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 -…
Shifting Space exhibition: In Conversation Event
Event
Join Shifting Space curators and exhibiting artists as they discuss the exhibition, their works and the expanded field of printmakingThis exhibition presents works by artists who have used print practices and methods to tell stories and ask questions about the sometimes steadfast, often shifting,…
Unearthed | Ceramic Charms with Cathy Zhang
Workshop
Join local artist Cathy Zhang in making ceramic charms inspired by the Unearthed: Chinese Funerary Ceramics from the National Gallery of Australia exhibition. Bookings essential.Cathy Zhang works across fields of ceramics, sculpture and contemporary jewellery. Her practice explores how…
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…