What's on
Jeremy Eaton and Nicholas Smith: Dressings
7 Feb to 21 Jul 2024
Jeremy Eaton and Nicholas Smith have brought the visual language of screens, concealment and the stage to our View Street façade in their first collaborative work. Dressings continues both artists' exploration of queer sensibilities in Australian modernism and includes references to the work of Adrian Feint and James Gleeson.
I wanna be your anti-mirror
23 May to 18 Aug 2024
Guest-curated by influential Aotearoa/New Zealand-born artist Alicia Frankovich, this exhibition introduces sculpture, installation and film, including new commissions, by 7 early career artists. I wanna be your anti-mirror creates a context for experimental, materially complex artworks, revealing new ideas, languages, sensations and attitudes.
Central Victorian Indigenous Film Festival
1 June 2024
Emporium Creative Hub and La Trobe Art Institute are pleased to present contemporary First Nation’s video art with an introduction by proud Luritja Woman, Jenna Rain Warwick. This program is part of the 2024 Central Indigenous Film Festival in National Reconciliation Week. Experience a range of films, videos, activities and discussions in local venues and online. This year’s festival showcases an exciting range of First Nations films, documentaries and videos starring and telling stories about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People from Central Victoria and across Australia.
Registration not required.
Stepping out: A professional development program for visual artists
15 June 2024
La Trobe Art Institute, Emporium Creative Hub and City of Greater Bendigo have come together to shine a light on the visual arts ecosystem. This full-day professional development program is suited to emerging artists who want to navigate the art world, build a sustainable practice and get their work seen.
The event will be hosted through out the day across multiple venues, including La Trobe Art Institute, The Engine Room, Dudley House and Bendigo Art Gallery. This is a free event, but places are limited so please register now to secure your place.
Chunxiao Qu: An artist doesn't need a label – Melbourne Campus
27 Feb to 25 Jul 2024
Chunxiao Qu has transformed and upscaled her poems from intimate observations made on her iPhone into street signs. Qu's poems have their origins in her experience of existing between dual cultures and languages. This installation in the Borchardt Library café is part of a larger work commissioned for La Trobe Art Institute's Bendigo façade in 2022.
Jazz Money: With textual consent – Bendigo Campus
From 15 Apr 2023
Through applying pigments to erase words, Jazz Money has reimagined 19th-century texts scanned from books held in La Trobe's Sandhurst Collection. In this new work, Money, a poet and artist of Wiradjuri and Irish heritage, evokes memories of place, along with First Nations and colonial memory. The 6-part work, installed on level 2 of the Heyward Library, is a La Trobe Library and La Trobe Art Institute co-commission.
Emily Floyd: Anti-totalitarian vectors – Bendigo Campus
Ongoing from Jul 2022
A selection of 6 major works from Emily Floyd’s 2019 series is situated on level 2 of the Heyward Library. Acquired by the University in 2022, the installation pays homage to the work of internationally renowned philosopher Ágnes Heller and her contemporaries. Constructed in aluminium, bronze and adhesive vinyl, Floyd's bold sculptural forms are both playful and provocative.
Sculpture Park – Melbourne Campus
Ongoing
Follow our map of the Sculpture Park [PDF 1MB] to explore more than 20 public sculptures in the bushland setting of the La Trobe Melbourne Campus. Works by artists including Charles Robb, Inge King, Robert Klippel, David Wilson, Karen Ward and Reko Rennie reflect key movements in contemporary Australian sculpture since the mid-1960s.
One foot on the ground, one foot in the water
Touring 2022–24
We are proud to partner with NETS Victoria to tour this thematic group exhibition to five Australian public galleries, beginning with Bunjil Place in February 2022. Find out about the tour, further information about the artists and a learning guide on the NETS Victoria exhibition webpage.