Aug/Sept at Good Grief

Fri, 22 Aug, 2025 at 07:30 am UTC+10:00

62 Argyle Street , Hobart, TAS, Australia, Tasmania 7000 | Hobart

Good Grief Studios
Publisher/HostGood Grief Studios
Aug\/Sept at Good Grief
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This month at G.g, we have four new exhibits opening on Aug 22nd at 5:30
With a special performance from Tasha Zappala at 7:30 (approx.)
Our gallery days/hours are Thurs and Sun 12-4pm

Emma Michaelis
The Artist Slumbers
@emma.michaelis
The Artist Slumbers is an exhibition that explores the vital role of rest and renewal in the creative process. Creativity is not constant, it moves in cycles, flowing between productivity and dormancy. When wakefulness blurs into dreaming, the artist retreats to gather strength, sifting through subconscious visions in order to develop new forms. Sometimes she awakens with clarity, emerging with work fully formed, radiant and ready. At other times, she lingers on the threshold between dreaming and rising, drifting where reality and introspection converge. Sometimes the dream becomes a nightmare, birthing something through pain. In these moments, creation arrives not as a whisper, but as a rupture, a scream from the chest, raw and unfiltered. This exhibition is a meditation on that in-between state. It reflects on the necessity of rest, the madness of the world we wake into, and the transformative potential of dreaming. As the artist stirs, so too does the work, rising from the depths with truths only sleep could summon. At the centre of the installation floats a drawing: a trilogy across a single sheet of paper, a metaphor suspended like a fragment of a dream. The viewer’s presence completes the work, activating the space and implicating them in the act of dreaming. To witness is to participate, to step into the quiet tension between rest and emergence, and to consider your own place in the unfolding of an artist’s vision, whether awake or in her dreams.
Emma Michaelis is an artist who has rested long enough.
Emily Norton
@emilyheatheradele
Showroom
‘Showroom’ explores domestic spaces and their representations. Dreamscapes, dollhouses, ads for rentals listed on realestate apps, the sims, magazine spreads, television sets, furniture stores, and our own homes, become artefacts to be untethered and rearranged. Perspective and tactility create a shift in perception. The objects in the work are inaccessible and pixelated; detached commodities. The spaces themselves remain a fantasy.

Scot Cotterell
Flowstate, 2025,
@scot_cotterell_studio
This piece initially felt like a possible descent or return into formlessness, faced with the impossible speed of maintaining a media-referent output (one of my primary modes) in the present maelstrom. Upon further thought - procedural, feedback driven ‘contentless’ output has been a consistent thread throughout my work. It runs alongside the more plunderphonic work, and stems from a notion of machines self-reflecting, watching themselves, listening to themselves. This audiovisual composition seeks to be at once dense and vacuous, vaporous and sedimentary.
Emma Wheeler
@emfemme3
I make wearable pieces, contemporary wearables, they are small objects that are worn on the body, using materials that are not usually associated with traditional jewelry materials. I’m inspired by found objects, broken objects, forgotten objects, the domestic object, and turning these into wearable works. Small works, moving as the body moves. For this exhibition I have combined the found object with other materials, thread and non- precious metals, reworking and reimagining …… My method of making is intuitive. The brooches ‘Quietly contemplating her madness’, touch on the theme of traditional ‘women’s work’, the art of stitching as a past time, I wonder how many women spent hours stitching in silence but were wanting to scream instead. The repetition of each stitch aiming for perfection believing they were unable to express themselves individually and wanting to disrupt the perfection of their stitches. The 3 pendants, ‘Impossible’ can hold nothing but a trace of thread which moves with the breath of air. ‘Humble’ is a series of pins highlighting the unseen. The 3 figures, ‘Maybe she could’ expresses the duality of constraint or the freedom of Possibility. And through this possibility, with all her constraints, she can look up to the clouds and still let her imagination flow.

Tasha Zappala
@tashazappala
Tasha Zappala is a singer-songwriter based in Lutruwita/Tasmania. When not serenading, she spends her time in the southern woods making billypots of beans, drinking tea and capturing field recordings.
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