Design Tasmania announces exhibitions and events available online

Design Tasmania has been temporarily closed from Wednesday 18th March 2020 to ensure public health and safety.

Design Tasmania is taking every care and precaution in the current climate to support the wellbeing of designers, staff and contractors, to ensure that the organisation continues to thrive.

Many of its exhibitions and events will now be available online. Visit socials and the website for upcoming campaigns that will include virtual tours, interviews with designers and other supplementary materials to continue to offer a unique visitor experience.

“Design Tasmania will continue to offer the community a virtual space for interaction while the gallery is closed through online exhibitions and more. Keep an eye on our socials! What’s more, our store will be open 24/7 online, with retail staff available to assist during work hours via email. Some of Tasmania’s most esteemed designers including Megan Perkins, Scott van Tuil, Linda van Niekerk, Hasa, Waverly Mills, Glass Manifesto and more have products available to view and purchase. With your support, together we can maintain a healthy Tasmanian design ecosystem,” says Claire Beale, Executive Director Design Tasmania.

These unprecedented circumstances are hitting the creative industries hard, challenging a community that consistently bands together, often donating their time, talent and funds to service and uplift others. The creative sector provides comfort and an outlet for anxiety for many.

“These uncertain times call for kindness. Many of those working on help desks, cafés and restaurants, supermarkets and other essential services are experiencing high emotional loads at the moment, as they’re on the receiving end of some difficult and stressed interactions. So, let’s observe good community support and understanding all round,” adds Mel Kerrison, Chair Design Tasmania.

Community support is welcomed through membership, mailing list subscription and donations.

Visit designtasmania.com.au for more information.

Current exhibitions are now online via designtas.info/onlineexhibitions.

kanalaritja: An Unbroken String | Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG) Touring Exhibition TMAG is proud to present, at Design Tasmania, a national touring exhibition focused on shell-stringing, one of the Tasmanian Aboriginal community’s most culturally significant and closely-guarded traditions. kanalaritja: An Unbroken String features a variety of beautiful, delicate and rare shell necklaces, created by Tasmanian Aboriginal Ancestors in the 1800s, and acclaimed makers of today, as well as a new wave of stringers who had the opportunity to learn the tradition through the luna tunapri (women’s knowledge) cultural revitalisation project.

GLASS UTOPIA | Touring Exhibition by Craft ACT

Federica Biasi | Peter Bowles | Mel Douglas | Gala Fernandez | Liam Fleming | Elizabeth Kelly | Jenni Kemarre Martiniello | Federico Peri | Tom Skeehan | Stories of Italy | Zanellato/Bortotto | Matteo Zorzenoni

Inspired by the Murano glass chandelier that Italian architect Enrico Taglietti and his wife Francesca installed at the Italian Ambassador’s Residence in Canberra in 1967, the Glass Utopia exhibition draws a parallel between Venetian contemporary glass production and the Australian experience. A selection of contemporary glass pieces by Italian and Australian designers will stimulate a visual dialogue between the objects, artists and glassmaking traditions.

Glass Utopia is curated by Annalisa Rosso and Francesco Mainardi of Mr.Lawrence, Milan, Italy. Mr.Lawrence is a Design and Brand Consultancy founded in 2018 by Annalisa Rosso, design writer, content consultant and independent curator, currently editor-in-chief of Icon Design magazine (Mondadori); and Francesco Mainardi (aka theBrandist), brand strategist and creative director, currently professor of Design Management at Istituto Marangoni.

This is a selling exhibition. Shop the show via designtas.info/glassutopiashoptheshow

SHOP ONLINE | designtas.info/shoponline

Design Tasmania’s retail store showcases some of the best Tasmanian talent in craft, design and artisanal products. From award winning locally grown saffron to hand-blown glass, bespoke tableware, jewellery, dining tables and ceramics– Design Tasmania stocks a dynamic range of iconically Tasmanian items.

Designers stocked include Matt Prince, Stuart Houghton, Scott van Tuill, Linda van Niekerk, Samantha Dennis, Anita Dineen, Shauna Mayben, Toby Muir-Wilson, Alan Livermore, Brad Moss, Carl Noonan, Ryan Tanton, Mairi Ward, Crest Crafts, Glass Manifesto, Diane Allison, Rye Dunsmuir, Hasa, Rengin Guner, Geoffrey Cameron Marshall, Janine Coombes, Jane Hodgetts, Rengin Guner, Campo de Flori, Tamar Valley Truffles, Tasman Sea Salt and more.