Visual Art

Our students are taught in an immersive, studio and workshop-based environment that offers artists the opportunity to develop their technical and conceptual skills across a wide range of methodologies.

Banner artwork: Indi Jennings and Alula McGlashan-Rabik

Study Visual Art at the VCA

Visual Art at the VCA focuses on independently led studio practice. You will be expected to develop studio projects that require investigation and experimentation with a range of concepts, materials, techniques and processes.

Critical and theoretical studies and professional arts practice skills subjects provide you with the skills to pursue the practice of a professional working artist, and allow you to critically engage in the debates of contemporary visual art.

Regular student exhibitions and the annual end-of-year exhibitions form an important part of the curriculum and offer the opportunity to engage the wider public in your work.

Areas of Study

At undergraduate level, artists work within four distinct mediums: Drawing and Printmaking, Painting, Sculpture, and Photography with the opportunity to explore all mediums through related studies subjects. Graduate students’ practice incorporates the methods and ideas of a variety of these mediums.

Critical and Theoretical Studies

Drawing and Printmaking

Painting

Photography

Sculpture

Visual Art Courses

Undergraduate

Visit the University of Melbourne course site to find out more on undergraduate courses

Graduate

Visit the University of Melbourne course site to find out more on graduate courses

VCA Art 2024 Graduate Exhibition

Take a virtual walk through of the recent VCA Art graduate exhibition and discover an interactive catalogue of our graduating students' work.

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Our people

Head of Art

Our people - Graduate, Honours, Breadth

Fiona and Sidney Myer Gallery

I never intended to pursue a career as an artist. But I knew art was something I was good at, and knew I wanted to go to university. So, I ended up pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts as an undergraduate. I fell in love with the art making process at university and was inspired by the way others pursued their craft.

Amina Briggs
Master of Contemporary Art student

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News

New exhibition Sounds of Clouds explores hidden worlds of clouds

13 May 2025
Project8 Gallery will this week launch the new exhibition Sounds of Clouds, a meditation on clouds and the limits of interpretation....
  • Visual Art
  • Victorian College of the Arts
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Floribunda: Capturing an entire world through flowers

15 April 2025
“In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends,” wrote the Japanese scholar and critic Okakura Kakuzō.Associate Professor David Sequeira from the Victorian C...
  • Visual Art
  • Victorian College of the Arts
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One-night-only exhibition Next to Nothing explores the limits of performance

19 March 2025
Project8 Gallery will this week host a special one-off exhibition exploring the nature of performance and its central role in the generation and presentation of the creative a...
  • Victorian College of the Arts
  • Research
  • Visual Art
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Events

Fiona and Sidney Myer Gallery Upcoming Exhibitions

Find upcoming exhibitions and events at the Fiona and Sidney Myer Gallery.

Faculty of Fine Arts and Music Events

Explore current and upcoming faculty events, exhibitions, concerts and series.

Showcase

Explore the 2023 VCA Art Grad Show – an extraordinary display of new art by more than 140 graduating students from our Sculpture, Photography, Painting, Drawing and Printmaking, Honours, Master of Contemporary Art, Masters of Fine Art, and PhD programs.

VCA Art Grad Show

VCA Art Grad Show features new works of art by over 140 graduates from Photography, Sculpture, Painting, Drawing and Printmaking, Honours, Master of Contemporary Art and Master of Fine Art.

VCA Art Catalogue

In this fourth iteration of our online catalogue, there are profiles on each graduate’s art practice and the Graduate Exhibition installation across the numerous Art Studios, the Stables, The Fiona and Sidney Myer Gallery and the Martyn Myer Arena.