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Schaeffer Fine Arts Library item featuring in Venice Architecture Biennale
Schaeffer Fine Arts Library item featuring in Venice Architecture Biennale
Academic Collaboration Spotlight
Academic collaboration underscores the Schaeffer Library’s growing role in facilitating innovative teaching and learning partnerships, and supporting creative, research-rich learning experiences across the University.
Schaeffer Library imagines its future
The Power Institute’s Schaeffer Fine Art Library at the University of Sydney, which opened in 2000, is marking its 25th anniversary with a celebration of its past and a bold vision for what research on art and visual culture will look like in the future.
Jessica di Costa: Paris Residency Fellow 2025
Artist and filmmaker Jessica di Costa reports on her time as Paris Residency Fellow.
All images: At work on Basic Tension, Jessica DiCosta (artist), Harleigh English (cinematography) and Jessica Meier (sound design).
2026 Paris Art Residencies
Apply for one of our 2026 Paris Art Residencies!
Power Institute Annual General Meeting 2025
The Power Institute's Annual General Meeting will take place on 18 March 2025
End of Year Message 2024
A message from the Director of the Power Institute, Mark Ledbury
Mark Ledbury in conversation with Huey Copeland at the Visions forum, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, 15 August 2024.
Review of Ian Burn Collected Writings 1966-1993
The Sydney Review of Books has published a long and engaging review of Ann Stephen's edited volume of Ian Burns writin, by the writer Victoria Perin.
Leon Paroissien AM, 1937 - 2024
The University of Sydney pays tribute to the vision and leadership of Leon Paroissien in the visual arts in Australia for more than half a century.
Joyce Parszos, Gallery Promotions and Publicity standing with Leon Paroissien, co-curator, Power Gallery of Contemporary Art. They are viewing the exhibition Sculpture and Related Works installed at the Power Gallery of Contemporary Art in the Madsen Building, The University of Sydney, 1985. Artworks from left: Jud Fine, Ayer’s analogue, 1974; (partial view); Ritzi-Victoria Jacobi, Mobile tessile II (sedie), 1970; Fumio Yoshimura, Tricycle, 1976 (suspended); Gianni Piacentino, Veicolo con telaio Nichelato (Nickel-plated Framed Vehicle), 1970; Bill Alpert, Hathor, 1981; Jean Tinguely, Bascule no 1: Sisyphus (see-saw no 1: Sisyphus), 1965. Image courtesy University of Sydney Archives.
2025 Paris Residency Fellows
Introducing our Paris Residency Fellows for 2025!