Past exhibitions
2018
Eighteen and Over
19th April - 31 May
Eighteen and Over, works by Gippsland Centre for Art and Design third year students, academic and support staff. Read more >
2017
Our hopes for the city of Morwell
13th Nov - 24th Nov
This photographic exhibition evolved from research into recovery from the Hazelwood Mine Fire. Read more >
Refraction
5th Aug - 9th Nov
An Exhibition of works by Gippsland Centre for Art and Design Alumni Read more >
Leon De Montignie: The Life and Death of an Unknown Painter
3 March 17
Leon De Montignie: The Life and Death of an Unknown Painter Leon De Montignie Read more >
2016
ReFresh: Gippsland Visual Arts Prize 2016
22 Aug - 8 Sep
ReFresh: Gippsland Visual Arts Prize 2016 Read more >
Joyce Nowrungsah : Come dance in the light on unfinished edges
25th May - 7th July
Joyce Nowrungsah : Come dance in the light on unfinished edges Read more >
Where's Russell: Third year visual arts students
15 Nov - 9 Jan 2017
Where's Russell: 3rd Year Visual Arts Read more >
Leonie Ryan: Site, Substance and Sensation
2nd March - 21st March
Photographic exhibition Read more >
2015
A Memory: The Jan Feder Memorial Ceramics Collection
20 May - 9 July
A Memory: The Jan Feder Memorial Ceramics Collection Read more >
ReFresh
30th Aug - 30th Sept
ReFresh is a new, Year 12 Visual Arts Prize that recognises Gippsland’s most promising young talent. Read more >
CROSSING PATHS: Marks by a select group of printmakers
25 Mar - 16 Apr
An international print exchange curated by Melanie Yazzie and Rodney Forbes Read more >
Reality is an illusion, although a very persistent one
4 - 19 Mar
Lorry Wedding-Marchioro's sculptural and installation work explores connections between quantum physics and visual arts practice, drawing on quantum physics' idea that all solid things are composed of wave particles and are in reality as insubstantial as light. Read more >
Aunty Eileen Harrison: Listening to the Old Ones in the Trees
22 Apr - 14 May
Featuring the work of Aunty Eileen Harrison, highly respected Gunai Kurnai artist and Elder with support by the members of the Koori Cohort at the Gippsland Centre for Art and Design. Read more >
2014
CORPOREAL
Wed 4 Jun - Thu 31 Jul 2014
An exhibition of prints exploring the theme of the body by 23 contemporary Australian artists. CORPOREAL was conceived by leading Australian printmaker and curator Rona Green and gives a snapshot of a range of contemporary ways of looking at a perennial topic. Read more >
When All the Rivers Run
Tue 30 Sep - Thu 16 Oct 2014
When All the Rivers Run exhibition showcases works by Indigenous artists from the Gippsland and Albury regions as well as non-indigenous artists who have connections with them. It honours the relationships and networks which exist between the two indigenous communities as well as their connections to non-indigenous artists Read more >
Tue 18 Nov - Fri 30 Jan 2015
OBJECT_MATTER
Works by completing Honours and Bachelors students at Gippsland Centre for Art and Design 2014 Read more >
FLYING: a trans-national cross-cultural print exchange
Wed 2 Apr - Thu 1 May 2014
This exhibition emerged from a 2013 residency at the Gippsland Centre for Art and Design by Navajo artist Professor Melanie Yazzie from Colorado University. A collaborative print exchange was organised to bring together American and Australian printmakers. Read more >
diversiFORM
Wed 6 Aug - Thu 28 Aug 2014
This exhibition showcases works by second year visual arts students at FedUni Gippsland. Featuring works by students at the mid-point of their bachelor degree, the exhibition gives a foretaste of the work of Gippsland's next crop of emerging artists. Read more >
Bridie Lunney
Wed 22 Oct - Thu 6 Nov 2014
Combining sculpture, jewellery and durational performance, Bridie Lunney?s practice positions the body as a conduit between the physical world and our emotional and psychological selves. Acting like a stage set, Lunney?s large-scale intervention into the gallery space is surrounded with sculptural forms that lie latent but full of potential energy. Read more >
Tilting at Windmills
Wed 5 Mar - Thu 20 Mar 2014
Gippsland photographer Neale Stratford creates intriguing (and often creepy) tableaux using poseable dolls, which he then photographs using high-end cinematography approaches. Read more >
The 2014 Autumn Salon
Wed 7 May - Thu 29 May 2014
The 2014 Autumn Salon, showcased works by the staff community of the Gippsland Campus of Federation University Australia. Read more >
Sanne Mestrom
Wed 3 Sep - Fri 19 Sep 2014
Sanne Mestrom's Black Paintings (paradoxically made from steel and wool) are commentaries on the broad nature of current painting and reference Frank Stella's iconic 1960s Black Paintings, which made important breakthroughs in the way painters thought about surface and the 'object quality' in their work. Read more >
2013
Indigenous Australians at War: From the Boer War to the present
Thu 4 Jul - Tue 6 Aug 2013
A photograph-based touring exhibition created by the Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne. Read more >
Shimmering Spaces: Exhibition 3
Wed 17 Apr - Fri 17 May 2013
Rhett D'Costa's recent work focuses on his dual British/Indian ethnicity and draws on experiences relating to memory, ethnicity and identity. Read more >
Exchanging Story: connecting by the printed surface
Tue 12 Feb - Thu 28 Feb 2013
This exhibition emerged from a meeting between Gippsland Centre for Art and Design Director Rodney Forbes and Navajo artist Melanie Yazzie at Colorado University in 2012. Read more >
t/Here
Wed 13 Nov 2013 - Thu 30 Jan 2014
Completing Bachelors and Honours students from the Gippsland Centre for Art & Design. This exhibition displays selected work by students from GCAD?s Honours and Bachelor of Visual and Media Arts programs. Read more >
Koorie Footprints to Higher Education
Wed 14 Aug - Fri 30 Aug 2013
Koorie Footprints to Higher Education 2013 is a wide-ranging survey of indigenous printmaking that has emerged from the innovative Monash access program over the years 2008 to 2012 Read more >
Codex infinitum - the infinite book
Thu 10 Oct - Thu 7 Nov 2013
For codex infinitum - the infinite book, artist Rhonda Ayliffe created a diverse body of work that includes ephemeral book works, installations, photographic works, and handmade books. Read more >
Electric Valley Studios 2
Wed 22 May - Thu 27 Jun 2013
Showcased current work by staff at the Gippsland Centre for Art and Design Read more >
Fiona West: Souvenirs of Self
Wed 6 Mar - Thu 21 Mar 2013
Fiona West's work explores the question, "How do I, as a recent white South African immigrant, explore the contemporary Australian landscape". Read more >
Kate Smith - A Country Practice
Wed 4 Sep - Thu 3 Oct 2013
Originally from Cootamundra in New South Wales, Kate Smith responds to the rural setting of the campus to present A Country Practice. Exhibition curated by Francis Parker. Read more >
Don't Stare so Romantically: paintings by Cheri O'Donnell
Wed 27 Mar - Thu 18 Apr 2013
Cheri O'Donnell began painting landscape in response to disasters such as flood and bush-fires near her East Gippsland home. Read more >
2012
FIN: 2012
Tue 13 Nov 2012 - Thu 14 Feb 2013
Completing Bachelors and Honours students From The Gippsland Centre for Art & Design. It included painting, installation, sculpture, photography, indigenous cultural recovery work and printmaking. Read more >
Un-acclimatised
Tue 29 May - Thu 5 Jul 2012
This exhibition was one of two each year guest-curated at Switchback by Melbourne's premier contemporary art space and was a snapshot of cutting edge contemporary artists whose work is concerned with environmental issues. Read more >
RONA GREEN: Surface Value
Wed 17 Oct - Fri 9 Nov 2012
Rona Green's prints and paintings are a mix of identity politics, Gothic/Calvinist precision and black humour. Read more >
ZAHIDAH
Wed 11 Jul - Sat 4 Aug 2012
Zahidah's work examines the loss of traditional village life and architecture in Arab countries. Her paintings enact cultural recovery through exploring her family heritages. Read more >
LAND to LIGHT Photo Diaries
Wed 18 Apr - Thu 24 May 2012
Land to Light revealed the photographic research processes which underpin many artists' finished works. Read more >
ZONE of SENSATION: finding oneself beyond sight
Wed 8 Aug - Thu 30 Aug 2012
An installation work by South Gippsland artist Kim McDonald. Read more >
CHIPPO (Christopher Gray): A brush with the wal
Tue 6 Mar - Thu 12 Apr 2012
Chippo lives in Boolarra in Gippsland and began painting in 1975, exploring philosophy, architecture and architectonics. Read more >
Dylan Martorell: D'ameublement
Wed 5 Sep - Thu 11 Oct 2012
Dylan Martorell: D'ameublement, surveyed the work of Dylan Martorell who was the Gippsland Centre for Art & Design/MUMA artist in residence in April. Read more >
2011
The 2011 Autumn Salon
Wed 30 Mar - Thu 14 Apr 2011
The 2011 Autumn Salon, showcased works by the staff community of Monash Gippsland Campus. Read more >
CHARLES FARRUGIA: Micromirror7
Wed 5 Oct - Thu 20 Oct 2011
Sculptor Charles Farrugia likes to imagine his works as museum collections discovered by a post apocalyptic alien viewer. Read more >
F R E A K of N A T U R E
Wed 7 Sep - Sun 2 Oct 2011
An international print exchange curated by Rona Green. Read more >
Self-Conscious: Contemporary Portraiture
Wed 18 May - Thu 23 Jun 2011
Portraiture allows us to dwell on one of the most fascinating subjects - ourselves. The act of self reflection and the study of others through portraiture can variously be fraught, humorous or enlightening. Read more >
Catherine Laudenbach: PLEASE BE CAREFUL
Tue 22 Feb - Thu 17 Mar 2011
Catherine Laudenbach's photographs investigate Australian places of trauma. She invited us to look at these images and compare that to what we know/imagine about them, and then question how we see both the ordinary and the mythical. Read more >
Koorie Footprints to Higher Education 2011
Wed 26 Oct - Sat 12 Nov 2011
Koorie Footprints to Higher Education 2011 was a wide-ranging survey of indigenous printmaking that had emerged from the innovative Monash access program over 2010-11. Read more >
BRIDGING THE GAP
Wed 29 Jun - Thu 14 Jul 2011
Presented work by the Mainstreet group at Moe Life Skills and Cooinda Hill Traralgon. Read more >
ERICA TANDORI: LANDSCAPE and DESIRE
Wed 20 Jul - Thu 4 Aug 2011
In this exhibition of digital works by Melbourne artist Erica Tandori she explored her European heritage through digital images which transplant iconic edifices from the places of her ancestry into the Australian landscape. Read more >
End Stage
Wed 20 Apr - Fri 13 May 2011
Natalie Ryan is an installation artist whose practice engages with anatomical drawing and body reconstruction through sculpture and installation. Read more >
Claire Lambe: Beadlestaff
Wed 10 Aug - Thu 1 Sep 2011
Claire Lambe is a leading Melbourne artist and co-curator of Death Be Kind Gallery. She was the 2011 MUMA artist-in-residence at Gippsland Centre for Art and Design. Read more >