Past events
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…
Kate Fullagar | The Modern Saga and Forgotten History of Reynolds’ Mai Portrait
Seminar
This event will be held both on-campus and online. 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 significance [as a]…
Campus Couture: Foraged Fashion. 'We are dyeing to end Fast Fashion'
Exhibition
Plants & Place Textiles Course presents: Campus Couture: Foraged FashionWe are dyeing to end Fast Fashion Please join us as we celebrate and catwalk upcycled garments we have dyed with plant matter sourced on campus from The Kitchen Garden; Coombs surrounds, Research School of Biology &…
Lunchtime Concert in the School of Art & Design
Event
Please join us for a free lunchtime concert in Project Space, featuring Vocal Fry, a youth chamber choir from the Community Music Centre. Bring your lunch, seating provided. The Community Music Centre is funded by a Community Outreach grant from artsACT, and provides developing…
Beth O'Sullivan | Design with and for Nature
Seminar
This event will be held both on-campus and online Beth is a transdisciplinary designer who works at the intersection of design, ecology, engineering, and emerging technologies. Her practice explores the symbiotic relationships between human and non-human species. With an academic foundation in…
GHOSTLAND, exhibition with Julie Gough
Gallery
Dr Julie Gough is the recipient of the 2022 H.C Coombs Creative Arts Indigenous Fellowship. Shining a spotlight on the representation of Aboriginal histories, Tasmanian artist, writer and curator Dr Julie Gough, a Trawlwoolway woman, draws on her Aboriginal…