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Bett Gallery is thrilled to present the work of Jake Walker in our current exhibition, After the Earth."Jake Walker also...
02/06/2026

Bett Gallery is thrilled to present the work of Jake Walker in our current exhibition, After the Earth.



"Jake Walker also connects to the earth with care, using recycled materials like found boards and canvases to ease the environmental burden of over consumption. His painting palette is distinctively bright, with primary colours generously applied to evoke a sunrise or in contrast, the sooty turrets of chimneys. Favouring an abstract style, Walker views his paintings and frames as a whole object. He describes his work as having “spatial ambitions,” and creates hand formed ceramic frames for each of his paintings. Often sprouting appendages of cylindrical k***s and curved pipes, his frames extend into the gallery space, beckoning us to look closer. These organic architectural forms are inherently inspired by a childhood spent surrounded by the work of his father, New Zealand architect Roger Walker, and the organic, curvaceous dwellings of fellow architect, Ian Athfield. Each piece Walker presents is compact and self-contained, a deeply considered microcosm of paint and form highlighting the hand of the maker." Excerpt from Briony Downes essay

After the Earth
Naoise Halloran-Mackay
Pete Maarsaveen
Jake Walker
Eloise Kirk
Ash Keating
Georgie Vozar

📍 Bett Gallery
📅 On view from 29 May – 20 June 2026
🥂 Exhibition celebration: 12 June, 5:30pm
To be opened by Dr David Ashley Kerr, Head of Art, Tasmania Museum & Art Gallery


Bett Gallery is pleased to introduce the work of Eloise Kirk in After the Earth. Through the mediums of collage and pai...
30/05/2026

Bett Gallery is pleased to introduce the work of Eloise Kirk in After the Earth.



Through the mediums of collage and painting, Eloise Kirk blends images of landscapes and geographical features to build layered visuals both familiar and strange. Mountains, volcanoes and rock formations are displaced from their original habitats to become dreamlike vistas of the sublime, markers of the tipping point between the beautiful and the grotesque.

With a background in printmaking, painting and sculpture, Kirk uses found books and photos as source materials to construct her images, ripping and tearing what she finds before layering each image across a circular surface. There is a time-worn, vintage feel to Kirk’s aesthetic, like these abstract landscapes have been sourced from a 1950s sci-fi wilderness. Devoid of clearly defined features to aid recognition in the real physical world, Kirk’s collages hint at decay and transformation, particularly within an environmental context. Looking at Kirk’s work, a quiet stillness exudes and we are left to wonder, are these landscapes at the beginning or the end? Excerpt from Briony Downes essay

After the Earth
Naoise Halloran-Mackay
Pete Maarsaveen
Jake Walker
Eloise Kirk
Ash Keating

Georgie Vozar
📍 Bett Gallery
📅 On view from 29 May – 20 June 2026
🥂 Exhibition celebration: 12 June, 5:30pm
To be opened by Dr David Ashley Kerr, Head of Art, Tasmania Museum & Art Gallery

Bett Gallery is delighted to introduce the work of Ash Keating in After the Earth. In late 2025, Keating spent five day...
29/05/2026

Bett Gallery is delighted to introduce the work of Ash Keating in After the Earth.



In late 2025, Keating spent five days in the Mt Field National Park in Tasmania’s south, photographing the environment with a long lens. Allowing the user to photograph small details from afar, the long lens focuses on bringing minutiae into close observation. In his Russell Falls Response, 2026 series, Keating has done exactly this. He brings the eye right up to the frothy spray of water cascading down slick, undulating rock. Surrounded by moss covered forest on both sides, Russell Falls (depending on the levels of rain or snowfall in the highlands) can either politely trickle or thunder down the cliffs, fanning out to create a rainbow of light filled water droplets at its base. By adding perlite and mica flakes to his painted surfaces, Keating injects an iridescent sheen that recalls this rainbow mist swirling into the surrounding atmosphere. Excerpt from Briony Downes essay

Keating has undertaken numerous large-scale painting commissions in public spaces for institutions such as the National Gallery of Victoria (2013), RMIT University (2014), the Adelaide Festival Centre (2015), TarraWarra Museum of Art (2019) and Museum Langmatt, Switzerland (2023). His practice has attracted significant attention in Australia, winning the Incinerator Art Prize (2015), Guirguis New Art Prize (2013), Substation Contemporary Art Prize (2012) and his works are held in many public and private collections including the NGV, NGA, MCA, AGNSW, MUMA and Artbank.


After the Earth
Naoise Halloran-Mackay
Pete Maarsaveen
Jake Walker
Eloise Kirk
Ash Keating
Georgie Vozar

📍 Bett Gallery
📅 On view from 29 May – 20 June 2026
🥂 Exhibition celebration: 12 June, 5:30pm, To be opened by Dr David Ashley Kerr, Head of Art, Tasmania Museum & Art Gallery

Images:

Bett Gallery is delighted to introduce the work of Ash Keating in After the Earth. In late 2025, Keating spent five day...
29/05/2026

Bett Gallery is delighted to introduce the work of Ash Keating in After the Earth.



In late 2025, Keating spent five days in the Mt Field National Park in Tasmania’s south, photographing the environment with a long lens. Allowing the user to photograph small details from afar, the long lens focuses on bringing minutiae into close observation. In his Russell Falls Response, 2026 series, Keating has done exactly this. He brings the eye right up to the frothy spray of water cascading down slick, undulating rock. Surrounded by moss covered forest on both sides, Russell Falls (depending on the levels of rain or snowfall in the highlands) can either politely trickle or thunder down the cliffs, fanning out to create a rainbow of light filled water droplets at its base. By adding perlite and mica flakes to his painted surfaces, Keating injects an iridescent sheen that recalls this rainbow mist swirling into the surrounding atmosphere. Excerpt from Briony Downes essay

Keating has undertaken numerous large-scale painting commissions in public spaces for institutions such as the National Gallery of Victoria (2013), RMIT University (2014), the Adelaide Festival Centre (2015), TarraWarra Museum of Art (2019) and Museum Langmatt, Switzerland (2023). His practice has attracted significant attention in Australia, winning the Incinerator Art Prize (2015), Guirguis New Art Prize (2013), Substation Contemporary Art Prize (2012) and his works are held in many public and private collections including the NGV, NGA, MCA, AGNSW, MUMA and Artbank.


After the Earth
Naoise Halloran-Mackay
Pete Maarsaveen
Jake Walker
Eloise Kirk
Ash Keating
Georgie Vozar

📍 Bett Gallery
📅 On view from 29 May – 20 June 2026
🥂 Exhibition celebration: 12 June, 5:30pm, To be opened by Dr David Ashley Kerr, Head of Art, Tasmania Museum & Art Gallery

Image:

Bett Gallery is thrilled to introduce the work of Georgie Vozar in After the Earth. Maintaining a ceramic practice dee...
28/05/2026

Bett Gallery is thrilled to introduce the work of Georgie Vozar in After the Earth.


Maintaining a ceramic practice deeply rooted in human connection, family and community play an integral role in Vozar’s work. While growing up, she lived above her father’s ceramic studio in Queensland’s Blackall Range, surrounded by creative materials and objects in varied stages of completion. Further afield in outback Queensland, her grandparents managed cattle stations she would often visit. After moving to Tasmania in 2012, Vozar began learning ceramics from her father and together they have built their own earthenware practice.

In her solo practice, Vozar remains inspired by her surrounding environment. Her time in Queensland is still a guiding force, and its influence can be seen in the carefully chosen glazes and hand-applied textures of her amphora-like vessels. Mesa, 2026 is inspired by Mt Slowcombe in Yaraka and the nearby Yang Yang Range, a landscape Vozar says reveals itself slowly and quietly. Other vessels connect to places in Tasmania – Fen, 2026 recalls the Great Lake region of the Central Plateau – while others reflect personal challenges, water meeting the earth and places where physical terrain has been transformed by light. Except from Briony Downes essay

After the Earth
Naoise Halloran-Mackay
Pete Maarsaveen
Jake Walker
Eloise Kirk
Ash Keating
Georgie Vozar

📍 Bett Gallery
📅 On view from 29 May – 20 June 2026
🥂 Exhibition celebration: 12 June, 5:30pm
To be opened by Dr David Ashley Kerr, Head of Art, Tasmania Museum & Art Gallery

Bett Gallery is delighted to present the work of Pete Maarseveen within After the Earth.Starting at a grassroots level, ...
27/05/2026

Bett Gallery is delighted to present the work of Pete Maarseveen within After the Earth.

Starting at a grassroots level, and inspired by a global community of photographers, Maarseveen is developing an off-grid, eco-friendly practice in Tasmania’s Derwent Valley. In the hopes of treading more lightly upon the earth, he experiments with solar power, tank water, and low-toxic processes, creating a cyclical system where wastewater from the printing process nourishes the same plants used to produce his image-making chemistry.

Working with paper negatives sourced from tip shops and op shops, his practice reflects a careful, thoughtful engagement with material and place. During his time in Takayna/Tarkine, he photographed the forest using a large format camera, developing negatives with chemistry made from myrtle leaves found on the forest floor. The resulting images carry a distinctive quality: an inkiness… the depth of shadows and economical intake of light is almost tactile, shaped by the very plants that determine how each image emerges. Except from Briony Downes essay

After the Earth
Naoise Halloran-Mackay
Pete Maarsaveen
Jake Walker
Eloise Kirk
Ash Keating
Georgie Vozar

📍 Bett Gallery
📅 On view from 29 May – 20 June 2026
🥂 Exhibition celebration: 12 June, 5:30pm
To be opened by Dr David Ashley Kerr, Head of Art, Tasmania Museum & Art Gallery

Naoise Halloran-MackayAfter the EarthTracing back to ancient Egypt, marquetry is a meticulous technique of assembling ti...
26/05/2026

Naoise Halloran-Mackay
After the Earth



Tracing back to ancient Egypt, marquetry is a meticulous technique of assembling timber veneers into intricate, puzzle-like compositions. Traditionally a symbol of wealth and refinement, Halloran-Mackay reclaims this labour-intensive craft as a contemporary gesture, resisting the ease of digital and AI-generated imagery through a deeply hands-on process.

Working with timber for its inherent history and organic texture, Halloran-Mackay draws on early experience in carpentry, sourcing discarded veneers from building sites. These materials, shaped by both environment and industry, carry traces of time, echoing the passage of birds themselves as winged observers moving between reality and imagination.

After the Earth
📍 Bett Gallery
📅 On view from 29 May – 20 June 2026
🥂 Exhibition celebration: 12 June, 5:30pm
To be opened by Dr David Ashley Kerr, Head of Art, Tasmania Museum & Art Gallery

Naoise Halloran-MackayAfter the EarthTracing back to ancient Egypt, marquetry is a meticulous technique of assembling ti...
26/05/2026

Naoise Halloran-Mackay
After the Earth



Tracing back to ancient Egypt, marquetry is a meticulous technique of assembling timber veneers into intricate, puzzle-like compositions. Traditionally a symbol of wealth and refinement, Halloran-Mackay reclaims this labour-intensive craft as a contemporary gesture, resisting the ease of digital and AI-generated imagery through a deeply hands-on process.

Working with timber for its inherent history and organic texture, Halloran-Mackay draws on early experience in carpentry, sourcing discarded veneers from building sites. These materials, shaped by both environment and industry, carry traces of time, echoing the passage of birds themselves as winged observers moving between reality and imagination.

After the Earth
📍 Bett Gallery
📅 On view from 29 May – 20 June 2026
🥂 Exhibition celebration: 12 June, 5:30pm
To be opened by Dr David Ashley Kerr, Head of Art, Tasmania Museum & Art Gallery

Image: Starlings 2026 (detail)
oil and timber marquetry on panel, framed
34 x 57 cm (frame size)
Photo: Grace Harre

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