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.
2026 Drawing Prize
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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 &…
Clocks for Seeing: Daguerreotypes and the materiality of time
Lecture/seminar
When we speak about photography’s material conditions, we usually mean to encompass the changing array of physical properties and capacities that have made the medium possible. However, it is important to also consider a crucial non-physical condition that has mediated the appearance of every…
EYES WIDE SHUT: A History of Photography
Lecture/seminar
A trend on Instagram involves celebrities posting photographs that capture them with their eyes closed. But, of course, such photographs are nothing new. Amateur photographers, for example, have regularly captured people blinking ever since the introduction of hand-held cameras. However, the…
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…
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.…
2026 Grad Show
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The 2026 Graduating Exhibition showcases the work of students completing undergraduate, honours and postgraduate coursework programs at the Australian National University School of Art & Design.Exhibition dates: Saturday 28 November - Sunday 06 December 2026Open daily 10am - 4pm www…