Located just several hundred kilometers across the Bass Strait from Naarm / Melbourne, Takayna is Australia’s largest temperate rainforest. Despite its global significance, the ancient forests of Takayna face threats from mining and logging. 

‘Art for Takayna 2024’ at the Long Gallery is a powerful display at the intersection of visual arts and environmental activism, showcasing the natural splendour of Tasmania’s Takayna / Tarkine and the critical conservation efforts it demands.

The exhibition features artworks by creative locals of North West Tasmania, representing all ages and all abilities. It’s a celebration of diversity, imagination, and the wonderful talent that exists within our region.

Art in takayna - a call to action and visual reminder of what is at stake, and what we stand to lose. 

Last Easter, more than fifty artists immersed themselves in the threatened forests, coastlines and rivers of the takayna / Tarkine.

Finally, after COVID-postponements,
the Bob Brown Foundation are pleased to present to you the body of artwork developed from that experience.

Burrinja’s creative response to the devastating June storm event.

A journey through takayna, from Gondwana, Aboriginal Living Culture, Industrial Destruction, Defenders and a vision of future hope.

Art in all its forms plays a fundamental role in encouraging people to recognise the intrinsic value of wilderness, and to want to protect nature in its own right. Art has played an integral part in changing the hearts and minds of people, from the Franklin River to the Galilee Basin, and indeed to takayna / Tarkine where hundreds of artists return yearly to our Tarkine in Motion field trip. Spread across three days, Artivism + takayna will bring together international, national and local artists for a broad range of workshops, panel discussions, artist talks and film screenings.

A retrospective of the last five Tarkine in Motion exhibitions featuring over 35 contributing artists.

Frontlines is an exploration of environmental activism and protest across Australia

Tim's work has captured the spirit of this wild place, showcasing the timelessness of the rainforests, the raw fury of the southern ocean coastline and the delicate beauty of the mosses and fungi that paint the detail of this landscape. His work has featured heavily in the Bob Brown Foundation campaign to defend this local treasure.

Tarkine in Motion 2019 exhibition is showcasing the threatened takayna / Tarkine through the work of 90 artists from Tasmania and interstate. These artists immersed in the wild and ancient takayna / Tarkine in Tasmania's north-west in 2018 over Easter.

"Dear kunanyi" is about our relationship with the mountain, its importance to our city and its presence in our lives. We are creating a patchwork quilt of experiences, thrown around us just when the winter is the darkest, and we need it most.

The Bob Brown Foundation is campaigning for 450 000 hectares of takayna / Tarkine declared a National Park and World Heritage Area. In April 2017 more than 100 artists ventured for 72 hours into the Tarkine – these are their inspired creations.

An exhibition of Photography, Art, and Craft works which have been inspired by Fungi that has been found mainly in Tasmania's amazing West Coast Wilderness.

The Tarkine, spanning 450 000 ha of diverse landscape, offers aesthetic qualities that encourage contemplation, reflection and refreshment of the soul. The art in this exhibition is the result of the creative minds working to protect this area and offers an expression of takayna / Tarkine's values which, though often framed in scientific terms, also reflects emotional responses to this wild landscape.

This is the spectacular showing of art from Tarkine in Motion 2016.
120 artists ventured into takayna / Tarkine with Bob Brown Foundation. Here are their creations.

Tarkine in Motion exhibition in Brisbane will be opening on the 1st of July at 6pm. Bob Brown Foundation is working to spread the campaign to protect takayna / Tarkine to the nation. A threatened, wild, ancient place, takayna / Tarkine needs the support of many of you.