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18/06/2026
Swipe to meet our 3 QCAD alumni who are among just 17 finalists selected from 550 national entries in the churchie emerging art prize 2026. 👏✨
Alannah Dair
‘Opening through steel, a knowing in skin - iteration II, 2024. Spandex, surgical forceps, safety pins, metal hardware, metal wire, LED lights, lead weights. ‘Black Bile,’ 2024. Engine oil, iron oxide, magnets, motors, proximity sensor, arduino uno. Project Space, The University of Sydney.
‘Squat Tossed (still),’ 2025. Vietnamese rice paper and artificial pandan extract, dimensions variable.
Portrait Image credit: Andrew Willis
Installation Image credit: Louis Lim
Anna Weston
‘Unsettled Landscape’ (detail), 2026. Solvent transfer and watercolour pencil on repurposed paper scroll, 75 x 188cm.
Images courtesy of the artist
The finalists’ exhibition opens 6-8 pm 24 July and continues till 8 August at Metro Arts, West End, with a $55,000 prize pool up for grabs.
Congratulations to these three artists! 👏
17/06/2026
Supervisor Spotlight✨ Dr Laini Burton is taking on new Honours & Postgrad students!
Now is your chance to work with a leader in the field. 20+ years at the cutting edge of Visual Arts research, spanning identity politics, masking and masquerade, bio-art and design, fashion theory, performance, and body/spatial relations.
Ready to start your research journey? Reach out to Laini directly: [email protected] ✉️
04/06/2026
📣 BIG NEWS! We are absolutely thrilled to announce that CAIA Honours graduate and Yanyuwa/Garrwa artist Chelsea Carkeet has been selected as a finalist in the prestigious Hatched: National Graduate Show 2026 at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts ! ✨
Chelsea’s incredible work features in ’s article, ‘Hatched at Pica: launching Australia’s next generation of artists,’ published this week to profile this year’s cohort.
QCAD is proud to support Chelsea as they travel to Perth in late July for the exhibition opening, artist talks, and professional development forums. The national winner will be announced at the opening night - stay tuned! 🤞
A beautiful bonus: The hero image for Hatched 2026 features work by fellow Griffith BVA graduate and 2025 finalist, Rosemary Tamas-Cao . It’s always great to see Griffith grads on the national stage!
Huge congratulations to Chelsea, and a massive shoutout to the CAIA leadership team- Rae Cooper and Warraba Weatherall - and all the staff continuing to nurture and produce visual arts graduates of the highest quality.
Photograph credit: Kahlia Henry and Finnian Mullen
03/06/2026
Congratulations to QCAD alum Karla Marchesi, one of eight artists invited for the acquisitive painting prize 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘈𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥 2026 at Rockhampton Museum of Art! The exhibition launch and winner announcement is 10 July, judged by Jenny Watson.
Photo: Courtesy of the Artist, by Dale Grant
28/05/2026
Want to shape the future of human-machine collaboration? 🤖 Meet your next supervisor:
Dr Anthony Franzè is taking on Honours & Postgrad students.
Work at the intersection of design, extended reality (XR), robotics, and AI. Explore how humans and intelligent systems co-create through physical fabrication.
Areas:
Augmented Fabrication, Robotic 3D printing
Human-machine collaboration, AI-enabled design and making.
Dr. Ding (Joe) Zhou is taking new Honours and Postgrad students.
Work with a Product and User Experience (UX) Design researcher with 30+ publications, funded projects, and strong industry links. Expect studio-based supervision, real world briefs, and pathways to publication and impact.
Areas: Design for additive manufacturing/3D printing; Generative/computational design; Mass customisation design; UX design; Creative AI robot design.
Join us at South Bank for Creative Arts Open day this Sunday! ✨Explore a vibrant future in film and screen, design, visual arts, or music and performance. There’ll also be a Treasury Building pop-up at the Ship Inn, previewing business, IT and law in Brisbane’s CBD in 2027.
12/05/2026
More to celebrate- a double finalist for QCAD alum Karen Black, named a finalist in both the Wynne and Sulman Prizes 2026 ✨
🏞️ Wynne Prize: ‘Body like a mountain,’ oil and oil stick on polyester, 201 x 311.5cm
🖼️ Sulman Prize: ‘Hidden place,’ oil and oil stick on polyester, custom wood frame, 59 x 78.8 cm
Being recognised across two of AGNSW’s prizes in the same year is no small feat - congratulations Karen! 👏
12/05/2026
Big congratulations to three of our QCAD community as finalists in this year’s Archibald and Wynne Prizes at the Art Gallery of NSW 👏
🎨 In the Archibald prize we have two QCAD alumni:
Anna Weston with her portrait of Judy Watson- ‘Judy,’ oil on canvas, 133.5 x 101.8cm.
Michael Zavros with his portrait of Alex Ryvchin- ‘Alex with his tefillin in the sea,’ oil on canvas, 205.2 x 137.9cm.
🏞️ In the Wynne prize - former QCAD academic Sam Cranstoun with his painting ‘A distinct line of lights, star-sized and star intensity, south to north,’ oil on linen, 122.5 x 153cm.
The exhibition runs 9 May – 16 August 2026 at AGNSW, then tours regionally. So proud to see members of our QCAD community receive such well-deserved recognition in these prestigious prizes.
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