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Queensland College of Art student Michael Phillips has won a $25,000 commission to create an epic 90 metre floor to ceiling art work for the expansion of Brisbane Airport’s International Terminal. Believed to be the most lucrative student art prize ever offered in Australia, Brisbane Airport’s competition was open to QCA students across all disciplines, with applicants invited to submit concepts for the vast space that explored themes of adventure, discovery, connection and flight.

Queensland College of Art lecturer Dr Julie Fragar has won the $15,000 Tidal: City of Devonport National Art Award. The biennial, acquisitive award focuses on artworks that reflect the connections between land and sea. Her oil painting, 'Antonio Depart Flores on the Whaling Tide’, was selected from 130 entries from across the country.

The Queensland College of Art (QCA) will open its doors to the public this month for a series of exhibitions featuring the work of graduating students. The annual QCA Showcase will take over the South Bank and Gold Coast campuses, featuring the work of final-year students from Fine Art, Film, Animation, Games Design, Photography, Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art and Design and Digital Media.

Queensland College of Art students are proving that they are at the top of their game, scooping up the major prizes at a host of prestigious awards in the past month. Alicia Lane, 43, won the $15,000 top prize at the Swell Sculpture Festivalon the Gold Coast. Her entry, Rainforest Remnants, was a series of […]

Queensland College of Art postgraduate student Alicia Lane has scooped the $15,000 top prize at the Swell Sculpture Festival. Ms Lane,43, took out the Swell Sculpture Award with her work titled Rainforest Remnants, which was acquired by a private collector.

The annual QCA Showcase will transform the South Bank campus as it throws open its doors to the public for a special five-day event.