Moonah Arts Centre July, August + September Program 2024

Welcome to Moonah Arts Centre

Welcome to Moonah Arts Centre’s July, August and September Program. I am excited to share another engaging program of exhibitions, live events and workshops for the whole community.

Our beloved School Holiday Program returns in July, offering two weeks of workshops and free events for young people to explore, create and learn through play. Our workshop program includes Build a Bug (Tuesday 9 July) run by Science Communicator, Dr Shasta Henry (AKA The Bug Doctor) for children aged 6-12 years. Participants will learn the story of three endangered insect species from the islands of Tasmania, Lord Howe and Hawaii, then design and create their very own insect puppet, made out of recycled craft materials.

Entry into all the gallery spaces at Moonah Arts Centre is free – all year round, meaning everyone is invited to experience an ever-changing display of exhibitions from a range of artists. This season, I am particularly looking forward to Sleepwalkers (26 July – 17 August). This exhibition will share new work from a collection of artists, writers and poets exploring the fragility, impermanence and state of flux, we – and the environment – are currently experiencing.

Another exhibition I encourage you to participate in is Minds Do Matter (20 September – 12 October). This is a community exhibition for Mental Health Week, inviting everyone of all ages and abilities to enter artwork (closing 11 August). Find out more and how to enter your work within the program.

As always, this program contains a diverse range of live events, including PAGODA (6.30pm, Friday 20 September) curated by esteemed local performers, Emi Emi and Grace Chia. Celebrating the vibrant East Asian artistic community of Lutruwita, PAGODA will feature live music, dance, visual art and food, highlighting the diverse ways culture manifests in creative works and performances.

I’ll see you at Moonah Arts Centre!

Warmest regards, Sue Hickey

Acting Mayor of Glenorchy City Council

Cover image: Dane Chisholm, Untitled 2023, Ink and Oil pastel on paper

This page: Jarabi Band performing at Moonah Arts Centre, February 2024

Glenorchy City Council acknowledges the Muwinina people as the Traditional Owners of this Land.

We recognise the Tasmanian Aboriginal people as the original Owners and continuing Custodians of the land and waters of this island, Lutruwita.

We pay our respect to Aboriginal Elders, past and present. We commit to working in a way that welcomes and respects all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Sleepwalkers

Tasmanian Artists responding to our existential condition

Christl Berg, Tamzen Brewster, Jo Chew, Chantale Delrue , James Dryburgh, Adrienne Eberhard, Jillian Farmer, Susie Greenhill, Pete Hay, Jacob Leary, Neika Lehman , Anne Medlock, Esther Ottaway, Denis Pybus, Sally Rees, Ben Walter, Sharyn Woods

FRIDAY 26 JULY — SATURDAY 17 AUGUST

LAUNCH EVENT: THURSDAY 25 JULY

Sleepwalkers explores the fragility, impermanence and state of flux we and the broader environment are experiencing at this time. Through varied approaches and media, the artists, writers and poets address themes precarious and finite, yet often silent and overarching. Together the works delve into dialogue critical to how we communicate and navigate this predicament.

PUBLIC PROGRAMS

Sleepwalkers — a storm of our making (Tasmanian Writers Event): Saturday 10 August Artist Talk: Saturday 17 August Visit moonahartscentre.org.au for more detail.

MEDICINEMEN

John Vella

FRIDAY 26 JULY — SATURDAY 17 AUGUST

LAUNCH EVENT: THURSDAY 25 JULY

I have been collecting my family members’ empty prescription-medication boxes for years.

In states of disease, these boxes provide something tangible, personal and meaningful.

MEDICINEMEN presents these things as artworks that dream other ways of grieving, hoping and healing.

John Vella, dad, 2024, giclée print

Glenorchy and Beyond

Peter Stolp

FRIDAY 26 JULY — SATURDAY 17 AUGUST

LAUNCH EVENT: THURSDAY 25 JULY

Glenorchy and Beyond shows some interesting and perhaps surprising aspects of this city, in a variety of painting styles. It also explores beyond Glenorchy to other parts of Tasmania, Australia and the world.

Peter Stolp, Tarkine forest floor, 2023, watercolour and pencil

TUESDAY 9 — FRIDAY 19 JULY

July School Holidays

Ignite young minds during the July school holidays at Moonah Arts Centre.

We have a range of creative workshops available to nurture creativity, including how to make Stop Motion Animation, Build a Bug and learn about endangered species, create Ukrainian Folk Art, write and create Hip-Hop, make Street Art and more. Each workshop is run by a specialist tutor.

View the full schedule and book at moonahartscentre.org.au/young-people

Moonah Arts Centre

Family Fun Open Day!

10am - 1pm, Friday 19 July WORKSHOP PROGRAM FREE EVENT

Bring the whole family for a day of fun at Moonah Arts Centre. Enjoy arts and crafts activities, music and more.

Suitable for ages 12 and under. All children must be accompanied by an adult. Find out more information via moonahartscentre.org.au.

A new children’s pantomime

Once upon a time there was an ordinary frog who lived in an ordinary pond on the edge of an enchanted forest. One day,

the frog gets turned into a prince by a wicked fairy. Now, with the help of a tough-talking princess, the frog must embark on a wondrous adventure full of your favourite fairy tale creatures... just not as you know them.

TICKETS $15-20, AVAILABLE VIA MOONAHARTSCENTRE.ORG.AU

Multicultural Council of Tasmania proudly presents

Annual Women's Expo

Connecting Women with Community, Health and Support Services

11AM-3PM SATURDAY 13 JULY

A family event for all people living in Tasmania to connect with free services from organisations working towards making lives better.

More than 20 stallholders providing access for women to health and family support, community and social services, legal aid and so much more.

Kids activities . Art workshops Dance performances . Delicious food and drinks

The Angels

Sue

Leitch and Noula Diamantopoulos

FRIDAY 23 AUGUST — SATURDAY 14 SEPTEMBER

LAUNCH EVENT: THURSDAY 22 AUGUST

The Angels emerge from mosaic and encaustic practices and are the result of a unique collaboration between the two artists, Sue Leitch and Noula Diamantopoulos. Each angel is unique, created through an interactive process, driven by the materials and the artists’ response to them.

Image: Sue Leitch and Noula Diamantopoulos, Angel3.24, Mosaic and Encaustic

Lutruwita Coastline

Cheryl Rose

FRIDAY 23 AUGUST — SATURDAY 14 SEPTEMBER

LAUNCH EVENT: THURSDAY 22 AUGUST

Cheryl Rose is a Pataway/Burnie-based artist and descendant of the Plangermaireener/Trawoolooway people from the Cape Portland area on the East Coast of Lutruwita.

Inspired by coastal lands and sea, Lutruwita Coastline acknowledges the past and present. Honouring her people and the Country on which they walked, cared for, gathered and suffered. The lands we continue to walk on and care for today and always.

Working with layered Japanese Kozo paper, Cheryl overlays hand rendered, etched, frottaged and printed images reflecting the intricacies of the coastline she calls home.

Image: Courtesy of artist

Luminosity is the end point

Anna Dusk

FRIDAY 23 AUGUST — SATURDAY 14 SEPTEMBER

LAUNCH EVENT: THURSDAY 22 AUGUST

Standing stones, mountains, obelisks, shards of light — these are our connection with the sky, with the heavens and with the ethereal world. Often on top of these connecting shapes, is a corona or crown of energy, symbolising enlightenment, a boundary between the profane and the sublime — or more mundanely, a paddock fence or aerial. These paintings represent life, all life, not just human, not just animate or visible, but that of animal, plant and stone. The spheres circling mysteriously above us in space, space itself, this whole conglomerate of wonder and joy that is our life. In the end, we are all luminous.

Image: Anna Dusk, Conception, 2024, oil on canvas

Share your art! Opportunities to exhibit

Glenorchy Open exhibition 2024

Open to all artists who live, work or have a strong connection to the City of Glenorchy, this exhibition is a celebration of all the creativity in our community. Everyone is invited to enter one artwork for inclusion in the exhibition in any medium. Entries close Friday 1 November 2024.

Exhibit at Moonah Arts Centre in 2025

Apply to have an exhibition at Moonah Arts Centre in our Visual Arts Program 2025. We welcome artists, curators, groups and arts organisations to submit a proposal. Applications close Wednesday 31 July 2024.

Minds Do Matter 2024

This exhibition explores the relationship between art and mental health. Artists are invited to enter artwork in response to the theme SHINE: Appreciate the little things. Visit mindsdomatter.com.au for entry details and see the next page for exhibition info. Entries close Sunday 11 August 2024.

Visit moonahartscentre.org.au/opportunities for details.

Minds Do Matter

FRIDAY 20 SEPTEMBER — SATURDAY 12 OCTOBER

LAUNCH EVENT: THURSDAY 19 SEPTEMBER

Minds Do Matter is an annual, statewide exhibition in celebration of Mental Health Week. Each year, the exhibition explores the relationship between art and mental health and is a tribute to the power art has to be life enhancing and life affirming.

Minds Do Matter promotes positive community conversations about mental health by inviting creative responses to themes around mental health. In 2024, the theme is Shine: Appreciate the little things. Visit mindsdomatter.com.au for entry details.

I like drawing

Dane Chisolm

FRIDAY 20 SEPTEMBER — SATURDAY 12 OCTOBER

LAUNCH EVENT: THURSDAY 19 SEPTEMBER

Drawing a drawing is not very boring. My drawings are drawings that keep me from snoring. My drawings of drawings will help you exploring. These drawings of drawings are fabulously soaring, high and low, to and fro. My little stories that come and go.

I invite you to come and explore my drawings that I have created by pen, ipad, oil pastel, ink, fingers, hands, knees and toes. Perhaps not the last couple of body parts. Fun, colour and nonsense for everyone, an escape from the serious, stuffy and bland.

That is all. Enjoy. Or not.

Image: Dane Chisholm, Untitled 2023, Ink and Oil pastel on paper

Learning to Breathe

A restorative experience through nature

Ryan Slater

FRIDAY 20 SEPTEMBER — SATURDAY 12 OCTOBER

LAUNCH EVENT: THURSDAY 19 SEPTEMBER

Reconnecting with nature can be a restorative process for multiple health issues. Ryan Slater takes us on a personal journey of reconnection to nature, which gave him time and space to reflect and be calm when the world around him seemed frantic and inescapable.

Learning to Breathe is a small collection of contemporary photographs of the Tasmanian wilderness, which the artist hopes will evoke deeper reflection about nature and what it can provide us.

Image: Ryan Slater, Dolerite Tor, 2024

4.30pm Sunday 22 September

Sunday Soiree will return to Moonah Arts Centre for a very special one-off show this year ! Get ready for a cornucopia of cracking cabaret, giddy games and fabulous fundraising, with proceeds going to support the many essential services provided by Cancer Council Tasmania.

Join drag-tastic songstress, Miz Ima Starr and dazzling vedette, PSYKHE as they attempt — alongside stunning performances from their talented friends, including Dean Arcuri, Di Richards, Michael Power and more to reach their fundraising target of $10 000 and bring Sunday Soiree’s overall donation to $20 000!!

Book your table now (available in groups of 2, 3, 5 or 7) via events.humanitix.com/soiree24

MUSIC DANCE ART FOOD

6pm Friday 20 September

Join us for an evening celebrating the vibrant East Asian artistic community of Lutruwita with PAGODA . This event promises to immerse you in a rich sensory journey, featuring live music, dance, visual art and food that highlights the diverse ways culture manifests in creative works and performances.

PAGODA is the brainchild of Emi Emi and Grace Chia, two esteemed local performers whose mixed-race backgrounds and integration into Australian culture profoundly influence their artistic practice. The evening will also feature performances by Oska, Baltimore Charlot and Bea & Nina, with additional artists to be announced.