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.
Meet the artist: Constantino Zicarelli
An Emporium Creative Hub Share & Connect Event
Thursday 18 July, 5 to 7 pm
Our current Artist in Residence will provide insights into his recent travels and creative practice. Kuwaiti born, Zicarelli lives and works in Manila and has presented exhibitions across the globe. He was a recipient of the Ateneo Visual Arts Award in 2017 and 2019, for which he was awarded residencies in Liverpool, England and Bendigo, Australia.
Sculpture Workshop with Erin Hallyburton
Saturday 27 July, 1 to 4 pm
Join us at La Trobe Art Institute for a materials workshop led by artist Erin Hallyburton, whose major works are presented in our current group exhibition, I wanna be your anti-mirror.
Drop in and make: tech edition
Saturday 10 August, 1 to 4 pm
Our 'Drop in and make' public program is back, this time with a focus on creative practice in tech!
In celebration of the artists in I wanna be your anti-mirror we invite the community to bring their own digital projects into the gallery for an afternoon of communal making. Whether you are working on an animation, editing a film, coding a website or mixing a soundtrack, be inspired by the diverse works in I wanna be your anti-mirror in the company of other makers.
Art + Poetry at Bendigo Writers Festival
Saturday 17 August 1:45 to 2:45 pm
We’re pleased to be collaborating with our friends at Bendigo Art Gallery on a panel on Art + Poetry featuring Jazz Money and Chunxiao Qu.
In this conversation facilitated by our curatorial lead Amelia Wallin, Jazz and Chunxiao will explore translations between poetry and visual art, and the appearance of joy, humour, and politics in their work.
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.
The Long Way: Kevin Chin
Until Sun 28 July 2024
Kevin Chin's work form our collection, Pass By (2013), is currently on show at Town Hall Gallery as part of The Long Way: Kevin Chin until Sunday 28 July. Don't miss your chance to see a new series of ethereal paintings is contextualised by a curated selection of highlights from Chin’s 15-year artistic practice.