School of Art & Design Gallery

LAST DAYS Don't miss our current Higher Degree by Research exhibitions - both continue until 3pm Friday 15 May. MELITA DAHL Deadpan artefacts: creative experiments with facial expression recognition in photographic portraiture and REN GREGORČIČ Material Causality: A Practice-Led Inquiry into the Aleatory Operations of Concrete 📸: Visitors and Melita Dahl's work, "Deadpan|Neutral – A comparative analysis". Photo by ANU.

OPENING SOON 🎉 📅 Wednesday 22 April 🕐 5:30 - 7:30pm 📍 ANU School of Art & Design, Building 105, Childers Street, Acton ACT MELITA DAHL Deadpan artefacts: creative experiments with facial expression recognition in photographic portraiture and REN GREGORČIČ Material Causality: A Practice-Led Inquiry into the Aleatory Operations of Concrete Exhibition dates: 22 April - 15 May Gallery Hours: Tues - Fri, 10:30am - 3pm 📸: Melita Dahl, "Deadpan|Neutral – A comparative analysis", video still 📸: Ren Gregorčič, "Motion in Division, video still"

It's install week at the Gallery 🎉 We're busy installing two new Higher Degree by Research exhibitions! "Deadpan artefacts: creative experiments with facial expression recognition in photographic portraiture" by Melita Dahl and "Material Causality: A Practice-Led Inquiry into the Aleatory Operations of Concrete" by Ren Gregorčič Please join us to celebrate at the opening event, 5:30pm next Wednesday 22 April 🎉 #MelitaDahl @rengregorcic @anuartdesign @ouranu @anucass

⛔ The gallery will open late at approximately 12.30pm on Friday 27 March, to facilitate an HDR examination. 🔥Gallery open hours: Friday 27 March: 12.30pm - 3pm Saturday 28 March: 10am - 2pm

Thank you to all who came to the gallery today to hear Harriet Schwarzrock speak about her practice, the work and the fire inside! 🔥 Exhibition concludes this Saturday 28 March (open 10am - 2pm as part of @ouranu Open Day).

Artist talk 1-2pm, Tuesday 24 March Join Harriet Schwarzrock in the Gallery for an artist talk and discussion more about her PhD project. This talk is part of Art & Design Forum. Exhibition concludes on ANU Open Day, Saturday 28 March.

Don't forget! Opening 5.30pm tomorrow ✨ HARRIET SCHWARZROCK Eliciting Plasma Illumination as a Responsive and Relational Medium within Blown Glass ⏰ 5.30 – 7.30pm 🗓️ Wednesday 11 March 📍School of Art & Design Gallery This exhibition forms part of Schwarzrock’s Higher Degree by Research (PhD) project. Schwarzrock creates blown-glass objects that explore the relationship between artwork and viewer through luminous, responsive interactions. Working at the intersection of glassblowing, neon fabrication, and scientific glasswork, she produces vascular forms that illuminate through the presence and touch of an observer. These works activate otherwise invisible electromagnetic relationships, inviting viewers into an intimate encounter with plasma as a responsive and relational medium. Schwarzrock graduated with Honours in Visual Arts from Sydney College of the Arts in 1999. Her practice explores biological systems, connectivity, and invisible energies within the body through glass, neon, and plasma. Based in Queanbeyan, NSW, she has exhibited widely in Australia and internationally, with works shown at Canberra Glassworks, Berengo Studio in Murano, Venice, and the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra. 🎯 Exhibition dates are 10 – 27 February 2026 ⏱️ Gallery hours are Tuesday to Friday, 10.30am - 3.00pm The exhibition will be open on ANU Open Day, Saturday 28 March 10am - 2pm. Image caption: Capacitive Illumination, 2024, photo by Sam Cooper. @harryschwarzrock @anuartdesign @ouranu @studyanu_

Opening next 5.30pm Wednesday 11 March 💫 HARRIET SCHWARZROCK Eliciting Plasma Illumination as a Responsive and Relational Medium within Blown Glass ⏰ 5.30 – 7.30pm, 🗓️ Wednesday 11 March 📍School of Art & Design Gallery Harriet is a Higher Degree Research Candidate at the ANU School of Art & Design. Drawing on the dual etymology of plasma as both a luminous state of matter and a vascular component of blood, Schwarzrock creates blown-glass objects that explore the boundaries between object and observer through intimate, luminous interactions within shared electromagnetic fields. Rather than the distant aurora or arcing lightning, familiar plasma phenomena, here illumination is elicited within a glass vessel, harnessing the same electromagnetic principles that once captivated early 19th-century scientific investigation. 🎯 Exhibition dates are 10 – 27 February 2026 ⏱️ Gallery hours are Tuesday to Friday, 10.30am - 3.00pm The exhibition will be open on ANU Open Day, Saturday 28 March 10am - 2pm. @harryschwarzrock @anuartdesign @ouranu @studyanu_ Image caption: Studio detail Harriet Schwarzrock 2024, “Nearly, Barely, There”. blown laboratory glass, transformer, ionised gases. Photo by Cassie Abrahams.

OPENING 5.30pm TONIGHT ✨ Please join us for our first exhibition of 2026, the Sharing Stories Arts Exchange. 📅 Wednesday 11 February 🕐 5.30pm - 7.30pm 📍 ANU School of Art & Design, Building 105, Childers Street, Acton ACT ✨ To be opened by Professor Kate Mitchell, Director, Research School of Humanities and the Arts, ANU The Sharing Stories Arts Exchange exhibition features work by Canberra based artists working across a variety of mediums as they respond to their learnings and experiences of the 2025 Sharing Stories Arts Exchange. Sharing Stories is a creative participatory project focused on building positive reciprocal relationships between the Canberra community and local and regional Indigenous and non-indigenous communities. The program features culturally rich learning opportunities on Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country, a structured creative field program visiting both Walgalu Country in the Snowy Mountains region of NSW and on Yuin Country on the far South Coast of NSW. The program is generously supported by artsACT. Exhibition dates: 12 – 27 February 2026 Gallery hours: Tuesday to Friday, 10.30am - 3.00pm 📸: Kate Stevens, ‘Snowy Hydro#4’, 2025, oil on canvas, 51 x 61cm. Image courtesy of the artist.

The SoAD Gallery is back! Please join us for our first exhibition of 2026, the Sharing Stories Arts Exchange. 📅 Wednesday 11 February 🕐 5.30pm - 7.30pm 📍 ANU School of Art & Design, Building 105, Childers Street, Acton ACT ✨ To be opened by Professor Kate Mitchell, Director, Research School of Humanities and the Arts, ANU The Sharing Stories Arts Exchange exhibition features work by Canberra based artists working across a variety of mediums as they respond to their learnings and experiences of the 2025 Sharing Stories Arts Exchange. Sharing Stories is a creative participatory project focused on building positive reciprocal relationships between the Canberra community and local and regional Indigenous and non-indigenous communities. The program features culturally rich learning opportunities on Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country, a structured creative field program visiting both Walgalu Country in the Snowy Mountains region of NSW and on Yuin Country on the far South Coast of NSW. The program is generously supported by artsACT. Exhibition dates: 12 – 27 February 2026 Gallery hours: Tuesday to Friday, 10.30am - 3.00pm 📸: from 2025 Sharing Stories Arts Exchange program, artwork by Eleanor Malbon at Jigamy Farm, Yuin and Thaua Country. Photo by Julia Boyd.

2025 GRAD SHOW IS COMING 🎉 Please join us for the official opening & awards ceremony for our Visual Arts & Design graduates of the 2025 ANU School of Art & Design. 📅 Friday 28 November 🕐 6pm - 8.30pm 📍 ANU School of Art & Design, Building 105, Childers Street, Acton ACT There will be live music by local DJs, food and drinks by Jarochos, Melted Toasted Sandwich Emporium and Zierholz available for purchase. Exhibition continues until Sunday 07 December 2025. Open daily 10am - 4pm. 🎯 gradshow.com.au 📸: Grad Show Logo design by Scarlet Whitelaw, currently completing her Bachelor of Design / Bachelor of Science (Environmental) at ANU. @jar_ochos @meltedtoasties @zierholzbrewery @ouranu @anuartdesign @anucass

📢 Congratulations to Zali Odlum, the Winner of the 2025 ANU School of Art & Design Drawing Prize People's Choice Award! Hurry - it's your last chance to see Zali's winning work "Beneath" and the work of all the other finalists; the exhibition closes 3pm this Friday 24 October. @zali.odlum @anuartdesign @anucass @ouranu