Over 3,000 students have graduated from the School of Art since 1976. Many want to keep in touch with former classmates, find out what is happening in the School and the wider University today, or get information on ways in which they can continue to contribute to the life of the School. We encourage all ex-students to join the ANU Alumni group. Visit the Alumni webpage to find out about the benefits of registering: http://www.anu.edu.au/alumni/

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Our students pursue careers as practicing artists, curators, arts administrators, educators. Their work regularly wins prizes and awards, and they have been highly successful in gaining employment in arts-allied fields. Listed on these pages are a number of past and present student achievements.

2009

Painting graduates Helen Shelley,  Nicola Dickson, and Racheal Freeman are all currently showing at CCAS Manuka and Gorman House. Fernando de Campo has recently shown at M16, and Clare Thackaway has shown at Blindside, Melbourne.

For a list of current (September/October) exhibitions of work by recent graduates of the Glass workshop check here.

ANU School of Art staff and alumni will participate in the Tree Museum/ Canberra Artist Exchange and Residency Project:

In 2010 Canberra artists Bev Hogg, Alison Munro, Patsy Payne and Trish will travel to Canada to undertake a residency at the Tree Museum. At the end of this period an exhibition of works by all artists will be presented at Craft ACT: Craft and Design Centre. More information here. 

 Since Graduation Jacqueline has participated in fourteen exhibitions including being selected into the “Avant Card We love 3-D Project” at the Sydney Opera House 2009 

Never a cross word is an exhibition of sculptural and installed works which hint at a connection between the lived-in home and lived-in body. 
In this exhibition household objects and building materials including windows, picture-rails, skirting boards and wallpaper are used in conjunction with fabricated elements to create objects that appear familiar yet function in unbelievable ways.
These works explore something fantastic happening in ordinary spaces, windows that breathe like lungs or walls that fold into corners, investigating the delineation between internal and external, active and inanimate, disclosure and secrecy.
Never a cross word is an exploration of intrigue and whimsy in which the construction of memories, truths and perception are mediated by a living, breathing home.

Tom Moore (Glass) was featured in a documentary  aired on the ABC on February 17 click here for the press release. Tom's work can also be seen during March at the Jam Factory in Adelaide.

Tom has also been included in Optimism, a major survey show of Australian Art at the Gallery of Modern Art at the Queensland Art Gallery. 

Lucy Quinn  (Honours - Printmedia and Drawing 2007) is exhibiting Vessel Vessel at Perth Institute of Contemporary Art - check it out here.

Tevita Havea (Glass - 2006) has been announced the 2009 winner of the Urban Glass New Talent Award in New York.

Ken Yonetani, Master of Arts (Visual Arts) - (Ceramics 2005) has been selected as part of the Australian representation for the Venice Biennale in 2009. Shaun Gladwell will be in the Australian pavilion and Ken will be part of the group show 'Once Removed' at another site in Venice with Vernon Ah Kee, Claire Healy and Sean Corderio.

Sarah Firth (Sculpture, Honours 2007) has been selected to participate in Experimentopia 2009 - The International Biennnial of Media Arts. Sarah is funded by The Australia Council's Young and Emerging Initiative for artists under 30.

Alexandra Chambers (Glass) received 2009 Arts ACT Project Funding to assist with costs of developing and creating a new body of work in glass, producing a historical timeline of objects that play music.

Denise Higgins (Glass, Honours 2006/7) received 2009 Arts ACT Project Funding to assist with costs of researching and developing a new body of work.