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  • Past Exhibits
  • 2019
  • Contemplating Affective Landscapes

    An Exhibition featuring the works of Dawne Fahey

  • Mind the Gap - Tending the Interface of Art and Therapy

    An exhibition feturing artworks by art therapy practioner-educators from Western Sydney University Master of Art Therapy program.

  • 2018
  • By the time I get to Puning, she'll be rising 600 years old

    An exhibition of photographs by Dr David Cubby, Dawne Fahey, Michaela Gamble and Enrico Scotece.

  • Drawn by Nature

    Paintings by Diana Bell and Photography and Poetry by Geoff Scott

  • Futuro Infanti Hoy

  • 2017
  • Power of the Lens

  • Abstraction

  • Rewind

  • The world we live in

  • 2016
  • Refuge

  • Getting By in Modernized China

  • Water and Mountains

  • 'Discovery'

  • "After Hours"

  • 2015
  • 'Explore: West'

    An exhibition of Western Sydney University Student Posters presented by the School of Humanities and Communication Arts

  • appnotic

  • Offside - Women in Sport

  • Surface

  • 2014
  • Recently Historic: Australian Electronic Arts in Western Sydney

  • 'Generations of Knowledge', Photographic Exhibition 2014

    'GENERATIONS OF KNOWLEDGE'

  • Nostalgia

    featuring artists; Alexandra Kenworthy, Kristy Pugliano, Coby Keys, Rebecca Clancy, Liam Brassil and Elisha Allison.

  • Everyday Dignity

    featuring the photographic works by David Cubby, David Lai and Peter Steele

  • 2013
  • Configurations

    featuring works by Clara Hali

  • The Difference Design Makes

  • Homeland Stories

    This exhibition explores the Homeland stories found within recent aquisitions of Aboriginal art in the University's own collection.

  • Arid to Abstract

  • Transcribing Darkness

  • 2012
  • Composite

    The exhibition features works by UWS lecturer Enrico Scotece, School of Humanities and communication arts

  • Re-Imagining Histories

    An exhibition featuring artworks of the UWS Art Collection and Eskbank House & Museum

  • My Country

    The University of Western Sydney presents works from Indigenous communities celebrating life, culture and heritage

  • Hybrids

    The colour images by Juliana Swatko were made at three of Sydney's Botanic Gardens

  • The Ecology of Human Nature

    The Ecology of Human Nature is an exhibition which comments upon consequences of human behaviours.

  • 2011
  • Someone Has To Draw The Line

    Gordon Waters' work explores the spatial potential of abstract painting using layering of the painted surface, stencils and glazes.

  • Murawina

    A selection of artworks from the UWS art collection that shows the diversity and contribution of Women artists to the Aboriginal art movement. 

  • Lay of the Land

    Imagery inspired by the landscape of Australia and beyond, featuring photographs by Kim Armstrong, Yan Zhang and paintings by Jennifer Gabbay.

  • Calligraphic Graffiti Evolution

     An exhibition of recent works by Shen Wednesday

  • Softly Quantified

    An installation by Barbara Doran

  • Yizkor: Gallipoli

    An exhibition of paintings by Kym Morris

  • 2010
  • Impact and Fusion

    Recent work by Western Australian artist Bello Benischaur

  • Above, Below and In-Between

    A mixed media installation by Tanya Alexandra Richards

  • Finding Form

    A sculpture exhibition curated by Anna Lawrenson

  • Portraits and Possessions

    A contemporary survey of artists placing themselves and others within western art through portraiture

  • Gary Deirmendjian

    Explores the influence of social conditioning upon the individual

  • 2009
  • The Spectacle Project

    An exhibition by David Cubby

  • Elements

    An exhibition of works by Sally Tsoutas, Megan Sprague and Marilyn Walters.

  • Coming to Ground

    An exhibition of works by Bette Mifsud

  • The Artist and the Social Order

    An examination of social and political mores of the time

  • 2008
  • She's So Sweet

    An exhibition of photography by Barbara Doran

  • Ways of Seeing

    An exhibition by Dean Gosling and Pia Larsen.

  • Dreaming Tracks

    Explores the Aboriginal concept of Dreaming via the University's own art collection.

  • 2007
  • Wunderkammer

    An exhibition of sculptural installations by Cassandra Hard Lawrie and Philip Spark

  • Out of the Archives

    An exhibition of photographs from the UWS archives

  • Cloaked, Caught and Carefree

    An exhibition by Tanya Richards

  • Other Lives

    An investigation of portraiture via the medium of photography

  • Sites of Significance

    An exhibition of paintings by Dr Barry Gazzard

  • 2006
  • Divergence

    An exhibition of works by print media artists

  • From the Waters Edge

    An exhibition of paintings by Marilyn Walters

  • M4

    An exhibition by UWS staff from the School of Communication Arts

  • 2005
  • Collections

    An exhibition featuring artwork that focuses on the theme of collecting

  • From the Liberties to Parramatta

    Contemporary prints from Ireland

  • Contested Ground

    An exhibition exploring the contestation over "White" Australia's control of land, culture and history

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