UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
Exhibitions open on Thursday the 24th of April, 6pm-8pm.
FIRST SPACE
rruni mana-mapali ‘Our Island’
rruni mana-mapali ‘Our Island’ is a visual art and sound installation that honours milaythina (country).
Bio: DENNI is proud Pakana woman and artist best know for her work in First Nations Hip Hop. Visual art and design has always been a big part of the artist's core practice with drawing and poetry leading her down a successful path in the Arts. She has worked in many fields including music, theatre, puppetry and design. Inspired by her culture, DENNI continues to be a strong advocate of culture through her Art and music. Recently diving into production the artist is enjoying the challenge of creating ideas from scratch with the tools around her. Recently becoming a Mum DENNI is enjoying finding new ways to approach her many arts practices, recently finding joy from painting on Cast Acrylic sheets (reverse painting) bringing her to exhibiting her first Visual/Sound installation in her hometown.
‘Painting on cast acrylic sheets is an exciting process that has an edge of permanence with every stroke. This sentiment reflects the strength of our culture passed on through stories and art, song and dance. Always here, always strong in connection, always caretakers of land, sea and the stories they hold. rruni mana-mapali is a celebration of ‘Our Island’ and the beautiful creatures we share it with.’
INNER SPACE
Confluence
Dave Carswell
This series Confluence continues my examination of the kanamaluka estuary and its various tributaries. Sitting alongside previous political documentation, ‘confluence’ engages a more personal lens to the contested spaces by examining the social ecology of the waterways.
The work unpacks a ‘coming of age’ narrative as young families and teens spend listless summer days basting by the riverbanks, jumping with recklessness amongst the ancient boulders in the riverbed.
Stripped of the ordinary markers of class, the democratic nature of this space heightens the focus of the interrelations at play. Teens smoking and fondling through early courtships, young children test their limits of their physicality and fear while parents oversee with one eye waiting for an imminent time when their presence is no longer needed.
The scaling of trees and towering rocks symbolises a yearning or jumping off into the unknown. Set amongst the escapism of the idyllic summer, the series emits a calm tranquility amongst the fragility of the landscape.
Bio: Dave Carswell is a photographer currently based in lutruwita/Tasmania. His photographic practice is rooted in documentary image making with his interests motivated by the intersection between nature, humanity and the built environment. Carswell’s work is concerned with the manner of anthropological intervention on the built landscape with a recent focus towards public space and the way economic, social and ecological influences shape contested spaces.
BACK SPACE
Over Everything
Noel Maghathe
Over Everything explores the relationship between memory and self. Running through the nostalgia ingrained in familial archives—some never held a place, some they never touched—Maghathe navigates moments they never lived. Some they can still feel, others are barely tangible. In the process, they construct new memories that blur the lines between truth and fabrication. The complex interplay of emotions and stories surfaces through each image, layering time, absence, joy, and longing into overlapping frames that each offer fragments of past truths.
These photographs become points of rediscovery, each holding inherited stories. Embedded with words and motifs, the fabric becomes a means of communication with the past—to a younger self, to close and distant relatives. Over Everything examines how memory is shaped, altered, and remembered through the act of retrieval, initiating a dialogue between longing, connection, and remembrance.
Bio: Noel Maghathe is a Palestinian-American multidisciplinary artist and curator. Their practice is deeply rooted in their heritage, searching for home within the body and memory. Through sculpture, performance, and light, they explore themes of identity, cultural memory, and longing.
Maghathe has exhibited and performed internationally at venues including Abrons Arts Center (New York), Art League Houston, Contemporary Arts Center (Cincinnati), MMAG Foundation (Jordan), SPACE HUB (Palestine), Kino Club (Helsinki), 21C Museum (Cincinnati), and Mizna + RAWIfest (Minneapolis).
This project was supported by ArtsWave.
THE SPACE
Fluid Pathways
Karen Hall
This work traces the unseen and ephemeral water paths through the urban environment of Launceston. In a series of audio walks contained within sounding vessels, you are invited to carry with you the density of interconnections through a landscape where water soaks deep and pulses through. From Sawtooth’s location on a swamp, looking out to lakeller/North Esk, you travel together with invocations and evocations of forces that carve through deep time connecting past with present and future. Following the lines of hidden and contained infrastructures of colonial modernity – the webs of drains, pipes and levies – reveal the precarity of colonial landshaping. As the hydrological cycle intensifies, our encounters and our relationships with water moving through the landscape also intensify: attending to the momentary flows of sudden and severe weather events, the parched absences of rain the crack the reclaimed swap soil, and the opportunistic occupation of the shifting river margins.
Bio: Karen Hall is an educator, curator and writer. Moving to Lutruwita from Western Australia/ Whadjuk Noongar country 15 years ago, she’s found building connection with the ecological and cultural histories driving her research and practice. She is interested in how sound and site-based material can produce radical sympathy for the more0than-human.
Image credits courtesy of the artists.