Past events
Tree Planting Ceremony to Celebrate the Dye & Fibre Garden
Other
We are delighted to invite you to a special tree planting event to celebrate the launch of the Dye & Fibre Garden, a collaborative project between the Landscape & Conservation Team and the School of Art & Design. Date: Thursday, 21st NovemberTime: 11:30 AMLocation: Dye & Fibre…
Helen Hughes | An Absence of Conviction: On the Apparent Lack of Convicts Depicted in Early Colonial Art
Seminar
This event will be held both on-campus and online It is often said that convicts are largely invisible in early colonial Australian art. This is intriguing, because convicts were one of the main groups of artists working in Van Diemen’s Land and New South Wales to record the development of the…
Jeffrey Sarmiento | Export Quality
Seminar
This event will be held both on-campus and online Jeffrey Sarmiento is a glass artist and Senior Lecturer at the School of Art & Design at the Australian National University, where he is Head of Glass. Educated at the Rhode Island School of Design USA and the University of Sunderland UK where…
British art, Pacific subjects, Contemporary values
Workshop
A public lecture and following workshop, convened by Prof. Kate Fullagar. In March 2023 the longstanding battle for ownership of Joshua Reynolds’ Portrait of Mai (1775) was resolved. After more than two decades of struggle to retain the work in public British hands for its “historical…
Penelope Jackson | Cataloguing the Crimes Against William Dobell’s Artistic Legacy
Seminar
This event will be held both on-campus and online Many will consider the biggest art crime committed against Sir William Dobell’s artistic career was being dragged through the courts in 1944 following his Archibald Portrait Prize win of the previous year. However, predating this now famous event,…
Penelope Jackson | Cataloguing the Crimes Against William Dobell’s Artistic Legacy
Seminar
Many will consider the biggest art crime committed against Sir William Dobell’s artistic career was being dragged through the courts in 1944 following his Archibald Portrait Prize win of the previous year. However, predating this now famous event, his work has been consistently subjected to an…
The Sharing Stories Arts Exchange Exhibition
Project Space
The exhibition features work by Canberra based artists working across a variety of mediums as they respond to their learnings and experiences of the 2024 Sharing Stories Arts Exchange. Sharing Stories is a creative participatory project focused on building positive reciprocal…