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April 16, 2013
Two of Australia’s most outstanding thinkers, writers and public commentators – political and social scientist Robert Manne and biochemist and science journalist Elizabeth Finkel – have been made Vice-Chancellor’s Fellows at La Trobe University. Vice-Chancellor John Dewar announced the part-time appointments in April. He said Dr Finkel’s role would further enhance La Trobe’s standing as […]
March 25, 2013
La Trobe University is strengthening its commitment to visual arts education in regional Victoria. It will also forge stronger links with local artists to establish the La Trobe Art Institute, based in Bendigo. Vice-Chancellor Professor John Dewar says visual arts courses at the Bendigo and Mildura campuses will also be refreshed. ‘Bendigo is already a […]
November 21, 2012
Science meets art in a La Trobe University ‘candid camera’ collaboration that is providing visitors to Melbourne’s Federation Square with a rare giant-screen view of another world. Between now and Christmas they will be able to watch intimate and unguarded moments showing how native animals have gone about their nightly lives since Victoria’s disastrous Black Saturday bushfires […]
May 29, 2012
La Trobe University’s Student Theatre will represent Australia at the prestigious International Student Drama Festival in the UK in June, part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad. A troupe of ten student thespians led by director, Bob Pavlich, will stage the only authorised production of Kenneth Cook’s iconic Australian novel ‘Wake in Fright’ ever performed […]
April 24, 2012
La Trobe students could not suspect two years ago when they recorded their ‘Lipdub’ video to the tune ‘Learnalilgivinanlovin‘ – kindly donated by Melbourne singer-songwriter Gotye – that his work would soon top charts world-wide. It was the era of the then ‘flash mob’ You Tube phenomenon, and Student Theatre and Film director Bob Pavlich […]
June 8, 2011
From Alice Springs and Hobart, they all came to Bendigo Top names included Allison Nordstrom, Curator of Photographs at George Eastman House in New York, and photo journalists and artists Stephen Dupont, David Callow, Nici Cumpston, Anne Ferran and Matthew Sleeth. Held at the end of May, the University-sponsored free public symposium attracted more than […]
March 3, 2011
La Trobe University scholar and curator of Art, Dr Vincent Alessi, has uncovered a hitherto unknown 600 illustrations that helped shape the work of one of the world’s greatest and best-know artists, Vincent van Gogh. During his life van Gogh assembled a number of important collections. These included an archive of black-and-white prints which he cut […]
March 1, 2011
La Trobe University’s regional campuses serve as the hub for a wide range of community activities. But only at Shepparton – with its new $9m building – have they culminated in a ‘glam’ opening night and arts project that involved Hollywood celebrity Pamela Anderson. Following two weeks of intensive preparation on campus for the ‘Shepp Shed’ […]
March 1, 2011
Three artists – Gareth Jones-Roberts, Leonard Annois and Charles Bush – were commissioned to document the Melbourne campus site at Bundoora before and during building. Those paintings, the first acquired by the University, formed the foundation for a major public art collection that today holds more than 2,000 post 1960s and contemporary Australian art works. […]
May 8, 2013
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