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Female painter in blue overalls in studio setting. Meg Walch. Tasmania.
Features

Can you sustain a studio practice in Tasmania?

Weighing up the challenges with the wins, ArtsHub speaks with four artists on placing their studio practice in Tasmania.

A dark-haired and bearded man in his 40s smiles at the camera. He wears a dark blue striped shirt and stands against a black background.
Features

Exit interview: Travis Tiddy, The Unconformity

After 15 years and seven festivals grown from the bedrock of Tasmania's West Coast, Tiddy reflects on growth, change and…

Gallery view of man walking in an immersive exhibition with video projection and metal sculpture. Unsettling Queenstown.
News

From Venice to Tasmania: a design collaboration shifting thinking

Australia’s representation at the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale returns home to Tasmania, for its Australian debut.

Audiences gather outside a brightly-lit venue in Prince's Square. They, the building and the night sky are reflected in a dark pool of water in the foreground.
Features

The festival at the junction of artistic innovation and tourism KPIs

Government support from Events Tasmania instead of Arts Tasmania in no way prevents Junction from offering a strong cultural program…

Girl with blonde hair and black t-shirt sitting in artist studio. Zoe Grey.
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I’m an artist in my twenties, and I don’t want to leave Tasmania

Painter Zoe Grey wins Australia’s richest landscape prize, further cementing her love of Tasmania’s wild country.

Long open road in outback Australia. Tourism.
Opinions & Analysis

Surprises as most cultural Australian cities (per capita) revealed

Recent data shows that regional cities offer top cultural experiences.

An aerial view taken at dusk of a large crowd gathered outdoors preparing to sing together as part of The Big Sing at Festival of Voices.
News

Singing in the winter dark: Festival of Voices returns for 2024

Hobart’s original winter festival returns with a program featuring everything from US R&B star Macy Gray and choral workshops to…

A luminous inflatable statue of a contemplative male figures floats on a river at sunset. The sunset is reflected in the water and dark trees line the banks.
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David Walsh pulls the plug on summer festival Mona Foma

The festival’s most recent edition was ‘a poorly attended artistic triumph,’ according to Mona owner and founder David Walsh.

Waverley 150+. A black and white photograph of a brick factory with 'Waverley Mills' printed on a wall.
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Waverley 150+ exhibition: celebrating Tasmania's first commercial woollen factory

Design Tasmania is hosting Waverley 150+ as an evolving exhibition.

The Unconformity. Image is of performance participants sitting in kayaks on a lake.
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Festival review: The Unconformity, Queenstown

The Unconformity is a festival that interacts with the Queenstown landscape in unexpected ways.

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