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Hope Dies Last
October 18 2019Hope 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
- Margaret Lawrence Gallery
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Conscious Intuition
September 6 2019Conscious 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
- Margaret Lawrence Gallery
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2019 Majlis Travelling Scholarship
August 1 2019The 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
- Margaret Lawrence Gallery
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2019 Keith and Elisabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship
July 5 2019This 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
- Margaret Lawrence Gallery
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Angela Tiatia: The Fall
May 24 2019Angela 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
- Margaret Lawrence Gallery
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Lin Onus: Eternal Landscape
April 5 2019The 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
- Margaret Lawrence Gallery
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Manifesto
March 8 2019Manifesto 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
- Margaret Lawrence Gallery
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Katie Lee: Objects and Tool Things
February 26 2019Objects 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
- Margaret Lawrence Gallery
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Vanessa Godden: Embodying Entanglement
February 19 2019Embodying 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
- Margaret Lawrence Gallery
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2018 Victorian College of the Arts Graduate Exhibition
November 20 2018An 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
- Margaret Lawrence Gallery
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Consuelo Cavaniglia: between and among objects
October 5 2018between 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
- Margaret Lawrence Gallery
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2018 Majlis Travelling Scholarship
August 31 2018The 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
- Margaret Lawrence Gallery
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David Batchelor: Colour Is
July 27 2018In 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
- Margaret Lawrence Gallery
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Yours Internally
July 27 2018Organic 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
- Margaret Lawrence Gallery
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Overdrawn
June 12 2018Drawing 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
- Margaret Lawrence Gallery
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Monochrome: Empty and Full
May 4 2018‘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
- Margaret Lawrence Gallery
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On View: Thinking Bodies, Dancing Minds
April 13 2018Concerned 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
- Margaret Lawrence Gallery
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In between: notions of transition and the intermediary
March 2 2018Each 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
- Margaret Lawrence Gallery
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Chris Bond: Kraken
February 21 2018Kraken 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
- Margaret Lawrence Gallery
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Stephen Palmer: The Anxiety of the Relation
February 14 2018Stephen 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
- Margaret Lawrence Gallery
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2018 Victorian College of the Arts Masters Exhibition
February 9 2018An annual exhibition showcasing work by graduating students from Masters of Contemporary Art and Masters of Fine Art at the VCA School of Art....- Exhibition
- Margaret Lawrence Gallery
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Stieg Persson: How we live now
February 7 2018In contemporary Australia, a process of aestheticization has seen traditional artistic characteristics incorporated into all aspects of daily middle class life and amongst man...- Exhibition
- Margaret Lawrence Gallery
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Sally Smart: The Choreography of Cutting
October 6 2017Sally 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
- Margaret Lawrence Gallery
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REMEDY
September 7 2017Jon 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
- Margaret Lawrence Gallery
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2017 Majlis Travelling Scholarship
August 11 2017This 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
- Margaret Lawrence Gallery
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2017 Keith and Elisabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship
July 14 2017This 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
- Margaret Lawrence Gallery
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Elmedin Zunic: The Bosnian Case
June 30 2017The 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
- Margaret Lawrence Gallery
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9 x 5 NOW
June 16 20179 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
- Margaret Lawrence Gallery
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Restless
May 19 2017Restless 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
- Margaret Lawrence Gallery
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Lauren Berkowitz: Bottles
April 12 2017The original version of Bottles was shown in 1994. In 2017, Bottles is even more potent incorporating issues associated with waste, consumerism, recycling, cultural consumptio...- Exhibition
- Margaret Lawrence Gallery