7 - 25 May 2025

Opening Night: Wed 7 May, 630-8pm

This eclectic mix of prints has one thing in common and that is they all share the touch of Donovan’s hand. Her ability to transform what she sees into what she feels through the medium of printmaking is unparalleled.

A master of drypoint, her energy is felt within the scratched and burnished plates, her immediacy replicated in the inking and wiping back. On the surface, this somewhat crudeness must not be confused with the integrity of Donovan’s process, constantly evidencing her love of the overlooked. An ordinary vision becomes extraordinary at her hand.

7 - 25 May 2025

Opening Night: Wed 7 May, 630-8pm

'As a printmaker, I am interested in translating the natural world, into the quite graphic medium of black and white lino print. With each new body of work, I set myself a challenge to create an aspect of the real world in a way I have not done before. 

A couple of years ago, on the road to Adelaide, I came across some wetlands, just as the sun was going down. I had been here before, even dismissed this place as a mere swamp, but the transformation wrought by the setting sun, was nothing short of glorious. I knew I would have to try and capture this stunning waterscape, so with this show, I decided to explore water. 

Water is an interesting challenge. It can really only be seen in relation to its surrounds. Sometimes water seems black, at other times, it reflects the sky. A puddle on the side of the road can hold a whole landscape in its depths.'

7 - 25 May 2025

Opening Night: Wed 7 May, 630-8pm

The tools in this exhibition represent a time of handmade craftsmanship. Of pride and accomplishment. But what happens when those tools wear out or break or are made redundant? These tools often take on a different value and become more valuable as they age. 

Modern tools are often mass produced and do not have the same quality or aesthetic appeal. But what about the people who used them? Are those skills passed on? Or do the people who have used them gain a different status? Or are those skills simply lost? 

This body of work is an accumulation of some of the skills I have acquired over many years, often with the tools depicted, of model making, moulding and casting, painting miniatures and replicas. These skills come with time. That is what this work is about. 

7 - 25 May 2025

Opening Night: Wed 7 May, 630-8pm

These monotypes were made as a response to the paintings in my previous exhibition at Tacit, The Gathering. Their essence is drawing, the core of all the work that I make.

It’s how I bear witness and make sense of my subject, myself and the world around me. I wanted to give these animal skulls a new life; to find and create new meaning that is a continuum of their painted history.

They arouse in me questions of life and death, and through this process I have been confronted with both the seriousness and the light, the land and storytelling.

28 May - 15 June 2025

Opening Night: Wed 28 May, 630-8pm

Artists: TJ Bateson, Richard Birmingham, Robyn Burgess, Stefan Gevers, Christine Gibbs, John Luke King-Salter, Robyn Kinsela, Vietta Korren-Steele, Nadine Lineham, David McBurney, Shane McGowan (featured), Linda Pickering, Cat Poljski, Susan Stevenson