Deep Textural is a botanical installation by Jess Knight. Jess Knight has worked for many years on and near Art Farm growing vegetables, flowers, and herbs. The installation is a response to the botanics and environment here, intended to create a sense of wonder for visitors to explore.​

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WINNER, Large Sculpture Prize

From rubble and detritus new growth erupts. Bursting forth from decaying substrates, decomposing matter transforms and is replaced with the emergence of new life. Patterns are established from unique forms as new shapes emerge. The cycle of nature unfolds.​

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WINNER, Small Sculpture Prize

Our largest species of honeyeater and the most spectacular flower in Tasmania made this a great combination for a sculpture in steel!

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Kingborough Council Acquisitive Prize

The Apothecary and the Poison bottle stand as a duality, reflecting in a cultured word able to produce solutions, for all manners of ills, for better or worse. The gesture in the making of this bottle, reminiscing of the past, is to find and interrogate new cures using what we have learned or what is still there for us to learn.

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Art Farm Birchs Bay and Five Bob Acquisition

The Apothecary and the Poison bottle stand as a duality, reflecting in a cultured word able to produce solutions, for all manners of ills, for better or worse. The gesture in the making of this bottle, reminiscing of the past, is to find and interrogate new cures using what we have learned or what is still there for us to learn.

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Art Farm Birchs Bay and Five Bob Acquisition

What is faux and what is actual? These pots represent simple, artificial forms carved from biological materials. The paradox is real. This timber pot tells a story with many facets, referring to the story of corruption in our forest industries.

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Forbidden Fruit is a series of sculptures that continue my practice of assembling found material into imaginative forms. I am always on the lookout for unique materials that evoke special places or creatures. Through my sculptures, I transform once-abandoned scraps into artworks with renewed character and life.

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A lone dragonfly is reminiscent of long summer evenings in the garden.

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Side eye is a simple form, responding to a play on words. You may look sidelong at the sculpture, and it may look back at you!

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This work describes a long process built on trivial things. The frivolous wordplay seeds the path of making. The thing looms large, using luminous flux. It’s see-thru skin bares its structure. At night a solar light comes on. It glows with its own beautiful, life-like energy.

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Inspired by the artist Thomas Dambo, I wanted to create a large troll to inhabit the forest. Creatures from stories and fairy tales have captured my imagination and fuelled my creativity for a long time. I have used only recycled materials, tapping into the childlike joy of encountering something human like that looms over us, evoking memories of old stories, dreams and imagination.

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Spot the Handfish? Spot is a teeny bit bigger than the other handfish you might see around Hobart but she’s here to spark a big conversation. You don’t have to to be large and pretty to be valued and loved. 20% of the sale price of this work will be donated to The Handfish Conservation Project - let’s save our handfish!

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Recent personal experience has accentuated the crucial part that the spinal cord (medulla spinalis) plays in feeling on “top of the world”. When there is “discord” in the spinal column the subsequent vicissitudes of agonising discomfort are reflected in the resulting distorted facial expressions.

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Tideline aims to respond to and capture, in part, experiences of being in the wonder of nature; to create some of the sense of what it is to walk along a beach, observing the wrack and, as the shoreline deteriorates, to evoke a sense of the panorama and fragility of these places.

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This sculpture captures the beauty of emergence—new beginnings rising from the depths. It celebrates growth, transformation, and the power of change, showing how something beautiful can arise from the unknown. This piece is a tribute to the strength and resilience found in life's constant evolution.

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