The ten
Hobart Current: Liberty 2020 artists
About Hobart Current
Hobart Current will nurture and showcase contemporary artists working across performance, music, film, design, visual art and literature.
Creative Director
announced
February 2019
Rosie Dennis has been appointed. The theme she has chosen is 'liberty'.
Artists
announced
August 2019
Ten artists will be commissioned to create new works in various art forms.
Exhibition
opens
September 2020
The inaugural exhibition will run from September to November 2020 in Hobart.
Creative director Rosie Dennis and liberty 2020
'This theme can be interpreted globally and locally, as celebrating the nation as a whole or a neighbourhood. I’m interested in sparking a fuller conversation about who chooses freedom for whom, in what space and during what time.'
Hobart Current Timeline
March 2020
Artist update
Liberty Artists - Video Blog Check-ins
Over the last six months our ten artists have been working away on their artworks for Liberty - from here to here.
Liberty is the inaugural Hobart Current exhibition and it opens on 3 September 2020. View the artists' progress thus far and gain an intriguing insight into their visions and process in these video updates below.
March 2020
Installation artist
Nadege Philippe-Janon
March 2020
Interdisciplinary Artist
Jagath Dheerasekara
March 2020
Multimedia artist
Brigita Ozolins
March 2020
Multimedia Artist
Dexter Rosengrave
March 2020
Artist, commercial diver, and astronaut candidate
Sarah Jane Pell
March 2020
Filmmaker and artist
James Newitt
March 2020
Multimedia and installation artist
Jacob Leary
March 2020
Sculptor
Suryo Herlambang
August 2019
Artists announcement
The ten Liberty artists revealed
February 2019
Director announcement
Creative director Rosie Dennis announced
Rosie Dennis has been selected as the Creative Director for the inaugural Hobart Current. Rosie Dennis creates complex contemporary performance works that have a strong connection to place and the everyday. Rosie has presented various works at more than twenty-five festivals across Europe and the UK.