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Explore undergraduate and Honours degrees in Visual Arts, Design, Animation & Moving Image, and Art Theory; and postgraduate and research degrees in Fine Arts, Design, Curating & Cultural Leadership, Animation & Visual Effects, and Simulation & Immersive Technologies.
3 current students and 1 alum shortlisted for the 2026 NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging)
Congratulations to collaborative duo Natasha Dubler and Caitlin Dubler (both PhD candidates), Tia Madden (Master of Fine Arts (Research) candidate) and Charles Levi (Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours), 2022), who have been selected as finalists for the prestigious fellowship program.
The seven finalists will exhibit their work at Artspace Sydney in July, with the recipient of the $30,000 Fellowship announced on opening night.
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Image: Natasha Dubler and Caitlin Dubler. Photo: Renata Dominik.
Next-gen talent shines at Australia’s largest showcase of graduate art and design
The Annual 2025 exhibition showcases our graduates from undergraduate degrees right through to PhD programs. 170 emerging artists, designers and makers presented new work across the campus and online.
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Image: The Annual 2025, installation view. Photograph: Chrissie Hall.
Tia Madden wins the 2025 Tim Olsen Drawing Prize
Congratulations to Tia Madden on receiving the 2025 Tim Olsen Drawing Prize for the artwork Some Sort of Notation.
The judges said the work was a “stand out for its use of drawing as a tool to explore fundamental aspects of the human experience. The work is suggestive of narrative, dialogue, and elemental mark-making, and variously evokes musical notation, written language, and figurative drawing. The interplay of two-dimensional marks, sculptural forms, shadows, and composition creates a compelling and multidimensional experience.”
The judges also highly commended the work of two other students:
- Mei Lin Meyers for Rhizome
- Trinity Johnson for Dreaming of this
This year marks the 25th Anniversary of the Tim Olsen Drawing Prize. View all 20 nominated works in our online exhibition.
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Image: Tia Madden with the winning work Some Sort of Notation 2024 - 2025. Oxidised mild steel and copper, dimensions variable. Photograph: Anna Kucera.
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World-class facilities in Sydney's creative hub
As a student at UNSW School of Art & Design, you have access to world-class facilities, innovative resources and opportunities to study and work internationally.
Our specialist campus incorporates museum-standard galleries and state-of-the-art workshops, open studios and private workspaces, research and digital labs, lounges and collaboration spaces.
Acknowledgement of Country
UNSW School of Art & Design stands on an important place of learning and exchange first occupied by the Bidjigal and Gadigal peoples.
We acknowledge the Bidjigal and Gadigal peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land that our students and staff share, create and operate on. We pay our respects to Elders past and present and extend this respect to all First Nations peoples across Australia. Sovereignty has never been ceded.
