Salamanca Arts Centre

04/06/2026

ART FOR TAKAYNA | BOB BROWN FOUNDATION | JUNE 12 - 24 | BOB BROWN FOUNDATION

Opening Event: Thursday June 11, 2026 | 6:00pm – 8:00pm

Showcasing works from the artist residency hosted by Bob Brown Foundation in the wild and ancient forests of Takayna in north-west Lutruwita / Tasmania. This unique gathering brings together artists from across the country — and beyond — to immerse themselves in one of the world’s last great temperate rainforests.

Art for Takayna is more than an exhibition, it is a call to action. For five days, artists from across Australia camped in Takayna’s remote forests. Under myrtle trees and the hidden gaze of animals, they created art as a living memory of this ancient ecosystem. This is the story of Takayna told through the eyes of over 100 artists.

This year’s exhibition brings together a powerful collection of works spanning photography, painting, sculpture and performances.

Together, they form a compelling call to action – a visual reminder of what stands to be lost forever.

https://www.sac.org.au/events/art-for-takayna/

03/06/2026

ENTWINED | AUKJE BOONSTRA, ULRIKE HORA & GRIETJE VAN RANDEN | JUNE 11 - 21 | SOCIAL

Opening Event: Friday 12 June 2026 | 5:30pm – 7:30pm

Three Artists engaged with the humble dress and it’s symbolism, through reuse, reimagining, questioning patterns and breaking them.
Connecting in the act of yarning, cutting, printing, painting, stitching, sculpting, firing, lighting. Stories and meaning evolved and were shared in the work – ENTWINED.

https://www.sac.org.au/events/entwined/

02/06/2026

02/06/2026

WALKING INTO THE SOUTHWEST | OLIVIA HICKEY | JUNE 11 -22 | SIDESPACE GALLERY

Opening Event: Thursday 11 June, 2026 | 5:30pm – 7:30pm

An exhibition of jewellery and photography captured whilst walking into the wilds of the Southwest of Tasmania and the South West of Western Australia

This exhibition brings together years of walking through remote landscapes including six years working as a Wilderness Ranger in the Southwest of Tasmania and a 56-day, 1,000-kilometre journey along the Bibbulmun Track from Perth to Albany in 2025.

https://www.sac.org.au/events/walking-into-the-southwest/

27/05/2026

Here’s an excerpt from our 2026 Tuscan La Baldi Residency recipient Pam Schindler’s time in Italy:

Hello from Tuscany. I still can hardly believe I’m here. It’s my last week now. Summer has suddenly arrived. All over the hills, the millions of tiny buds on the olive trees are opening into flower.

Last night I read in a poetry reading with a difference— the other two people doing a residency here are a sculptor (Chicago) and a documentary filmmaker (New York). So last night we saw a film from the filmmaker, and another about the construction of a sculpture, and some slides of paintings by one of the organisers, Joe Giordano, who is a painter. And me. The audience included local people who are either connected to the residency or involved in one or another of the arts. I read my “Learning Italian” poem to an audience including Italians! and they liked it.

I think this is probably one of the blessed places of the earth. Monte Amiata is an old shield volcano that dominates the area. So there are flowing hills of old lava making great volcanic soil, and the volcano comes with a giant aquifer, so there are springs of fresh water even in the hilltop villages.

Here I have my own apartment and the other artists are each housed in other buildings in the old village. The people who organise this residency are very generous about wanting you to appreciate the culture, and Joe, the painter, has taken us to restaurants in little villages which do traditional cooking and greet him like a family member.

My apartment has one east window and one west, and I’m on the top floor, so I look out to Monte Amiata and all the green hills!

I am feeling very thankful to the warm and creative people who set up this residency and share this magical place with people in the arts from many places.

All the best! Good writing to us all!
Abbracci!
Pam

26/05/2026

26/05/2026

Hadley’s Residency Prize offers recipients the rare opportunity to spend a month immersed in the landscapes,culture and creative atmospheres of southern Lutruwita/Tasmania.

De said "receiving the residency was both humbling and deeply affirming. Four weeks of uninterrupted creative freedom is a rare and meaningful gift.”

Hadley’s Residency Prize is proudly presented by The Old Woolstore, Salamanca Arts Centre and Artery.

Photo: Jessica King

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