Welcome to the Gallery, a celebration of King Island creativity and artistic expression.
Current Exhibition
Nubar Ghazarian, In Search of Phantoms
Nubar Ghazarian, In Search of Phantoms
Exhibition opened Saturday 7 December, 6pm at the King Island Gallery
Selected from the KI Gallery’s call out for a local artist EOI, this is a retrospective exhibition of artworks by Nubar Ghazarian created on King Island over the past twelve years. Through photography, mIxed-media and paintings, Nubar explores his journey to get in touch with the figments of his imagination and the ghosts from the past that inhabit the island and appear in abstracted and dream-like forms, both natural and supernatural.
Nubar is a Photographer/Artist who has worked in the film industry for over thirty years as a writer/director. He has always photographed, sketched & painted in a variety of media. Living on a small hobby farm on King Island has given Nubar an opportunity to connect with the natural landscape and seascape and delve into the forces of nature that encompass our human experience. “I like to develop concepts through photography, sketching & painting. It’s a magical way of creating a story and communicating my ideas & feelings to the viewer”
Exhibition continues until 31 January 2025.
Image: Nubar Ghazarian, My Land, acrylic on board (framed), 2024
Just ended….
Noelene Lucas, Getting the Drift
Exhibition opens Friday 1 November 5:30PM at the King Island Gallery
Selected artist from the gallery’s national 2024 EOI callout.
Dr Noelene Lucas, is a Sydney based video and installation artist with a background in sculpture. Noelene’s exhibition will include multi-screen projection works in response to her September 2023 residency. Her work captures some of the vastness and drama of the weather conditions on the edge the island, which emerged as the theme and inspiration of her residency.
Exhibition closed 1 December 2024.
Image: Storm Cloud, Noelene Lucas, 2023
Time Place Space
Celebrating the King Island Artist Residency Program
Time Place Space is a salon exhibition of artworks seeded through ten artists’ residencies under the King Island Council’s Artist Residency Program.
Based at the King Island Gallery and Airport, this major project opens on Sunday 1 September. A six-week salon style exhibition and installation with works spanning across contemporary painting, printmaking, photography, video, mixed media, textile and poetry.
Time Place Space will feature artists from different forms, disciplines and practices. They include two young emerging painters, a visual artist working in the field of expanded drawing, an established printmaker, a photographer and two recognised environmental textile artists. Also included are a poet and writer, and two acclaimed Australian leaders in contemporary dance performance and site-specific live art.
This is a special opportunity for the community and visitors to the island to experience a wide range of current Australian contemporary arts practice with works that reflect the artists’ experiences of King Island.
Artists:
Exhibition closed 13 October.
Time Place Space is supported by Arts Tasmania.
From top to bottom
Lion Tides, Barbie Kjar, 2023
Kelp Harvester Barry, Lisa Garland, 2023
Exhibitions & Events
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Artist Residency
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Workshops
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Studio Space
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Visit Us
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Edward Street, Currie
(across from the wharf)
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+61 6462 1924
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Monday - 1-3pm
Tuesday - Closed
Wednesday - 1-3pm
Thursday - 1-3pm
Friday - 1-4pm
Saturday - 1-4pm
Sunday - 1-4pm