In-Conversation: Contemporary Glass
During the United Nations International Year of Glass, we celebrate some of Australia’s most fascinating practitioners working with glass.
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2022
In Conversation: Gordon Hookey & Keith Munro
Learn about the practice of renowned Waanyi artist Gordon Hookey in conversation with Keith...
Performance: Primitive Motion
Join us for a live performance by Primitive Motion, the Brisbane-based duo of Sandra Selig and...
In Conversation: Sandra Selig & Hamish Sawyer
Learn about the work of Sandra Selig in a conversation with exhibition curator Hamish Sawyer.
Eucalyptus Dye Workshop
Learn how to dye fabric with local eucalyptus leaves, twigs, and bark.
In Conversation: Liz Williamson
Join Liz Williamson in conversation discussing local colour, cultural connections, and shared...
Exhibition Tour & Book Launch: Pliable Planes
Join co-curator Catherine Woolley for an intimate walkthrough of 'Pliable Planes', and celebrate...
In Conversation: Bic Tieu & Dr Kevin Murray
Join designer, maker, and researcher Bic Tieu in conversation with independent writer and...
In Conversation: Inoka Samarasekara & Dr Katherine Moline
Join jeweller and researcher Inoka Samarasekara in conversation with Associate Professor...
Tactile Tours: Pliable Planes
Experience the exhibition in an intimate tactile tour that utilises touch, sound, and audio...
Panel: Caring Textiles
Hear about circular textiles design from leading industry experts and researchers from Australia...
Talk: Weaving Eucalypts with Liz Williamson
Join Australian weaver Liz Williamson for a lunchtime talk, as she discusses her collaborative '...
Hidden in their Leaves: Eucalypts Dye Colours in Australia
Liz Williamson discusses the history of plant dye-making in Australia.
Panel: What is Curating?
Unpack the practice of curating with José Roca, Talia Linz and James Gatt in this panel...
Workshop: String Making with Katie West
Learn how to make hand-twisted string from found fabrics with Yindjibarndi artist Katie West.
Symposium: Starting at Zero
This one-day symposium explores the vast potentials of textiles as both a material and subject...
Exhibition Tour: #117 (Survey)
Join curator James Gatt for an intimate walkthrough of Elizabeth Pulie's first survey exhibition...
Exhibition Tour with Izabela Pluta
Join artist Izabela Pluta and exhibition curator José Da Silva for an intimate walkthrough of...
In-Conversation: Waves of Thought — Conceptual to Postconceptual Practice
James Gatt, Elizabeth Pulie and conceptual artist and cultural activist Ian Milliss discuss the...
In-Conversation: Crisis of the Contemporary
James Gatt and Elizabeth Pulie to discuss the challenges of approaching a definition of art in a...
In-Conversation: Izabela Pluta & Consuelo Cavaniglia
Learn more about the work of Izabela Pluta in a conversation with artist and curator Consuelo...
2021
In Conversation: Khadim Ali & Liz Nowell
Learn more about the work of Hazara artist Khadim Ali in a conversation with exhibition curator...
In Conversation: Sam Smith & Nella Aarne
Learn more about the work of Australian artist Sam Smith in a conversation with curator and...
Performance Lecture: The archive of we
This exhibition-history-birdwatching tour considers the knotted histories we find in archives...
Walking Tour: Urban Birdwatching and History
Join artist Fernando do Campo and Dr John Martin for an intimate birdwatching walking tour.
Exhibition Tour with Kirsten Coelho
Join Adelaide-based ceramicist Kirsten Coelho for an intimate tour of the ‘The Return’.
In Conversation: Fernando do Campo and Sophie O’Brien
Join Fernando do Campo in conversation with Sophie O'Brien, Head of Curatorial & Learning at...
Performance: Untitled (Death Song)
In this live performance, musicians activate Megan Cope's sound installation ‘Untitled (Death...
In Conversation: Melanie Jame Wolf with Miriam Kelly
Melanie Jame Wolf discusses her new work 'Acts of Improbable Genius' 2021 with curator Miriam...
In Conversation: Sara Morawetz with Miriam Kelly
Sara Morawetz discusses their ongoing project 'All My Anxieties' 2017– with curator Miriam Kelly...
In Conversation: Gerwyn Davies with Hamish Sawyer
Gerwyn Davies discusses camp as an aesthetic strategy in image-making with curator and writer...
John Fries Award: Artist Talks
As part of the John Fries Award opening weekend, join curator Miriam Kelly in conversation with...
Keynote: Art & Design in the Age of Ecocide
Climate activist and creative Suzanne Dhaliwal (UK) presents a keynote address on decolonial art...
2020
In Conversation: Macon Reed & Jade Muratore
Macon Reed discusses their installation 'Eulogy for the Dyke Bar' which revisits the legacy of...
Flesh Meet with Daniel Marshall: Archiving Queer Kinship
Daniel Marshall talks about the ways we try to connect to the queer past and build...
Flesh Meet: DJ Sezzo
Advocating for the importance of QPOC (Queer People of Colour) party spaces, DJ Sezzo reflects...
Flesh Meet with Paul Byron: Social Media as Queerspace
Digital media scholar Paul Byron talks Tumblr, TikTok and more, discussing how queer digital...
Flesh Meet: Dr Kerryn Drysdale & Dr Sophie Robinson
Part Two: Exploring the productive role of trans and gender diversity within lesbian and queer...
Flesh Meet: Dr Kerryn Drysdale & Dr Sophie Robinson
Part One: Traversing the rise, decline and transformation of lesbian and queer spaces
In Conversation: Dani Marti & José Da Silva
Dani Marti uses the body as a central subject in his work, exploring ideas of vulnerability,...
In Conversation: Helen Grace & José Da Silva
Helen Grace reflects on her extensive photographic archive, tracking life at the radical, women-...
Flesh Meet: Timothy Roberts
Leather historian Timothy Roberts discusses the politics, culture and histories of motor clubs...
Heart On My Sleeve
'Heart On My Sleeve' is a series of online graphic design and printing workshops. Learn to...
In Conversation: Frances Barrett & Kelly Doley
Exhibiting artist Frances Barrett discusses her practice with UNSW Galleries Deputy Director,...
In Conversation: Nikos Pantazopoulos & Madé Spencer-Castle
Reflecting on the public dimension of private experience, exhibiting artist Nikos Pantazopoulos...
In Conversation: Nick Henderson & Kelly Doley
Nick Henderson, Committee Member of the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives (ALGA), will be in...
In Conversation: Ella Sutherland & Sarah Rodigari
Join artists Ella Sutherland and Sarah Rodigari, discussing the relationship between printed...
In Conversation: Holly Bates & Tay Haggarty
Holly Bates and Tay Haggarty form the collaborative duo, Parallel Park. Together they will...
Ngatu Learning Space
A ngatu workshop with members of the Fifita family, in partnership with IVI designs. The Ngatu...
The Practice of New Media Art
Paul Thomas, Mari Velonaki, Alex Davies, and Sean Cubitt unpack perspective on the practice of...
In Conversation: Samuel Hodge & Skye Wagner
Sydney-based artists Samuel Hodge and Skye Wagner discuss their two new exhibitions at UNSW...
Keeping it Live: Conserving Performance at Tate
UK-based conservator Louise Lawson discusses the documentation and conservation of performance...
Art Month Sydney: Paddington & Woollahra Precinct Night
UNSW Galleries hosts the Art Month Sydney opening party for the Paddington and Woollahra...
‘Every War is a Defeat’: Khadim Ali In Conversation
Leading artist Khadim Ali discusses his newly commissioned site-specific billboard on the...
Propaganda Art in the 21st Century
Internationally renowned Dutch artist Jonas Staal examines forms of 'emancipatory propaganda art...
In Conversation: Sarah Biscarra Dilley, Angela Tiatia & Léuli Eshrāghi
Artists Sarah Biscarra Dilley and Angela Tiatia are joined in conversation by curator Dr Léuli...
Shivanjani Lal In Conversation
Exhibiting artist Shivanjani Lal and poet Manisha Anjali discuss experiences of diaspora and the...
Wansolwara Symposium
This one-day symposium draws together diverse perspectives on the Great Ocean as a connector to...
2019
A&D ANNUAL 19 Symposium
Talks and performances from emerging artists and designers graduating from UNSW Art & Design...
Launch: Discipline no.5 / Más Allá del Fin no.3
'Discipline, Más allá del fin' represents an effort to map a South–South relationship between...
Gazing from the Sinosphere: Media Art as Border Crossings
How are cultural borders depicted and disrupted? This program discusses new media works by three...
Angela Melitopoulos: Cino(so)matic Cartographies
In this lecture, Angela Melitopoulos unfolds her cinematic and cartographic practices.
Guest Talk: Wonseok Koh
Wonseok Koh discusses past projects and highlights from throughout his curatorial career.
Talk: Tania Bruguera
Tania Bruguera examines and exposes the nature of political and social power structures.
Talk: SOME OF IT IS FAMILIAR, SOME OF IT IS STRANGE
UNSW Galleries Director José Da Silva provides an intimate account of Debra Porch’s life and...
Lecture: Seth Kim-Cohen
In this lecture, Kim-Cohen considers recordings that unlike music, podcasts, or audiobooks, are...
Curating Grief: In Conversation with Daniel Mudie Cunningham
Daniel Mudie Cunningham and José Da Silva discuss the complex and intimate process of working...
John Fries Award: Artist Talks
Finalists present a series of talks on their work in ‘There is Fiction in the Spaces Between...
Talk & Workshop: Knitting Nannas Against Gas
Knitting Nannas discuss the use of knitting for non-violent political activism and facilitate a...
Macarena Gómez-Barris: Submerged Memories of the Colonial Anthropocene
In the era of the colonial anthropocene, how do we address histories of loss and disappearance...
Guided Tour: Material Place
Exhibition tours explore key works, themes and ideas, connecting to the history and geography of...
From Site to Place
This program convenes artists, thinkers and poets for a conversation about land and space within...
John Fries Award: Artist Talks
John Fries Award finalists present a series of artist talks to celebrate the opening weekend of...
In Conversation: Nicholas Aloisio-Shearer
Learn more about the work of Nicholas Aloisio-Shearer and the development of his practice in...
Lei-bombing with Niki Hastings-McFall
New Zealand/Aotearoa artist Niki Hastings-McFall presents an artist talk and a lei-bombing walk...
Panel: The Aura of Collateral
Join Elliott Bryce Foulkes and Ella Sutherland for a panel presenting recent projects completed...
Guest Talk: Holger Schulze
Holger Schulze discusses the possibilities and limitations for acoustic scenography in the...
Guest Lecture: Dr. Jow Jiun Gong
Dr. Jow Jiun Gong discusses ethnographic positions in contemporary curation in Taiwan.
Lecture: On Critical Design History
Matthew Kiem explores politics and power in contemporary design in this keynote lecture.
Guest Talk: Pavel Pyś & Sara Cluggish
Minneapolis-based curators Pavel Pyś and Sara Cluggish discuss key projects that have informed...
Panel: On Women and Abstraction
Gemma Smith invites a range of Australian painters to discuss the influence of female...
Panel: On Pedagogy and Post-Conceptual Painting
This panel seeks to interrogate the discipline of painting by considering how contemporary...
Rhythm Sequence: Guided Audio Description Tours
These intimate tours utilise audio description as an access tool for people with low vision.
In Conversation: Rose Wong with Yu-Chieh Li
Beijing-based visual artist Rose Wong joins Yu-Chieh Li for a discussion on her recent work.
Guest Talk: Julian Myers-Szupinska
Art historian and editor Julian Myers-Szupinska discusses a range of curatorial, editorial and...
Exhibition Tour: Order of Events
Elliott Bryce Foulkes and Maria Smit present an intimate tour of their exhibition 'Order of...
In Conversation: Gemma Smith
Learn more about the work of Gemma Smith in a conversation between the artist and Julie Ewington...
Choreography—Gallery—Practice
A public showcase of new research at the nexus of dance and the visual arts.
Discussion: Justice for Juanita
Zanny Begg moderates a discussion around whether justice for Juanita Nielsen is possible today...
Screening: There Goes Our Neighbourhood
'There Goes Our Neighbourhood' documents the ambition and resilience of Sydney's Waterloo...
Panel: Keep Sydney Public
Ian Milliss moderates a discussion exploring the argument for maintaining Sydney’s public...
Panel: Sydney Subcultures and Club-cultures
A panel exploring the significance of Sydney’s club nights from the 1970s to now.
In Conversation: Oliver Beer
Oliver Beer and Caleb Kelly discuss relationships between sound, space, voice and architecture...
Screening: The Eviction
'The Eviction' questions the future of Sydney’s public housing through the story of the Millers...
Shine A Light: Walking Tour with Julie Bates AO
Sex worker rights activist Julie Bates AO leads a tour of Kings Cross and East Sydney.
Panel & Screening: Learning From The Green Bans
An esteemed panel of speakers discuss the legacy of the Green Bans activism today followed by a...
Radical Sydney
This program of talks, documentary screenings and performances engage with the histories and...
Sound Walk with Sonia Leber & David Chesworth
Exhibiting artists Sonia Leber and David Chesworth lead a guided walk starting from UNSW...
2018
Thinking Through Design: Floor Talks by Design Graduates
In this series of floor talks, Design Honours candidates share their insights into thinking...
Symposium: Research Meets Practice
Emerging art theorists and artists graduating from UNSW Art & Design lead an evening of...
In Conversation: Monira Al Qadiri
Artist Monira Al Qadiri speaks about her practice and current work.
Spring Season: Artist Talks & Performance
Exhibiting artists David Eastwood, James Nguyen, Georgia Saxelby, and Rochelle Haley engage in a...
Panel: Where To From Here?
Join us for a panel moderated by Esther Anatolitis and exhibiting artists discussing art...
Earwitness: Jennifer Stoever, M J Grant And Andrew Brooks
An evening of talks with Jennifer Stoever, M J Grant and Andrew Brooks exploring the politics of...
Guest Talk: Joselina Cruz
Director and curator Joselina Cruz discusses previous curatorial projects and her experience...
Local Colour: Workshop
Emma Peters and Liz Williamson lead a workshop with local plant dyes.
Eavesdropping: Susan Schuppli, Sam Kidel & Jasmine Guffond
'Eavesdropping' is a major project exploring the politics of listening and being listened-to
Local Colour: Artist Talks
Curator Liz Williamson and exhibiting artists present an exhibition tour and artist talks.
Local Colour: Seminar
This seminar provides a curatorial overview and illustrated talks by Julie Ryder and Dr Julie...
Australia to Arabia: Feminist Activism in the Arts
This panel explores feminist activism and the agency of Muslim women artists.
Panel: Art, Identity & The Everyday Business of Changing the World
Can art and curatorial practices bring about world change?