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20/10/2026

Why is tactile art trending with collectors? As images become cheap and endless, a physical surface built by hand over weeks is becoming the thing people value most.

Tasmanian painter Gemma Lynch-Memory barely uses a brush. She extrudes oil paint and mixed media through syringes, piping bags and caulking guns, building ‘Elemental’ No.16 line by line. On screen it reads as a fiery sunrise. In person you find the raised network of lines, earthy grit caught in the paint, and an ink and wax pastel layer underneath.

‘Elemental’ No.16 | [120cm x 150cm | Oil and mixed media on canvas | $7500.

Now showing at TAG Art Gallery, 149 Macquarie Street, Hobart. The longer you spend with her work, the more it reveals.

View it here: https://www.thetagartgallery.com/products/elemental-no-16

Genesis is the moment before anything has a name. The first light on water, the first seed splitting in dark soil, the f...
17/10/2026

Genesis is the moment before anything has a name. The first light on water, the first seed splitting in dark soil, the first mark on a blank canvas.

In 'Genesis', Gemma Lynch-Memory paints that threshold, where something is no longer nothing and has not yet decided what it will become. It is a reminder that every beginning carries everything that follows.

06/10/2026

A question we hear a lot: "How do I know I won't get sick of it?"

Our answer: live with it before you decide. 'Title' by Gemma Lynch-Memory is here at TAG Art Gallery, [location], and you're welcome to spend as long as you like with it. No pressure, just a good look.

Message us or pop in. Tell us what you think it does in a room.

'Elemental' No.12Stand at the edge of it and the horizon arrives before the thought does. A pale, sunlit band of near-wh...
30/09/2026

'Elemental' No.12

Stand at the edge of it and the horizon arrives before the thought does. A pale, sunlit band of near-white aqua gives way to a deep, saturated teal, then lifts into shallows of luminous turquoise, before settling into a dense, mineral green below. It reads as water and light, though it never depicts either.

Come closer and the painting changes its argument. What looked like colour becomes line: thousands of fine, drawn-out ridges of paint, each one placed, layered and left to catch the light differently as you move. There is almost no brush here. Gemma Lynch-Memory builds her surfaces by extruding paint through syringes, piping bags and caulking guns, one deliberate pass over another, until the canvas has the depth, tension and quiet movement of a body of water.

This is the language of the 'Elemental' series, where earth, water, fire and air are explored through abstracted mark-making. It is landscape as transmission rather than depiction, an Australian sensibility distilled into rhythm, temperature and surface. The work asks nothing of you except time, and it rewards that time generously. In the morning it glows. By evening it deepens. It is never quite the same painting twice.

At 120 x 150cm, it has the presence to anchor a wall, and the calm to live with every day.

'Elemental' No.12
Oil and mixed media on canvas
120 x 150cm
$7,500 AUD

Thirty years of practice and 36 solo exhibitions sit behind every line. To enquire, send us a message or visit thetagartgallery.com.

29/09/2026

Most artwork is chosen for the wall it fills. The better question is which one you want to live beside for the next twenty years.

'Rift' by Gemma Lynch-Memory moves from silver to near black in one surface. Because of the texture, the painting shifts through the day as the light moves across it. That's what gives a work long-term interest instead of a good first week.

Original, 120cm high by 100cm wide, $4,900. It suits a room with a strong light source and a wall that needs weight.

Visit us at 149 Macquarie Street or see it online: https://www.thetagartgallery.com/products/rift

Thirty years, one investigation: Can paint become a conversation with landscape? Not a picture of it. A felt exchange. G...
22/09/2026

Thirty years, one investigation: Can paint become a conversation with landscape? Not a picture of it. A felt exchange. Gemma Lynch-Memory's method is labour—thousands of hand-laid lines, no brushes, every mark a decision made in the moment.

'Elemental' No.15 is where that conversation lives on the surface. Red cuts through blue. Yellow catches between them. The whole canvas hums, searching for resolution. This is what happens when colour refuses to settle, when each layer is a choice, a presence, a moment of asking what comes next.

The longer you spend with her work, the more they continuously reveal.

Available now.

'Elemental' No.9Thirty years of asking the same question: what does landscape feel like? Not how it looks. How it moves ...
15/09/2026

'Elemental' No.9

Thirty years of asking the same question: what does landscape feel like? Not how it looks. How it moves through you. Gemma Lynch-Memory builds each work from thousands of hand-laid paint lines, layering them until something emerges that's impossible to capture with a brush alone.

This piece is her answering that question through colour and texture. Rust, gold, deep brown. The work pulls your eye across, the way the horizon does when you're standing still and the land keeps speaking.

Oil and Mixed Media on Canvas. 100 x 120cm. Exhibiting Now.

The longer you spend with her work, the more they continuously reveal.

'Rift' — new R Series work by Gemma Lynch-Memory. For people living in the middle of things. Bands of grey and charcoal,...
08/09/2026

'Rift' — new R Series work by Gemma Lynch-Memory. For people living in the middle of things. Bands of grey and charcoal, texture and intention. Available for viewing this week. DM or text to arrange.

Thousands of hand-laid lines. Horizontal, rhythmic, building from density into light. What starts as visual intensity tr...
02/09/2026

Thousands of hand-laid lines. Horizontal, rhythmic, building from density into light. What starts as visual intensity transforms. The lines stop being marks. They become sound. They vibrate. They hold.

This is thirty years of investigation made visible. Not gesture. Not decoration. Pure sustained attention translated into colour, rhythm, line.

View the work and discover what moves you.

https://www.thetagartgallery.com/products/resonance

The Shift from Literal to PerceptualThirty years ago, Gemma Lynch-Memory was painting recognisable Australian landscapes...
24/08/2026

The Shift from Literal to Perceptual

Thirty years ago, Gemma Lynch-Memory was painting recognisable Australian landscapes. Fences, paddocks, mailboxes. Over decades, something shifted. The literal fell away. What remained was something harder to name but impossible to ignore: a pure investigation into how we see rather than what we see.

This evolution wasn't a departure. It was a deepening. Each exhibition moved closer to something more essential, more direct. The work became less about place and more about perception itself.

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149 Macquarie Street
Hobart, TAS
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Monday 10am - 5pm
Tuesday 10am - 5pm
Wednesday 10am - 5pm
Thursday 10am - 5pm
Friday 10am - 5pm
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