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.
Shifting Space
Gallery
Shifting Space presents works by artists who have used print practices and methods to tell stories and ask questions about the sometimes steadfast, often shifting, relations with the land, sea and skies of this continent. It considers the defining conditions of print - contact and pressure -…
Akomanga Raranga | Weaving Workshop with Alexander Sarsfield at Canberra Spinners and Weavers
Workshop
Join Alexander Sarsfield in a Māori weaving workshop to be guided through Māori cultural protocols and the making of a woven putiputi (flower). The only catch? Alex will be conducting this workshop entirely in the Māori language. No language or weaving experience required. Nau mai…
The Price of Blood: Zhang Huan’s 65 Kilograms and China’s HIV/AIDS Crisis
Lecture/seminar
This lecture revisits Zhang Huan’s 65 Kilograms (1994), a visceral performance in which the artist hung suspended while his blood slowly dripped onto a hot plate, filling the room with the smell of coagulation. Situating the performance within China’s 1990s plasma economy and the HIV/AIDS…
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 &…
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…
2026 Grad Show
Gallery
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…