Art Bites

Have you ever wondered about art works in your building? Or sculptures on your walk through campus? The ANU is peppered with remarkable and nationally significant artworks managed by the ANU Art Collection.

Lunchtime Art Bites are held fortnightly during semesters, facilitated by Drill Hall Gallery staff and co-hosted by artists, academics, and students. Expect a short informative introduction on the artworks followed by questions and an open conversation. Get to know your campus, learn to talk about art, build your cultural community, join the conversation.

If you require accessibility accommodations or a visitor Personal Emergency Evacuation plan please contact us before the event: dhg@anu.edu.au

Thursday 15 October: TBC

Thursday 29 October: TBC

PAST ART BITES

If you missed an Art Bite, here is a little more information on the works we looked at:

16 April: Art Bite at the Lowitja O’Donoghue Cultural Centre included paintings by Naata Nungurrayi, Emma Beer and Ildiko Kovacs. Find out more here

30 April: Art Bite at the RSSS building foyer including sculpture by Jan King and paintings by Angelina Pwerle Ngala, Dorothy Napangardi Robinson, Esther Giles Nampitjinpa and Tjawina Porter Nampitjinpa. Find out more here. 

14 May: Foyer of the Florey Building, including Lenton Parr’s 1964 steel sculpture, Untitled, and Lawrence Daws’ 1957 painting, Aboriginal Camp.

28 May: HC Coombs Tea Room, including Wilkinkara site, 2000, by Ronnie Tjampitjinpa, one of the founding members of the Western Desert Art movement, and Ildiko Kovaks’ painting, Inner cycle, 2016.

23 July: Hancock Library Courtyard featuring Kensuke Todo’s 2025 work Utsuroi 移ろい (transience)

6 August: University House Great Hall featuring Leonard French’s 18-panel mural, Regeneration, and the Journey Series, 1966–70

20 August: Graduate House featuring Michael Snape’s work Pictures at an exhibition 1998–2002, and the adjacent steel sculpture Synergy 2016, by ANU School of Art alumnus Anton Sing Wai Poon.

3 September: Bruce Hall featuring work from the Bill Packard Ceramic Collection including pieces by artists Les Blakebrough, Henri Le Grand, Hiroe Swen and Mirek Smisek. For this Art Bite we were joined by Dr Kate Hill, artist-researcher and head of Ceramics at the School of Art and Design, and SoA&D visiting artist, Japanese artist Utako Shindo.

17 September: Immersia Festival Art Bite, Menzies Library reading room featuring a calligraphic work by Japanese Ikebana specialist Teshigahara Sōfū, Dragon (1967).

Thursday 1 October: Canberra Art Biennial Art Bite at Birch Building featuring Mia Khin Boe’s The Aboriginal Robot, 2026