Cascade Funnel-Web Vivarium

InsideOUT

InsideOUT

Hobart has a talented pool of arts practitioners, but small gallery spaces, suited to solo shows, installations or performative works are limited. Creative Hobart's ongoing purpose is to make creative experiences and opportunities available and readily accessible to all – artists and audiences.

InsideOUT supports this aim by taking the art OUT, but keeping it Inside.

In this program, all works are contained within the Creative Hobart's new public art platform, InsideOUT, comprised of two portable 'cube' galleries, offering a clean, weatherproof, locked space to display creative work of all suitable kinds.

Our first artist for the program is Matthew Stolp, with Cascade Funnel-Web Vivarium.

Cascade Funnel-Web Vivarium, 2024, Matthew Stolp

Cascade Funnel-Web Vivarium

Exhibiting and performing from 6 March - 21 April 2024.

Artist Statement

Matthew Stolp

The now extinct, Cascade Funnel-Web was located on Muwinina land and Palawa people would have deeply understood the habitat and behaviour of this endemic arachnid. There is little documented evidence of the Cascade Funnel-Web. It was recorded by Vernon Victor Hickman in 1926 and has not been sighted since. Hickman found two spider burrows in the soft bank of a creek at Cascades. He sketched a spider, eggs and a silken funnel web.

In this family-friendly performance, watch the last remaining Cascade Funnel Web weave his home; hoping to catch food or perhaps it's a lonely attempt to attract a mate.

Artist biography

Matthew Stolp is an Arts Educator, Actor, Character Performer, Screenwriter, and Visual Artist with over thirty years' experience in the creative arts. He is a Senior Secondary Art and Drama teacher and Head of Faculty for the Arts at Guilford Young College. Matthew has worked professionally for Blue Cow Theatre, the Tasmanian Theatre company, MONA, SBS and the ABC. He is the recipient of several awards for his creative work including two Tasmanian Theatre Awards for performance and design.

Performance schedule

Pop by InsideOUT at one of the following times and you might just catch a sighting of the Cascade Funnel-Web in their vivarium.

  • Wednesday 6 March | 4 - 5 pm
  • Friday 8 March | 3.30 - 4.30 pm
  • Friday 15 March | 3.30 - 4.30 pm
  • Monday 18 March | 4 - 5 pm
  • Wednesday 20 March | 4 - 5 pm
  • Friday 22 March | 3.30 - 4.30 pm
  • Monday 25 March | 4 - 5 pm
  • Wednesday 27 March | 4 - 5 pm
  • Wednesday 3 April | 4 - 5 pm
  • Friday 5 April | 3.30 - 4.30 pm
  • Monday 8 April | 4 - 5 pm
  • Friday 12 April | 3.30 - 4.30 pm
  • Monday 15 April | 4 - 5 pm
  • Wednesday 17 April | 9 - 10 am
  • Friday 19 April | 3.30 - 4.30 pm

Performance times are subject to change.

Find out more about the whole InsideOUT program here:

InsideOUT

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