Devonport Regional Gallery

11/06/2026

Last week in Create & Make we began working on soft sculptures. Continuing along the theme of shapes, colours and abstract work our young artists drew up their patterns and then proceeded to cut these out. Then using coloured threads sewed patterns across the hessian and added various buttons and beads to their designs. This week they will be sewing the two sides together and adding the filling. We can't wait to see the final works.

11/06/2026

~Final Days~

Don't miss your last chance to see Joy by Cathy Jenner, closing on Saturday.

Cathy Jenner is an artist based on the North West Coast of Tasmania who constructs elaborate narrative universes. Central to Cathy’s practice is an enduring sense of joy. Positioning herself as “the Producer,” Cathy adopts multiple creative roles simultaneously – director, editor, costume designer, and set builder – shifting between them as each story demands.

Her works do not resolve into a single finished film or performance. Instead, they exist as fragments of scripts, maps, storyboards, photographs, props, paintings, backdrops, sculptures and costumes.

This exhibition is part of our 2026 Little Gallery Emerging Artist Program.

09/06/2026

Entries are now open for tidal.26

Devonport Regional Gallery is now calling for entries for the tidal.26: City of Devonport Tasmanian Art Award, a biennial acquisitive award celebrating contemporary Tasmanian art reflecting on the theme of tidal.

Artists are invited to submit 2D or 3D works responding to the theme, exploring the natural, cultural, personal or political concerns connected to the sea, coastal regions and coastal communities.

The $25,000 major acquisitive award is sponsored by Devonport City Council and the Devonport Regional Gallery Friends Committee. The Public Vote award valued at $1,500 is sponsored by One Agency Collins Real Estate.

For more information and entry form: https://www.paranapleartscentre.com.au/events/tidal26/

Entries close on Monday, at midnight, 14 September 2026.

04/06/2026

~Sneak Peek~

The Gallery team and Cheryl Rose are hard at work setting up for her exhibition opening Saturday.

Visions
Cheryl Rose
Opening this Saturday 11am

Visions is a new installation by Pataway/Burnie-based artist Cheryl Rose, expanding on the visual explorations she developed during Devonport Regional Gallery’s inaugural AIR program for the tidal.25 Arts Festival.

RSVP via https://visions-cherylrose.eventbrite.com.au or email [email protected]

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.