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Celebrating 40 years of exhibiting contemporary art in lutruwita/Tasmania

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A massive thank you to everyone who who attended the opening last night. Everyone’s warmth and engagement with the works made all the long hours and days worth it. Thank you to the Bett Family and @bettgallery staff for providing a platform to share my obsessive making.

Photos taken by the incredible @nina.hamilton.photo I cannot recommend enough, exceptionally professional and has such a good eye for all those moments that are special.

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#naturenurture #art #celebration

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Hey #tasmania … “Nature/Nurture“ by @nicoleoloughlinartist opens tonight (Friday) @bettgallery 💙🖤💚

“Despite the diverse ways artists have, and continue, to work with fibre, textile work has historically been considered a lesser art, often dismissed as domestic, decorative, craft or, even worse, women’s work. Nicole O’Loughlin takes these traditions, “that act of care that women do with needlework”, and uses them to challenge these notions, creating rich, labour-intensive, textural responses to the world around her.

“I love appreciating something that is beautiful…even if it is dealing with some issues that are a bit more complex, and push past that beauty.”

In her upcoming exhibition Nature/Nurture, O’Loughlin explores her personal connection to the landscape as a woman and caretaker of her home and studio, and of the living world that surrounds it. She muses on the threat of bird flu as she considers her relationship with the birds and animals that flourish among the creeks and grasses. Through embroidered portraits, she depicts trees with an awareness that their existence has become increasingly fragile and unpredictable. The works themselves are devoid of the traditional substrate of cloth, held together and seemingly floating by thread.

Despite the climate anxiety that underpins these topical works, O’Loughlin threads her familiar irony and humour through each piece, marrying weighty ideas with ornate and carefully chosen materials and techniques. As she describes it, she is always “subverting that traditional kind of craft into contemporary culture”.”

16 October - 7 November 2026
Opening night, Friday 16 October, 5:30 - 7pm

Image: Within the Valley, 2026
mixed media on board
6 panels: 81 x 120.5 cm (overall board size)
(BG11645)

Portrait photo by Nina Hamilton @nina.hamilton.photo
Artwork image: @jack.bett

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Tonight! X

Nature/Nurture
@bettgallery
Friday 16 October 5.30 - 7pm

#embroidery #textiles #art #lutruwita #tasmania #nipaluna #hobart

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Nightwood 3, 2026, pigment print, 75 cm x 75 cm, edition of 5 + 1 A/P.

Exhibition opening tomorrow night @bettgallery

“In her series ‘Nightwood’, Jane Burton draws on the title of Djuna Barnes’ 1936 novel, echoing also its atmospheric temperament. The book explores women who resist being read, or fixed in time and place. Characters are described as illegible and unpossessable. A woman’s presence stirs something ancestral and pre-human in whoever looks at her.

Burton’s prepossessing subject similarly appears unfixed. Photographed in a dimly lit interior, her skin emerges from, then dissolves back into, deep shadow, merging with the surrounding furniture and drapery. Across the series, her face is shown mostly veiled or turned away. The room setting seems both sumptuous and bleak, slightly imperfect, photographed at angles and hard to place historically. Furnishings are cut off at the image’s edge, alluding to rooms and unknown activities beyond.

… A derelict farmhouse of weathered wood sits in a valley pooling with mist. As distant hills encircle, the mist seems to rise up, drawn to the hushed dwelling. Is this the place where the woman (or women) of Nightwood might reside? Or does it too signal that spatial anomaly of the mind, a place of unlimited fantasy, of memories and imagination? In other images, the bones of dead gum trees appear in stark relief against bleached sky, yellowing grass and inert opaline water. These gnarled, reaching remains stand as monuments to their own once-verdant life-force.”

– Excerpt from exhibition essay by Mimi Kelly

@janeburton
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@wagner_framemakers

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Install day @bettgallery with the exceptional, professional, patient and wonderful @jack.bett

Opening this Friday 16th October 5.30 - 7pm. X 💙💙💚💚

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Tools down. Work has been delivered to @bettgallery
I am relived, exhausted, buzzing and happy. On my way to Booloo/Perth to finally attend the @thelesterprize !!

If you are in Nipaluna/Hobart next Friday 16 October please come celebrate with me (5.30 - 7 pm). Nature/Nurture exhibition continues until 7 October if openings are not your thing.

#studiolife #embroidery #textiles #millefluer #toolsdown

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👀 We’re on the hunt for venues across Australia, to turn into UNBUFFED pop-up galleries! How fun would it be to exhibit here👆🏼!?

ARTISTS: want in? Apply via the link in bio ✨

VENUES: got a space we need to know about? Slide into our DMs or tag anyone you know here 🚀

#unbuffed #australianartists #emergingartists #australianart

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Work in progress
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This large work will be included in my upcoming debut solo exhibition with @bettgallery Hobart!
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Really looking forward to this show!
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More details soon.
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#michaelhardingoilpaints #artist #landscape #soloexhibition #landscapeart

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Delicious local dining, the arts, a little-known museum down the river, and the remote town of Zeehan are a few of the many things Actor and Producer @martadusseldorp loves about living and working in Tasmania.

Ahead of her upcoming stage performance The Sound Inside (opening 8 October at @theplayhousetheatre), we got to know Marta with these 10 quick-fire questions.

Want to know more? Head to the link in bio for our full Q&A.

#bottomoftheworld #tasmania

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In situ.

Nature/Nurture opens 16 October @bettgallery

#embroidery #suspended #fern

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‘Artists in Conversation’ - accompanying the exhibition 𝘔𝘪𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘦𝘭 𝘕𝘦𝘭𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘑𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘢: 𝘗𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘶𝘮 𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 Friday October 9th, 6-8pm Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane @fireworksgallerybne Imants Tillers studio is pleased to announce his inclusion in the upcoming exhibition 𝘔𝘪𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘦𝘭 𝘕𝘦𝘭𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘑𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘢: 𝘗𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘶𝘮 𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 (29th September- 21st November). The exhibition will feature three collaborative paintings with the legendary Jagamara (1946-2020). Tillers and Jagamara had a fruitful collaborative relationship over two decades and resulting works are held in important collections such as @parliamenthousecanberra @qagoma and @tate Two posthumous collaborative works will be on display for the very first time in Australia. ‘In conversation’ will be moderated by Una Rey of @artlink_magazine Please RSVP by October 2nd to foh@fireworksgallery.com.au Official exhibition opening: Saturday 17th October 3-5pm Images: 1. Jagamara and Tillers, 𝘒𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧, 2021, synthetic polymer paint, gouache on 22 canvasboards, nos. 112912 - 112933, 121 x 121 cm 2. Tillers and Jagamara in front of 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳, 2014, Parliament House, Canberra, photographer Harijs Piekalns

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Imants Tillers’ painting 𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘚𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘬𝘴: 𝘍𝘘 (2016) is currently on display in Riga as part of The Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art @lcca.lv annual contemporary art festival 𝘚𝘶𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘭 𝘒𝘪𝘵. @survivalkit.lv
𝘚𝘶𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘭 𝘒𝘪𝘵 17 is curated by Elena Sorokina and Simona Markel Dvorák with the Initiative for Practices and Visions of Radical Care. The project, titled ‘Arrow of the Wind: On Artists and Healers’, explores the shared terrain between art and healing - spanning therapy, incantation and ritual, physical and mental healthcare, and spiritual restoration. Opened on August 28th, the festival includes over twenty Latvian and international artists, and a diverse program of performances and events. Held at the Riga Congress Hall, the festival closes on September 27th. Image: Tillers, 𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘚𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘬𝘴: 𝘍𝘘, 2016, synthetic polymer paint, gouache on 16 canvasboard panels, nos. 98326 - 98341, 101.6 x 142.2cm

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