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QUEEN VICTORIA MUSEUM AUTUMN 2015 FREE AND A MUST SEE
Queen Victoria Museum 2 Invermay Road, LAUNCESTON TAS 7248 Open 10am to 4pm daily. Closed only on Good Friday and Christmas Day. Admission is free. On site café. T 03 6323 3777 W www.qvmag.tas.gov.au Venue Hire Several spaces are available for hire. For information, please contact 03 6323 3798. History Centre The collections accessed by visiting the centre consist of photographs, oral history recordings, a large set of personal, organisational and business records known as the Community History Series, and some individual manuscript items. Open Tuesday to Friday (Saturday by appointment) between 10am and 1pm at the Museum. For more information please contact 03 6323 3726. The information in this brochure is correct at the time of printing but may be subject to change. It is printed on Australian made, recycled, FSC® certified, carbon neutral paper, using vegetable-based inks. Top Image courtesy David Maynard, Natural Sciences Curator, Queen Victoria Museum. Cover Image people enjoying the Tasmanian Connections gallery.
Experience the Stars
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The Museum’s Planetarium is where you’ll see
astronomical concepts demonstrated in ways that are
both dramatic and scientifically accurate.
Currently screening are Natural Selection (12 noon
Tuesday to Friday and 2pm Saturday) and Black Holes
(2pm Tuesday to Friday and 3pm Saturday). Please
visit www.qvmag.tas.gov.au for more information and
school holiday special sessions.
Closed Sunday, Monday and public holidays. An
admission fee applies to all Planetarium shows. Please
purchase your tickets at the Museum Information
Desk, Inveresk.
Southern Skies:
Astronomy in Tasmania
Situated in the Planetarium foyer, the exhibition
presents the story of Tasmanian astronomy and
features many telescopes and other pieces of
equipment (some quite unusual) that have been used
for research in the State.
Habits & Habitat
The Ronalds
This installation investigates our awareness of
rural habitats on the verge of change, and perhaps
even extinction. Almost all Australians live in urban
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settings, yet the bush has always held an iconic status
as part of the Australian identity. The contents of
the home are the guide to the human experience
lived within its rooms – the marks on the kitchen
wall measuring the height of growing children,
photographs on the mantlepiece, the contents of
cupboards – provide details for a sense of history.
Patrick and Shannon Ronald’s forensic photographic
recreation of a life-size diorama of a farmhouse
provides a voyeuristic look into another person’s
habitat. The effect renders visible the dust settling
on the furniture, the patterns in the bedspread, the
texture of the papers on the shelves, the views into
other rooms, and the contrast of the sun-drenched
landscape beyond the windows.
When 20 March to 26 April
Where QVMAG, Inveresk
Admission free
Presented by Queen Victoria Museum and Ten
Days as part of the Tasmanian International Arts
Festival. Supported by Regional Touring Partner Hydro
Tasmania.
Top Details from Habits & Habitats. Image courtesy of the artists.
Tasmanian Connections
A permanent exhibition that features objects
recovered from the wreck of Australia’s oldest
merchant shipwreck, The Sydney Cove, including
the large rudder and anchor from the ship, personal
belongings of the crew, and cargo.
You will also discover the Museum’s extensive
dinosaur collection, featuring giant skeletons and
life-sized models, and the tragic story of the
Tasmanian Tiger – a remarkable and misunderstood
animal.
Tasmanian Connections installations include Transport:
The trials and triumphs; Fauna: Animals of an island
refuge; Dinosaurs: The extraordinary collection of the
QVMAG; The Island’s Space in Time: A geological
timeline; The JW Beattie Collection: A glimpse of
Tasmania’s colonial history; and The Sydney Cove:
Australia’s oldest merchant shipwreck.
When ongoing
Where Main Gallery
Admission free
Presented by Queen Victoria Museum.
Top Captive Thylacine belonging to animal dealer James Harrison of Wynyard,
Tasmania around 1912–20. Photograph by Myra Sargent, Wynyard.
QVMAG collection, QVM.1993.P.3512.
The Great War 1914–18
Sacrifice and Shadows
Image rich, the exhibition explores the human
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response to the demands of war—physically,
emotionally and psychologically. It takes in the wider
societal response and the flow-on in the years after.
A key experience within the exhibition is an immersive
soundscape, depriving the visitor of traditional
sensory cues and demanding auditory attention.
For the individual visitor, the exhibition provides
an insight into the war experiences of Tasmanian
soldiers, nurses, airmen and navy personnel,
acknowledging their fears, courage and stoicism.
It features a searchable comprehensive database
of names linked to a Memorial Wall, which will be
populated with poppies placed by visitors over the
three-year life of the exhibition (please visit the
exhibition’s page at www.qvmag.tas.gov.au
for information).
When until 13 August 2017
Where Mezzanine Gallery
Admission free
Presented by Queen Victoria Museum.
The exhibition is assisted by funding from
the Tasmanian Community Fund and the
ANZAC Centenary Local Grants program.
Top Stretcher bearers of the 2nd Australian Division during the Third Battle of
Ypres, July–September 1917. Australian War Memorial Collection ref: E05270.
Paper Garments for the Grave
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Eleven Tasmanian paper artists designed and made
paper garments during six months of conversations,
exploring community, death, dying, loss and grief.
These creations are on display with works by Dr Pia
Interlandi, fashion designer, funeral celebrant and
death practitioner who has a particular interest in
textile manipulation, garment transformation and
creating meaningful rituals around the dressing and
care of the deceased.
When 14 March to 14 June 2015
Where Community Space
Admission free
Funded by The Australian Government’s
Better Access to Palliative Care in Tasmania
Program, through the Tasmanian Association
for Hospice and Palliative Care ‘Networking
End of Life Care’ Project.
Phenomenal fun
The QVMAG Inveresk features the Phenomena
Factory, a free-entry interactive science centre
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providing hands-on education for kids of all ages.
Challenge yourself in the Perception Tunnel or test
your reactions while you touch, switch, pull and crank
your way around the Phenomena Factory, actively
learning about science along the way.
Phenomena Factory exhibits include Death at a Distance,
Dice with Death, Sniff a Snack, and Squeeze and
Serve—all from Questacon, the National Science and
Technology Centre in Australia. You will also find the
Jaffa Machine donated by Hydro Tasmania which turns
human mechanical energy into kinetic energy. Crank
the handle and sustain the energy output long enough
and you’ll be rewarded with a jaffa.
The Phenomena Factory was the result of a partnership
between Bell Bay Aluminium and the Queen Victoria
Museum. Educational resources are available to
download at www.qvmag.tas.gov.au.
Top Phenomena Factory, Queen Victoria Museum, Inveresk.
Heritage Trail
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Discover the Museum site through the Heritage
Trail, a series of interpretation panels showing the
buildings, previous uses and the experiences of the
people who worked there. Thirty-seven interpretation
points will lead you to small QVMAG exhibits.
Transforming the Island
This is the story of how railways shaped Tasmania,
changing the way we live and work. It recounts the
important role played by the Railway Workshops
at Inveresk, which formed the largest integrated
engineering workshop site in the State.
Tasmanian Chair Makers
This exhibition and the accompanying film use new
research to introduce a forgotten figure in the Peddle
Chair story: Harry Hearn, who with George Peddle
created the Peddle Chair, a Tasmanian icon.
The Blacksmith Shop
The Blacksmith Shop consists of a series of buildings
built between 1909 and 1937. Blacksmiths and other
tradesmen worked in this area, shaping heated metal
with either hand tools or a variety of mechanical
hammers. The Blacksmith Shop remained in operation
until the site closed in 1994.
Top Weighbridge, Queen Victoria Museum, Inveresk.
QUEEN VICTORIA ART GALLERY AUTUMN 2015 FREE AND A MUST SEE
Queen Victoria Art Gallery
2 Wellington Street, LAUNCESTON TAS 7250
(Closest public car park is at 79–81 Paterson Street).
Open 10am to 4pm daily. Closed only on Good Friday
and Christmas Day. Free admission. On site café.
T 03 6323 3777 W www.qvmag.tas.gov.au
Venue Hire
Several spaces are available to hire for weddings,
and corporate or private functions. For details,
please contact 03 6323 3798.
High School Art
ArtHigh is a new exhibition for High School students
(Year 7 to 10). The students have been asked to
research and give a creative response to selected
objects from QVMAG’s collections.
This year’s theme is peace, and solutions and pathways
for change. Do the experiences of history help us to
create and learn how to find peace?
When 2 July to 25 September
Where Central Gallery, 2
Guided tours
Volunteer Art Gallery Guides provide free tours every
Sunday at 12 noon and 2pm (with the exception of
Sundays which have a Gallery Guide’s Pop Up Talk).
Cover (detail) Arthur Boyd, Jonah on the Shoalhaven – Outside the city, 1976,
oil on canvas. Bundanon Trust Collection.
Top (detail) Geoff Tyson Omine summer food drop 1945. Watercolour on card.
Gift of the artist, 1982. QVMAG Collection ref QVM.FA.719.C
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Made in China, Australia
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The migration and settlement of any large racial
group in a new host country is complex. The Made in
China, Australia exhibition questions how the work of
Chinese Australian artists is affected by the particular
Chinese Australian heritage and experiences they have
had. Some of the artists in the exhibition were born
here, others travelled here in the past and some are
recent arrivals. The curator is interested in the subtle
differences that arise in the artists’ work due to their
particular relationship with the two cultures.
When Until 17 May
Where Fall & Hartnoll Gallery, 3
Admission free
Presented by A Salamanca Arts Centre Exhibition
toured by Contemporary Art Tasmania.
The exhibition is part of the Tasmanian International Arts Festival,
presented by Ten Days program of events running from 5 to 29
March.
Top (detail) Liu Xiao Xian, Home-London, 2002-03, photograph lamda print.ArtRage 2014 Collection
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ArtRage is an initiative of the Queen Victoria Art
Gallery which draws on folios of work by Tasmanian
Certificate of Education students.
It is a diverse, vibrant and often provocative exhibition
which offers insight into some of the pressing issues
facing young people today.
ArtRage is a unique opportunity to view an ambitious
and multidisciplinary student exhibition.
This annual touring exhibition is a partnership
between the Queen Victoria Art Gallery and the
college art teachers of Tasmania.
When until 12 April
Where Temporary Exhibitions, 4
Admission free
Presented and toured by Queen Victoria
Art Gallery.
Top An intrigued audience at the ArtRage 2014 Collection opening.Arthur Boyd: An Active
Witness
This is the first major exhibition to consider the social
consciousness that infused Arthur Boyd’s life and to
link his political concerns with his art work.
Curator Zara Stanhope has worked with the Bundanon
Trust to bring together paintings, prints, ceramics and
other materials from the Bundanon Trust Collection,
offering insights into how one of Australia’s greatest
artists dealt with the social responsibility that defines
humanity.
Arthur Boyd: An Active Witness includes works by
Boyd’s contemporaries and is supported by loans from
public and private collections, photographs and other
documents.
Gallery Guide’s Pop Up Talk
Exploring Arthur Boyd: A Progressive Tour
When 24 May, 2pm
Admission free
Exhibition 9 April to 5 July
Where Temporary Exhibitions, 4
Admission free
Presented by the Bundanon Trust.
Top (detail) Arthur Boyd, Hanging rocks with bathers and Mars, c1985, oil on canvas.
Bundanon Trust Collection.Mines of Memory:
The works of Vincent McGrath
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Professor Vincent McGrath was a respected artist,
educator and leader of Tasmania’s arts community.
For 25 years Vincent was the Head of School at the
School of Visual and Performing Arts. One of his
greatest legacies is the Arts Precinct at Inveresk.
Vincent’s work is represented in all State galleries
across the nation as well as being held by the National
Gallery of Australia and within many significant
international collections. QVMAG is proud to hold
this important collection of Vincent’s work, which has
been graciously donated by his wife Debbie.
When until 22 March 2015
Where Long Gallery, 5
Admission free
Presented by Queen Victoria Art Gallery.
Margaret Stones
On display are three works of art by Australian artist
Margaret Stones, one of the 20th century’s most
distinguished botanical artists. She is best known in
Tasmania for her work on the six volume Endemic Flora
of Tasmania, published between 1967 and 1978.
Where Project Gallery foyer
Top The Dreadnought 1993 Earthenware, Vincent McGrath, 14x22x8 cm.Project Gallery
Transition-Iron Form Development
“When I work, I make a series of forgings, thinking
through the materials, and studying them. During
these moments of making, I set aside technical
conditioning, not looking for craft perfection, but
rather the unknown; my intent is collaborative,
in that I am not trying to force the material into a
totally specific shape, instead I work with its own
characteristics, relying on my intuitive skills. I follow
line and outline the marks, I layer and stack, fold and
cut, and the movements are captured in time.”
Pete Mattila, artist.
Exhibition until 26 April 2015
Where Project Gallery, 7
Admission free
Works by Pete Mattila.
Top Surface Study V 2013 (detail).William Buelow Gould
The Macquarie Harbour Botanical Drawings
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As a young man Gould led a life of drinking, gambling
and petty crime. In 1827 he was charged with stealing
and transported to Van Diemen’s Land.
For crimes committed in Hobart he was sentenced
to the Macquarie Harbour penal settlement. During
the voyage a mutiny was planned by prisoners.
Gould attempted to thwart the uprising. Governor
Arthur rewarded him by assigning him to the Colonial
Surgeon and amateur botanist, Dr James Scott, where
he drew and painted plants collected by Scott.
Soon he was again sentenced to Macquarie Harbour
and assigned to Dr William de Little at Sarah Island,
who encouraged Gould to paint from nature. Gould
drew plant specimens from the islands, inlets and
rivers around Macquarie Harbour on hand-made
sketch pads.
When until 17 May
Where Survey Gallery, 8
Admission free
Presented by Queen Victoria Art Gallery.
Top (detail) William Gould’s Oxylobium arborescens (Tall shaggy pea).Retail Therapy Both QVMAG Shops are unique retail destinations which feature Tasmanian products that reflect the style of the Museum and Art Gallery. Whether you are looking for something for that special someone or just travelling through, you’ll find a wide range of stationery, handcrafted jewellery, posters, gifts, exhibition catalogues and children’s merchandise. The Museum Shop at Inveresk and Gallery Shop at Royal Park are open daily from 10am to 4pm (closed only on Christmas Day and Good Friday). For more information please call 03 6323 3742 (Museum Shop) or email shop@qvmag.tas.gov.au.
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A City of Launceston Sustainable Transport Strategy
initiative, the FREE Tiger Bus is available throughout
the day to provide easy access to the Queen Victoria
Museum and Queen Victoria Art Gallery and other
city attractions.
River Explorer
Inveresk (Museum) to Paterson Street (Art
Gallery) operates every hour from the Inveresk
stop starting from 10.30am until 3.30pm,
Monday to Friday and also on the weekends
during December.
For route information please
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