At UNSW Sydney, we know that choosing what to study at university can be a complex decision. That’s why we’re holding a series of Degree and Scholarships Information Evenings.

Presented in conjunction with the UNSW Galleries exhibition ‘Material Place: Reconsidering Australian Landscapes’, this program convenes artists, thinkers and poets for a conversation about land and space within the intertwined contexts of neoliberalism, settler colonialism and environmental degradation.

Rachel O’Reilly is an artist-poet, critic, independent curator and researcher whose work explores relationships between art and situated cultural practice, media philosophy and feminist political economy.

The work of Debra Porch (1954–2017) explores the potency of memory and its ability to transform the ordinary into the extraordinary. Using textiles, thread, hair and electroplated objects, Porch created visual mechanisms that reorientate our sense of the familiar and forge connections between the present and past.

Soft soil between our toes and jagged rocks underfoot. Are they fossil fuel deposits ripe for exploitation or sacred Dreaming sites?

Women in an Era of Anti-Elitism: Responding to the challenge of rising populism and its threat to gender inclusivity

Emma Slade was taken hostage by gun point in a hotel room on a business trip to Jakarta. Over the ensuing months, the trauma following the event took hold. Realising her view on life had profoundly changed she embarked upon a journey, discovering the healing power of yoga and, in Bhutan, opening her eyes to a kinder, more peaceful way of living.

Regarding compassion, Slade told Laignee Barron of Time magazine;