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Grad.Show.2019
-This years graduate exhibition presents works from graduating students from Drawing and Printmaking, Painting, Photography, and Sculpture, as well as those graduating fro...- Margaret Lawrence Gallery
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Hope Dies Last
-Hope Dies Last: Art at the End of Optimism is a curated exhibition of Australian and international contemporary art presented across two sites, Gertrude Contemporary and the M...- Exhibition
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Conscious Intuition
-Conscious intuition presents new sculptures by Brisbane based Eugene Carchesio and new paintings by Melbourne-based Diena Georgetti. Since they emerged in the 1980s, both high...- Exhibition
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2019 Majlis Travelling Scholarship
-The Majlis Travelling Scholarship is open to third (final) year undergraduate students at the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, School of Art. A travelling scholarship of $10,00...- Exhibition
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2019 Keith and Elisabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship
-This exhibition presents works by the finalists of the Keith and Elisabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship. This award of $25,000 allows the recipient to travel overseas in 2020...- Exhibition
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Angela Tiatia: The Fall
-Angela Tiatia’s compelling video The Fall draws from oral and written accounts of the survivors of the fall of Singapore in February of 1942. Commissioned by The Au...- Exhibition
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Lin Onus: Eternal Landscape
-The work of Yorta Yorta artist and activist Lin Onus (1948-1996) is a blend of traditional and contemporary imagery. Photorealist painted landscapes are overlaid with intricat...- Exhibition
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Manifesto
-Manifesto brings together the collaborative works of art that declare the intentions, motives and views of staff teams at the VCA. Manifesto displays the works of the Painting...- Exhibition
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Katie Lee: Objects and Tool Things
-Objects and Tool Things is a practice based research emerges from the intersection between two ongoing preoccupations: how to exhibit spatio-temporalart practices in such a wa...- Exhibition
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Vanessa Godden: Embodying Entanglement
-Embodying Entanglement is a solo exhibition showcasing works from Vanessa Godden’s practice-led PhD project. The artworks in this exhibition depict how material engageme...- Exhibition
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2018 Victorian College of the Arts Masters Exhibition
-Presented by graduating students from the Master of Contemporary Art and Master of Fine Art. Audiences will navigate a dynamic exhibition beginning in the Margaret Lawrence Ga...- Exhibition
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2018 Victorian College of the Arts Graduate Exhibition
-An annual exhibition showcasing work by graduating students from Drawing, Painting, Photography, Sculpture and Honours at the VCA School of Art. Featuring the work of more tha...- Exhibition
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Consuelo Cavaniglia: between and among objects
-between and among objects focuses on how we see and perceive space. The work considers the act of looking, visual trajectories, perspective, and visual illusions. Screens, mir...- Exhibition
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2018 Majlis Travelling Scholarship
-The Majlis Travelling Scholarship's purpose is to assist and inspire artists to achieve their full creative potential through the opportunity to travel overseas following the...- Exhibition
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David Batchelor: Colour Is
-In his projection work Colour Is, David Batchelor presents a series of quotes about colour by artists, writers, critics and curators. Batchelor has been collecting one se...- Exhibition
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Yours Internally
-Organic kale, yoga mats, adult colouring-in books, active wear – the lifestyle accessories of our time. New found peace or a reaction to something darker? Yours Int...- Exhibition
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Overdrawn
-Drawing can be seen to have its origins in the space between pictures and text. Perhaps at some point in history, drawing and writing may even have once been one and the...- Exhibition
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Monochrome: Empty and Full
-‘Monochrome art has two origins: the mystical and the concrete. Its evolution in the 20th century illustrates the divide between the spiritual quest for transcendental e...- Exhibition
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On View: Thinking Bodies, Dancing Minds
-Concerned with the act of seeing and being seen, On View is a series of video portraits of Australian dance artists. Exploring the dimensions of portraiture and how we vi...- Exhibition
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In between: notions of transition and the intermediary
-Each of the works in In between: notions of transition and the intermediary reveals a shifting or transitional space between two states. Highlighting the blurry zone in w...- Exhibition
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Chris Bond: Kraken
-Kraken exhibits process and material outcomes from Chris Bond’s PhD research into the role of dissociation in the visual arts, in which he charts the potential of a...- Exhibition
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Stephen Palmer: The Anxiety of the Relation
-Stephen Palmer's PhD project utilises video, text and photography to explore the function of the image as a prosthetic means of perception, in terms of its relation to subject...- Exhibition
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Stieg Persson: How we live now
-In contemporary Australia, a process of aestheticization has seen traditional artistic characteristics incorporated into all aspects of daily middle class life and amongst man...- Exhibition
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Sally Smart: The Choreography of Cutting
-Sally Smart conceives of the studio space as analogous to a rehearsal space—a site where she can choreograph the myriad ideas and elements that form her work, and test t...- Exhibition
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REMEDY
-Jon Campbell, eminent VCA Alumna and former staff member has curated two programs of performance by alumna, staff, current students. For over 15 years, Campbell’s REMEDY...- Exhibition
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2017 Majlis Travelling Scholarship
-This exhibition presents the work of shortlisted third year students from the School of Art. The travelling scholarship of $10,000 allows the recipient of the award to travel...- Exhibition
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2017 Keith and Elisabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship
-This exhibition presents work by finalists for the Keith and Elisabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship. This award of $25,000 allows the recipient to travel overseas in 2018. Op...- Exhibition
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Elmedin Zunic: The Bosnian Case
-The Bosnian Case: Art, History and Memory will look into ways contemporary art negotiates history and memory. In particular, historical trauma through case studies of the conf...- Exhibition
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9 x 5 NOW
-9 X 5 NOW showcases generations of practicing artists who have studied or taught at the National Gallery School or VCA Art. The most experienced artist represented attended th...- Exhibition
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Restless
-Restless comprises of recent works by Megan Evans, Karla Dickens, Jordan Marani, Nick Devlin and Danie Mellor. These works are a presented as a counterpoint to a suite of 'wel...- Exhibition
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