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Past exhibitions

  • Mario Garcia Torres: The Way They Looked at Each Other 2012

    24 Apr 2020 - 23 May 2020
    The Way They Looked at Each Other is a 38-minute visual essay on the tangential use of photography, the significance of the delay implicit in revisiting any photographic snaps...
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  • EVOCATIONS

    6 Mar 2020 - 9 Apr 2020
    Evocations highlights the ways in which Liam Benson, Nicholas Folland, Helen Shelley, Lonnie Hutchinson, Nick Tsiavos & Deborah Kayser and Kellie Wells articulate the invi...
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  • Altarepistemologies

    25 Feb 2020 - 29 Feb 2020
    Alterepistemologies: Leanne HermosillaAltarepistemologies: Hekate Lilen Iris Hermosilla Alterepistemologies Altarepistemologies presents PhD research that has utilised magic...
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  • Rebecca Najdowski: Inverted Landscapes

    17 Feb 2020 - 21 Feb 2020
    Rebecca Najdowski: Inverted Landscapes Inverted Landscapes addresses how photomedia has traditionally shaped nature to humanity’s desire — reducing the animate wor...
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  • Art Schools for Fire Relief

    30 Jan 2020 - 1 Feb 2020
    Margaret Lawrence Gallery in collaboration with artists from Deakin University, Monash University, RMIT University and VCA, University of Melbourne invites you to a sale of do...
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  • Grad.Show.2019

    5 Dec 2019 - 15 Dec 2019
    This years graduate exhibition presents works from graduating students from Drawing and Printmaking, Painting, Photography, and Sculpture, as well as those graduating fro...
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  • Hope Dies Last

    18 Oct 2019 - 16 Nov 2019
    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...
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  • Conscious Intuition

    6 Sep 2019 - 5 Oct 2019
    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...
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  • 2019 Majlis Travelling Scholarship

    1 Aug 2019 - 24 Aug 2019
    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...
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  • 2019 Keith and Elisabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship

    5 Jul 2019 - 27 Jul 2019
    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...
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  • Angela Tiatia: The Fall

    24 May 2019 - 30 Jun 2019
    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...
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  • Lin Onus: Eternal Landscape

    5 Apr 2019 - 11 May 2019
    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...
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  • Manifesto

    8 Mar 2019 - 23 Mar 2019
    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...
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  • Katie Lee: Objects and Tool Things

    26 Feb 2019 - 1 Mar 2019
    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...
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  • Vanessa Godden: Embodying Entanglement

    19 Feb 2019 - 22 Feb 2019
    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...
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  • 2018 Victorian College of the Arts Masters Exhibition

    4 Dec 2018 - 9 Dec 2018
    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...
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  • 2018 Victorian College of the Arts Graduate Exhibition

    20 Nov 2018 - 25 Nov 2018
    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...
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  • Consuelo Cavaniglia: between and among objects

    5 Oct 2018 - 4 Nov 2018
    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...
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  • 2018 Majlis Travelling Scholarship

    31 Aug 2018 - 22 Sep 2018
    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...
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  • Yours Internally

    27 Jul 2018 - 25 Aug 2018
    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...
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  • David Batchelor: Colour Is

    27 Jul 2018 - 25 Aug 2018
    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...
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  • Overdrawn

    12 Jun 2018 - 14 Jul 2018
    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...
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  • Monochrome: Empty and Full

    4 May 2018 - 3 Jun 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...
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  • On View: Thinking Bodies, Dancing Minds

    13 Apr 2018 - 28 Apr 2018
    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...
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  • In between: notions of transition and the intermediary

    2 Mar 2018 - 8 Apr 2018
    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...
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  • Chris Bond: Kraken

    21 Feb 2018 - 24 Feb 2018
    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...
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  • Stephen Palmer: The Anxiety of the Relation

    14 Feb 2018 - 17 Feb 2018
    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...
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  • Stieg Persson: How we live now

    7 Feb 2018 - 10 Feb 2018
    In contemporary Australia, a process of aestheticization has seen traditional artistic characteristics incorporated into all aspects of daily middle class life and amongst man...
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