2021 EXHIBITIONS
THE FINEMAN NEW PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD
BALLARAT INTERNATIONAL FOTO BIENNALE 2021
Following the inaugural exhibition in 2019, the Ballarat International Foto Biennale presents the second iteration of The Fineman New Photography Award. This award places the focus on photographic artists working throughout the Asia-Pacific region, whose work is receiving critical attention. Read more: THE FINEMAN NEW PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD >
BENCHMARK21: UNDERGRADUATE VISUAL ARTS
WED 11 AUG - FRI 20 AUG 2021
The Post Office Gallery’s important annual exhibition presents innovative, inspired and bold ideas by Ballarat’s Arts Academy undergraduate visual art students across a range of media, styles and disciplines including drawing, painting, printmaking, design, sculpture, ceramics, digital media and installation. Read more: BENCHMARK21: UNDERGRADUATE VISUAL ARTS >
YAPANEYPUK NYINI WOWA
FROM 5 JULY 2021
An online exhibition by select indigenous artists created by way of a unique collaboration between Federation College’s VET visual arts program, Langi Kal Kal and Hopkins Correctional Centre. Read more: YAPANEYPUK NYINI WOWA >
SCOPE21
30 JUN - 16 JUL 2021
An important Arts Academy annual exhibition, SCOPE 2021 presents new work by lecturers, teachers, research associates and research fellows who, as artists also sustain a rigorous research and/or teaching practice at Federation University, and whose work expresses complex ideas related to fact and fiction, empathy, politics and global unrest, as well as ideas surrounding Indigenous art and iconography. Read more: SCOPE21 >
TONY GRIFFIN: SHELTER FROM THE STORM
15 APR - 11 JUN 2021
Tony Griffin PhD examination exhibition Read more: TONY GRIFFIN: SHELTER FROM THE STORM >
EYE: VISUAL ART AND DESIGN 2020 GRADUATING STUDENTS
11 MAR - 1 APR 2021
Showcasing work by our 2020 visual art and design graduating students within the Bachelor of Visual Arts, Bachelor of Communication Design, Creative Arts (Honours) and Advanced Diploma of Graphic Design, Ballarat. This exhibition will be curated at the School of Arts Post Office Gallery following our virtual exhibition launch in 2020. Read more: EYE: VISUAL ART AND DESIGN 2020 GRADUATING STUDENTS >
FIONA CRAWFORD: WHEN YOU GO LOOKING FOR ME, I AM NOT THERE
18 FEB - 26 FEB 2021
Following residencies in Assisi, Italy in 2016 and 2019, inspired by the beauty and intrigue surrounding the medieval embroidery tradition of ‘Punto Assisi’ still practiced today, Fiona Crawford’s contemporary textiles subvert and transgress conventions and reinterpret the ubiquitous subject of ‘women’s work’. Read more: FIONA CRAWFORD: WHEN YOU GO LOOKING FOR ME, I AM NOT THERE >