Finalist in the inaugural $100,000 Hadley's Art Prize
We'll make our own mistakes, 2017, oil and acrylic on canvas, 137.5 cm x 122 cm
Exhibition dates: from July 15 to August 25, 10 am to 4 pm at Hadley’s Orient Hotel in Hobart, Tasmania https://hadleysartprize.com.au
Bett Gallery Hobart
April 28th to May 15th 2017
We bring our own sex, 2017, 60 cm x 55 cm, oil, enamel and digital print on aluminium
Neil Haddon We bring our own fruit, 2017, oil paint and digital print on aluminium panel
Exhibition opening guest speaker: Kim Seagram, Partner/Marketing Manager, Stillwater and Blackcow Restuarants, Launceston
Exhibition curators: Dr Malcom Bywaters, Dr Kim Lehman and Distinguished Professor Jeff Malpas
Exhibition opening: 5.00pm - 6.30pm Thursday 16 March
Exhibition dates: 20 February - 7 April
Artists: Diane Allison, Stuart Auckland, Renee Austin, Margaret Baguley, Ashley Bird, Jack Birrell, Robert Boldkald, Kate Camm, Mat Carey, Anna Carew, Angela Casey, Karina Clarke, Peta Cook, Scott Cunningham, Khalida De Ridder, Sharon Dennis, Jen Dickens, Mae Finlayson, Joanna Gair, Neil Haddon, Karen Hall, David Hamilton, Marian Hosking, Chris Jackson, Samuel Johnstone, Michael Kay, Meg Keating, Katherine Kent, Martin Kerby, Philip Kuruvita, Juneo Lee, Simone Lee, Fiona Lehman, Robert Lewis, Sara Lindsay, Abbey MacDonald, Anne MacDonald, John Mercer, Ben Miller, Anne Morrison, Sandra Murray, Kath Ogden, Christopher Orchard, Jo Pitchford, William Rhodes, Darryl Rogers & Soma Lumia Tech/Art Collection, Georgia Rossetto, Amelia Rowe, Troy Ruffels, Penny Smith, Sonya Stanford, Richard Strong, Patrick Sutczak, Mehrangiz Modarres Tabatabaei, Nathan Taylor, Joanna Vince, Mairi Ward, Yvette Watt, Helene Weeding, Jess Woodroffe
In a physiological sense, food sustains life. For all organisms, humans included, the ‘circle of life’ includes some form of food, and without it, the organism will not survive. However, for humans this basic view of food has long since become an insufficient explanation of all that we now think and feel when we hear the word ‘food’.
Imagining food: art, aesthetics and design investigates universal concerns around the topic of food. We have taken a deliberately international stance, but placed within a Tasmanian context. Tasmania is, after all, part of the global community. Themes addressed by the exhibition include:
Our aim is for Imagining food: art, aesthetics and design to contribute to a greater understanding of the diversity of impacts that food has on human society, and the ramifications of these impacts on our social, economic and natural environments, through creative expression. Tasmanian artists, researchers, educators and students will present works in a variety of forms—including, paintings, sculpture, photography, furniture, craft, installation and mixed media—that will add to the breadth of our knowledge about food, and reinforce to us all that food is much more than simply a means to sustains life.
Presented in partnership with the Ten Days on the Island Festival, the Institute for Regional Development, The Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture, The Tasmanian College of the Arts, The School of Social Sciences, the University of Tasmania Collections, Makers Space and Burnie Regional Art Gallery.
*Imagining food: art, aesthetics and design is presented as part of the Academy Gallery University Museum of Art and Science “pilot” exhibition program.
Academy Gallery
Tasmanian College of the Arts
Academy of the Arts, Inveresk, Launceston
University of Tasmania
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Gallery Hours
Monday - Friday 9am - 5pm
Free Admission
Neil Haddon We can build it anew, 2017 oil and enamel paint on aluminium
Curated by Noel Frankham, Svenja Kratz, Zoe Veness, and Kit Wise as part of TEN DAYS ON THE ISLAND
The exhibition, Remanence, draws together Tasmanian artists working across a range of media, including: installation, video, sound, painting, jewellery and objects, and sculpture. Motivated by the 50th anniversary the 1967 Black Tuesday bush fires in south-east Tasmania, the artists respond to and represent fire: its power to destroy, transform and rejuvenate.
Artworks work respond to how fire has shaped the landscape and affected the psyche of the people that occupy this land. The title, Remanence, creates links to continuance and remains, but also references the scientific meaning of the term and the concept of residual magnetism and invisible forces that linger long after an initial object or event.
ARTISTS
Max Angus, Philip Blacklow, Lucy Bleach, Paul Boam, Neil Haddon, Dorita Hannah and Sean Coyle, Gay Hawkes, Kit Hiller, Jan Hogan, Bill Hart and Joe Shrimpton, Rob Long, Zoe Veness, Martin Walch and Kit Wise.
OPENING
Friday 17 March, 6:30pm, Domain House
EXHIBITION DETAILS
Domain House, Aberdeen Street, Glebe (venue details)
Friday 17 – Sunday 26 March
Open daily, 10am – 4pm
FREE ENTRY
ARTISTS & CURATOR TALK
Saturday 18 March, 2pm – 3pm, Domain House
Presented by the University of Tasmania.
Image: Neil Haddon We can build it anew, 2017 oil and enamel paint on aluminium. Courtesy of the artist, Bett Gallery and This Is No Fantasy.
http://tendays.org.au/event/remanence/
Neil Haddon’s recent paintings employ a collage-like approach to imagery derived from a variety of seemingly incongruous sources. They present abstracted, tenuous ‘landscapes’ in which we are free to consider how meaning is made when the supporting contexts for that imagery are strange to us. This work draws on Haddon’s experience as a migrant to Tasmania (via six years in Spain) and the ways that migrants find their own poetic meaning in the unfamiliar contexts of their new home.
The paintings use diverse materials and processes to conflate fragments of artworks by Paul Gauguín, John Glover and others, bringing them together within abstracted constructions to picture an unstable ‘Tasmanian landscape’. Here, meaning is in a constant state of flux and is perpetually renegotiated according to the influences of where one once was and where one finds oneself now.
A selection of recent major works on show until mid December.
Dave installing 'I Read Day of the Triffids When I Lived in England (and now I live in Tasmania)', 2016, at This Is No Fantasy, Melbourne http://thisisnofantasy.com
It's Difficult (this Tasmanian landscape) has been selected for the Fleurieu Art Prize at the Samstag Museum, Adelaide, Friday 3 June - Friday 29 July 2016
