What's on
Parched
20 Nov 2024 to 9 Feb 2025
The exhibition draws together artworks from across Australia, with an eye to the southeast, to explore representations of drought.
Roberta Joy Rich: Lying Inside
24 July 2024 to 19 Jan 2025
Working from her lived experience as a diaspora Southern African Kaapse woman with African and Asian lineages, artist Roberta Joy Rich has engaged with Southern African cultural materials and their administration within the University’s collection to develop this new commission.
Jazz Money: With textual consent – Melbourne Campus
Until 20 Feb 2025
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 in the Borchardt 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.