La Trobe Art Institute

The La Trobe Art Institute (LAI) manages the art related activities of La Trobe University across its multiple campuses. The primary roles include the production of art exhibitions and integrated public programming, and the ongoing maintenance of the University’s extensive cultural collections of contemporary and historical artworks, social history and ethnographic objects.

Photography by Ian Hill.

La Trobe Art Institute

121 View Street Bendigo VIC 3550

03 5444 7272

latrobe.edu.au/art-institute

Tue to Fri 10am–5pm.
Sat-Sun 12noon–5pm.
Mon by appointment.

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Leyla Stevens responds to archival displacement

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.

Jennifer Yang

Preview

The ceramics of the Central Desert

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.

Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen

Review

About Face mirrors the alluring world of contemporary portrait painting

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.

Jane O'Sullivan

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The photography of Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto captures uncertainty, ruin and empty splendour

Born in 1948, Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto works with photography, site-specific sculpture and architecture. Time Machine at the Museum of Contemporary Art surveys over five decades of his work, highlighting his conceptual approach to images and his continual investigation of the photographic form.

Jane Simon

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Dispatches from Tennant Creek

With their iconic painted poker machines and installations, notably featured in the 2020 Biennale of Sydney, the Tennant Creek Brio are now taking over Melbourne with a new show at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art.

Andrew Stephens

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Self reflections with Jack Ball

In his latest exhibition at Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Jack Ball challenges the extractive history of the archive while searching for shapes that can articulate the complexity of trans life.

La Trobe Art Institute

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