Constance

Constance ARI is an off-site project-based artist-run initiative in nipaluna/Hobart CONSTANCE is an off-site project-based artist-run initiative.

We are focused on creating critical dialogues and engagement within, and beyond, the Tasmanian arts community.

03/06/2026

🚀 1 WEEK UNTIL WE OPEN LAUNCH 🚀

Join us to celebrate the opening of LAUNCH 2026 on 11 June, 4-6pm at YARC, nipaluna / Hobart.

If you can’t make it then, the exhibition will be open to visitors 12-14 + 18-21 June, 3-6pm.

LAUNCH, a partnership between Constance ARI and Youth Arts & Recreation Centre, brings eight young people together with local artist mentors to make new work for a public exhibition. Right now, each pair is deep in the making process, with artworks continuing to unfold in surprising directions right up until the exhibition. Visitors to LAUNCH will be offered a rare glimpse into the creative process, revealing what happens when collaboration, curiosity and imagination lead the way.

Find out more here: https://constanceari.org/projects/launch/

Work in progress artwork shots:
2. Louis + Tim
3. ShiShi + Billie
4. Lainee + Julia
5. Kirk + Josh

This project is in partnership with Youth Arts & Recreation Centre

Constance ARI is supported by Arts Tasmania and Creative Australia

15/05/2026

🧨 💥 LAUNCH 2026 is underway!

Youth Arts & Recreation Centre is partnering with Constance ARI again to deliver the second iteration of this exciting and unpredictable project.

LAUNCH pairs young people with local established artists to create bold, collaborative works across a range of mediums which celebrate experimentation, mentorship, and creative exchange. This opportunity aims to equip the youth participants with ways to build confidence, offer their experience of the world to a wider audience, and to guide an arts project through to exhibition stage.

The LAUNCH 2026 exhibition will be open to the public at YARC in nipaluna / Hobart, launching on June 11.
Outcomes are currently unfolding, watch this space for further details…

This project is in partnership with Youth Arts & Recreation Centre

Constance ARI is supported by Arts Tasmania and Creative Australia

20/02/2026

✨ JOIN US! ✨ We are seeking financial leadership through a Treasurer role.

We are looking for:
👉 Senior fiduciary experience.
👉 Capacity to contribute to a thriving small org with minimal remuneration.

If you have the experience and capacity for this responsibility, we’d love to hear from you.

Find out more about the role and apply via this link
🔗 https://www.volunteer.com.au/volunteering/236679/treasurer

Closing date for applications is 1 April 2026.

13/11/2025

Don’t miss the UTAS Art School Grad Show opening in Nipaluna (Hobart) tomorrow night; as part of the celebrations we’ll be presenting a special pop-up exhibition called Time Capsule in Holding Space, curated and compiled by Matt Warren.

37 Hunter Street, Nipaluna (Hobart)
Opening Friday 14 November, 5:30pm to 8:30pm
Open to the public Saturday 15th & Sunday 16th November, 11:00am to 4:00pm

// Student work of the past, of now, of the future. Time Capsule brings together student explorations, considerations and gestures, in and out of time and yet as relevant as ever. \\

Image Credit: Antony Rieck, 2025, Aphorisms, still from video

18/10/2025

Join us today for the final School of Physical Culture class at - festival pick 💅💋🥊

PCYC Boxing Gym, Queenstown
9am

All bodies welcome.

21/08/2025

Constance ARI presents ✨
Jewelled Nights || School of Physical Culture

Curated by Jacqueline Dortmans, and presented by The Unconformity.

100 years after the release of Marie Bjelke Petersen’s Jewelled Nights — Lutruwita / Tasmania’s first major silent film — this exhibition is a love letter to the women who made it happen.

We also invite you to sweat and subvert through the School of Physical Culture. Group fitness becomes a choreopolitical playground, in a participatory performance, unravel fixed identities and histories and re-perform with rupturing repetition. Explore autonomy, fluidity, and the politics of posture – come flex with us. More sass than sweat. All bodies welcome.

Info + registration: https://2025.theunconformity.com.au/events/jewelled-nights/

18/08/2025

Open Studio with Ursula Woods | Holding Space
Monday 18 - Wednesday 20, 12-2PM

Pop in and say hi! ✨

Image courtesy of the Anologue Photographic Society, taken during an analogue film workshop with Ursula.

12/08/2025

In Conversation with Ursula Woods ✨

Join us at Holding Space this Friday for this special conversation between resident artist Ursula Woods and Marion Abraham. The event will include a screening of outcomes from a recent analogue film workshop, and an informal celebration of the final week of Ursula's residency.

Holding Space, Friday 15 August, 5PM.

07/08/2025

URSULA WOODS (Lutruwita) is coming to the end of her Holding Space residency. Please join us to celebrate! 🎞️✨

Come along for an In Conversation with Ursula (15 Aug, 5–6PM), including a short screening of workshop outcomes. Then stick around for the Closing Celebration (from 6PM), featuring a selection of new and in-progress works developed during the residency.

Event link in comments ✨

16/07/2025

✨ Final days to apply ✨ For more details on the roles and to apply, see the link in the comments ✨ Applications close 7pm, Sunday 20 July! ✨

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Queenstown, TAS
7467

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http://constanceari.org/

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