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    • 20 Mar 2024
    • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
    • Royal Society Room, TMAG, then Maritime Museum
    • 3
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    An enigmatic colonial sculpture



    Recently the Maritime Museum of Tasmania was donated a free-standing sandstone sculpture of a well-dressed colonial gentleman. Standing 1.3 metres tall, the painted and highly detailed full-length sculpture has been plumbed internally and depicts the gentleman urinating. 

    The sculpture is unlike anything known in Australian colonial history and provokes a number of questions including, who is the subject? who was the artist? and who would commission such a work?

    Chris Tassell, president of the Maritime Museum, will talk about what we now know of the sculpture and possible answers to these questions. 

    The talk will be held in the Royal Society Room at TMAG (entry via the admin door in Davey Street) and after it concludes we will cross the street to view the sculpture at the Maritime Museum.

    Friends TMAG members and non-members $10 (covers entry fee for Maritime Museum), Maritime Museum members FREE

    • 09 Apr 2024
    • 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
    • TMAG, entry via Watergate
    • 31
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    Lands of Light: Lloyd Rees and Tasmania



    This new TMAG exhibition celebrates the work of Lloyd Rees, particularly those painted in Tasmania between 1967 and 1988.

    One of the pre-eminent Australian landscape artists of the twentieth century and a highly accomplished painter, draughtsman and printmaker, Rees was respected and increasingly revered throughout his life, with his approach shifting from the precise analytical drawings and paintings of the 1920s and 30s through the more sombre, rhythmic works of the 1940s and 50s to the expositions of light that characterised his later works.

    Drawing on the extensive collection of the Rees family, the collections of major public galleries and private collectors, the exhibition explores the influence of Tasmania, and in particular the Tasmanian light, on Rees’s work.

    Our special guest speaker will be esteemed Australian architect Richard Leplastrier, friend and student of Lloyd Rees, along with co-curator Peter Hughes, and the event will be held in one of the exhibition galleries, surrounded by Rees’s luminous art.

    Friends members $25, non-members $30

    includes refreshments


    The TMAG Shop has stocks of the exhibition catalogue, and will be open during our event. Show your membership card for 10% discount.


    • 16 Apr 2024
    • 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
    • Government House, 7 Lower Domain Road Queens Domain
    • 28
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    Government House art tour


    Tuesday 16 April, 5.30–7pm

    Government House Tasmania


    Her Excellency the Honourable Barbara Baker AC, Governor of Tasmania, and Emeritus Professor Don Chalmers AO, have kindly invited our members to a special reception at Government House. Her Excellency, who is the Patron of the Friends of TMAG, will host the event. 

    It will include a tour conducted by Jane Stewart, TMAG Principal Curator (Art), which will focus on the art collection. TMAG has curated a new display which celebrates contemporary Tasmanian art. Jane will lead a tour of the rehang which includes works from the TMAG collection by Richard Wastell, Michaye Boulter, Natalie Holtsbaum and Lola Greeno, Megan Walch, Anne Morrison, David Keeling, and Stephen Lees. Paintings by Philip Wolfhagen and Belinda Casey are also featured.

    This is a special fundraising event for the Friends.

    Because of the limited numbers, this invitation is restricted to Friends members only.

    Members $40 for the art tour (the reception following the tour is free of charge) 

Past events

14 Feb 2024 Field trip to Ben Lomond
07 Dec 2023 Christmas at Narryna
15 Nov 2023 Saving nature: bolder, faster, smarter
09 Nov 2023 Uninnocent landscapes
28 Oct 2023 Benjamin Duterrau
11 Oct 2023 John Glover's Patterdale
27 Sep 2023 Ancient trees
21 Sep 2023 The culture of death in colonial Australia
07 Sep 2023 Art and Conservation
28 Aug 2023 Annual General Meeting 2023
24 Aug 2023 Charles Dickens — with a TWIST
17 Aug 2023 Soft coral science with Kirrily Moore
07 Jul 2023 Zygomaturus — updating the giant
29 Jun 2023 Weaving a pathway through TMAG's Pacific Collections
25 May 2023 The research for Gardeners, Plant Collectors, Friends
17 May 2023 Timber in colonial Tasmania
03 May 2023 Avoiding crisis management
26 Apr 2023 Behind the layers (April)
13 Apr 2023 taypani milaythina-tu: Return to country
30 Mar 2023 Eagle CSI
22 Mar 2023 Behind the layers (March)
25 Feb 2023 Fossils of Tasmania: a deep time journey through prehistory
08 Dec 2022 Friends Christmas/birthday party
17 Nov 2022 Grace Williams: Contemporary Migrant Experience Project
09 Nov 2022 Sharing painting conservation with the public
26 Oct 2022 Rosny tour
13 Oct 2022 Behind the scenes at the Playhouse
13 Oct 2022 Markree (October)
06 Oct 2022 A botanical walk at the Waterworks
05 Sep 2022 Annual General Meeting 2022
31 Aug 2022 Bond Store repairs
18 Aug 2022 Tasmanian Herbarium
04 Aug 2022 Volunteering on Tasmanian lighthouse islands
28 Jul 2022 The Cape Adare pendant
16 Jul 2022 Markree
28 Jun 2022 Sea monsters!
20 Jun 2022 Prokofiev 'War Sonatas'
26 May 2022 Floor talk: Calligraphy – two perspectives
17 May 2022 The Winter's Tale
03 May 2022 Floor talk: Government House Tasmania – A Remarkable Story
06 Apr 2022 Made/Worn contemporary jewellery
29 Mar 2022 Floor talk: Gay Hawkes: The House of Longing
23 Feb 2022 Floor talk: Tasmanian Beetles book launch and talk
11 Feb 2022 Floor talk: A Sydney Impressionist (2)
10 Feb 2022 Floor talk: A Sydney Impressionist in Tasmania – the art of A.H. Fullwood
08 Dec 2021 Christmas barbecue at Narryna
24 Nov 2021 palawa kipli
21 Nov 2021 Sketch noting with Suzy Cooper: Refresher
17 Nov 2021 Floor talk: Grace Williams
14 Nov 2021 Sketch noting with Suzy Cooper: Beginner
10 Nov 2021 Art Conservation (November)
24 Oct 2021 Every Man & His Dog Vineyard
14 Oct 2021 Deborah Wace: The Fabric of Botany
18 Sep 2021 Spring Bay Mill without the bus
18 Sep 2021 Spring Bay Mill
14 Sep 2021 Art Conservation (September)
13 Sep 2021 Annual General Meeting 2021
17 Aug 2021 Art Conservation (August)
31 Jul 2021 Monster Soup Kitchen at Narryna
01 Jul 2021 Paradise Lost
26 May 2021 Floor talk: mapiya lumi | around here
15 May 2021 Anglesea Barracks
03 May 2021 Explore The Hedberg (2)
03 May 2021 Floor talk: TMAG's textiles
20 Apr 2021 Floor talk: Whale strandings
14 Apr 2021 Explore The Hedberg
27 Mar 2021 Sketch noting with Suzy Cooper: Beginner
20 Mar 2021 Sketch noting with Suzy Cooper: Refresher/Intermediate
18 Mar 2021 Hobart Current: Liberty
06 Mar 2021 Sketch noting with Suzy Cooper: Beginner
04 Feb 2021 Around the World in 80 Objects
09 Dec 2020 Christmas garden party at Narryna
23 Nov 2020 David Keeling: Stranger
05 Nov 2020 The Caterpillar Key
14 Oct 2020 A botanical walk at the Waterworks
30 Sep 2020 Curating, collecting, writing
14 Sep 2020 Annual General Meeting
20 Aug 2020 Spotted Handfish Spawning Habitat and Clay
21 Jul 2020 West: Out on the Edge
18 Mar 2020 West: Out on the Edge
25 Feb 2020 FRIENDS FREE FLOOR TALK: Climate change
12 Feb 2020 This too shall pass
04 Dec 2019 Christmas Barbecue Garden Party
27 Nov 2019 Visit to the Australian Antarctic Division
14 Oct 2019 DAVID'S DO: Farewell to David Coleman
06 Oct 2019 FRIENDS FREE FLOOR TALK: Landmark trees of India
19 Sep 2019 Annual General Meeting
04 Sep 2019 Julie Gough: Tense Past
08 Aug 2019 FRIENDS FREE FLOOR TALK: Not so easy – Australian design and identity since Federation
31 Jul 2019 FRIENDS FREE FLOOR TALK: Geoff Dyer – Portraits
27 Jul 2019 Sketch noting with Suzy Cooper 3
05 Jun 2019 Dirty Paper
22 May 2019 FRIENDS FREE FLOOR TALK: What lies ahead for TMAG
11 May 2019 Sketch noting with Suzy Cooper 2
30 Apr 2019 FRIENDS FREE FLOOR TALK: Simpkinson's Hobart
28 Mar 2019 Sketch noting with Suzy Cooper
06 Mar 2019 FRIENDS FREE FLOOR TALK: Exploring Tasmania's deep-sea coral reefs
16 Jan 2019 Friends meet Dinosaurs
05 Dec 2018 Christmas Barbecue
14 Nov 2018 FRIENDS FREE FLOOR TALK: Satin Moths
14 Oct 2018 BOOK LAUNCH: Island Story
03 Oct 2018 Friends on the Rooftop!
20 Sep 2018 Annual General Meeting
13 Sep 2018 Thomas Bock's Hobart Town
10 Aug 2018 FRIENDS FREE FLOOR TALK: Lily Allport
18 Jul 2018 Visit to the Australian Antarctic Division
28 Jun 2018 FRIENDS FREE FLOOR TALK: Getting down and dirty
16 May 2018 Crossing the Horizon
11 Apr 2018 FRIENDS FREE FLOOR TALK: 10 objects — 10 stories
18 Mar 2018 Summerhome
08 Mar 2018 FRIENDS FREE FLOOR TALK: Curating The Remarkable Tasmanian Devil exhibition
08 Feb 2018 Tasmanian Herbarium
10 Dec 2017 FRIENDS FREE FLOOR TALK: The devil you know and the devil you don’t
15 Nov 2017 An Early Christmas
08 Nov 2017 FRIENDS FREE FLOOR TALK: Orientation and outreach — aligning Hobart's urban future?
24 Oct 2017 FRIENDS FREE FLOOR TALK: Strange Trees
27 Sep 2017 Annual General Meeting
12 Sep 2017 FRIENDS FREE FLOOR TALK: Sampling the Abyss
23 Aug 2017 The Derwent
15 Aug 2017 FRIENDS FREE FLOOR TALK: Inscription and Place
05 Jul 2017 FRIENDS FREE FLOOR TALK: kanalaritja
03 Jun 2017 A curious conversation
10 May 2017 The art of zoology
19 Feb 2017 Glass at Narryna: Andy McConnell
16 Feb 2017 Beyond the Roadshow: Andy McConnell
15 Dec 2016 One Hell of an Inferno
12 Oct 2016 Tempest Talk 5: Staging The Tempest
29 Sep 2016 Annual General Meeting
22 Sep 2016 Tempest Talk 4: Mariele Neudecker
18 Aug 2016 Tempest Talk 3: The art of Tempest
20 Jul 2016 Tempest Talk 2: Shipwreck archaeology in Tasmania
23 Jun 2016 Tempest Talk 1: Key drivers of Tasmanian climate variability
10 May 2016 Snapshot Photography and Migrant Women: A Tasmanian Experience
14 Apr 2016 Where Science Meets Art: the Botanical Illustrations of Rod Seppelt
24 Feb 2016 Pattern Play: exhibition and talks
10 Dec 2015 Panoramic Views: exhibition and talk
02 Dec 2015 Detached
19 Nov 2015 Narryna Heritage Museum: history, wallpaper and quilts!
19 Oct 2015 2nd Guided tour and afternoon tea at the Theatre Royal
07 Oct 2015 Conservation and science at the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens
24 Sep 2015 Annual General Meeting
17 Aug 2015 Guided tour and afternoon tea at the Theatre Royal
15 Jul 2015 Indigenous culture, here and overseas, an illustrated talk by Zoe Rimmer
21 May 2015 Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts - Viewing and Talk
12 May 2015 Special event at Rosny Farm - Centenary of ANZAC and Service at Home and Abroad
29 Apr 2015 The Suspense is Awful: Tasmania and the Great War
15 Apr 2015 New members' night
24 Jan 2015 Botanical exhibition at Port Arthur
09 Dec 2014 The splendours of the Colonial Gallery
27 Nov 2014 Exclusive talk for the Friends of TMAG
05 Nov 2014 Mawson’s Huts Replica Museum
27 Oct 2014 Mawson’s Huts Replica Museum
26 Oct 2014 Yueju (Cantonese Opera) for Tasmanians
24 Oct 2014 Narryna cocktail party and auction
11 Oct 2014 War in History: Tasmanian, Australian and International Perspectives
25 Sep 2014 Annual General Meeting 2014
05 Sep 2014 Chinese Art Society dinner with talk by Sir Guy Green
27 Aug 2014 Bush Blitz in focus: Discovering new species in Tasmania
02 Aug 2014 Gala dinner for 150th anniversary of Australia’s first cookbook
23 Jul 2014 New members' night
25 Jun 2014 Tour of the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS)
31 May 2014 Opening of Pat Brassington: À Rebours
25 May 2014 Second Tour of Shene Estate and Afternoon Tea
04 May 2014 Tour of Shene Estate and Afternoon Tea
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