Previous events

Experience art transformed into experience as musician Suzanne Turner performs ambient soundscapes at the Art Gallery at Royal Park. Three musicians. Three Saturdays. Three hours of live sound in a world of sculpted stillness.

Join us at the Art Gallery at Royal Park for Three Spotlights, a new live performance program staged within the exhibition Sam Jinks || Mortal Reflections.

Across three Saturdays over three months, three acclaimed musicians will respond to Jinks’ hyperreal sculptures in an evolving, multisensory experience of art and sound.

The third in the series features Suzanne Turner on Saturday 11 October, offering lyrical, improvisation-infused violin that moves with sensitivity and grace. Her intuitive phrasing and delicate textures echo the emotional intimacy of Jinks’ sculptural forms, creating a quiet, resonant dialogue between sound, space, and the human condition.

As you move through the space, the live music becomes a living soundtrack — heightening your connection to the works and inviting quiet reflection. You're welcome to sit, stand, draw, write, or simply be. Paper and graphite pencils will be available to encourage your own creative response.

This is a FREE drop-in event at the Art Gallery at Royal Park, with no registration required. Whether you stay for ten minutes or three hours, this is a rare opportunity to experience visual art in dialogue with live music, where the gallery becomes a space for contemplation, emotion and inspiration.

Step into a mind-expanding sonic and visual journey featuring stunning macro/micro photography of Tasmanian slime moulds by Sarah Lloyd, and the otherworldly sounds of Garry Greenwood’s 18-string Tasmanian Mountain Harp, played by Karlin Love and Suzy Turner on Mountain harp, electric violin, and clarinet. This iteration of Sound in Space is scientific, artistic and improvisational mastery.

Step into a mind-expanding sonic and visual journey featuring stunning macro/micro photography of Tasmanian slime moulds by Sarah Lloyd, and the otherworldly sounds of Garry Greenwood’s 18-string Tasmanian Mountain Harp, played by Karlin Love and Suzy Turner on Mountain harp, electric violin, and clarinet. This iteration of Sound in Space is scientific, artistic and improvisational mastery.

Creative Georgetown Summer Concert Series

Where Water Meets

Folk duo Emily Sheppard and Yyan Ng weave acoustic music that echoes the Tasmanian landscape. Their compositions, featuring instruments made of eel-skin, draw from both contemporary folk and chamber influences, creating a soundscape deeply connected to place.

Stray Luxury

Ian Chia and Suzanne Turner craft opulent ambient electronica infused with acoustic piano, violin, and clarinet, underscored by exotic world instruments. Their performances blend neo-romantic scores with atmospheric soundscapes, offering an immersive and globally inspired experience.

A group of Free for All Regulars will present the WSIMF Sunday First Set | Looping Under Water Afterwards join Free for All | music making in the moment, all welcome no experience necessary instruments provided. Suzanne Turner, Spike Mason, Caitlin Street, Sarah Walters, Megan Casey, Juen Van Hand, Di Nailon.

mulaka milaythina (The Hunting Ground) Commissioned for the 2023 Clarence Jazz Festival a work by Nunami Sculthorpe- Green and Louise Denson, (along with a 9 piece chamber jazz ensemble) This performance is a re-mount of this ground breaking and important work exploring the true history of the Lands of the Mumarimina people.

World premiere of Bridge by Louise Denson (Campania), a new work for 6 musicians commemorating Richmond’s bicentennial year, featuring internationally celebrated Tasmanian vocalist Elly Hoyt.

Also featuring mulaka milaythina (Denson/Sculthorpe-Green) for 10 musicians and narrator, telling the story of the Mumirimina people of the Oyster Bay Nation, original inhabitants of the Richmond area.

This project was assisted through Arts Tasmania.

A hands-on experience of turning science ideas into musical compositions.

Music and Conversations about Theoretical Physics and creatures of Cataract Gorge. Suzanne Turner and Emily Sanzaro: Electric Violins Karlin Love and Jon Addison: weird small instruments With ecologist Jesse Lewis and Physicist Jason Dicker

String Theory - “Physics meets music tour" As part of Science Week, String Theory is a science-inspired music program with conversations about creating music based on scientific ideas. In particular, this program explores ideas about string theory from former Tasmanian physicist, Bill Spence in his recent book Everything Is Now.

Electric violinists, Suzanne Turner and Emily Sanzaro play a new piece by composer Karlin Love celebrating Bill's book. Physics teacher, Jason Dicker, and Karlin will discuss the ideas and how Karlin turned them into music.

The program will also include 'Pathway T(w)o' - a collection of duets for unusual small instruments played by Jon Addison and Karlin Love. The program will include projected images from the Gorge, featuring macro-photography by Wendy Miller.

String Theory - “Physics meets music tour" As part of Science Week, String Theory is a science-inspired music program with conversations about creating music based on scientific ideas. In particular, this program explores ideas about string theory from former Tasmanian physicist, Bill Spence in his recent book Everything Is Now.

Electric violinists, Suzanne Turner and Emily Sanzaro play a new piece by composer Karlin Love celebrating Bill's book. Physics teacher, Jason Dicker, and Karlin will discuss the ideas and how Karlin turned them into music.

The program will also include 'Pathway T(w)o' - a collection of duets for unusual small instruments played by Jon Addison and Karlin Love. The program will include projected images from the Gorge, featuring macro-photography by Wendy Miller.

BEACH PROJECT Part 2 | Field recordings from Nine Mile Beach on Tasmania’s East Coast. Rhythms and melodic themes inspired by bird calls, sounds from the sea, occasional interjections from the 4 legged research and meditation companions. VIOLINS + RECORDINGS + LOOPING

The Ross Arts Festival group present Symphonies for Summer performed by Camerata Obscura, the Tasmanian Camerata, directed by Christopher Bearman OAM. The program will feature Symphony No 49 in F minor by Franz Joseph Haydn and Symphony No 29 in A major by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Be part of the live studio audience as we record the newly commissioned work mulaka milaythina (the Hunting Ground), by Nunami Sculthorpe Green ( spoken word), Louise Denson (composer and piano) and an eight piece chamber-jazz ensemble.

At 6.05pm World Premiere mulaka milaythina ( the Hunting Ground) A new work from Nunami Sculthorpe Green ( spoken word), Louise Denson (composer and piano) and an eight piece chamber-jazz ensemble.