Undergraduate
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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.
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.
Visual Art Courses
Areas of Study
At undergraduate level, artists work within four distinct mediums: Drawing and Printmaking, Painting, Sculpture and Spatial Practice, 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.
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Our people - Graduate, Honours, Breadth
Margaret Lawrence Gallery
I haven’t studied in an institution for a long time so I was nervous about coming back, but I’ve so far been encouraged to find that although it’s quite a formidable establishment the VCA is populated with many creative, flexible and giving individuals. There are great facilities, the lecturers are accessible and generous with their time, and much of the work the other students are doing is exciting.
Casey JenkinsMaster of Contemporary Art student
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The Stables Studios: Artist-Led Tours
Saturday 27 Jul 2019 at 11:00am
Open to the public for the very first time at Open House Melbourne 2019, following a multimillion-dollar makeover, the former Victoria Police Mounted Branch Stables have been reimagined as a best-in-class facility for learning and creative collaboration.
Designed by Kerstin Thompson Architects, ...
First Commissions Exhibition
Saturday 27 Jul 2019 at 10:00am
On Open House Weekend, you can be among the first to see our landmark exhibition First Commissions in the Martyn Myer Arena, after a successful launch in Florence. The exhibition features 30 of the University of Melbourne’s most exciting emerging artists, who have interpreted briefs inspired by worl...
The Stables Studios: Artist-Led Tours
Sunday 28 Jul 2019 at 11:00am
Open to the public for the very first time at Open House Melbourne 2019, following a multimillion-dollar makeover, the former Victoria Police Mounted Branch Stables have been reimagined as a best-in-class facility for learning and creative collaboration.
Designed by Kerstin Thompson Architects, ...
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