Daruvaty|дарувати (meaning ‘to give’) is a one-on-one experience and evolving exhibition centred around the intricate art of Pysanky, a Ukrainian tradition handed down through generations of Liesel’s family.
Pysanky (singular: Pysanka) are colourful, intricately patterned eggs, traditionally made at the arrival of spring and gifted as expressions of friendship, goodwill, and a desire to protect against harm. Each is made over several hours using a wax-resist method, with every symbol and colour imbued with meaning. It is believed that while making a Pysanka, you are in a meditative state of love, sending your wishes to those you intend to gift the egg.
Through small making sessions with Liesel, members of the public are invited to consider what they wish for Launceston, inscribing their offering onto the surface of a community Pysanka to be gifted to the city.
As the day unfolds, each new inscription builds another layer of colour and meaning, until the final reveal in the early evening, when melting away the wax unveils a Pysanka born of multiple voices. Each day produces one community Pysanka, later exhibited for all to admire: a collective time capsule of Launceston’s offerings, longings and dreamed futures.
Fault Lines is a series of abstract paintings that explores identity and the hidden structures that shape our inner lives. Drawing on experiences of mental health, trauma, unconscious conditioning, and inherited belief systems, the work investigates the relationship between the self we present to the world and the self that exists beneath layers of adaptation and survival.
The title draws on the geological metaphor of fault lines—hidden points of pressure that can remain dormant for years before revealing themselves through rupture, displacement, or change. Repeated marks, textures, and accumulations of gesture speak to fractures, tensions, vigilance and the unseen forces that lie beneath the surface of experience.
Rather than offering fixed narratives, the works invite reflection on the visible and invisible forces that form us, the patterns we inherit, and the complexities of lived experiences.
Havilah and Junction Arts Festival present a world where art, wine, and culinary delights intertwine.
Geometry in Watercolour is a relaxed, hands-on workshop where participants explore the meeting point between structure and flow. Drawing on influences from the Bauhaus School and artists like Kandinsky, artist Joanna Pinkiewicz shares her love of geometry, colour, and composition, guiding participants to combine bold shapes with the fluid, intuitive qualities of watercolour. The result is a playful, atmospheric approach that lets each artwork develop its own personality.
Born from a love of food, wine, and Launceston itself, Havilah provides the perfect backdrop for this creative session. Your ticket includes three hours of delectable snacks and a complimentary welcome drink upon arrival, setting the stage for an afternoon of artistic discovery and culinary indulgence.
This is an invitation to move, respond and summon fragments of wind and light and sound into being. “pieces of air dance the light” is a living, immersive environment inside a giant dome. Visitors enter a space where gesture tracking generates visual effects that merge with choreographed currents of air and projections, illuminating a vast suspended silk canopy. Billowing, breathing – the entire space is a luminous canvas where sound, motion and light merge into an ever-evolving luminous experience.
An accompanying sound experience encourages many forms of physical expression. Whether languid flow is your jam, or storming up the dance floor, your actions shape a personalised encounter with light, air and sound, that makes this a once-off mesmerising experience.
The installation celebrates the invisible forces that surround us, transforming human gestures into fleeting traces of light, atmosphere and collective imagination.
Sawtooth ARI has recently moved into the basement of Macquarie House, right in the heart of the CBD in Civic Square, and Round 2 brings four exhibitions to the space.
The program features The Epiphany, a collaborative exhibition by the Templar family; HSP, a solo exhibition by Lara Chamas; a new solo exhibition by UTAS award winner Patrick Yates, developed through mentorship from Sawtooth Director Zara Sully; and ARIXCHANGE 2.0, a partnership between Sawtooth ARI and Blindside ARI that connects two recent graduates from Lutruwita/Tasmania and Naarm/Melbourne. After starting as a digital presentation, ARIXCHANGE now returns to a physical format, maintaining its focus on artist-led exchange across regions.
