SCA Galleries play an important role in the life of Sydney College of the Arts as a resource and educational device for students and staff. By providing the community with access to a range of challenging and innovative exhibitions and events, the galleries also provide an opportunity for SCA to develop a public understanding and appreciation of contemporary art.

The SCA Gallery is located at the centre of the SCA Campus and plays an important role in the life of Sydney College of the Arts as a resource and educational device for students, staff and graduates.

The SCA Gallery provides a site for the Faculty to develop better public understanding and appreciation of contemporary art through providing a range of challenging and innovative exhibitions and events annually. The annual program features works by Australian and international contemporary visual artists and designers, staff, students and graduates.

Committed to supporting projects that explore experimental approaches to the production and delivery of contemporary art, the SCA Gallery fosters an environment that encourages critical discussion around issues relevant to current cultural theory and art practice.

The SCA Gallery also plays a vital role in cultivating and extending relationships with cultural and arts events within the region and beyond and in developing strategic partnerships with contemporary artists, arts organisations and educators, engaging with the broader global community, whilst providing a cultural focus within Sydney’s inner western suburbs.

The Graduate School Gallery is part of the SCA Galleries. The Gallery program is run by a student committee (the Graduate School Gallery Committee) in conjunction with the Curator of Graduate School Gallery Program, and overseen by the Graduate School Director.

The Graduate School Gallery Program provides a pedagogical model for integrating individual research, critical engagement and professional practice. The Gallery provides students with the opportunity to experience the curatorial process, to prepare and deliver an exhibition, and to build professional and academic networks within the Graduate School community. Read the guidelines here

2013 Graduate School Gallery Committee

Gary Sangster (Committee chair), PhD candidate

Anthony Alston, Master of Studio Art candidate

Jennifer Brown, PhD candidate

Adrian Gebers, Master of Fine Arts candidate

Andre Hemer, PhD candidate

Paul Mumme, PhD candidate

Research is central to creative life at SCA. All our activities at SCA - learning, teaching, art-production, curating, theoretical writing and industry-aligned partnerships - are based on the conviction that vital knowledge is generated when creative experiments are galvanised by analytical scholarship. We focus on the cultures and industries directly aligned to the creative arts, and we also form investigative partnerships with government policy-makers, designers and science and technology researchers. The SCA Research Gallery provides a site for staff and visiting professional artists, scholars and curators to develop, experiment and present research and artistic works to the SCA and broader arts communities.

Upcoming Shows

The Callan Park Gallery for Self-Taught and Outsider Art is based at Sydney College of the Arts, fronting directly onto Callan Park. Its mission is to showcase Self-taught and Outsider work of the highest quality in an ongoing series of exhibitions.

Self-Taught ad Outsider Art is art produced by people somehow excluded from ‘the art game’ – not by choice, but by circumstance. The field is made up of a mixture of socially and culturally marginal figures; almost inevitably embracing or inhabiting unconventional or eccentric views or the world, usually undereducated, and often with diagnosed mental health conditions. In Outsider Art we are witness to a conceptual space containing work by a varied group of practitioners marginalised from the ‘mainstream’.

It is an international phenomenon, first described in France and Germany a hundred years ago. Self-Taught art was shown at New York’s Museum of Modern Art before the Second World War. The French painter Jean Dubuffet coined the term ‘Art Brut’ in 1945 to describe the art he collected and championed, and in 1972, in the English-speaking world the term Outsider Art was coined by the British academic Roger Cardinal. In spite of its long history, Self-Taught and Outsider Art has until now been largely ignored by the academy.

Led by Professor Colin Rhodes, an internationally acknowledged expert in the field, the Self-Taught and Outsider Art Research Collection (STOARC) has been established at Sydney College of the Arts, the Visual Arts Faculty of the University of Sydney. It is a Unique international centre for the academic study of, dissemination of knowledge about, and promotion to the wider community of Self-Taught and Outsider Art in Australia and internationally. It acts as a hub attracting scholars and others interested in the field, through its gallery, activities and online publication.

Works of art and archival materials are at the core of STOARC. Recognising the importance of physical artefacts for study ad the often precarious future of work in the field, STOARC will collect internationally significant art, concentrating especially on those artists not already represented in existing public collections. Selected artists will be collected in depth, whilst a study collection is being formed that will consist of a broad range of examples of canonical and less well-known figures. STOARC aims to be trans-disciplinary. Its members will range across disciplinary specialisms, from art history through social sciences and medicine. Though international in its scope, in view of its location, STOARC will have a special mission to study and promote Outsider and Self-Taught Art from Australia and New Zealand. Both nations have a rich store of work, which deserves study and much higher visibility internationally.

DedSpace Gallery is a student-run, not-for-profit gallery located in building 15 of Sydney College of the Arts (SCA). It is made possible with funding from University of Sydney Union (USU) and Sydney College of the Arts Student Society (SCASS), both of which are directly funded by ACCESS program membership. We aim to provide a venue for students to exhibit their work and to gain professional experience to further assist them for a future outside of the university setting. We also intend to foster the student experience by providing a space that encourages interdisciplinary dialogue and critical discussion.

DedSpace Gallery is managed and operated by a panel of co-directors that are members of SCASS. All exhibition applications and proposals are reviewed by the panel and are approved based on their merits. The panel looks for submissions that are well presented and are developed both conceptually and visually.

Interested in showing your work at DedSpace Gallery?
If you are an SCA or University of Sydney student you are eligible to apply for a show.
For further information check:DedSpace Gallery Exhibition Application 2013

If you are an SCA or University of Sydney student you are eligible to apply for a show.

For further information on how to apply or to put in a proposal, please contact us at: dedspace.gallery@gmail.com