Past Events and Exhibitions
Previous Exhibitions and events
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Welcome to the Void: Community Voices in Post-Mining Landscapes
This immersive exhibition invites you into the heart of the Hunter Valley, NSW, where landscapes bear the deep scars of open-cut coal mining.
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Unseen Unspoken
The 2025 Newcastle Art School graduation exhibition celebrates and acknowledges the work of 3 artists completing the Bachelor of Creative Practice degree program – Eliza Blackwell, Chloe Hooper and Leanne Swainson. The exhibition marks the creative milestone for the graduates
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FRAMED: The Sampson Collection
Established in 1965, the University of Newcastle Art Collection is an active asset that is central to the University's cultural identity.
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Visual Communication Design: Graduating Students Exhibition
This is Kreative Kaos: the end of year showcase of the University of Newcastle’s graduating Visual Communication students.
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BIO ASSEMBLY : Watt Space Gallery
Don’t miss an immersive exhibition that brings together sounds and everyday materials to reflect on our relationship to the environment.
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A Kind of Resistance
A Kind of Resistance brings together five artists whose works embody humanity, truth, and connection in a rapidly polarising world.
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Bio Assembly
BIO ASSEMBLY is a suite of four exhibitions, featuring seven artists that challenge our perceptions of landscape, space, ethics and entropy.
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Sculpture in the Botanic Gardens and Watt Space Gallery
Please join the artists for two launches: at Watt Space Gallery Thursday 31 July from 5.30pm and at Hunter Region Botanic Gardens Saturday 2 August from 1pm
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Know My Abstraction
Inspired by the National Gallery of Australia’s 2019 ‘Know My Name’ initiative, a project that has effectively redressed many of the silent, unknown histories of women painters in Australia, this exhibition features the work of four Newcastle based abstract artists.
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Weaving Emergent Geographies
We are at a point in time where we must urgently address global challenges such as climate change, human rights, migrations, increasing inequalities, the rights of nature, the importance of Indigenous knowledge, and human-environment interactions.
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Malang – Indigenous Hunter Artists
Step into the world of Malang, an extraordinary exhibition that celebrates the rich cultural heritage and artistic prowess of Indigenous Hunter Artists.
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SIXTY YEARS The Art Collection
In this, the 60th year of the University of Newcastle, we are profiling four exhibitions drawn from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander works in our own University Art Collection.
In person
Lottie Consalvo in Conversation
We welcome you to join artist Lottie Consalvo for apéritifs and conversation on Tuesday evening 6th May from 6pm.
This In-person event was held on Tuesday 6 May 2025
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Brilliantly Bad Pitch Competition
Explore brilliantly bad ideas, refine pitches, compete, and network in a fun-filled event celebrating unconventional creativity!
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I Tried To Make A Horizon For You - Lottie Consalvo
Consalvo’s practice holds deep reverence for the mind and its capacities both within and outside of reality. Pushing ideas beyond our imaginings into places unknown and ungraspable.
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Light Source - Kris Smith, Ken O'Regan, and Chris Brown
Multi-disciplinary artists Ken O’Regan, Chris Brown and Kris Smith, present Light Source, a meditation on the passage of deep time and the intersection of natural and built environments.
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Marine Invaders
Marine Invaders is an educational card game developed by Elizabeth Copeland that highlights the impact of invasive marine species and ways we can support native species to thrive.
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Instant Eternity
The 2024 Newcastle Art School graduation exhibition celebrates and acknowledges the work of the 3 artists completing the Bachelor of Creative Practice degree program, Sandy Sanderson, Emily Lloyd and Anne Grant.
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Startup Stories - Mariam Mohammed (MoneyGirl)
Hear the experiences of an entrepreneur and business owner – the highs, the lows, the wins, the mistakes, the inside story.
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Belongings - Distil Immersive
Belongings is an immersive installation that reveals the stories of six refugees who took asylum in Australia. Through the lens of their most cherished belongings, this installation invites audiences to step into the shoes of those who have faced unimaginable
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Boundaries: Transcended
Coming together under the name Boundaries : Transcended is a project initiated by Alice Neikirk, a lecturer in our School of Law working with ceramicist Mojgan Habibi. Called The Unity Project, participants* have created over 700 tiny houses to acknowledge
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Coast Next Gen Art Exhibition 2024
Join us and come together to support the next generation of young artists on the Central Coast.
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In conversation with Dr Alan Finkel
Please join us at the University of Newcastle Gallery for the Hunter launch of former Chief Scientist Dr Alan Finkel’s new book ‘Powering Up: Unleashing the Clean Energy Supply Chain’.
Public Lecture
Celebrating National Science Week
Join us to celebrate National Science week with an exploration of science and innovation at our upcoming Looking Ahead Speaker Series!
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THIRD SPACE
Navigating the multifaceted influences of Australian identity and “the third space,” a theory emerging from the collision of cultures, artist Indeah Clarke draws inspiration from her Indigenous heritage and travels to Japan.
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BIRABAHN Building the Art Collection
We invite you to share the first view of the Birabahn Collection at Watt Space Gallery and will welcome our visitors to the official launch when it is installed as a permanent collection at the Wollotuka Institute.
The University of Newcastle acknowledges the traditional custodians of the lands within our footprint areas: Awabakal, Darkinjung, Biripai, Worimi, Wonnarua, and Eora Nations. We also pay respect to the wisdom of our Elders past and present.