Contemporary Townhouse Invermay

Explore the relationship between mental health and art with Minds Do Matter in 2024. Produced by RANT Arts and QVMAG, Minds Do Matter the exhibition celebrates the relationship between mental health and art and is designed to spark a conversation about mental health in Tasmania. In 2024, Minds Do Matter focuses on the theme ‘Appreciate the little things’, providing a creative platform which allows participants and audiences alike to contribute to vital conversations about mental health and wellbeing, further building mental health literacy and contributing to the de-stigmatisation of mental illness by promoting the notion that mental health is about everyone.

This is the story of a man who loved Tasmania’s wild places. For twenty years, Olegas Truchanas explored Tasmania's remote South West, with great physical and mental endurance. His photographic skills enabled him to share his personal experiences with others. Born in 1923, Olegas grew up in Lithuania, a country invaded three times by two different nations. In January 1949, he migrated to Australia, and after a month at a displaced persons camp in Victoria, moved to Tasmania. Motivated by a love of nature and natural beauty, Olegas Truchanas' legacy is told here in with carefully selected images to celebrate his birth just over 100 years ago. Through the lens of his camera, This Vanishing World shares the journey of Olegas Truchanas and his campaign to expand awareness of Tasmania’s unique and endangered southwest in the 1950s -70s, which helped inspire an ongoing environment protection movement. This exhibition acknowledges the influence of his work on talented wilderness photographers who continue to represent endangered wild country. This exhibition is accompanied by a beautiful new publication, available from the QVMAG Shop in-store and online. Museum at Inveresk, 2 Invermay Road 13 July 2024 — 16 February 2025 Free entry

A book contains words and information on pages, bound together and protected by a cover… At least, that's what we generally understand a book to be. Unbound: Books Reimagined challenges this perception – and explores the many forms a book could take. This exhibition focuses on two types of books: artists' books and pop-up books. Artists' books are works of art that utilise the book form. Marvel at a variety of creative categories, such as altered, animated, concertina, illustrated and sculptural books. Unbound: Books Reimagined marks the first artists' books exhibition at QVMAG in over 40 years. Pop-up books contain three-dimensional features that can be activated by pull tabs, tunnels, or flaps – or simply by opening a page. Enter new worlds of animals and creatures, history and geography, literature and fiction, science, technology and space, and even TV and movie genres – each rendered into intricate and inventive dioramas. Discover the book as you've never seen it – or imagined it – before.