Women's Fitness Adventures Tasmania

A third-generation family run art gallery established in 1986, Bett Gallery has a strong reputation as one of Australia’s foremost contemporary commercial art galleries. Representing internationally renown established, mid-career and emerging Australian artists with a strong focus on Tasmanian art, including Tasmanian Aboriginal shell necklaces . Located in the heart of the CBD, a dynamic program of museum quality exhibitions are showcased in impressive exhibition spaces, with a stockroom also available to the public. Bett Galleries wonderful staff can assist all visitors in discovering new artists and finding the perfect artwork, and can organise interstate and worldwide shipping.

Step into the Deborah WACE Fabric Design & Printmaking Studio and open a window into the botany of wild Tasmania. Located in the heart of Hobart overlooking the city skyline, the Deborah WACE Fabric Design & Printmaking Studio is a must-see on a visit to Hobart. Relax in a silken, linen & wallpaper design wonderland filled with print-making equipment, curios, botanical designs & luxury products and meet the maker, Deborah Wace. The Deborah WACE Fabric Design & Printmaking Studio creates luxurious, sophisticated and visually rich fabrics, fashion accessories, soft furnishings, wallpaper and limited-edition art. Celebrating the uniqueness of Tasmanian plants and flowers, each design features wild and often endangered plant communities: from threatened native orchids, marine plants & wild buttongrass heathland communities, to species only found within the threatened temperate rainforests of the Tarkine region. Deborah WACE designs invite real conversations about habitat loss and biodiversity, exploring a deeper and more informed and sustainable connection into the natural world. Take home a piece of Tasmanian art inspired by nature from the following: silk satin scarves, European flax linen cushions, bespoke garments, wallpaper art panels, limited-edition prints botanical greeting cards and fabric by the metre. The Deborah WACE Fabric Design & Printmaking Studio is easily accessible by bus and is walking distance to the harbour. There is parking available nearby.

Discover the delights of mono printing with professional printmaker and fabric designer Deborah Wace. During this day-long workshop, Deborah will lead you through the art of mono printing, which is such a painterly, direct and exciting printmaking technique. Through demonstration and practice you will learn how to create visually complex and exquisite tonal modulation in your prints. Deborah will guide you in techniques using found items, botanical specimens and hand-cut stencils. Discover key print-making concepts, whilst you create new artwork and gather skills, utilising two etching presses. This workshop provides a stimulating and intimate environment in which to creatively explore the world of printmaking. Deborah, a printmaker with 20 years’ experience, creates large-scale dry-point etchings and fabric designs based on Tasmania’s native orchids, Buttongrass and rainforest flora. She recently completed a Churchill Fellowship to Europe, researching the Tasmanian botanical collections made by early French explorers, to develop new designs for fabric production from Tasmanian flora. The botanical specimens, engravings and artist proofs, inspire her teaching. Classes (max 5 persons) are held from 9:30 to 4:00pm in Deborah’s Design Studio: level 9, 65 Murray St, Hobart. Cost per workshop is only $210. Includes art materials, morning tea and a delicious vegetarian lunch. WORKSHOP DATES: Visit the deborahwace.com website or Humanitix for workshop dates. Bookings for dates other than the scheduled classes, can be easily negotiated.