Tony Smibert Tao Sublime
Queen Victoria Art Gallery at Royal Park Until 6 November 2022
Tasmania
Tony Smibert is a leading Australian watercolourist who has long been inspired by the sublime; a philosophy developed in the eighteenth century to describe the overwhelming sense of nature’s power. Drawing on English watercolourist JMW Turner’s work and eastern painting traditions, Smibert created a series of visually striking and emotive abstract landscape works, many of which are on public display for the first time. The exhibition invites viewers to absorb the philosophy of the sublime through engagement with Smibert’s creations.
Stefanie Schulte Vivaldi’s Seasons
ANCA Gallery Until 19 June 2022
Australian Capital Territory
Vivaldi’s Seasons celebrates an encounter of colour theory and baroque music inspired by Antonio Vivaldi’s Four Seasons by Stefanie Schulte. The central focus of the exhibition is Schulte’s exploration of interactions between colours, combined with a mathematical approach to the partition of the canvas into a “rhythmic” system.
“Baroque composers work around strong patterns of harmonic triads and clear mathematic rhythms. I see the primary and secondary colours as two sets of triads which can be regrouped into harmonic and dissonant chords,” shares the artist.
Mary Maggic and Grace Gamage BioGym
Contemporary Art Tasmania 10 June to 10 July 2022
Hobart
Featuring new work by Tasmanian-based explores how the boundaries between biology and culture are defined, crossed, and contested. Taking inspiration from spaces within a contemporary gym as a controlled environment that encapsulates the dream of humans attempting to tame and modify their own biology, Gamage and Magicc play with organic biology and bodily intervention using repurposed gym equipment and a chronobiological cake display. Curated by Lisa Campbell-Smith.Co-presented by Contemporary Art Tasmania and Dark Mofo.
