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King Island, Tasmania - now seeking Expressions of Interest for 2025 Exhibitions, Music, Arts, Cultural and Heritage Events.

We are a small but vibrant island community eager for new exhibitions, music, arts, cultural and heritage events. Currently, we are seeking expressions of interest to help us bring events and activities to the island to inspire and capture the imaginations of the island’s community and visitors. We offer the King Island Gallery as an exhibition and events space, as well as the opportunity to coordinate with King Island Council to utilise additional public and private venues around the island.

Exhibitions:

The King Island Gallery is now accepting applications to exhibit in 2025. The gallery is available for 6-8 week exhibitions, as well as other arts, cultural and heritage events.  The gallery provides a fantastic opportunity for artists to curate and exhibit their work to a diverse and captivated audience.

What we can offer:

  • Free to apply and exhibit (with 20% commission on artwork sales)

  • A historical gallery space located in a great location next to the Currie Wharf

  • Curatorial and installation support for your exhibition

  • Planning and logistical support for your event

  • Publicity and promotion through our community and networks

  • Opening night support and modest catering provided

  • Opportunities and support for additional programming (workshops, artist talks, performances, etc.)

Bringing events and activities to the island can be slightly more challenging to navigate due to the logistical and financial hurdles of delivering a project in a remote location. Please get in touch with us if you have an idea that you think our community might enjoy so we can work together to make it happen!

To submit an Expression of Interest, complete this form and email tstevens@kingisland.tas.gov.au or contact us via our Enquiry page here

Expressions of interest due: midnight, 5 January 2025

Land & Sea (video still), Gabrielle Nankivell and Harrison Elliott, 2022

On Now…

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 closes 1 December 2024.

Storm Cloud, Noelene Lucas, 2023

Opening soon

Nubar Ghazarian, In Search of Phantoms

Exhibition opens 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

Mar
21

Young Artist Workshop 3 of 3

Wallaby skull painting workshop

This final artist workshop is a bit of whacky fun! Transform something natural that can often be thought of as morbid and scary into something colourful and fun. Use your imagination and sense of play to repurpose a skull into art and give it a second life!

Materials: Wallaby skull, POSCA paint pens, spray paint (outdoors), feathers, shells, glue

To bring (optional): a bit of fun, anything you want to add to your skull!

Location: Wharf Studio (next to gallery at Currie Wharf)

Taught by artist, Lateena

All art materials, snacks and drinks provided.

These workshops are free.

RSVP required for materials.

Join 1, 2 or all 3 workshops!

RSVP via email at gallery@kingisland.tas.gov.au or feel free to call or text 0493661816 for more information or to reserve a spot.

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Locals Talk Exhibition
Feb
22
to 10 Mar

Locals Talk Exhibition

Something of a diversion from our recent exhibitions, this quirky, interactive audio-visual medley is a celebration of King Island stories! Come and hear stories from islanders about cultural life on King Island, told through recordings, video, transcripts and supplemented with cultural artefacts, including the Museum’s King Island Quilt wall hanging.

We hope you will join us and partake in a bit of culture and conversation for the opening of this exciting exhibition one week from today, Thursday 22 Feb, 6:00pm - 7:30pm

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Just ended….

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

Past Workshops, Exhibitions & Events

  • Artist Talk & Painting Workshop with Anne Morrison

    The painting workshop will give insights into Anne’s fluid painting processes, then participants will experiment and explore these processes in their own way. Please to bring some organic material; sea-weed, leaves, grasses or sea sponges etc, as a springboard and possible inspiration for a few playful painting experiments.

  • Dogs of King Island Community Exhibition & Artwork Competition

    A paw-tastic exhibition for the whole family, Dogs of King Island Exhibition opens 8 June at 2 pm with a doggy photo booth, sausage sizzle, prizes, activities, entertainment and more! This is a fun, artistic celebration of our beloved furry friends! So bring your pup and come along! As part of the exhibition, King Islanders of all ages are invited to submit artworks for our Dogs of King Island Art Prize open to all ages and art forms.

  • Clay Modelling Workshop

    As part of DOKI, you are invited to participate in a free dog clay modelling workshop on Sunday 19th May from 2-4pm.This workshop is open to all ages and will be led by local artist Alison Milsom and Artist in Residence and Ceramic artist Mel Robson from Alice Springs. Participants models will be included in the Dogs of King Island exhibition. No experience necessary. Free Workshop. All Ages!

  • Birds Exhibition

    An exciting collaboration with King Island Landcare, Birds is an exhibition that celebrates the beauty and fragility of birds, with a special focus on the endangered and migratory birds of King Island. Artworks include an exhibition by four local artists, Wall of Wings - a large-scale installation by Kate Gorringe Smith, stunning photography from the 2023 BirdLife Australia Bird Photographer of the Year award, and bird-themed works by local creatives in the gallery shop.

  • Young Artist Workshop (series of 3)

    Designed for young people with a keen interest in art, our Young Artist Workshops explore new art forms, mediums, and methods, guided by professional artists and simplified for beginners!

    These workshops are for young people, ages 10-20, those who especially enjoy art class or doing art at home and are looking for more opportunities to practice and develop their creative skills. Free workshop. All art materials, snacks and drinks provided.

  • Locals Talk Exhibition

    An interactive audio-visual medley and celebration of King Island stories! Come and hear stories from islanders about cultural life on King Island, told through recordings, video, transcripts and supplemented with cultural artefacts, including the Museum’s King Island Quilt wall hanging.

  • King Island Herbarium Exhibition

    Herbarium, the first Exhibition of its kind on King Island and the third in Tasmania. Presented by King Island Landcare. A small presentation of native species chosen out of a much larger collection, which includes both natives and invasive species. For the Exhibition opening, the 28 plates will be accompanied with fresh flora samples as well as a collection of King Island Landcare Group Flora and Fauna books.

  • Video Editing Workshop

    Free video editing workshop using DaVinci Resolve, presented by Video Installation Artist and Artist in Residence, Dr Noelene Lucas

  • Open Studio with Julie Ryder

    Exploring the intricate and incredible creations of Julie Ryder during her 2023 Artist Residency.

  • Expressive Drawing Workshops with George Kennedy

    Expressive drawing workshops with charcoal for all experience levels, presented by Artist in Residence, George Kennedy.