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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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Congratulations to Bachelor of Art Theory (Honours) student Levent Can Kaya, who is the recipient of the 2025 Eloquence Art Prize!

The annual public speaking challenge is open to students from universities across Australia, who are tasked with drawing parallels between French and Australian artists.

Levent’s winning presentation at the Museum of Contemporary Art compared the work of Indigenous artist Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula with French contemporary artist Marguerite Humeau.

The Prize includes a one-month trip to Paris to attend the École du Louvre Summer School and accommodation at Les Récollets international centre for academics, researchers and artists.

Chapeau, Levent!

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Image supplied by Culture Plus. 

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Congratulations to Gosha Heldtz, who is among only 23 artists from 20 tertiary art schools chosen for ‘Hatched: National Graduate Show 2025’. Now in its 34th year, the exhibition showcases the next generation of Australia’s contemporary creative voices.

In previous years, UNSW has been represented by Ramesh Nithiyendran, Dennis Golding and Vedika Rampal, who won the 2024 Schenberg Arts Award for an exceptional artist in the exhibition.

The winner of the 2025 awards will be announced at Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts on 1 August and the exhibition will be on display until 5 October.

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Image: Gosha Heldtz at the 2024 NAIDOC Week Open Studios. Photograph by Carmen Schieb.

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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.