Graduate study information sessions
Interested in graduate study in the arts? Discover a world of opportunity in our graduate study information sessions.
The VCA is committed to providing transformative learning experience in pursuit of artistic excellence, innovation and an absorbing education. Our learning environment has an atmosphere of critical confidence and creative risk taking, as well as high expectations in development of skill and facility.
We welcome you to our community of artists from many backgrounds that are passionate and committed to the production of new artistic work.
WOMINJEKA/Welcome to the traditional lands of the Kulin Nations, where we draw on the strength of more than 1000 generations of arts practice.
We respectfully acknowledge the people of the Boon Wurrung and the Woi Wurrung who have danced their dances, sung their songs and lived their culture on this land for tens of thousand of years.
- iDARE Conference 2016
- Tuesday 6:00pmGraduate Study in Design for Stage and Screen Information Session
- Thursday 6:00pmGraduate Study in Theatre and Music Theatre Information Session
- Thursday 5:30pmSolo Projects: Damiano Bertoli and Mira Gojak
- Vale Emeritus Professor Sue Rowley
Vale Emeritus Professor Sue Rowley, who died peacefully on Saturday September 3 at Maroondah Hospital.
- Melbourne's 'Doctor Who' synthesiser EMS Synthi 100 given engineering heritage award
The sounds it makes are straight out of science fiction, but a rare synthesiser housed at Melbourne University has been recognised as an historic piece of engineering heritage. Read more via ABC News.
- All the stage is a world if you work in theatre
Matthew Delbridge, Head of Theatre at the Victorian College of the Arts, talks motion-capture technology and the skills needed by Australia's emerging actors. Read more via Pursuit.
- Ben Hur, done that ... time to hang up the sandals
Less charming than Charlton, more eh-what-now than epic, the latest version of a cinema classic should be consigned to the annals of history says Head of Theatre Associate Professor Matt Delbridge....
- Erewhon
- Friday 9:00amPerformance and Challenging Stigma
- VCA & MCM August e-newsletter
Read the August edition of the VCA & MCM e-newsletter.
- Come behind the scenes of Short Black Opera
Deborah Cheetham, proud Yorta Yorta woman and one of Australia's leading sopranos, reflects on the journey her opera Pecan Summer took to the Sydney Opera House. Read more via Pursuit.
- All we are saying is give beats a chance
World-renowned drummer David Jones discusses meditation and music in the run-up to his Peace Lounge series of concerts at the Victorian College of the Arts. Read the interview via Pursuit.
- University of Melbourne and Melbourne Recital Centre announce ‘learning partnership’
The University of Melbourne has become Melbourne Recital Centre’s new ‘Learning Partner’ and will collaborate on research, teaching and learning, and engagement activities. Read the media release.
- Call for submissions: New Australian Music Theatre Project 2016/17
Do you want to develop the next great Australian musical? Submissions are now open for the development of new Australian music theatre works at the Victorian College of the Arts.
- 1st & 2nd Year VCA Dance Program
- Dingoes, matrophobia and missing PMs: VCA students present FRISK at Melbourne Fringe Festival
Seven new works by University of Melbourne Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) students will feature as part of FRISK – a festival of new performance – at this year’s Melbourne Fringe, from Septemb...
- How Julie Andrews chose me for My Fair Lady: Anna O'Byrne tells
Alumna music theatre performer Anna O'Byrne takes the stage in the iconic role Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady, under the direction of Dame Julie Andrews herself. Read more via the Sydney Morning H...
- Writers Project 2016
- Master of Dance 2016
- Saturday 8:00pmOutliers # 1: GL, Woodes, elkkle
- VCA Dance Graduation Season 2016
- Meet the choreography alumnus who worked with Kanye West
Like being in "a totally different world" – alum dancer and choreographer Lee Searle worked with Kanye West for his recent music video, Wolves. Read more via ABC News.
- Suicide Squad is far from painless
With Suicide Squad, DC had the chance to throw down the gauntlet to its superhero-film rivals Marvel. And the studio is moving in the right direction, kind of, according to film and television lect...
- 2016 School of Art Graduate Exhibition
- VCA & MCM July e-newsletter
Read the July edition of the VCA & MCM e-newsletter.
- Art Forum Series
- Alumna artist commissioned to create the face of TAC's latest road safety campaign
Alumna artist Patricia Piccinini has been commissioned to create a sculpture for the TAC's latest road safety campaign. Find out more via The Age.
- From rubbish to riches: Jon Cattapan wins Queensland's richest art prize
Associate Professor Jon Cattapan has been awarded the $50,000 Gold Award by the Rockhampton Art Gallery, Queensland. Read more via the Rockhampton Morning Bulletin.
- Basil Sellers Art prize: alumnus' winning work captures agony of sporting defeat
Alumnus artist Richard Lewer has been awarded a $100,000 prize for his compendium of paintings that highlight the stresses and strains of sports stars. Read more via The Guardian.
- Cris Jones on The Death and Life of Otto Bloom
Alumnus director Cris Jones discusses his debut feature, The Death and Life of Otto Bloom, this year's Melbourne International Film Festival opening film. Read the article via Pursuit.
- Theatre with a Pulse and OpticNerve
Theatre director and founder of OpticNerve Performance Group Tanya Gerstle discusses her latest project: an adaptation of George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss, via Pursuit.
- For lovers of graffiti, Pokémon Go is old hat
Pokemon Go demonstrates how graffiti has grown into a new form of social media, argues Dr Lachlan McDowall. Read more via the Conversation.
- 2016 School of Art Masters Exhibition
- 48th Annual Graduate Screenings
Research at the Victorian College of the Arts is open-ended, innovative and emergent, producing original creative work. It involves multi-disciplinary experimentation by individuals and research groups, and engages with new forms and critiques that advance our understanding of the arts, national and international cultures, and our place in the world.
- Art, Social and Spatial Practice
The Art, Social and Spatial Practice (ASSP) Cluster seeks to investigate the potential of both the material and social production of art as object, performance, spatial practice or relational experience.
- Moving Image Narrative
The Moving image Narrative (MIN) Cluster is a practice‐based research group, that investigates the power of moving image narratives in contemporary life.
- Matters of the Body
The Matters of the Body (MOB) Cluster engages with culture’s capacity to communicate material conditions of gender, sexuality, feminism, trans and queerness.
Creative Arts Therapies Research Unit
The Creative Arts Therapies Research Unit (CATRU) aims to support the further development of creative arts therapy disciplines in Melbourne and wider Australia through research and research training.
Centre for Ideas
The Centre for Ideas marks a radical departure from the conventional teaching models in arts education. It embraces the whole Faculty providing a range of perspectives on contemporary culture.
Research Office
The VCA & MCM Research Office is a professional unit within the Faculty that provides a range of services and support to research staff and graduate research students.
WOMINJEKA/Welcome to the traditional lands of the Kulin Nations, where we draw on the strength of more than 1000 generations of arts practice.
We respectfully acknowledge the people of the Boon Wurrung and the Woi Wurrung who have danced their dances, sung their songs and lived their culture on this land for tens of thousand of years.
The Victorian College of the Arts, within the Faculty of VCA and MCM at the University of Melbourne’s Southbank Campus, is situated on the land occupied by 1000 generations of Australia’s first people. The VCA is committed to providing a deep and transformative learning experience in pursuit of artistic excellence, innovation and an absorbing education. We welcome you to a community of artists of all sorts: contemporary artists and writers, choreographers, musicians, designers, performers, actors, filmmakers, dancers and many more, all committed to the production of new artistic work.
We celebrate a depth of study in Visual Arts, Film and Television, Animation, Screenwriting, Dance, Theatre, Music Theatre, Production and Design, and all those in between. We encourage our students to explore and experiment with other disciplines as they encounter them. We offer undergraduate, graduate and short-course programs, creating an atmosphere of critical confidence and creative risk-taking, as well as high expectations in the development of skill and facility. This fusion of immersive training and critical investigation provides our students with the capacity to present inventive collaborations and high individual achievement.
The VCA is located in the arts precinct at Southbank, at the heart of Melbourne's artistic life. This vibrant community of artists and arts professionals, students and staff is committed to pursuing the highest aspirations for contemporary cultural life. We encourage an atmosphere of trust and respect and a curiosity-driven approach to learning; one that values achievement, learns from failure, and builds resilience for the future challenges.
Professor Su Baker, Director
Victorian College of the Arts