisting rules with Janet Dawson

At 90, Janet Dawson has spent a life drawn to the light and energy of the natural and celestial worlds as she crosses boundaries of abstraction and figuration. A retrospective at the Art Gallery of New South Wales charts the evolution of her practice.

Steve Dow

Feature

The kimono is more than an artefact and more than clothing. It is a concept artists will make their own

Over 70 fabulous garments of exquisite craftsmanship – some made of silk with gold and silver embroidery and dazzling designs – have been assembled within a context of over 150 paintings, posters, wood block prints, magazines and decorative arts. Although many of the items have never been previously exhibited in Australia, most are now in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, with many specifically acquired for this exhibition.

Sasha Grishin

Preview

Gordon Hookey is effecting change

Waanyi artist Gordon Hookey has been creating artwork for more than three decades. Describing his style as pictograms of a scenario, with images and symbols connecting a sprawling narrative, Hookey’s work, which is now showing at Plimsoll Gallery, is imbued with elements of activism, pop culture and lived experience.

Briony Downes

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Remembering the Carrolup Settlement

Described as “a space for reflection, remembrance, and the sharing of truth”, Kattidj Nagãr, now showing at John Curtin Gallery, is dedicated to the Aboriginal people who once resided at the Carrolup Settlement in Western Australia.

Briony Downes

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Cosmic connections with Man&Wah

With an approach to artmaking drawn from the “fieldwork of life”, twin brothers and artistic collaborators Man&Wah, who are now showing at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, use plant migration to explore duality and movement.

Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery