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Art & Design Forum

Art & Design Forum brings together staff, students, alumni, and friends across the sector to share the latest work in artistic practice, design, and art-historical scholarship in a program of lunchtime talks. Find more.

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13
Oct
2026

2026 Drawing Prize

Gallery

The ANU School of Art & Design Drawing Prize showcases and celebrates the breadth and depth of drawing practice within the ANU School of Art & Design. The Prize is an annual event open to all current students enrolled in one or more courses in Semester 2 at the ANU School of Art &…

19
Oct
2026

Art & Design Forum | Gillian Daniel

Art forum

Making Waves: Long Nineteenth-Century Maritime Pictures and the Straits of Malacca and SingaporeHDR Oral Presentation This dissertation will examine maritime pictures of the Straits of Malacca and Singapore made in the British empire during the long nineteenth century. By ‘maritime pictures’,…

19
Oct
2026

Art & Design Forum | Yixin (Leo) Chen

Art forum

A Study of Creative Approaches in Multi-colour Clay 3D Printing: From Invisible Rules to Material ImageHDR Confirmation of Candidature PresentationThis research explores the expressive possibilities of material images through multi-colour clay 3D printing. It grows out of my ceramic practice and an…

21
Oct
2026

Circulating Empire Eugenics: Masculinity & Maternity c.1900

Art forum

In 1888, two major figure paintings were acquired from the Paris Salon for the nascent Art Gallery of New South Wales. What role might Gaston La Touche’s First Born (L’Acouchée, 1887) and François Sallé’s The Anatomy Lesson at the École des Beaux-Arts (1888) have played in the early visual…

27
Oct
2026

Art & Design Forum | Freddy Tsimba and Cecilia Järdemar

Seminar

Material Witnesses:  Freddy Tsimba in conversation with Cecilia Järdemar Internationally acclaimed Congolese sculptor Freddy Bienvenu Tsimba is known for his powerful works created from found and discarded materials, including bullet casings, keys, spoons and machetes. Born in Kinshasa,…

03
Nov
2026

Peripheral Visions

Lecture/seminar

The periphery is always someone else’s centre, and the distinctions constructed in our field between the local and the international have always been rather awkward. Furthermore, rural or urban conditions of production don’t necessarily contradict those we find in the big city or in the centre.…

04
Nov
2026

Art & Design Forum | Emily Hunt

Lecture/seminar

Poppets and Puppets: Articulations of Analog and Animistic Intelligence with Emily HuntEmily Hunt creates ornamental, figurative ceramics. Her history as a rare book dealer has informed her encyclopaedic approach to her art making. Through drawing, painting, etching, and ceramics, Hunt investigates…