Andrew Sayers Memorial Lecture with Robert Wellington
Artist talk
Australia is a nation that thrives on competition. We celebrate our champions with awards and accolades from the sporting stadium to the big screen. No field is immune from our desire for excellence, least of all the arts, where most galleries, big or small, draw attention to themselves and their…
Melita Dahl | Deadpan artefacts: creative experiments with facial expression recognition in photographic portraiture
Gallery
Over the past three decades, photography has evolved from its traditional role as an indexical imprint of the world into a fluid, computational space shaped by digital transformation. Within this context, the photographic portrait both as a historical art form and a site for computer vision offers…
Material Causality: A Practice-Led Inquiry into the Aleatory Operations of Concrete | Ren Gregorčič
Gallery
Concrete is among the most widely used materials on Earth, second only to water in global consumption. It forms footpaths, bridges, building foundations, dam walls, and the hydrological networks that span a continuum from everyday surfaces to continental-scale infrastructure. Operating across…
Christine & Stephen Procter Interdisciplinary Craft Symposium 2026
Symposium
This symposium will demonstrate how digital tools can advance creative, cultural, and making practices. It also interrogates a broader definition of technology as any purposeful transformation of material, the value of ingenuity, and implications on ecology. Focusing on glass and ceramics, we will…
Plant Discovery and Art-making at Wanniassa Hills Reserve
Workshop
AboutJoin Dr Rebecca Mayo and Professor Mitchell Whitelaw and explore Wanniassa Hills Reserve through plant discovery and art-making. Observe, learn and create with the plants and other inhabitants of Wanniassa Hills Reserve. This activity combines hands-on making with digital tools…
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.…
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…