RMIT First Site Gallery

First Site is RMIT’s student gallery, that presents student exhibitions and events throughout the year. In the past First Site have been led by a student committee who rotate on a yearly basis.

First Site is part of RMIT Culture.

RMIT Culture brings together the university’s cultural spaces, creative programs and art, film, design and research collections, providing opportunities to inspire the whole community and valuable support for the university’s learning and teaching activities. By showcasing and expanding RMIT’s cultural assets through new initiatives and vibrant partnered projects RMIT Culture helps facilitate an enterprise-wide approach to cultural engagement.

RMIT First Site Gallery

344 Swanston Street, Melbourne VIC, Australia

+61 3 9925 1717

rmit.edu.au/first-site-gallery

Tue to Fri 11am–5pm

closed on public and University holidays

Exhibitions

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On-site with Nguyễn Ngọc Thảo

15 Jul - 10 Aug

Unnatured

Xinshuo Zhou

26 Aug - 19 Sep

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Phuong Le

26 Aug - 19 Sep

Sensory Clay

26 Aug - 19 Sep

News

The 2025 NATSIAA winners are announced

Gaypalani Waṉambi has just won the 2025 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award (NATSIAA), Australia’s longest running and most prestigious art awards of its kind.

Art Guide Australia

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Jennifer Mills on connecting everything

A survey exhibition spanning the 30-year practice of Jennifer Mills brings together bodies of works grounded in precision and tenderness at Bunjil Place Gallery.

Preview

Questions from the boulevard

‘North Terrace: worlds in relief’ showing at Samstag Museum of Art, invites viewers to reflect on the complicated legacies of the cultural institutions that line Adelaide’s North Terrace.

Walter Marsh

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The kimono is more than an artefact and more than clothing. It is a concept artists will make their own

Over 70 fabulous garments of exquisite craftsmanship – some made of silk with gold and silver embroidery and dazzling designs – have been assembled within a context of over 150 paintings, posters, wood block prints, magazines and decorative arts. Although many of the items have never been previously exhibited in Australia, most are now in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, with many specifically acquired for this exhibition.

Sasha Grishin

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Ghosts in the Machine

In a world in which the new wave of AI is reframing our relationship with creative labour, how do artists negotiate an impending crisis of relevance and understand the true value of their work? Stephanie Wood reports.

Stephanie Wood

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Sophie Penkethman-Young’s Scroll Play

Sophie Penkethman-Young dives into the cursed, chaotic and charming depths of the online world to create inquisitive artworks exploring technology, the internet and capitalism with humour.

RMIT First Site Gallery

RMIT First Site Gallery

Exhibitions