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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.
Current students, staff and alumni nominated for 2024 Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes
We are overjoyed to see so many students, staff and alumni announced as finalists for the 2024 Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes, with 20 entries nominated across the three categories.
The winners will be announced at The Art Gallery of New South Wales on Friday 7 June. Good luck to all of the nominees!
2024 ARCHIBALD PRIZE
- Shaun Gladwell (Master of Fine Arts, 2001): A spangled symbolist portrait of Julian Assange floating in reflection
- David Griggs (Master of Fine Arts, 2007): Cold wind blows
- Laura Jones (Master of Art, 2006): Tim Winton
- Scott Marsh (Bachelor Fine Arts, 2011): Big mood
- Laura Peacock (Bachelor of Fine Arts 2020): Peter at home
- Caroline Zilinsky (Master of Fine Arts, 2007): A lucid heart – the golden age of Jacob Elordi
2024 WYNNE PRIZE
- Billy Bain (Current student – Master of Fine Arts): The fighters
- Julia Gutman (Bachelor of Fine Arts, 2015): Olive
- Claire Healy, Sean Cordeiro (Master of Fine Arts, 2004): Grey nomadic visions
- Jason Phu (Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours), 2011): my really beautiful wonderful city wow
- Joan Ross (Master of Fine Arts, 2012): Who said possession is nine-tenths of the law?
- Louise Zhang (Master of Fine Arts, 2014): Tapestry: lotus
2024 SIR JOHN SULMAN PRIZE
- Sally Anderson (Bachelor of Fine Arts, 2015): Holding a hurricane, quilt curtain carrying the sea
- Jedda Daisy Culley (Master of Fine Arts, 2011): I’m not a butterfly, I’m your haunted fairy, I’m your soul trapped inside your chit-chatting cage body
- David Eastwood (Senior Lecturer and Director, HDR): Swathe
- Emily Galicek (Master of Fine Arts, 2019): Encaustic and majolica (orange)
- Holly Greenwood (Bachelor of Fine Arts, 2011): No phones allowed
- Laura Jones (Master of Art, 2006): Sliding doors
- Nigel Milsom (Master of Fine Arts, 2002): Judo house part 10 (plain crazy)
- Nick Santoro (Bachelor of Fine Arts, 2017): Property boundary quarrel (neighbours)
Image credit: David Eastwood, Swathe 2023, oil on polyester, 91×122 cm.
PhD candidate Shireen Taweel wins 2024 Blake Prize
One of Australia's longest standing and most prestigious art prizes, the $35,000 Blake Prize is awarded to an artist who explores ideas of spirituality and religion through their work. Shireen Taweel's winning installation ‘Shoe Bathers’ conjures up the sensory relationship between body, mind, and religion in a hammam.
Biyani: Aboriginal women’s art as ceremony
Biyani is a Tharawal word which means ‘women healing women’. It was chosen to name an Aboriginal women’s arts program led by Associate Professor Fabri Blacklock.
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Find out more about current exhibitions, register for upcoming events and read about the recent achievements of our students, staff and alumni.
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.
