2025 EXHIBITIONS

coloured fabric with a red heart and beads and sequins

LAUREN MATTHEWS: SURVIVAL MEMORIES

SAT 26 JUL - SAT 16 AUG 2025

Fascinated with memory, Lauren Matthews combines the softness of textiles with a feminist ferocity, to allow her to reconnect with the little girl she only knows from photographs in a powerful memorial that honours her survival. More:

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BENCHMARK25: UNDERGRADUATE VISUAL ARTS

FRI 27 JUN - FRI 18 JUL 2025

Ballarat's Arts Academy presents new work by Visual Arts students from the Bachelor of Visual Arts in this important annual exhibition, showcasing fresh new ideas and approaches to painting, textiles, ceramics, sculpture, drawing and printmaking. More:

MEAGHAN SHELTON A KIND OF SPEAKING Interweaving Familial Knowledge: Crafting Interior Landscapes of the Feminine Through Time

SAT 14 JUN - SAT 21 JUN 2025

Tracing symbolic links between craft, memory, ecology, and feminine agency, Megan Shelton's new work and PhD exhibition, contributes to new conversations at the intersection of creative practice, feminist thinking, and contemporary visual culture. More:

Two female figures, crouched on their side on the floor, facing each other, as if to form a circle.

KIM PERCY: VISUALISING THE INVISIBLE

Extended until SAT 31 MAY 2025

A multidisciplinary artist with a thirty-year career in the visual arts, Kim Percy's exhibition and series of new paintings, photographs, videos, and digital works, focus on the nexus of creativity and academic research through the lens of dyslexic thinking. More:

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REVEAL: WORKS FROM THE PERMANENT COLLECTION

Extended until FRI 14 MARCH 2025

Showcasing select works from Federation University's Art Collection, this exhibition celebrates the work of 22 significant Australian artists whose work traces unseen relationships and draws on diverse lived experiences while responding to a myriad of subjects and ideas. More: