Upcoming events
Christine & Stephen Procter Interdisciplinary Craft Symposium 2026
Symposium
This symposium will demonstrate how digital tools can advance creative, cultural, and making practices. It also interrogates a broader definition of technology as any purposeful transformation of material, the value of ingenuity, and implications on ecology. Focusing on glass and ceramics, we will…
Big Malcom and the Mulga Mafia: The Coalition under Fraser
Lecture/seminar
One of the great oddities of the Australian government, which baffles foreign observers – along with preferential voting and the small matter of quite when Australia became a nation – is the endurance of the coalition between the two main conservative parties, one predominantly urban, the other…
The House of Blue Glass: A life of Penelope Lucas, by Alan Atkinson
Book launch
Join award-winning historian Alan Atkinson in conversation with Catherine Gay about his latest book The House of Blue Glass: A life of Penelope Lucas (NewSouth, 2026).Following on from his acclaimed joint biography of Elizabeth and John Macarthur, in his latest work Alan pieces together the life of…
Andrew Sayers Memorial Lecture with Robert Wellington
Artist talk
Australia is a nation that thrives on competition. We celebrate our champions with awards and accolades from the sporting stadium to the big screen. No field is immune from our desire for excellence, least of all the arts, where most galleries, big or small, draw attention to themselves and their…
Melita Dahl | Deadpan artefacts: creative experiments with facial expression recognition in photographic portraiture
Gallery
Over the past three decades, photography has evolved from its traditional role as an indexical imprint of the world into a fluid, computational space shaped by digital transformation. Within this context, the photographic portrait both as a historical art form and a site for computer vision offers…
Material Causality: A Practice-Led Inquiry into the Aleatory Operations of Concrete | Ren Gregorčič
Gallery
Concrete is among the most widely used materials on Earth, second only to water in global consumption. It forms footpaths, bridges, building foundations, dam walls, and the hydrological networks that span a continuum from everyday surfaces to continental-scale infrastructure. Operating across…
Book Launch. ‘The Chosen Race: Troubling Whiteness in Victorian Painting’ (University of California Press) by Keren Hammerschlag
Book launch
SpeakersProf Ari Heinrich (Director of the Gallery at the Australian Centre on China in the World), Dr Maddie Hewitson (University of Birmingham), and Dr Keren Hammerschlag (Director, Centre for Art History and Art Theory, ANU)About the Book From the Realist canvases of the Pre-…