Devonport Regional Gallery

03/06/2026

🎨Calling local artists, makers, and creatives!🎨

It’s back! Devonport Regional Gallery invites you to enter an artwork into All in 2026, our annual open community exhibition celebrating the creativity, talent and diversity of North West Tasmania.

Whether you're an experienced artist or exhibiting for the first time, this is your chance to showcase your work and be part of a vibrant community exhibition. All ages and abilities are welcome.

Enter now online https://www.paranapleartscentre.com.au/events/allin2026/ or in person at the paranaple arts centre, 145 Rooke St, Devonport. Entries close July 24

📅Exhibition Dates: 15 August - 3 October, 2026
📍Upper Gallery, Devonport Regional Gallery

Images: artists left to right are Alan Russell, Julian Roberts, Joanne Treloar, and Terleah

03/06/2026

Create & Make

This week our young artists got hands on with some experimental paper and wire sculpture making. Last weeks drawings were cut up and used along with wire, tape, cardboard and coloured paper to create sculptures that explored shape and movement.

Using cardboard as the base and wire as the frame, they came up with some rather interesting work.

01/06/2026

01/06/2026

~Opening Saturday~

Visions
Cheryl Rose
Saturday 6 June, 11am. by Dr Denise Robinson

This is a free event. RSVP is appreciated to: [email protected] or via
https://visions-cherylrose.eventbrite.com.au

Pataway Burnie-based artist Cheryl Rose creates multi-media works deeply connected to her culture and country. In January 2025, she was the inaugural artist in residence for the tidal.24 Festival. Rose was also selected for the 2024 NGV First Nations Commissions MY COUNTRY: The Country Road, where she was mentored by Tasmanian artist and academic Denise Robinson. Rose exhibited in TERMS at the Devonport Regional Gallery in 2023 and in the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery’s taypani milaythina-tu: Return to Country in 2022. In addition, she has contributed to a range of public art commissions and has led community workshops in painting, drawing, and printmaking across North West Tasmania.

Image: Cheryl Rose, Visions, mixed media on kozo, 2025

27/05/2026

~Final Days~

Final chance to see In Spirit, closing this Saturday.

Exhibition of work by contemporary Tasmanian artists Laura Gillam, Corinna Howell, Jacob Leary, Erin Linhart, Georgia Lucy, and Molly Turner

To be somewhere in spirit is to be there without physically being there. To show support from afar, or to haunt. Devonport is The City with Spirit.
As we wait and prepare for the arrival of the new Spirit of Tasmania this exhibition considers what it means to be present in absence and to believe, ecstatically, in spirits.

This exhibition invites six contemporary Tasmanian artists to respond to the emotional, spectral, political, or imagined connections they hold with place.
How do we continue to inhabit, support, or disrupt communities we may no longer physically occupy? And what presences remain after departure or emerge before arrival?

Curated by Ellina Evans

27/05/2026

Create & Make Term 2 got off to a great start last week. Our young artists, with the added addition of some parents/carers, engaged in some experimental drawing. We had them drawing with eyes closed, contour drawing, creating continuous lines as a group and using various drawing mediums as they swapped and moved around the communal drawing paper. So much colour and movement.

These drawing exercises were designed to loosen up, play and just have fun with the materials. This week the communal drawing will be used as the basis for creating weird and wonderful sculptures with a focus on shapes and colours.

25/05/2026

~New Exhibition~

Clay on Country
30 May 2026 – 25 July 2026
Main Gallery

Showcasing the enthusiasm for ceramic practice in the central desert region, this exhibition is a diverse and eclectic survey, the first of its kind, featuring over 35 artists and collectives, the majority of whom have created new work for this show. The varied works in Clay on Country reflect ancestral stories, contemporary experiences, and settler histories alongside the joys and challenges of working with clay, the push and pull of the medium, and the varied results of engagement with this most tactile of materials.

Clay on Country was curated by Jo Foster and Neridah Stockley. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government’s Visions of Australia program. Artback NT is a member of NETS Australia. NETS Australia is assisted by the Visual Art, Craft and Design Framework, an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments.

Image: Jayana Andy, Tjukula/waterhole 2022 Image courtesy of Sara Maiorino

25/05/2026

Remember 2024's amazing 'Universe of Paper'?
🍃 The good news is that Steph is back to lead another series of community workshops!
🍃 The scale might not be quite as grand as our 2024 adventure (that might have been a once-in-a-lifetime happening), but the outcome will still be awe-inspiring.
🍃 The intent and approach is the same....
✅ Collaborative
✅ Accessible
✅ Creativity at each participant's level
🎉 Fun!
🎉 Beginners welcome
The vertical garden panels created during the workshop will decorate the foyer of the paranaple arts centre for the Paper on Skin™ gala on the 3rd October.
📆 Bookings are available for the first three workshops, but there will be more dates coming.
Details and bookings link:
https://www.trybooking.com/DLHHK
📍 Workshops will be held at the paranaple arts centre (Creative Space)
Paper on Skin™ Major Partner - Devonport City Council.

20/05/2026

Apply now via: https://www.paranapleartscentre.com.au/events/littlegallery2027callout/

19/05/2026

We often talk about the importance of making without pressure or perfection in mind; creating for the sheer joy of it. Cathy’s exhibition is a wonderful reminder of what can emerge when imagination is given space to play.

Congratulations Cathy 💛