The Colour Chart
Research initiative addressing issues of race hierarchy and exclusion within Australia’s visual arts sector.
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2021
Gerwyn Davies: Plush
Exploring the expression of camp as an aesthetic strategy in photographic self-representation...
John Fries Award
The seven finalists of the 2021 John Fries Award present newly commissioned works.
INFRACTIONS
Feature length video installation platforming the struggles of Indigenous cultural workers...
Megan Cope: Fractures & Frequencies
Survey of works investigating listening practices and extractive industries in Australia.
The Colour Line: Archie Moore & W.E.B Du Bois
Works by Kamilaroi/Brisbane artist Archie Moore in dialogue with W.E.B. Du Bois (1868–1963).
2020
A&D ANNUAL 2020
The A&D ANNUAL is the largest national showcase of graduate contemporary art, design and...
Friendship as a Way of Life
Bringing together more than 20 artists and collaborative groups to explore queer kinship and...
Samuel Hodge: The Wit of the Staircase
Drawing on a twenty-year archive of artistic practice, Samuel Hodge presents an ambiguous and...
Skye Wagner: Opacity Shift
Skye Wagner’s photographs explore the circulation and digital malleability of contemporary...
'O le ūa na fua mai Manu'a
Through fresh fresh international perspectives, this exhibition endeavours to embody and awaken...
OFO HAKE: Koe Ngatu Teuteu 'o 'Akesa mo 'Isileli Fifita
This special project features a monumental ngatu (painted tapa) created by Tongan artist and...
Shivanjani Lal: Beta, ek story bathao
Shivanjani Lal is a twice-removed Fijian Indian Australian artist who works with archival images...
Wansolwara: One Salt Water
A series of exhibitions, performances and events from across the Pacific and throughout the...
2019
A&D ANNUAL 19
The largest and most diverse national showcase of graduate contemporary art, design and media...
Javier Téllez: NOSFERATU (The Undead)
'NOSFERATU (The Undead)' is a film installation by Venezuelan born, New York-based artist Javier...
The Big Anxiety
The Big Anxiety festival brings together artists, scientists and communities to question and re-...
Debra Porch: Art Should Make Life More Interesting Than Art
The work of Debra Porch explores the potency of memory and its ability to transform the ordinary...
Material Place: Reconsidering Australian Landscapes
'Material Place' gathers artists who are thinking through the materiality of the Australian...
Rachel O’Reilly: The Gas Imaginary
Using poetry, drawing, film and public lectures, Rachel O'Reilly addresses the install of...
Gemma Smith: Rhythm Sequence
The first career survey of Australian artist Gemma Smith traces the development of Smith’s...
Nicholas Aloisio-Shearer: Fragile Fantasy
The work of Nicholas Aloisio-Shearer considers the field of image production surrounding video...
Order of Events: Elliott Bryce Foulkes & Maria Smit
Multidisciplinary designers Elliott Bryce Foulkes and Maria Smit draw on a collaborative working...
Architecture Makes Us: Cinematic Visions of Sonia Leber & David Chesworth
This mid-career survey brings together six video works by the collaborative duo, exploring...
Oliver Beer: Impossible Composition
Oliver Beer’s practice engages with sound, architecture and the memory of objects. 'Impossible...
Zanny Begg: The Beehive
'The Beehive' is a non-linear experimental documentary exploring the unsolved murder of Sydney...
2018
Beth Dillon: Been There, Done That
How is the nomadic artist implicated in the promises and paradoxes of global mobility?
Chelsea Lehmann: The Articulate Surface
Synthesising art conservation imaging practices with painting techniques, Chelsea Lehmann's work...
David Eastwood: The Posthumous Studio
David Eastwood creatively re-imagines the late painter Francis Bacon’s London-based studio in...
Kynan Tan: Processing Data
Through digitally-generated visualisation and simulation, this exhibition draws attention to the...
Make Known: The Exquisite Order of Infinite Variation
Exploring ideas about design thinking and the creative process, across a range of media and...
Local Colour: Experiments in Nature
'Local Colour' features artists and designers with an interest in sustainable practices, local...
Christian Thompson: Ritual Intimacy
Christian Thompson works across photography, video, sculpture, performance and sound to explore...
Enough خلص Khalas: Contemporary Australian Muslim Artists
'Enough خلص Khalas' unapologetically explores the contemporary Australian Muslim experience,...
Bronwen Williams: In-audibility, In-visibility
Bronwen Williams works with sound and installation to explore the nuances of contemporary Asian-...
Mollie Rice: Threshold Aligning (Performing Place)
Mollie Rice works across site and studio to explore human spatiality and the contemporary city,...
Rachel Honnery: The Plastosystem
Rachel Honnery utilises a science-fiction lens to understand the transformative effects of...
In Your Dreams
The divide between rich and poor is widening, conflict and climate change are forcing people...
Tell: Contemporary Indigenous Photography
An exploration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander life, history and culture through a...
2017
Group Therapy: Mental Distress in a Digital Age
'Group Therapy' explores connections between mental health and the values, political conditions...
Snoösphere
'Snoösphere' is an expansive, responsive art installation that you can smell, feel, touch and...
Monika Behrens: Reimagining 17th-Century Dutch Still Life
This exhibition is a culmination of Monika Behrens’ research into 17th-century Dutch still life...
Morgan Veness: Mr. Jizolark’s Concrete Data
Working across sculpture, installation and drawing, Morgan Veness is interested in repurposing...
Paul Ogier: The Prohibited Zone
Paul Ogier works with photography to capture alternative views of Australian landscapes.
A Working Model of the World
From dioramas to dolls' houses, atomic models to cloud-chambers, mandalas to maquettes, 'A...
Still In My Mind: Gurindji Location, Experience and Visuality
'Still In My Mind' considers the ongoing impact of the Gurindji Walk-Off, a seminal event in...
Abdul Abdullah: Terms of Engagement
'Terms of Engagement' brings together recent works by Abdul Abdullah exploring the...
Penelope Benton: The Icing on the Cake
Penelope Benton’s collaborative practice with her partner Alexandra Clapham explores the...
EXIT
In an immersive, 360-degree installation, 'EXIT' visually correlates global human migratory...
2016
Georgia Wallace-Crabbe: The Earth and the Elements
'The Earth and the Elements' is an immersive five-channel film installation from Georgia Wallace...
John Akomfrah: Vertigo Sea
'Vertigo Sea' is a poetic meditation on humanity's relationship with the ocean fusing archival...
River Journey
Water is the planet’s most precious resource yet its health and profusion is increasingly...
Troubled Waters
This suite of interdisciplinary projects considers the impact of human activity and climate...
Deborah Kelly: Scenes from the Death of Books
Deborah Kelly is a Sydney-based artist whose work explores lineages of representation, politics...
John Lethbridge: Imaging the Void
'Imaging the Void: Making the Invisible Visible' is a series of...
Russell Lowe: Dark Machines
Russell Lowe is an artist, architect, computer programmer, filmmaker, and motorcycle rider. '...
The Patient
The Patient examines the embodied experience of the artist as medical patient and the medical...
Shona Illingworth: Lesions in the Landscape
'Lesions in the Landscape' is an exhibition by Danish-Scottish artist Shona Illingworth,...
Ink Remix: Contemporary Art from Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong
Contemporary ink art has emerged as one of the most significant and ubiquitous artistic trends...
Adrian Paci: The Column
An epic video installation by internationally acclaimed Albanian artist Adrian Paci.
Eva Vermandel: 40 Portraits
London-based photographer Eva Vermandel brings Sydney Festival's history to life with an...
2015
People Like Us
Exploring the interrelationship between art, technology and the human experience in the 21st...
The Streets of Papunya
Streets of Papunya: the re-invention of Papunya painting is the most ambitious showcase of...
Shelter Union
Informed by the disturbing rise of global crises requiring innovative solutions to urban space...
We are in Wonder LAND: New Experimental Art from Central Australia
Contemporary desert Aboriginal art is breaking new aesthetic and political ground as never...
Collection+: Shaun Gladwell
Collection+: Shaun Gladwell (SCAF Project 25) is an exhibition featuring more than 40...
2014
Amnesia Lab
Part exhibition, part forum and part science-art workshop, Amnesia Lab is a new kind of gallery...
Quo Vadis: The Last Drawing Show
Now that drawing no longer bears the burden of underwriting the fundamental unity of the visual...
Body Image
Body Image reveals new, compelling, arts-led modes of visualising complex scientific...
Feral Experimental: New Design Thinking
Testing the limits of possibility, Feral Experimental brings together leading creative...
The Skullbone Experiment
This exhibition is the result of a wilderness residency at Skullbone Plains, part of the...
Seoul – Sydney: Contemporary Korean and Australian Prints
Seoul – Sydney is the result of a cultural collaboration between UNSW Art & Design’s Cicada...
Conquest of Space: Science Fiction & Contemporary Art
Conquest of Space: Science Fiction & Contemporary Art reveals previously unexplored...
Edward Burtynsky: Un_Earthed
Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky...
Richard Mosse: The Enclave
Using an extinct type of infrared film once employed by the military, Richard Mosse documents...
Refiguring Dystopia: Richard Goodwin 1991–2012
This survey exhibition curated by Gavin Wilson traces Richard Goodwin's career as a sculptor and...
2013
Making Change
'Making Change' is an exhibition of innovative, change-making film...