Bett Gallery Hobart

Bett Gallery Hobart Celebrating 40 years of exhibiting contemporary art in Nipaluna/Hobart, Lutruwita/Tasmania.

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Currently on exhibition in the meeting room is a suite of works on paper by Locust Jones, created between 2011 and 2016....
02/09/2026

Currently on exhibition in the meeting room is a suite of works on paper by Locust Jones, created between 2011 and 2016.



Locust Jones’s acclaimed drawing practice transforms news, politics and global events into dynamic, large-scale works that explore the complexity and urgency of contemporary life. All works are ink on paper, measuring 65 x 102 cm.

Locust is also currently exhibiting a monumental 3m x 10m drawing at the Art Gallery of New South Wales as part of The Edge of Things, on display until May 2027.

David KeelingSoft sunset, Freycinet, 2026oil on linen122 x 102 cm (stretcher size)(BG11501)On show now as part of Waking...
01/09/2026

David Keeling
Soft sunset, Freycinet, 2026
oil on linen
122 x 102 cm (stretcher size)
(BG11501)

On show now as part of Waking on a Sunny Day
Until 12 September

A heartfelt thank you to everyone who attended the recent opening of David Keeling: Waking on a Sunny Day We were deligh...
26/08/2026

A heartfelt thank you to everyone who attended the recent opening of David Keeling: Waking on a Sunny Day

We were delighted to celebrate this exceptional exhibition alongside so many friends, collectors, and supporters.

The exhibition is now open and continues until 12 September 2026.

Opening tonight! David KeelingWaking on a Sunny Day21 August – 12 September 2026David Keeling is recognised as one of A...
21/08/2026

Opening tonight! David Keeling
Waking on a Sunny Day
21 August – 12 September 2026

David Keeling is recognised as one of Australia’s leading landscape painters, with an impressive exhibition history spanning over four decades. Over this time he has maintained a close connection with Bett Gallery, and this year marks his 40th year exhibiting with the Gallery.

In significant recognition of his work, the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery staged the important retrospective exhibition David Keeling: Stranger in 2020-21 to celebrate the achievements of an artist at the height of his career.

Artwork image: Freycinet, 4/12/2025, 8.16pm, 2026
oil on linen
112 x 153 cm (stretcher size)
(BG11500)


David KeelingWaking on a Sunny Day21 August – 12 September 2026Opening night, Friday 21 August, 5:30 - 7pmDavid Keeling ...
17/08/2026

David Keeling
Waking on a Sunny Day
21 August – 12 September 2026

Opening night, Friday 21 August, 5:30 - 7pm

David Keeling is recognised as one of Australia’s leading landscape painters, with an impressive exhibition history spanning over four decades. Over this time he has maintained a close connection with Bett Gallery, and this year marks his 40th year exhibiting with the Gallery.

In significant recognition of his work, the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery staged the important retrospective exhibition David Keeling: Stranger in 2020-21 to celebrate the achievements of an artist at the height of his career.

A multiple-time prize winner, including the Glover Prize twice, Keeling has also been recognised by the Australia Council through international residencies in Verdaccio, London and Rome. The monograph, David Keeling, was published in 2007. His work is held in the collections of numerous national and state institutions, including the National Gallery of Victoria, the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, the Art Gallery of South Australia and the National Gallery of Australia; and in corporate and private collections nationally and internationally. Throughout his career, Keeling’s artworks have been viewed in solo and group exhibitions across the world, from London to Washington DC.

Image: Arcadia’s edge, 2026
oil on linen
122 x 102 cm (stretcher size

Opening next week: David KeelingWaking on a Sunny Day21 August – 12 September 2026Opening night, Friday 21 August, 5:30 ...
14/08/2026

Opening next week: David Keeling
Waking on a Sunny Day
21 August – 12 September 2026

Opening night, Friday 21 August, 5:30 - 7pm

In this new body of work, David Keeling captures those fleeting, dreamlike moments when Tasmania’s wild weather shifts and sunlight breaks through, illuminating the landscape below. Through striking oil on linen paintings, he explores the interplay of light and shadow, transforming familiar places into scenes of quiet transcendence. As David reflects, “I have tried to interrogate that moment when the prosaic becomes the transcendent.”

Filled with evocative landscapes that are both grounded in place and infused with memory, Walking on a Sunny Day invites viewers to experience the beauty and atmosphere of Tasmania through Keeling’s distinctive vision.

Studio images

Valerie Sparks2026 Bowness Photography Prize Finalist Congratulations to Valerie Sparks who has been selected as a fina...
13/08/2026

Valerie Sparks
2026 Bowness Photography Prize Finalist



Congratulations to Valerie Sparks who has been selected as a finalist in the 2026 Bowness Photography Prize at the Museum of Australian Photography.

Created through conducting CT scans of common garden rocks, processed using the ‘lung’ setting of medical imaging software and reimagined as floating nets of fine lines resembling icebergs against a photographs backdrop, Depth #2 explores the intersecting point between different imaging processes - photography and radiography, and between different systems of thought - art, science and geography.

For many of us icebergs live in our imagination as drifting symbols of mass, solidity and permanence, yet they are now increasingly vulnerable fragile, and disappearing. Using a diagnostic tool for the human body to reimagine a distant Antarctic landscape collapses the distinction between human anatomy and geological time, and highlights how inextricably bound we are, collectively and personally, to the survival of the natural world.

The Bowness Prize runs from the 12 September – 8 November 2026

Final days to catch David Stephenson'sSun DrawingsUntil 15 August 2026Image 1: 25 November 2025, 12:00 pm-2:00 pm/2:00 ...
12/08/2026

Final days to catch David Stephenson's
Sun Drawings
Until 15 August 2026



Image 1: 25 November 2025, 12:00 pm-2:00 pm/2:00 pm-5:00pm, Taroona, 2025
Image 2: 13 December 2025, 3:00 pm-3:30pm, Taroona, 2025
Image 3: 20 November 2025, 3:00pm-5:00pm, Swanwick, 2025

All images gelatin silver print
47.7 x 31.8 cm (image size)
61.5 x 44.2 cm (framed size)
edition of 3 plus 2 artist's proofs

Congratulations to Michaye Boulter who has been selected as a finalist for the 2026 John Leslie Art Prize for landscape ...
06/08/2026

Congratulations to Michaye Boulter who has been selected as a finalist for the 2026 John Leslie Art Prize for landscape at ⁣
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The prize runs from the 4th of Sept - 22nd November 2026.⁣
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‘Wild Stillness’ comes from a distillation of memories. Close to our home on Bruny Island, where the sea is fringed with grasses and foliage, there is a place of shelter. Of settled contemplation against the cool sea and shifts of weather. The edges of water move from light to dark. They hold the dichotomies of this place — vast and intricate, transient and enduring, wild and still. Michaye Boulter⁣
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Artwork: Wild Stillness⁣
oil on linen ⁣
152 x 244cm⁣
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A heartfelt thank you to everyone who joined us last Saturday for Aunty Lola Greeno in conversation with Judith Ryan AM ...
06/08/2026

A heartfelt thank you to everyone who joined us last Saturday for Aunty Lola Greeno in conversation with Judith Ryan AM and to celebrate Aunty Lola's birthday!

It was a privilege to hear Aunty Lola share her stories, cultural knowledge, and insights from a lifetime dedicated to Tasmanian Aboriginal art, culture, and community. We are especially grateful to Judith Ryan AM for leading such an engaging and thoughtful conversation.

Thank you to all who attended the exhibition and birthday celebration, helping us honour Aunty Lola's extraordinary contribution as an Elder, artist, cultural custodian, and leader as she celebrates her 80th year.

Now On: Aunty Lola Greeno Celebrates 80 Years
25 July - 15 August 2026

Images by Breda Croft and Bett Gallery.

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