Previous Exhibitions and Events
Previous Exhibitions and Events
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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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Newcastle Writers Festival presents: Keri Glastonbury's 51 Alterities Book Launch
Keri Glastonbury is associate professor in Creative Writing at the University of Newcastle. Her poems have been widely published in magazines and collections. Her poetry collection, Newcastle Sonnets, was shortlisted for the 2019 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Poetry.
This In-person event was held on Saturday 20 September 2025
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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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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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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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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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Ngarrama - To sit, listen and know
This exhibition celebrates Newcastle largest reconciliation event, – a night of truth and reflection held on the eve of Survival Day.
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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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Expressions
Experience the incredible works by TAFE NSW - Newcastle and University of Newcastle's visual art, design and animation students.
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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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Useful Objects
Stories of Light presents WH!P’s anthology of lens-based stories devised around a sense of place, the personal, the familial and the inspirational. These tales from visual artists are told through the medium of photography, akin to the written words of
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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.
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Warwick Heywood: Painting the Anthropocene’s Agitated Physicality
Responding to the severe 2017-2020 Eastern Australia drought and bush fires, Heywood conducts a speculative investigation and imagination of the Anthropocene’s “agitated physicality”.
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Vanessa Lewis: Tempera: The Nature of Paint
Lewis has turned her art studio into a laboratory to explore an intriguing collection of historic tempera recipes and has identified one hundred ingredients used by artists before the commercialisation of paint.
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Ordinary Intricacies
Ordinary Intricacies is a group exhibition that explores the interplay between elemental materials that are worked up to images, objects or vessels that are made intricate through the patterns and dynamics found in natural relationships.
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SIGN/NATURE
SIGN/NATURE is a student exhibition celebrating creative practice and featuring design, publications, animation, and illustration projects from studio-based courses in Visual Communication Design.
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gatherED
gatherED brings together a group of mid-career artists and alumni who are celebrated members of the University community. With careers that span our region and beyond, each artist has a particular and profound relationship to our place, our University and
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Building Resilience
Building Resilience is an exhibition profiling engagement with local and global communities to raise awareness and support for the multiple dimensions needed for safer, better living in the 21st Century.
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.