music, visual and performing arts - University of Melbourne

Bachelor of Fine Art
Duration: 3 years full-time (part-time not
available)
4th year Honours available
Fee Type: Commonwealth supported
place and International fee
Campus: Southbank
Entry requirements: See pages 36–39.
Extra requirements: Interview and folio
presentation required. See details below.
Note: Deferral of this course is not
possible in 2010.
Note for students applying in 2011 or
2012: See page 37.
Extra requirements
The Bachelor of Fine Art selection
process includes an interview and folio
presentation, where you are expected
to show evidence of artistic potential,
imagination and your experience and
competence in the production of objects
and images. Intending students usually
need to concentrate their studies in
visual art subjects. This will enable the
development of vision and skills with a
suitable folio. Interviews are conducted
in late November.
For further information about extra
requirements visit:
www.vcam.unimelb.edu.au
Choose Fine Art at Melbourne
The School of Art provides studio and
workshop facilities which offer you the
opportunity to explore both traditional and
new media under the guidance of some of
Australia’s most progressive art educators
and respected artists. The Bachelor of
Fine Art offers Studio Programs with an
academic focus in drawing, printmaking,
painting, photography and sculpture and
spatial practice. The three-year program
aims to create an environment that fosters
and promotes the advancement of practice
and theory in the visual arts.
The Bachelor of Fine Art at the Faculty
of the VCA and Music has consistently
produced exciting and committed artists.
Many graduates have established national
and international profiles, and a number
of alumni have been awarded Australia’s
most prestigious art prizes: Lewis Miller
was the winner of the 1998 Archibald Prize
for Portraiture; Marcus Wills won the Brett
Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship in 1999
and the Archibald Prize in 2006; in 1999
Ricky Swallow received Australia’s richest
contemporary art award, the Contempora 5,
and was named by Australian Art Collector
magazine as Australia’s Most Collectable
Artist; Patricia Piccinini represented
Australia at the 50th Venice Biennale of
Art in 2003; Ricky Swallow represented
Sherry McLane Alejos, Bachelor of Fine Art (Painting)
Australia in 2005 and Callum Morton
and Susan Norrie in 2007; current PhD
candidate Trinh Vu won the Georges Mora
Prize in 2007; and Amber Wallis won the
Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship in
2008.
More information:
www.vcam.unimelb.edu.au
Support and facilities
The School of Art occupies a customdesigned
studio complex which has
immediate access to Victoria’s most
important art venues. The School of Art
also houses the Student Gallery and the
Margaret Lawrence Gallery: a public art
space which performs an integral and
critical function within the community as a
professional exhibiting space for graduate
and alumni work; School of Art studio
projects; artists in-residence; Art staff
work; as well as independent local and
international exhibitions.
The C>LAB is the multimedia hub of
the School of Art. Within its walls is the
cutting-edge equipment required for any
contemporary arts practice: DVD authoring;
digital video editing and creation; high-end
scanning; and large-scale archival printing.
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