Friends of the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery upcoming events

Changing futures (11 Sep 2026)

Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:30:00 GMT

Changing futures:

Understanding threats and realities facing Tasmania’s environment

Friday 11 September, 10.30am

Central Gallery, TMAG

Tasmania is renowned for its extraordinary biodiversity, yet many species and habitats face increasing pressures from environmental change. To mark Threatened Species Week, join Robert Pennicott and Dr Caitlin Vertigan in conversation at TMAG as they discuss their lived experiences, research and observations of Tasmania’s natural environment and explore the connections between wildlife, landscapes and people, and how broadening our knowledge can help shape a more resilient future.

This is a FREE event and you are welcome to bring non-member friends. For organisational purposes, please let us know you are coming.

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OUR SPEAKERS:

Robert Pennicott and his family run a highly acclaimed environmental tourism operator and have a strong drive and passion for Tasmania’s community and the environment. The Pennicott Foundation supports multiple initiatives locally and abroad, often with a focus on coastal environments and conservation, including a project to support scientists researching the reefs of the D’Entrecasteaux Channel.

Dr Caitlin Vertigan is a Conservation Project Officer for the Port Arthur Historic Site Management Authority. With a research history including work on multiple seabird species and their responses to environmental variation, she currently specialises in the complex relationships between natural and cultural values at heritage sites, including the impacts a changing climate is having on these environments.

Seeking VDL in the northern hemisphere (16 Sep 2026)

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:30:00 GMT

Seeking VDL in the northern hemisphere

with Dr Julie Gough, Churchill Fellow 2024

Wednesday 16 September, 10.30am

Central Gallery, TMAG

Dr Julie Gough, First People’s Art and Culture at TMAG, will share insights from undertaking in 2025 a Wendy Dodd Churchill Fellowship to locate and research colonial correspondence about Tasmanian Aboriginal people in UK and Irish archives.

Julie Gough is an artist, writer and curator. Her research and artwork most often focuses on impacts and legacies of colonisation. Gough’s maternal Briggs-Johnson-Gower family have lived in the Latrobe region of Lutruwita (Tasmania) since the 1840s, with Tebrikunna in north east Lutruwita their Traditional, Trawlwoolway, Country.

Since 1994 Gough has exhibited in more than 220 exhibitions. Publications include Tense Past (Tebrikunna Press, 2021, 2023), Fugitive History (UWA Press) and Shale (A Published Event) in 2018.

Gough holds a PhD and BA Hons. from UTAS, Visual Arts (2001, 1995), MA (Visual Arts) University of London, Goldsmiths College (1998), BA Visual Arts (Curtin University, 1995), BA Prehistory and English Literature (University of West Australia, 1987).

This is a FREE event and you are welcome to bring non-member friends. For organisational purposes, please let us know you are coming.

Annual General Meeting 2026 (28 Sep 2026)

Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:30:00 GMT

Friends TMAG Annual General Meeting

We warmly invite you to attend our Annual General Meeting. Hear about what the Friends have been doing over the past year -- and we have some surprising and exciting news to share with you.

After the brief formalities, we are delighted to welcome our guest speaker, Eleanor Cave, TMAG Deputy Director, Research and Collections.

We’ll provide morning tea at the conclusion of the meeting.

Don’t be nervous about attending the AGM. The formalities take very little time, and since our constitution doesn’t allow nominations from the floor, you won’t come away with an unanticipated place on the committee.

This is of course a FREE EVENT. We look forward to seeing you!