The Skullbone Experiment exhibition opening
The TLC is proud to present The Skullbone Experiment, an art exhibition developed to raise awareness of the long term protection of biodiversity in Tasmania.
In February 2013, eleven high profile Australian artists were invited by the TLC to explore the wild and remote landscape of the TLC’s Skullbone Plains reserve on an artists retreat. Over four days, they immersed themselves in the landscape and were given scientific interpretation by TLC staff to deepen their experience on the reserve. An exhibition featuring works developed by the artists in response to their time at Skullbone Plains will open in Launceston in March 2014.
Permanently protected by the TLC in 2010 with the very generous assistance of our many supporters, Skullbone Plains shares a 16 kilometre boundary with the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area. It covers 1,600 hectares and provides habitat for critically endangered species such as the Clarence galaxias fish and an endangered plant community named sphagnum moss. The endangered Tasmanian devil, spotted-tailed quoll and wedge-tailed eagle also call it home.
Participating artists include Tim Burns (TAS), Joel Crosswell (TAS), Julie Gough (TAS), Philip Hunter (VIC), Janet Laurence (NSW), Vera Moller (VIC), Imants Tillers (NSW), Megan Walch (TAS), Richard Wastell (TAS), Philip Wolfhagen (TAS) and John Wolseley (VIC).
Jane Hutchinson, Chief Executive Officer of the TLC, said that it has been an absolute honour to have artists of such vision and calibre interpret Skullbone Plains permanent reserve.
"Their engagement with this landscape has been a great way to foster the link between art and the natural world” she said.
Renowned Tasmanian landscape painter Philip Wolfhagen is curating the exhibition with his wife, Catherine.
The exhibition is presented in partnership with the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery and UNSW Galleries. It will be shown at:
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery (QVMAG) Museum, Inveresk, Tasmania from the 15 March - 18 May 2014
Galleries UNSW, Sydney from 19 July – 30 August 2014
The TLC gratefully acknowledge the very generous support of the Purves Environmental Fund and the Purryburry Trust.