Constance Artist Run Initiative

🧨 💥 LAUNCH 2026 is underway! @youthartsandrec is partnering with @constance_ari again to deliver the second iteration of this exciting and unpredictable project. LAUNCH pairs young people with local established artists to create bold, collaborative works across a range of mediums which celebrate experimentation, mentorship, and creative exchange. This opportunity aims to equip the youth participants with ways to build confidence, offer their experience of the world to a wider audience, and to guide an arts project through to exhibition stage. The LAUNCH 2026 exhibition will be open to the public at YARC in nipaluna / Hobart, launching on June 11. Outcomes are currently unfolding, watch this space for further details… This project is in partnership with @youthartsandrec @yarcgallery Constance ARI is supported by @artstasmania and @creative.australia

Hobiennale is coming back!!!!!!!!! Smaller and slower than ever ;) Hobiennale will create space for process-driven, experimental, and politically engaged practices that are often excluded from mainstream institutions. We’re thinking about artist-led approaches, the boundaries of artist-run initiatives, politics, alternative forms of collective and cultural practice, a direct relationship to community, and artists building models that work for them, rather than adapting to existing frameworks. Artists are shaped by the social, political and cultural realities they inhabit. Through exhibitions, performances, workshops and public programs, we will support artists to share work that challenges, provokes and reflects urgent social realities. We understand innovation not as endless expansion, but as a process of reclaiming, rethinking and reworlding — and consider the value of stripping back, re-evaluating what we’ve inherited, making space to listen to histories that continue to shape our cultural present and thinking of time as cyclical and interconnected rather than linear. Anyway, we’ll be around 🍌💛

Applications now closed. ✨ JOIN US! ✨ We are seeking financial leadership through a Treasurer role. We are looking for: 👉 Senior fiduciary experience. 👉 Capacity to contribute to a thriving small org with minimal remuneration. If you have the experience and capacity for this responsibility, we’d love to hear from you. Find out more about the role and apply via the link 🔗 in our bio! Closing date for applications is 1 April 2026.

Don’t miss the UTAS Art School Grad Show opening in Nipaluna (Hobart) tomorrow night; as part of the celebrations we’ll be presenting a special pop-up exhibition called Time Capsule in Holding Space, curated and compiled by Matt Warren. 37 Hunter Street, Nipaluna (Hobart) Opening Friday 14 November, 5:30pm to 8:30pm Open to the public Saturday 15th & Sunday 16th November, 11:00am to 4:00pm // Student work of the past, of now, of the future. Time Capsule brings together student explorations, considerations and gestures, in and out of time and yet as relevant as ever. \\ Image Credit: Antony Rieck, 2025, Aphorisms, still from video

Thanks to all who joined us for the launch of the Constance ARI Archive exhibition & the Constance ARI Online Archive!! The exhibition at @contemporaryarttasmania continues until the 25th of October so get in quick if you haven't seen it yet. - Also... this Thursday is @creative.australia Aus Art Day! Follow the link in our bio to donate to our fundraiser, to help keep Constance going. - In case you missed the launch on Friday, the Constance ARI Archive exhibition brings together artists from across the life of the organisation — from its early days as Inflight to its current form as Constance 22 years later. This intergenerational assembly of practices reflects the shifting, cyclical nature of artist-run culture: its ruptures, renewals and the communities that sustain it. The exhibition coincides with the launch of the Constance Online Archive. Rejecting fixed hierarchies of record keeping, the archive proposes memory as a shared, living process — one that documents not only projects, but the conditions, relationships and entanglements that shape them. In this way, the archive proposes a site of resistance and reimagining, exploring the porous boundaries between art, place and collective care. Featuring: Neil Haddon, Matt Warren, Grace Gamage, Jacob Leary, Robert O'Connor, Selena de Carvalho, Georgia Lucy, Scot Cotterell, and Caitlin Fargher. Curated by Bonni Que, Hannah Foley and Jade Irvine Archive web design by Jonny Scholes Supported by Arts Tasmania and Contemporary Art Tasmania (CAT) - Installation views: Constance ARI Archive Exhibition. Images courtesy of Kelly Nerae @kellynerae

Join us today for the final School of Physical Culture class at @theunconformity - @_artshub festival pick 💅💋🥊 PCYC Boxing Gym, Queenstown 9am All bodies welcome. Walk-in spots available 💕 @h.k.vermeulen @ra__bellatrix @cayooun #theunconformity2025

For those of you in the wild West this weekend, don't miss our projects at @theunconformity : Jewelled Nights at the Queenstown RSL & the School of Physical Culture at the Queenstown PCYC. Jewelled Nights // 100 years after the release of Marie Bjelke Petersen’s Jewelled Nights — Lutruwita / Tasmania’s first major silent film — this exhibition is a love letter to the women who made it happen. // School of Physical Culture We also invite you to sweat and subvert through the School of Physical Culture. Group fitness becomes a choreopolitical playground, in a participatory performance, unravel fixed identities and histories and re-perform with rupturing repetition. Explore autonomy, fluidity, and the politics of posture – come flex with us. More sass than sweat. All bodies welcome. Curated by Jacqueline Dortmans Presented by @theunconformity 🔗 Info + registration in bio, or .au/events/jewelled-nights/

The Constance ARI Archive opens next Friday at CAT! Join us for an evening of live performance and sharing food to launch the exhibition and the Constance Online Archive. Opening: 5.30pm, Friday 10 October Exhibition: 11 – 25 October 2025 The Constance ARI Archive exhibition brings together artists from across the life of the organisation — from its early days as Inflight to its current form as Constance 22 years later. The opening event will be a celebration of the Constance community and its many contributors. This is a moment to gather, reflect and activate — to honour the many forms Constance has taken, and the artists who continue to shape its future. Artists: Neil Haddon, Matt Warren, Grace Gamage, Jacob Leary, Robert O'Connor, Selena de Carvalho, Georgia Lucy, Scot Cotterell and Caitlin Fargher Curated by Bonni Que, Hannah Foley and Jade Irvine Archive web design by Jonny Scholes The exhibition is mobility accessible. Roomsheet available online and in large font hard copies at the front desk. Please contact Contemporary Art Tasmania if you have any accessibility requirements. Supported by @artstasmania and Contemporary Art Tasmania @constance_ari @njhaddon @mattdwarren @gg_4_ggg @jacob.leary @selenadecarvalho @scot_cotterell @caitfar @hannahfoley.art @jade.irvine @jonnyscholes

The Constance ARI Archive exhibition at @contemporaryarttasmania launches next week! All friends of Constance (new & old) are invited to join us for opening night on Friday October 10th from 5:30pm, the exhibition will continue until October 25th. Featuring: Neil Haddon, Matt Warren, Grace Gamage, Jacob Leary, Robert O'Connor, Selena de Carvalho, Georgia Lucy, Scot Cotterell, and Caitlin Fargher. The Constance ARI Archive exhibition brings together artists from across the life of the organisation — from its early days as Inflight to its current form as Constance 22 years later. This intergenerational assembly of practices reflects the shifting, cyclical nature of artist-run culture: its ruptures, renewals and the communities that sustain it. The exhibition coincides with the launch of the Constance Online Archive. Rejecting fixed hierarchies of record keeping, the archive proposes memory as a shared, living process — one that documents not only projects, but the conditions, relationships and entanglements that shape them. In this way, the archive proposes a site of resistance and reimagining, exploring the porous boundaries between art, place and collective care. The opening event will be a celebration of the Constance community and its many contributors. Join us for an evening of live performance, sharing food, and limited-edition merchandise making as we mark the launch of the online archive and exhibition at Contemporary Art Tasmania. This is a moment to gather, reflect, and activate — to honour the many forms Constance has taken, and the artists who continue to shape its future. - Curated by Bonni Que, Hannah Foley and Jade Irvine Archive web design by Jonny Scholes Supported by Arts Tasmania and Contemporary Art Tasmania (CAT) - Image credit: Archive materials. Image courtesy of Bonni Que. Image description: An image of a hand holding a photographic slide from Constance ARI storage, depicting a gallery space with an unknown work displayed on the wall, previously presented by InFlight/Constance.

Constance ARI presents ✨ Jewelled Nights || School of Physical Culture Jewelled Nights // 100 years after the release of Marie Bjelke Petersen’s Jewelled Nights — Lutruwita / Tasmania’s first major silent film — this exhibition is a love letter to the women who made it happen. // School of Physical Culture We also invite you to sweat and subvert through the School of Physical Culture. Group fitness becomes a choreopolitical playground, in a participatory performance, unravel fixed identities and histories and re-perform with rupturing repetition. Explore autonomy, fluidity, and the politics of posture – come flex with us. More sass than sweat. All bodies welcome. Curated by Jacqueline Dortmans Presented by @theunconformity 🔗 Info + registration in bio, or .au/events/jewelled-nights/

Open Studio with Ursula Woods | Holding Space Monday 18 - Wednesday 20, 12-2PM Pop in and say hi! ✨ Image courtesy of the Anologue Photographic Society (@we.live.in.a.society_aps ), taken during an analogue film workshop with Ursula. @ursula_woods_

In Conversation with Ursula Woods ✨ Join us at Holding Space this Friday for this special conversation between resident artist Ursula Woods and Marion Abraham. The event will include a screening of outcomes from a recent analogue film workshop, and an informal celebration of the final week of Ursula's residency. Holding Space, Friday 15 August, 5PM. Link in bio.