Matthew Newton North Colony 2, On Albatross Island 2014, pigment print 100 x 120cm
Richard Wastell, North Colony Charcoals, On Albatross Island XII 2015 charcoal on paper, framed 58 x 56cm
ON ALBATROSS ISLAND
MATTHEW NEWTON & RICHARD WASTELL
FRIDAY 4 DECEMBER 2015, 6PM
QUEEN VICTORIA ART GALLERY, 2 WELLINGTON STREET, LAUNCESTON
RSVP essential by Monday 30 November 2015
T: 03 6323 3798
E: [email protected]
To be opened by Philip Wolfhagen, Tasmanian artist and one of Australia’s leading contemporary landscape painters
Floor talk by Mathew Newton at the Queen Victoria Art Gallery on Saturday 5 December, 11am-12pm.
Exhibition on display from 5 December 2015 to 3 April 2016
In 2014, artists Richard Wastell and Matthew Newton accompanied a team of scientists to remote Albatross Island, Bass Strait, home to over 5,000 breeding pairs of Tasmania’s endemic Shy Albatross. The exhibition On Albatross Island showcases their individual artistic responses to this unique environment.
Read more, online, HERE
Emma Bett, Bett Gallery
