Curated by Liam Garstang, Nice One Picasso is a contemporary art project for the Sydney leg of the 2017 St. Jerome's Laneway Festival. Held throughout Callan Park, Rozelle, and in the Laneway Pretty Important People (PIP) bar, the two exhibitions showcase the work of current students and graduates of Sydney College of the Arts (Laneway's Sydney venue). 

Following on from the Festival an adapted exhibition incorporating all work created for the project will be exhibited in the SCA Galleries, with performances on opening night.

Artists include: Vicky Browne, Consuelo Cavaniglia, Eugene Choi, Adrian De Giorgio, Chris Dolman, Chris Fox, Liam Garstang, Francesca Heinz, Hana Hoogedeure and Luke O'Donnell, Robin Hungerford, Harley Ives, Biljana Jancic, Richard Kean, Clare Milledge, Jonny Niesche, Kate Scardifield, Ben Terakes, Kai Wasikowski, and Justene Williams.

Image: Robin Hungerford, Same As It Ever Was (Educational Prop), 2016, Fibreglass, Acrylic Paint.

Please join us to celebrate the achievements of our postgraduate students completing degrees in February 2017. A special private viewing of their examination work will be hosted by Acting Dean, Professor Margaret Harris and Justin Trendall, Graduate School Director.

Exhibiting students include: Corrine Brittain (PhD), Vivienne Linsley (PhD), Rachel Scott (PhD), Cobi Cockburn (MFA), David Collins (MFA), Amy Dynan (MFA), Petrina Hicks (MFA), Del Lumanta (MFA), Nicola Morton (MFA), Zoe Roberston (MFA) and Xaiver Winterstein (MFA).

Image: Chris Dolman, Death Wobbles: an Anxious Tableau, Installation view, 2016. Photo: Ian Hobbs. December examination exhibition.

Centripetal Force - Four Dimensions of Chinese Contemporary Art, curated by Jerry Song, showcases the work of fourteen Chinese emerging artists who are committed to challenging the forms, media and concepts of art making. Their interest in interpreting Chinese society, politics, economy and culture through a contemporary lens reflects the critical thinking and awareness of current art strategies that we strive to embed in the emerging artists who train at SCA.

This exhibition is presented in partnership with the China Cultural Centre (CCC), Sydney and Artnova 100 as part of the CCC’s Chinese Contemporary Art Month.

Gallery Hours:
Monday - Friday, 11am - 5pm
Saturday, 11am - 4pm
Due to the public holidays SCA Galleries will be closed Friday 14, Saturday 15, Monday 17 and Tuesday 25 April.

Image: Zhu Peihong, ‘My Space- Untitled 2016-4’, 2016.

New Contemporaries features the work of thirteen recent SCA graduates: Chris Bonnily, Ciaran Begley, Kate Brown, Barbara Campbell, Consuelo Cavaniglia, Sylvia Griffin, Dan Hollier, Yeliz Kocaballi, Paul Mumme, Sean O'Connell, Catherine Payne, Niall Robb, Emma Varker and Gianni Wise. Through painting, photography, sculpture, installation and video, these artists explore the political and personal implications of making, viewing and experiencing art.

The 2017 New Contemporaries artists were selected by a panel of SCA academics, based on a call for applications from postgraduates who completed their degrees in 2016.

Gallery Hours:
Monday - Friday, 11am - 5pm
Saturday, 11am - 4pm

Image: Anna McMahon, Untitled #3- 6 from the series Being Found Out, 2016. Installation view SCA New Contemporaries 2016. Photo: Ian Hobbs.

Please join us to celebrate the achievements of our postgraduate students completing degrees in June 2017. A special private viewing of their examination work will be held from 6-8pm on Thursday 22 February, hosted by Acting Dean, Professor Margaret Harris and Justin Trendall, Graduate School Director.

PhD: Jan Guy, Markela Panegyres

MFA: Susan Chen, Hayley Hill, Erica Izard, Kevin Khachan, Isobel Markus-Dunworth, Josee Vesely-Manning, Rujunko Pugh, Simon Dorabialski

MCA: Amanda Bentley, Ben Broad, Shengwei Chen, Maryam Goodarzi, Yongjie Li, Elizabeth Nagy, Tilly Lees, Linelle Stepto, Chong Zhan

MMI: Shengwei Chen, Xiao Li Gai, Yuanjun Guo, Zhuwei Jiang, Jiaming Ke, Jiayi Li, Gaofei Lyu, Shen Shen, Yize Wang, Bingrong Xu, Walter Yan, Gavin Yang, Kaijian Yang, Stone Yu, Gina Zhang, Jaiyun Zhang

Image: Paul Mumme, PhD, 2016 December HDR examination exhibition Installation view. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Ian Hobbs.

SCA Wingara Mura Fellow Janelle Evans in collaboration with Dr Geraldine LeRoux (University de Bretagne) is curating an exhibition opening in July 2017 at the SCA Galleries. The exhibition seeks to provide a discourse about the ways in which contemporary Australian artists interpret the dot beyond the protective skin or screen used by Central and Western Desert artists and in ways which are non-derivative.

The artists in this exhibition explore the dot as indexical markers or indicators of time, place, memory, erasure, self-determination, feminist agency and diaspora; as energy points or ways of mapping a person or architecture and as points of dislocation and relocation.

Exhibiting artists: David Asher Brook, Bronwyn Bancroft, Jon Cattapan, Dacchi Dang, John Di Stefano, Janelle Evans, Lindy Lee, Ms Saffaa, Armelle Swan and ek.1 (Katie Louise Williams + Emma Hicks) with Willl Cooke.

Image: Lindy Lee, Untitled, 2017, perforated paper and firework. Image courtesy of the artist.

The aim of the David Harold Tribe Sculpture Award is to promote interest in and encourage the creation of sculpture in Australia, to help and give incentive to sculptors and provide them with additional monetary amounts, and to enable them to improve their skills and through the above improve the general public’s appreciation of sculpture.

The recipient of the $12,000 award will be announced on Wednesday 9 August, 6-8pm.

Judging panel: Professor Margaret Harris (chair), Hany Armanious, Julie Ewington and Associate Professor Jennifer Barrett.

Finalists: Abdul-Rahman Abdullah, Ciaran Begley, Vicky Browne, Consuelo Cavaniglia, Stevie Fieldsend, Kath Fries, David Haines & Joyce Hinterding, Daniel Hollier, Anna John, Therese Keogh, Anna McMahon, Kirsten Perry, Niall Robb, Susanna Strati, Salote Tawale, Ben Terakes, Yeliz Yorulmaz.

Image: Biljana Jancic, Exit Strategies, 2016 CCTV camera, image splitter, 5 channel video projection. Winner 2016.

Image: Kai Wasikowski, Installation view 2016 Undergraduate Degree Show.