Mary Scott is being shown at TMAG  - her work is in the show entitled Look Out, which opens on 12 March and runs until 4 July.  It features ten Tasmanian artists, and is a joint project between TMAG and Contemporary Art Services Tasmania (CAST). Mary’s work is entitled The Book of Measure and consists of pencil drawings in the style of an old textbook.

Mary and Megan Walch are also both featured in the Wilderness - Balnaves Contemporary Painting exhibition at the Art Gallery of NSW, along with 14 of Australia’s best contemporary painters, such as Del Kathryn Barton, Daniel Boyd and Michael Zavros.  This exhibition opens on 5 March and continues until 23 May.

Mary is also featured in Artist Profile magazine’s April-July edition.

Mary Scott
The Book of Measure (detail) 2009-10

John Vella’s work, Blind, will be displayed in the Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery’s next exhibition New Acquisitions.  Works by Pat Brassington are also included in the exhibition, which opens on 11 March, and runs until 4 July.  Other contemporary artists include Hany Armanious, Gay Hawkes, Bea Maddock, Michael Doolan, David Keeling.

Works from his series where Vella painted on canvas stretched over objects are available at Criterion Gallery.

John Vella
Blind  1998-9
Acrylic on canvas on four vinyl ‘mini-blinds’ (four parts)
163 x 600 x 14.5 cm (overall)

John Vella
Acrylic on canvas over racetrack  1997
Acrylic on canvas over racetrack
48.5 x 48.5 cm

Kit Wise has opened a new show at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art’s gallery, Mirka, in the Tolarno Hotel in St Kilda. The exhibition Summertime, consists of video works based on beaches in Australia and overseas, such as Ipanema, Monte Carlo and Waikiki.

The exhibition continues until February 28, at Mirka at Tolarno Hotel, 42 Fitzroy Street, St Kilda.

Kit is also included in the artists in Experimenta, International Biennial of Media Art, at the Arts Centre, Blackbox, Melbourne.  The exhibition runs from 12 February to 14 March.   Click here for further details.