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24
Mar
2026

Artist Talk | Harriet Schwarzrock

Gallery

Please join us for a special Art & Design Forum hosted in the School of Art & Design Gallery. Harriet Schwarzrock will present an artist talk and discussion exploring her PhD project, Eliciting Plasma Illumination as a Responsive and Relational Medium within Blown Glass. All welcome. …

17
Mar
2026

Art & Design Forum | Sary Zananiri

Art forum

Photographing Biblical Modernity: Frank Scholten in British Mandate PalestineNote: The venue has been changed to SRWB Seminar Room 3.Drawing on Zananiri’s new book of the same name, this presentation revisits the extraordinary archive of queer Dutch photographer and Catholic convert Frank Scholten…

10
Mar
2026

Art & Design Forum | Brianne Cohen

Art forum

The Empathic Lens: Art, Animism, and Ecology in Contemporary Southeast AsiaThis talk will introduce my forthcoming book, The Empathic Lens: Art, Animism, and Ecology in Contemporary Southeast Asia (University of Minnesota Press, fall 2026). Examining a range of photography and video work, The…

10
Mar
2026

Eliciting Plasma Illumination as a Responsive and Relational Medium within Blown Glass | Harriet Schwarzrock

Gallery

Officially opened by Head of School of Art & Design, Geoff Hinchcliffe. Drawing on the dual etymology of plasma as both a luminous state of matter and a vascular component of blood, I create blown-glass objects that explore the boundaries between object and observer through intimate,…

27
Feb
2026

Enlighten Beyond at Mt Stromlo: A 13.8 Billion Year Adventure

Arts & entertainment

As part of Canberra’s Enlighten Festival, Mount Stromlo Observatory will become a luminous meeting point of art and astronomy. Enlighten Beyond at Mt Stromlo invites visitors to explore our connection to the cosmos through projections and immersive experiences set against the observatory’s…

12
Feb
2026

Sharing Stories Arts Exchange

Exhibition

The Sharing Stories Arts Exchange exhibition features work by Canberra based artists working across a variety of mediums as they respond to their learnings and experiences of the 2025 Sharing Stories Arts Exchange. Sharing Stories is a creative participatory project focused on building…

03
Dec
2025

Grad Show Tour for College Students & Teachers

Tour

Join us for a special tour of the School of Art & Design 2025 Grad Show designed to welcome Secondary School teachers, students and parents to the exhibition and School.  You will meet graduating students and hear about their experience studying at SOA&D, the work they have…