Image: Pat Brassington, The secret, 2010, inkjet print
Regional Gallery 45–47 Stewart St. Tasmania Australia F. 03 6423 5305 devonportgallery.com
CURRENT EXHIBITION
4 OCTOBER – 2 NOVEMBER
PAT BRASSINGTON: À REBOURS
ACCA TOURING EXHIBITION
À Rebours is the first extensive exhibition of Brassington’s 30 years of practice and explores her ongoing aesthetic language derived from surrealism and cinema reinterpreted through photography. Pat Brassington: À Rebours has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.
PROGRAMS & EVENTS
TORCHLIGHT TOUR
FRIDAY 10 OCTOBER, 8PM COST: gold coin donation Drinks and nibbles provided by DRG Friends Committee
Pat Brassington’s photo media works reference the tradition of surrealist photography – hauntingly beautiful, deeply psychological and deeply disturbing. The viewer will find themselves caught somewhere between reality, dream and nightmare.
To enhance the viewing experience, the Devonport Regional Gallery staff will be taking small groups of visitors on a torchlight tour through the gallery, describing the various stages of Pat Brassington’s exceptional 30 year career.
RIDE2WORK COMMUNITY BREAKFAST
WEDNESDAY 15 OCTOBER, 7.30AM FREE
Leave your car behind this coming Wednesday, and don a helmut and some lycra for national Ride2Work day. The Devonport Regional Gallery is hosting a free breakfast at the Gallery from 7.30am, so organise to meet some of your work mates for an early morning coffee.
SENIORS WEEK 2014: TEA AND ART
WEDNESDAY 15 OCTOBER, 3PM FREE
As part of Senior’s Week, the Devonport Regional Gallery invites senior residents to a special afternoon tea at the Gallery to view our current exhibition Pat Brassington: À Rebours. The afternoon tea is hosted by The Droogs, the young members of the gallery aged between 16 and 30 years.
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
Brenda Ridgewell, Space edifice, armband, 2002, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
8 NOVEMBER – 7 DECEMBER
Opening Friday 7 November, 6 pm
MAIN GALLERY
BODYWORK AUSTRALIAN JEWELLRY 1970 – 2012
Curator: Dr Robert Bell AM, Senior Curator of Decorative Arts and Design, National Gallery of Australia
A National Gallery of Australia Touring Exhibition
This exhibition includes the work of Australian jewellers exploring jewellery from a number of viewpoints. Visitors will be provided with a web-based ipad that will allow them to learn about the artist, the works and the collection from where they originated.
THE LITTLE GALLERY
TRANSFERENCE: Josh Foley
Josh Foley will create a landscape painting based on an area in the north west of Tasmania. Through the employment of directly painting onto the gallery walls, the artist will push the boundaries of what is generally regarded as the landscape genre. Foley will treat The Little Gallery walls as his canvas, simultaneously creating a surrogate landscape around the walls and floor. Foley regards the process as a comment on how various streams of society and differing attitudes contextualise and frame the idea of landscape.
12 DECEMBER – 1 FEBRUARY 2015
TIDAL: CITY OF DEVONPORT ART AWARD 2014
Opening Friday 5 December, 6 pm
Judges: Erica Green, Director Anne & Gordon Museum of Art, University of South Australia and Sean Kelly, Coordinator, Moonah Arts Centre, Hobart
This popular national award presented every two years at the Devonport Regional Gallery is now in its 6th year. Artists from across Australia are invited to submit an entry in any 2D medium based on a response to the theme of ‘tidal’. Judges Erica Green, Director of the Samstag Museum, South Australia and Sean Kelly, Director of the Moonah Arts Centre, Hobart have selected to 27 works for the finalist exhibition.
Dianne Sheehan Tracy Broomhall Education and Public Programs Officer Gallery Administration Officer
