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We wanna be free: Paintings from the 1980s and 1990s
-ArtistsPeter BoothAngela BrennanJon CampbellJon CattapanJuan DavilaKirstin HeadlamDale HickeyLindy LeeJan MurrayTrevor NickollsCurated byDavid SequeiraOpening Event | Thursday...- Exhibition
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Making the Invisible Visible
-Making the Invisible Visible brings together works by Skye Malu Baker, Christina May Carey, Julien Comer-Kleine, Gabriella D’Costa, and Kate Wallace to explor...- Exhibition
- Fiona and Sidney Myer Gallery
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2023 Majlis Travelling Scholarship
-The Majlis Travelling Fellowship is open to third (final) year VCA ART undergraduate students at the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, School of Art. The winning student is awar...- Exhibition
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Paul Selzer Exhibition and Prize
-The Paul Selzer Exhibition and Prize honours the memory of artist and entrepreneur Paul Selzer and is made possible thanks to the generosity of the Selzer family. The fellowsh...- Exhibition
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Sand and Stars - Gail Mabo
-Incorporating video, bronze sculpture and bamboo maps, Sand and Stars reveals the intimate relationship between Torres Strait Islander culture and spirituality and the cosmos....- Exhibition
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Arthur Jafa - Unrest
-Unrest brings together two of the 21st century’s most powerful works of art.Arthur Jafa’s Love is the Message, The Message is Death (2016), collages Jafa’s o...- Exhibition
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It's not you, it's me
-Please note that this exhibition will now close 5PM Wednesday 29th March. Apologies for any inconvenience. It’s not you, it’s me is an exhibition of self-portraitu...- Exhibition
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Corinna Berndt, PhD Exhibition – DataCosmics
-DataCosmics: Understanding private and subjective relationships to digital technologies through a contemplative artistic practiceCorinna Berndt’s research proposes&...- Exhibition
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Bodies
-+Playlists by Jingxuan Chen, Nicholas Currie, Grace Davey, James Farrar and Pippa LukaitisAcknowledging the 50th anniversary of the Victorian College of the Arts (2022), the e...- Exhibition
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2022 Majlis Travelling Fellowship
-The Majlis Travelling Fellowship is open to third (final) year undergraduate students at the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, School of Art. A travelling scholarship of $15,000...- Exhibition
- Fiona and Sidney Myer Gallery
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Beauty Lies
-Rashid Rana’s work over the last two decades can be understood as a poetic investigation of the relationship between the microcosm and macrocosm. His work across video,...- Exhibition
- Fiona and Sidney Myer Gallery
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Yoyi (dance)
-Place, performance and the body are central to Tiwi art-making. YOYI, draws on these performative foundations, using the medium of film to bring both dance, language and visio...- Exhibition
- Fiona and Sidney Myer Gallery
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Aziz Hazara + Unknown Carpet Makers
I am looking for you like a drone, my love-I am looking for you like a drone, my love presents new large-scale photographs by Aziz Hazara (born 1992 Wardak, Afghanistan, lives and works Berlin, Germany) and vintage car...- Exhibition
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Be my once in a lifetime
-It is with great joy that the Fiona and Sidney Myer Gallery opens its 2022 program with Be My Once in a Lifetime. I thank the artists who embraced the idea for this exhibition...- Exhibition
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Chelsea Coon, PhD Exhibition – Enduramorphosis: A point of dynamic strangeness
-Coon’s work suggests that the contingent interrelationships of space, time, and the body under duress can give rise to a state of enduramorphosis—a neolo...- Exhibition
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Kellie Wells, PhD Exhibition – The Alchemy of Auto//Mysticism: Exploring Subjectivity Beyond the Visible
-Drawing from a range of esoteric beliefs and technologies, The Alchemy of Auto//Mysticism: Exploring Subjectivity Beyond the Visible explores alternative strategies of subject...- Exhibition
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2021 Majlis Travelling Scholarship
-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...- Exhibition
- Fiona and Sidney Myer Gallery
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breathing space
-breathing space brings together works that embrace the cyclic and fluid rhythms of breath, memory and time.The works of art, through process and form, draw focus to each of th...- Exhibition
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Jacqueline Felstead: Loss in a simulated environment
-Challenging the perceptual distinctions of traditional photography, three-dimensional photographic works seek to reintroduce absent subjects – things that can’t be...- Exhibition
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The Image is not Nothing (Concrete Archives)
-When acts of genocide that have occurred in Australia since colonisation are routinely overlooked or disregarded, The Image is not Nothing (Concrete Archives) ultimately look...- Exhibition
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Can you hear my voice?
-Although the works in Can you hear my voice? do not depict specific incidents pertaining to India and Pakistan’s relationship since gaining independence from Britis...- Exhibition
- Fiona and Sidney Myer Gallery
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Moonis Ahmad Shah: Anarchic Archive: Spectres of Inconsistency
-EXHIBITION CATALOGUEcoming soon...- Exhibition
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EVOCATIONS
-Evocations highlights the ways in which Liam Benson, Nicholas Folland, Helen Shelley, Lonnie Hutchinson, Nick Tsiavos & Deborah Kayser and Kellie Wells articulate the invi...- Exhibition
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Altarepistemologies
-Alterepistemologies: Leanne HermosillaAltarepistemologies: Hekate Lilen Iris Hermosilla Alterepistemologies Altarepistemologies presents PhD research that has utilised magic...- Exhibition
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Rebecca Najdowski: Inverted Landscapes
-Rebecca Najdowski: Inverted Landscapes Inverted Landscapes addresses how photomedia has traditionally shaped nature to humanity’s desire — reducing the animate wor...- Exhibition
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Art Schools for Fire Relief
-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...- Exhibition
- Fiona and Sidney Myer Gallery
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Grad.Show.2019
-This years graduate exhibition presents works from graduating students from Drawing and Printmaking, Painting, Photography, and Sculpture, as well as those graduating fro...- Fiona and Sidney Myer Gallery
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Hope Dies Last
-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...- Exhibition
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Conscious Intuition
-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...- Exhibition
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2019 Majlis Travelling Scholarship
-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...- Exhibition
- Fiona and Sidney Myer Gallery
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2019 Keith and Elisabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship
-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...- Exhibition
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Angela Tiatia: The Fall
-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...- Exhibition
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Lin Onus: Eternal Landscape
-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...- Exhibition
- Fiona and Sidney Myer Gallery
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Manifesto
-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...- Exhibition
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Katie Lee: Objects and Tool Things
-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...- Exhibition
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Vanessa Godden: Embodying Entanglement
-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...- Exhibition
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2018 Victorian College of the Arts Masters Exhibition
-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...- Exhibition
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2018 Victorian College of the Arts Graduate Exhibition
-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...- Exhibition
- Fiona and Sidney Myer Gallery
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Consuelo Cavaniglia: between and among objects
-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...- Exhibition
- Fiona and Sidney Myer Gallery
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2018 Majlis Travelling Scholarship
-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...- Exhibition
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Yours Internally
-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...- Exhibition
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David Batchelor: Colour Is
-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...- Exhibition
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Overdrawn
-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...- Exhibition
- Fiona and Sidney Myer Gallery
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Monochrome: Empty and Full
-‘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...- Exhibition
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On View: Thinking Bodies, Dancing Minds
-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...- Exhibition
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In between: notions of transition and the intermediary
-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...- Exhibition
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Chris Bond: Kraken
-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...- Exhibition
- Fiona and Sidney Myer Gallery
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Stephen Palmer: The Anxiety of the Relation
-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...- Exhibition
- Fiona and Sidney Myer Gallery
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Stieg Persson: How we live now
-In contemporary Australia, a process of aestheticization has seen traditional artistic characteristics incorporated into all aspects of daily middle class life and amongst man...- Exhibition
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Sally Smart: The Choreography of Cutting
-Sally Smart conceives of the studio space as analogous to a rehearsal space—a site where she can choreograph the myriad ideas and elements that form her work, and test t...- Exhibition
- Fiona and Sidney Myer Gallery
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REMEDY
-Jon Campbell, eminent VCA Alumna and former staff member has curated two programs of performance by alumna, staff, current students. For over 15 years, Campbell’s REMEDY...- Exhibition
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2017 Majlis Travelling Scholarship
-This exhibition presents the work of shortlisted third year students from the School of Art. The travelling scholarship of $10,000 allows the recipient of the award to travel...- Exhibition
- Fiona and Sidney Myer Gallery
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2017 Keith and Elisabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship
-This exhibition presents work by finalists for the Keith and Elisabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship. This award of $25,000 allows the recipient to travel overseas in 2018. Op...- Exhibition
- Fiona and Sidney Myer Gallery
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Elmedin Zunic: The Bosnian Case
-The Bosnian Case: Art, History and Memory will look into ways contemporary art negotiates history and memory. In particular, historical trauma through case studies of the conf...- Exhibition
- Fiona and Sidney Myer Gallery
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9 x 5 NOW
-9 X 5 NOW showcases generations of practicing artists who have studied or taught at the National Gallery School or VCA Art. The most experienced artist represented attended th...- Exhibition
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Restless
-Restless comprises of recent works by Megan Evans, Karla Dickens, Jordan Marani, Nick Devlin and Danie Mellor. These works are a presented as a counterpoint to a suite of 'wel...- Exhibition
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Lauren Berkowitz: Bottles
-The original version of Bottles was shown in 1994. In 2017, Bottles is even more potent incorporating issues associated with waste, consumerism, recycling, cultural consumptio...- Exhibition
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Empty Vessels: Selections from the Margaret Lawrence Ceramics Collection
-Empty Vessels explored the psychology of Margaret Lawrence as collector, highlighting her inquisitive nature and her eccentric collecting style. Margaret’s collection re...- Exhibition
- Fiona and Sidney Myer Gallery