The Academy Gallery represents the high profile public face of the School of Visual and Performing Arts, University of Tasmania. The Gallery is dedicated to the pursuit and achievement of excellence by exhibiting contemporary art and design of the highest order. The Academy Gallery is a Level A class exhibition space incorporated into the Inveresk cultural precinct comprising the Launceston City Council's Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston Show Grounds and the Tram Shed Convention Centre. The Academy Gallery viewing audience consists of members of the Launceston community and from nearby regional centres, national and international visitors to Tasmania and numerous primary and secondary school groups.
The Academy Gallery represents the new public face of the University. The modern university gallery of the 21st century can no longer afford to be inward looking, isolationist and only interested in the life of the University.
The Academy Gallery welcomes full participatory interest and engagement with its local constituency, as well as the wider national and international communities. Our exhibition program includes international exhibition projects, exhibitions by well-known established Australian and emerging artists, craftspeople and designers, as well as student exhibitions. The Academy Gallery exhibition program is driven by the pursuit of excellence in displaying only art, craft and design that has the capacity to be insightful, challenging and rewarding to a wide cross section of the community. The Academy Gallery exhibition program is based upon presenting exhibitions of excellence, the production of selected exhibitions for touring intrastate, interstate and internationally, as well as attracting important shows of the highest quality from interstate and overseas.
