VAC: The La Trobe University Visual Arts Centre
The La Trobe University Visual Arts Centre (VAC) is the focus for the University's cultural mission in Bendigo, showcasing contemporary art practice and providing a focus for discussion relevant to current ideas and art practice. In addition to an exhibition program that seeks to present cutting edge contemporary visual art, the VAC aims to engage with the community through a public lecture program, artist floor talks and residencies featuring local, national and international artists. The VAC also offers a unique space to host conferences, public seminars and social events.
Located directly opposite Bendigo Art Gallery and the Capital Theatre, the VAC is a multipurpose visual arts facility. The award winning building, designed by architect Peter Elliott, features two galleries, two sculpture courtyards, a tiered auditorium, meeting room and an artist-in-residence apartment and studio. There is a strong indoor outdoor relationship between spaces which provides a dynamic setting for staff, students, visiting artists and the public. Gallery hours are Tuesday to Friday 10am to 5pm, weekends 12 noon to 5pm.
A Bendigo campus tour
@latrobe follows five current students throughout their varied courses and personal endeavours.
Andrew Southall Exhibition - Visual Art Centre Bendigo
Exhibiting at the Visual Arts Centre 31 July - 8 September 2013.
As Giles Auty noticed twenty years ago Southall is an existentialist painter. He experiences, then he records and colour has always been his major vehicle of expression. Southall is a collector of thoughts, colours, objects and shapes and these fragments have floated in a synthesis of colour and space over canvases throughout his life. 'Sometimes he seems to me like a traveller on a roller coaster without a brake, impelled by a deeply personal poetry...' (Giles Auty)
In these latest works, environment is the central theme and Southall is again responding to his world - to the sparse, yellow flat plains of canola and wheat which now surround him. This series, entitled 'Country', presents the artefacts collected on his jaunts around Elmore, attaching themselves unselfconsciously in large skeins of poured yellow acrylic paint. These are organic works that follow the flow of a viscous medium. His colours, usually loud and intense, are soft and subdued by the emptiness and simplicity of this country. 'Southall's view is slowly flattening, de-figuring, and moving towards an abstract minimalist composition.'(Jeff Makin).
Yellow predominates: the subtleties of its shades, the cracking created through its juxtaposition of paint finishes, the sense of calm it invokes, and through the eye of this painter become an expression of the flattened wheat plains across north central Victoria. The detritus of his studio - a feature of the works of the last few years, have been replaced with the found objects of his new world: shards of bark, leaves, bits of tyres, lumps of charcoal, wheat straw sheep's droppings, feathers, cigarette packets, shattered windscreen glass and others all floating in the spaces of yellow paddocks, endless horizon, huge skies and heat, although none of these paddocks etc. are actually represented on his canvasses.
These latest works are no less the pure emotive response, unrestricted by a 'consciously considered rightness' than any other of Southall's works, it's just that the 'raw neurotic energy' has found a peaceful rhythm in the less complicated life where he currently lives by the Campaspe river.
The official launch of this exhibition will take place on Thursday 1 August from 6-8pm.
Engineering Students, La Trobe University, Bendigo
Participants of La Trobe University's Accelerator Program took part in our 'Let's Nut it Out' event to gain skills on how to more effectively implement their projects in the community.
Visual Arts: Kristian Haggblom
Bachelor of Creative Arts - Australian University Student Profile
Bachelor of Creative Arts student from La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia discusses their degree. Full transcript available at
LUMA - The La Trobe University Museum of Art
La Trobe University Museum of Art, located at the Bundoora campus, engages in historical and contemporary art debates. It is a creative institution that seeks to make a significant contribution to contemporary critical discourse; add to the knowledge of Australian artists, movements and events; work in cross-discipline paradigms; and be actively engaged in important State, National and International collaborative projects.
Visual Arts: Tony Conway
Mr Tony Conway discusses Visual Arts at La Trobe University. Most students choose to study visual arts with the goal of becoming a practicing artist and the course provides the opportunity to intensively guide and support the development of students' skills and professional profiles.
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Get Ready, Presented by La Trobe University
Get Ready for EB, presented by La Trobe University
This session focuses on the three key areas of the Energy Breakthrough:
* Display & Presentation,
* Design & Construction and the
* Trials.
Each component supports learning in the areas of science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM). Presenters include Simon O’Mallon, La Trobe University, Matt Twin, Bendigo Tech School and Natalie Hurst, Bendigo Spirit, along with Michael McTigue from the Energy Breakthrough.
Karen Welcome to Bendigo - a community of services, sites and opportunity
We are so proud of our Karen Youth Group for producing this fantastic ‘Welcome to Bendigo’ video.
The video is the result of the group’s desire to showcase Bendigo as a wonderful multicultural destination and make Karen people feel truly welcome by introducing them to the services, opportunities, sites and attractions that make living in this community so great.
The group discussed ideas for the video and wrote the script under the guidance of Bendigo Community Health Services case worker and youth group co-ordinator Nay Chee Aung who has long held an ambition to produce such a resource.
Youth group members starred in the video and then edited the final content with the support of volunteer Cameron Smith from Voice Box Films.
The video covers a wider range of topics including the history of Bendigo, Karen community involvement in the city, religious groups, Karen celebrations, sport, cultural differences and opportunities such as education and work, volunteering, safety and freedom of speech.
The video was given a fitting premiere at the La Trobe Visual Arts Centre on Tuesday in front of special guests such as City of Greater Bendigo councilors and staff, Victoria Police members, Catherine McCauley College students and teachers, SportsFocus representatives and Karen community leaders.
Because the video has been produced in the language of the Karen community we have included a little translated script to give you an idea of the topics covered.
We must thank the Office of the Premier of Victoria for supporting this video with a funding grant.
The great news is we are finalising production on an Afghan Welcome to Bendigo video written and filmed by another of our youth groups.
If you would like a DVD copy of the video please email bchscomms@bchs.com.au or call (03) 5448 1600.
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Each has a lounge area offering a sofa, a flat-screen TV and a DVD player.
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Bendigo 2easy Apartments are within 10 minutes' drive of the Visual Art Centre-La Trobe University and Central Deborah Gold Mine.
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Bendigo La Trobe Open Day 2014
Potential students, like Sophie, experience the annual open day for La Trobe University Bendigo.
A harmonograph playing and engraving songlines
Songlines is a series of intaglios by Lisa Moren using pigmented minerals from mined by the artist in South Australia inspired by the dreaming paths of the aboriginals. The non-mechanical 19th c. drawing machine is a harmonograph that uses gravity and momentum to make drawings based on loussance patterns. The drawing setup relates to the price of gold and iron ore when the pigment was mined. The final series are intaglios with chine collé.
The device was built in collaboration with Lukeworks, Inc. in Baltimore and altered from a design by Karl Sims. 2013 (see lisamoren.com for more information).
In addition to Lukeworks, the artist would like to thank Visual Arts Centre (VAC), La Trobe University Bendigo VIC, Australia; Pyramid Atlantic, Silver Spring MD; Maryland State Arts Council, MICA Printmaking (Maryland Institute College of Art) and UMBC (University of Maryland Baltimore Co.)
Calling all street artists!
The City is calling for local young people to contribute to developing public art, such as murals and graffiti art. To find out more, or register your interest, visit
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Bendigo
Bendigo is a city in Victoria, Australia, located very close to the geographical centre of the state and approximately 150 kilometres north west of the state capital, Melbourne. Bendigo has an urban population of 82,794 making it the fourth largest inland city in Australia and fourth most populous city in the state. It is the administrative centre for the City of Greater Bendigo which encompasses both the urban area and outlying towns spanning an area of approximately 3,000 square kilometres and over 111,000 people.
The discovery of gold in the soils of Bendigo during the 1850s made it one of the most significant Victorian era boomtowns in Australia. News of the finds intensified the Victorian gold rush bringing an influx of migrants to the city from around the world within a year and transforming it from a sheep station to a major settlement in the newly proclaimed Colony of Victoria. Once the alluvial gold had been mined out, mining companies were formed to exploit the rich underground quartz reef gold. Since 1851 about 25 million ounces of gold have been extracted from Bendigo's goldmines, making it the highest producing goldfield in Australia in the 19th century and the largest gold mining economy in eastern Australia. It is also notable for its Victorian architectural heritage. The city took its name from the Bendigo Creek and its residents from the earliest days of the goldrush have been called Bendigonians.
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National Clubs 2016 - Bendigo
Song: London (Feat. Grigory) - By DJ Antoine
Annette Emonson, Bachelor of Nursing
Venerable Robina Courtin - Free Your Mind and Discover Your Potential
The full audio of Venerable Robina Courtin's Heart Sutra retreat at Atisha Centre on 20th - 26th July 2015 can be downloaded here:
Venerable Robina Courtin ( visited Atisha Centre in July 2015, giving this Public Talk Free Your Mind and Discover Your Potential at the LaTrobe University Visual Arts Centre in Bendigo (
La Trobe University
La Trobe University is an Australian public university whose flagship campus, the largest metropolitan campus in the country, is located in Melbourne, Victoria. The university was established in 1964 following the assent of the La Trobe University Act by Victorian Parliament on 9 December of that year, becoming the third university in the State. While it does not share the architectural aesthetics of its sandstone peers, at its core La Trobe, as much as Monash, was 'among the last of the old universities in Australia.' Of the many aspirations set upon La Trobe by its distinguished founders, one of its most prominent achievements, and a great source of university pride, has been its long-standing commitment to providing access to higher education to those traditionally excluded from the sector. In 2015 it was ranked in the top 100 universities under 50 in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings.
La Trobe's flagship campus is located in the Melbourne suburb of Bundoora with two other major campuses located in the regional Victorian city of Bendigo and in the twin border cities of Albury-Wodonga. The university has two smaller regional campuses in Mildura and Shepparton, and three minor CBD campuses: two in Melbourne on Franklin Street and Collins Street, and one on York Street in Sydney.
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La Trobe University, Mildura: Chloe Mackie
We talk to students, staff and alumni of La Trobe University's Mildura campus to see why it is so special to study and work in Mildura.