What's on
Jeremy Eaton and Nicholas Smith: Dressings
7 Feb to 21 Jul 2024
Jeremy Eaton and Nicholas Smith have brought the visual language of screens, concealment and the stage to our View Street façade in their first collaborative work. Dressings continues both artists' exploration of queer sensibilities in Australian modernism and includes references to the work of Adrian Feint and James Gleeson.
Pliable planes: expanded textiles & fibre practices
21 Feb to 12 May 2024
This UNSW Galleries touring exhibition reimagines textiles and fibre art. Pliable planes includes new commissions and recent works by leading Australian artists Akira Akira, Sarah Contos, Lucia Dohrmann, Mikala Dwyer, Janet Fieldhouse, Teelah George, Paul Knight, Anne-Marie May, John Nixon, Kate Scardifield, Jacqueline Stojanović and Katie West. It is co-curated by Karen Hall and Catherine Woolley.
I wanna be your anti-mirror
23 May to 18 Aug 2024
Guest-curated by influential Aotearoa/New Zealand-born artist Alicia Frankovich, this exhibition introduces sculpture, installation and film, including new commissions, by 7 early career artists. I wanna be your anti-mirror creates a context for experimental, materially complex artworks, revealing new ideas, languages, sensations and attitudes.
Chunxiao Qu: An artist doesn't need a label – Melbourne Campus
27 Feb to 15 Aug 2024
Chunxiao Qu has transformed and upscaled her poems from intimate observations made on her iPhone into street signs. Qu's poems have their origins in her experience of existing between dual cultures and languages. This installation in the Borchardt Library café is part of a larger work commissioned for La Trobe Art Institute's Bendigo façade in 2022.
Jazz Money: With textual consent – Bendigo Campus
15 Apr 2023 to 15 Mar 2024
Through applying pigments to erase words, Jazz Money has reimagined 19th-century texts scanned from books held in La Trobe's Sandhurst Collection. In this new work, Money, a poet and artist of Wiradjuri and Irish heritage, evokes memories of place, along with First Nations and colonial memory. The 6-part work, installed on level 2 of the Heyward Library, is a La Trobe Library and La Trobe Art Institute co-commission.
Emily Floyd: Anti-totalitarian vectors – Bendigo Campus
Ongoing from Jul 2022
A selection of 6 major works from Emily Floyd’s 2019 series is situated on level 2 of the Heyward Library. Acquired by the University in 2022, the installation pays homage to the work of internationally renowned philosopher Ágnes Heller and her contemporaries. Constructed in aluminium, bronze and adhesive vinyl, Floyd's bold sculptural forms are both playful and provocative.
Sculpture Park – Melbourne Campus
Ongoing
Follow our map of the Sculpture Park [PDF 1MB] to explore more than 20 public sculptures in the bushland setting of the La Trobe Melbourne Campus. Works by artists including Charles Robb, Inge King, Robert Klippel, David Wilson, Karen Ward and Reko Rennie reflect key movements in contemporary Australian sculpture since the mid-1960s.
In our time: four decades of art from China and beyond – the Geoff Raby Collection
National Art School, Sydney, 19 Jan to 30 Mar 2024
We are delighted to present this new exhibition of works from the Geoff Raby Collection of Chinese Art in partnership with the National Art School. Through art imbued variously with humour, fantasy and sarcasm, In our time addresses diverse themes ranging from urban life, Chinese philosophy and cultural difference to social justice, human rights and nationhood. Part of Sydney Festival 2024.
One foot on the ground, one foot in the water
Touring 2022–24
We are proud to partner with NETS Victoria to tour this thematic group exhibition to five Australian public galleries, beginning with Bunjil Place in February 2022. Find out about the tour, further information about the artists and a learning guide on the NETS Victoria exhibition webpage.