Graduate exhibitions are a heady mix of celebration and contemporary art perusing. An opportunity for students to present their work to the public (sometimes for the first time), they also mark a point of transition. With a concentration of fresh art on view, it’s a great opportunity for visitors to gauge current trends in emerging art practice, often in the raw location of the artist’s studio. More often than not the work is for sale, so they are also an excellent place to pick up art at a low price point. To help plan your viewing we’ve created a list of upcoming graduate exhibitions from around Australia.
National Art School Graduate Exhibition
Opening: Thursday 30 November 6–10pm
Exhibition and Open Studios: 1–10 December 11am–5pm
NAS Gallery
National Art School Gallery
Forbes Street
Darlinghurst NSW 2010
2017 SCA Undergraduate Degree Show
Opening: Tuesday 21 November 6–9pm
Exhibition: 22–26 November
Open Monday through Friday 11am–5pm Saturday and Sunday 11am–4pm
SCA Galleries
Sydney College of the Arts
The University of Sydney
Kirkbride Way, off Park Drive
Lilyfield, NSW (enter opposite Cecily Street)
SCA December HDR examination exhibition
Opening: Thursday 7 December 6–8pm
Exhibition: Friday 8 December 11am–5pm and Saturday 9 December 11am–4pm
SCA Galleries
Sydney College of the Arts
The University of Sydney
Kirkbride Way, off Park Drive
Lilyfield, NSW (enter opposite Cecily Street)
UNSW Art & Design ANNUAL 17 Graduate Exhibition
Opening: Tuesday 28 November 5–9pm
Exhibition: 28 November–7 December
UNSW Art & Design
UNSW Galleries, Australian Design Centre, Kudos Gallery, Black Box and AD Space
Cnr Oxford St and Greens Rd Paddington NSW 2021
UTS Photography Exhibition
Come on in, the water’s just fine
Opening: Thursday 30 November 6–9pm
Exhibition: 30 November–2 December
UTS Photography Honours Exhibition
Opening: Wednesday 6 December 6–9pm
Exhibition: 6–9 December
UTS Gallery
Building 1 UTS Tower
15 Broadway & Building 6 DAB
702 Harris St
VCA Art Graduate Exhibition
Opening: Monday 20 November 6pm–8pm
Exhibition: 21–26 November
Open daily 12pm–5pm
Margaret Lawrence Gallery
40 Dodds Street
Southbank VIC 3006
VCA Art Masters Exhibition
Opening: Monday 4 December 6pm–8pm
Exhibition: 5–10 December
Open daily 12pm–5pm
Margaret Lawrence Gallery and VCA Art Studios
MADA Now 2017
Opening: Invitation only
Exhibition: 17–25 November
Open Monday through Friday, 10am–5pm
Saturday 12–5pm
Monash University
Art Design & Architecture
900 Dandenong Road
Caulfield East VIC 3145
RMIT (Fine Art) & Visual Arts Graduate Exhibition
Opening: Wednesday 23 November 6–9pm
Exhibition: 23 November–1 December
Open Monday through Friday 10am–4pm Saturday 12–4pm
RMIT Buildings 2 and 4 (Bowen Street off La Trobe St, Melbourne) and PROJECT SPACE / SPARE ROOM (RMIT Building 94, Level 2, 23-27 Cardigan St, Carlton)
Advanced Diploma of Visual Arts Graduate Exhibition Exhibition
Opening: Wednesday 22 November 5.30pm–7.30pm
Exhibition: 23 November–1 December
Open Monday through Friday 10am–4pm
RMIT Building 94, Level 6, 23-27 Cardigan St, Carlton
RMIT School of Art Masters and Honours Graduate Exhibitions
Opening: Thursday 7 December 6-9pm
Exhibition: 8 December to 15 December 2017
Monday to Friday 10am-4pm and Saturday (9 Dec) 12-4pm
Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) (Honours) at RMIT Building 2 (lv 2, 3 and 4) and Building 4 (lv 2, 3 and 4), Bowen St (off La Trobe St), Melbourne
Master of Fine Art at RMIT Building 2 (lv 3), Bowen St (off La Trobe St), Melbourne
Master of Arts (Art in Public Space) at PROJECT SPACE / SPARE ROOM in RMIT Building 94 (lv 2), 23-27 Cardigan St, Carlton, VIC and at LIGHTSCAPES in Knox Pl, Melbourne Central (off Swanston St), Melbourne
QUT
On Sight: Visual Arts Graduate Exhibition Showcase
Opening: Wednesday 15 November 6–8pm
Exhibition Dates: 13–18 November
Open daily 10am–4pm
Z11, Z12, Z13 | QUT Creative Industries Precinct, Cnr Kelvin Grove Road and Musk Avenue, Kelvin Grove QLD 4059
QCA Honours
Continnum
Opening: 16 November 5.30pm–9pm
Exhibition: 13–17 November
South Bank campus
QCA South Bank campus
226 Grey Street
South Brisbane
Curtain University Art Degree Show
Opening: Friday 2 December 6pm–9pm
Exhibition: 3–6 December
Open 10am–4 pm
Curtin University
Building 202 (and courtyard)
Manning Road Entrance
Bentley
Edith Cowan University: Artshum 2017
Opening: Thursday 30 November 6–9pm
Exhibition: 1–14 December
ECU Mount Lawley Campus
2 Bradford Street
Mount Lawley WA 6050
ANU: 2017 Graduating Exhibition
Opening: Friday November 27, 6-8pm
ANU School of Art & Design
2 Childers St
Acton ACT 2601
Adelaide Central Art School: 2017 Graduate Exhibition
Opening: Saturday 9 December 4–6pm
Exhibition: 9–22 December
Adelaide Central Gallery
7 Mulberry Rd
Glenside SA 5065
UNISA: Visual Arts Honours Exhibition
Exhibition: 5–15 December
SASA Gallery
Art, Architecture & Design
Level 2, Kaurna Building, City West Campus, UNISA
Cnr Fenn Place & Hindley Street, Adelaide
UTAS: School of Creative Arts (SOCA) Graduate Exhibition
Opening: Friday 10 November
BFA Honours and Master of Fine Art and Design
4.30pm Plimsoll Gallery
Undergraduate 3rd year majors
5.30pm Centre for the Arts Cafeteria
Exhibition continues until:
19 November for BFA Honours and Master of Fine Art and Design
26 November for Undergraduate 3rd year majors
Open daily 10 am–4.45pm
School of Creative Arts and Plimsoll Gallery
Past meets present in Leyla Steven’s latest exhibition, now showing at the Art Gallery of New South Wales and co-curated by Artspace. The Australian-Balinese artists adopts a collaborative approach to restitution, scrutinising the systems of conservation and documentation we have inherited.
Developed in 2022 by Artback NT as part of Apmere Mparntwe—the Australian Ceramics Triennale— touring exhibition Clay on Country, showing now at New England Regional Art Museum, showcases the diversity of ceramics in the Central Desert.
About Face is a smart piece of marketing. The new book on portrait painting from Australia and New Zealand has a mission to change buyers’ minds about the field. But as Jane O’Sullivan discovers, any sales pitch wears thin if it’s repeated often enough, and the close attention to how portrait painting is received by the market means that other important conversations fade to the background.
Lismore Regional Gallery is reopening to the public following extensive closure resulting from the devastating floods in 2022. The redesigned space will host a number of new exhibitions opening this weekend.
Trevor Vickers reflects on his six-decade career in hard-edged abstraction, the value that Perth’s light offers painters, and how his latest exhibition at Art Collective WA focuses on a series of quieter works.
Anador Walsh reviews Ivan Cheng’s performance exhibition NP at Monash University Museum of Art—a three-day project, made in collaboration with a group of Year 11 students, that explores the loss of childhood innocence and role of documentation in performance.
