ANU School of Art & Design Gallery

The ANU School of Art & Design Gallery is a public art space which performs an integrated and critical function within the School of Art & Design community, the broader constituency of the Australian National University and the ACT community.

The Gallery presents an annual exhibition program, with related publications and associated events, which critically frames Australian visual art practice, presents graduate and post-graduate work in a professional gallery context and reflects the international profile of the ANU School of Art & Design.

School of Art & Design Gallery – Building #105
ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
The Australian National University

soad.gallery@anu.edu.au

ANU School of Art & Design Gallery

Ellery Crescent and Liversidge Street Acton ACT 2600

soad.cass.anu.edu.au/gallery-exhibitions

Tuesday to Friday
10:30am - 3:00PM

Preview

Creativity beyond mortality

Have you ever wondered if someone who is no longer alive could create art? In answer to this question, biological artists Guy Ben-Ary, Nathan Thompson and Matt Ringold, in collaboration with the now deceased Alvin Lucier, have extended the experimental composer’s “ideas about the resonance of sound” for their immersive exhibition, Revivification at the Art Gallery of Western Australia.

Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen

Feature

Shadow and light

A quiet power pulses through It’s Always Been Always at Fremantle Arts Centre, where six First Nations women artists reflect on kinship, Country and cultural memory.

Rosamund Brennan

Feature

Sammy Hawker’s acts of co-creation

Under Sammy Hawker’s gentle guidance, whale song takes shape, ocean water becomes collaborator, salt crystals scatter themselves like stars across analogue film, and ashes murmur secrets onto silver nitrate-soaked paper. Through what she terms “facilitated acts of co-creation,” Hawker gives voice to places, materials, and the more-than-human world.

Camilla Wagstaff

News

The 25th Biennale of Sydney announces theme and the first 37 artists and collectives

Curated by artistic director Hoor Al Qasimi, the program is centred by the theme of Rememory. Originating from author Toni Morrison, the ideas seek to explore the intersection of memory and history—revisiting, reconstructing and reclaiming histories that have been erased or repressed.

Art Guide Australia

Interview

20 Questions with Tara Marynowsky

Multidisciplinary artist Tara Marynowsky reveals where she finds inspiration, the best time of day for creating and what we can expect to see in her current solo show Cave at Edwina Corlette Gallery.

Sally Gearon

Studio

Remy Faint explores material culture in his garage-studio

Step inside Remy Faint’s inner-city Sydney garage, where he meticulously constructs every element of his artworks—from wooden frames and sculpted fabric to striking, multilayered paintings in silk. Faint is now showing at the Rockhampton Museum of Art.

ANU School of Art & Design Gallery

ANU School of Art & Design Gallery

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