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We're a connected community of creative thinkers, makers and professional practitioners.
Why study at MADA?
Creativity will become one of the top three skills workers will need in the future. At MADA you’ll be guided by industry practitioners to develop the skills valued by employers such as critical and reflective thinking, problem solving and mental agility.
Undergraduate
Turn ideas into reality. There’s nothing like the feeling of seeing your vision come to life. Explore new concepts and develop key technical skills. Our undergraduate courses provide the foundation for any creative career.
Graduate coursework
Take the next step. Amplify your creative potential with a graduate coursework degree. You'll develop new skills, enrich your expertise and enhance your career options.
Fine Art
Fine Art provokes thought, inspires action, and responds to the important challenges of our time. We find meaning in a complex field of visual information and experiences, igniting discussion and creating unique perspectives on the complex problems of society.
Design
Design is the means to navigate complex business, environmental and social problems, and stay on the leading edge of change. Designers are concerned with the expanded practice of making human-centred solutions that are both tangible and intangible. Designers make the future possible.
Architecture
Architecture at Monash focuses on the bigger picture. We see architecture, urban design, and urban planning as an integrated whole. We understand buildings within their larger urban or regional environment, and consider cities in the context of a changing planet. Architects imagine the new environments of the future.
Research
At MADA, we provide a lively and supportive environment for individual and collaborative research projects to be realised.
Student work
Be amazed by a kaleidoscope of projects. Experience diverse views of the world through the eyes of our students and staff.
Latest news from MADA
New research supports '20-minute neighbourhoods' in Melbourne
New urban planning research from Monash University shows how to transform outer suburban Melbourne communities into ‘20-minute neighbourhoods’.
Professor Shane Murray appointed a Life Fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects
Professor Shane Murray, Dean of Monash University’s Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture has been appointed as a Life Fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects.
Image (Why study at MADA?): Tegan Bell, 2009-2016 (installation view), 2016
Image (Graduate coursework): Samantha Barry, Sean Malikides, Din Hearth, and MADA students, THRIVE, 2016
Image (Research): Peter Wang, An Autonomous Driverless Public Transport
Image (Student work): Rosina Prestia, I Adjust to Orange (detail), 2016
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Last day Saturday! Open daily 1–5pm, MADA Gallery, Caulfield campus. “Flocking Seagulls” by Master of Fine Art can… https://t.co/edXiyh1zhJ
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Last day Saturday! Open daily 1–5pm, MADA Gallery, Caulfield campus. "Flocking Seagulls" by Master of Fine Art candidate Kara Baldwin, along with works from five others – so much @monash_uni talent! http://monash.edu/mada/mfa2020 #monashada #melbournegallery #melbourneartists
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#Repost @acca_melbourne ・・・ To create new sculptural works for our current exhibition ‘Feedback Loops’ artist @sahejrahal came to Melbourne for a studio residency at our Exhibition Partner @monashada in the weeks leading up the exhibition. Sahej was assisted in the studio by Monash students @beatricefrgabriel and @juan.rodrgez ✨ BIG thanks to Monash, Beatrice and Juan for being involved! Check out these works and more by @sahejrahal in Feedback Loops showing until 22 March. #artstartsatacca #sahejrahal #chatterjeeandlal #feedbackloops #monashada #monashuniversity #accamelbourne
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.@MonashUni is home to some of Australia’s most celebrated practitioners of public art: Emily Floyd, Brook Andrew,… https://t.co/vbgm6EQEAg
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“Who can picture the award winning Jackalope Hotel without its magnificent UAP Emily Floyd trademark sculpture in m… https://t.co/HDGVidrRKR
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The surprising science behind lighting and women's safety: @abcnews talks to researchers – including @MonashUni Ass… https://t.co/zmrMYOWFeJ
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Tomorrow: A celebration of the life and legacy of New Zealand's most significant painter, Colin McCahon. Free – pl… https://t.co/b8NLopi9dl
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#Repost @mumamonash ・・・ MUMA with @monashada are hosting artist Anna Boghiguian (b. 1946, lives Cairo) on @monashuni campus until the end of February. She is here in Australia to create her work for this year's @BiennaleSydney and is using @monashada facilities to do her wax and pigment on wood works to create a body of work she has in mind for installation at Cockatoo Island 👩🏽🎨#AnnaBoghiguian #BiennaleofSydney #mumamonash #monashada #artresidency
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Thursday @ 5pm: Join us for a presentation by Tasmanian Aboriginal artist, writer and curator Dr Julie Gough. Dr Gough will explore the relationship between research, art making and public outcomes through project examples that review in particular colonial Van Diemen’s Land from a position in the present, and through the lenses of the land, the archives, memory and objects. Monash University, Caulfield campus. Free, all welcome. https://www.monash.edu/mada/events/Julie-Gough-The-object-of-research-and-Artmaking-as-active-remembrance Image: Julie Gough, TENSE PAST, current exhibition, TMAG, Hobart image by Simon Cuthbert #monashada
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Congratulations @duy_quang_phan - great news, and great work too! #Repost ・・・ So honoured to win two of the ten best commended entry in @architizer One rendering challenge 2020. Such a great competition to participate along so many talented artists around the globe! . . . . . #architecturevisualization #3drender #coronarender #3dsmaxcorona #3dsmax #vrayrender #archviz #archviz3dmax #architecturestudent #architecturecompetition #3dcompetition #rendercompetition #rendercollective #renderizer #renderize #allofrenders #allofarchitecture #melbournearchitects #melbournearchitecture #architizer #fiverr #monashada #monashuni #monashalumni #monasharchitecture
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It’s all happening! We’re putting the finishing touches on things for tomorrow’s launch of the 2020 Master of Fine Art Graduate Exhibition. See you there – MADA Gallery, Caulfield campus, 8–22 February from 1–5pm (closed Sundays). More info: http://monash.edu/mada/mfa2020 #monashada #melbournegallery #melbourneartist
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That’s a wrap on our #30DaysOfMADANow celebration! We hope you’ve found some inspiration for your own works from these glimpses into the innovation and creativity of our graduating artists, designers & future architects. What are we up to in 2020? Follow @monashada to find out!
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#Repost @mumamonash ・・・ Join us for the opening of Agatha Gothe-Snape: The Outcome Is Certain. Saturday 8 February, 3-5pm Agatha Gothe-Snape: The Outcome is Certain is the first large scale exhibition to survey the work of Sydney-based artist Agatha Gothe-Snape at MUMA. In an ever-evolving cultural landscape, Agatha Gothe-Snape seeks to understand the world in powerful and nuanced ways. Her work addresses the fluid nature of how we read and understand contemporary art and culture. The exhibition will bring together works from 2008 to the present, including performance, text, wall drawings, PowerPoints, works on paper and collaborations with her close circle of artist-peers. Two major new artworks will feature in the exhibition alongside works pivotal in Gothe-Snape’s practice to date. #AgathaGotheSnape #TheOutcomeIsCertain #mumamonash #mumaexhibition
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#30 #30DaysOfMADANow Countless hours in the printmaking studio were required to create the mind warping blended hues of Louisa Bujor’s massive installation work ‘Vibrating Colour’. https://www.monash.edu/mada/student-work/madanow2019/visual-arts/louisa-bujor #monashada #fineart
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This Saturday (8 Feb), 3–5pm: Two fantastic exhibitions open side-by-side on Caulfield campus! At MADA Gallery, six artists feature in this year’s Master of Fine Art Graduate Exhibition & at @mumamonash / Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), “Agatha Gothe-Snape: The Outcome Is Certain”. All welcome. https://www.monash.edu/mada/student-work/graduate-research/mfa2020 Image: Tim Woodward, TV Insides [private view], 2019