Public Program

The Plimsoll Gallery

Centre for the Arts, Hunter Street, Hobart
12 noon - 5.00 pm daily during exhibitions (free admission)
For further information contact Pat Brassington on 03 6226 4309 or
email: Patricia.Brassington@utas.edu.au

Plimsoll Gallery

Resting image: "Nothing Natural", 1997

Right button: Ann Morrison

Art Forum Program

Art Forum lectures are an opportunity to hear noted artists, critics, theorists and curators speak about their work. All lectures are open to the public and admission is free. Lectures are held in the main lecture theatre at the Centre for the Arts, Hunter Street, Hobart, Tasmania on Fridays at 12.30pm.

For listing of previous Art Forum visitors, click here. For listing of previous Art Forum programs, click here.

Please note that this program is subject to change without notice. Further enquiries to:

School of Art,
University of Tasmania,
Hobart.
Ph: 03 6226 4300; Fax: 03 6226 4308

The Fine Arts Gallery

The Fine Arts Gallery is situated on the ground floor of the Student Union Building, Churchill Ave, Sandy Bay. Its opening hours are from 10am till 5pm Mon-Friday. Not open on the weekends. Its a great opportunity for students at the Tasmanian School of Art at Hobart to present their work at the main campus and also one of the few opportunities open to undergraduates to curate and show their own work and the work of other students. Having a exhibition at Fine Arts Gallery is a great chance to learn all about putting on an exhibition, what it entails from hanging the work to holding an opening night. Preparing posters, invites. refreshements. The fine Arts Gallery has a wide range of exhibitions, from new media digital work to sculpture, drawing, painting and printmaking. The exhibitions run for three weeks. Calender programme worked out a semster in advance, but a week try-out programme has been set in place for mid semster 2001 to give post-graduate students and students near completing a MFAD can set their work up for a "trial run". The FAG gallery also is the space for many of the MFAD examinations since it is such a clean economical space for solo examinations of diverse work.

Fine Arts Gallery

Images: "Content", 2000. A collaborative exhibition by Marcus Prince and Brigita Ozolins. Chalk, acrylic medium. Variable dimensions

The University Fine Arts Collection

The Fine Arts Collection of the University of Tasmania at Hobart currently holds 1,383 works of historical and contemporary art in a wide range of media including painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, ceramics, printmaking and digital imaging. The estimated value of the Collection is $1,244,000.

Through the acquisition and permanent display of art works in the various buildings and grounds of the University campuses, the Fine Arts Collection provides a rich educational and cultural resource of contemporary visual art for students and staff at the University of Tasmania, and the wider community.

The outstanding reputation of the University of Tasmania's Fine Art Collection has attracted the donation or loan of contemporary and historical works of international significance. The value of these gifts often exceeds the annual acquisitions budget.

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