Faculty of Design and Creative Practice

The exhibition for the Graphic Design graduates opens on Friday 14th November at 6:30pm in the Design Gallery, Level A Building 7, Pantowora St Bruce. View map.

The exhibition will be open over the weekend between 11-4pm.

The exhibition opens Friday 7th November at 6pm in the Design Gallery, Level A Building 7, Pantowora St Bruce. View map.

Open daily from Thursday 6th - Saturday 8th November. 

After a successful Canberra showing the exhibition moves on to Sydney and Melbourne.

In September 2008 Felicity Packard, University of Canberra screenwriting lecturer won the Queensland Premier’s Literary Award Television Script - QUT Creative Industries Award for Underbelly, Episode 7 “Wise Monkeys”. She is also the winner of 2008 AWGIE category “Television mini-series Adaptation” and 2008 AWGIE “Major Award & Peer Recognition Prize”

Steven Conte is the winner of the PRIME MINISTER'S $100,000 LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTION for this book The Zookeeper's War (Fourth Estate). The Zookeeper's War is "a story of passion and sacrifice in a city battered by war.... It is a powerful novel of marriage, and of a city collapsing. It confronts not only the brutality of War but the possibility of heroism".

Trevor Rodwell, who is undertaking a Masters by Research with Associate Professor Stephen Barrass, recently presented his research on a public artwork for Mars. As Monitor Online reports:

Merrill Findlay, a creative research PhD student supervised by Dr Jordan Williams, has been selected for the inaugural Paul Wenz cultural exchange. Two regionally-based authors, French novelist and essayist Frederic Chef and novelist and essayist Merrill, will swap places in 2009 as part of a unique cultural exchange to build upon the literary legacy left by French-Australian writer Paul Wenz. Each writer is required to produce a short literary work related to the exchange.

Felicity Packard, a lecturer in the creative writing program at UC and one of three writers for the Channel 9 miniseries Underbelly, has just won two awards and has been shortlisted for a third.

The two AWGIE awards come from the 41st Australian Writers' Guild Awards, announced on Saturday 16th August 2008. These awards in  Australia are judged on the writing, that is the scripts, and not the material as screened or staged. These awards were won by all three writers on Underbelly: Felicity Packard, Greg Haddrick and Peter Gawler.

Graduate Clare Young is off to the 2008 Montreal Film Festival. The Mirage, the short film that she co-produced with Sydney filmmaker Mark Bradshaw is screening at this Festival from 21 August until 1 September.

Mitchell Whitelaw has been granted the National Archives' Ian Maclean Award for 2008. The Award will support the research and creation of interactive visualisations of the Archives' digital collection. This process will be documented on the project blog, The Visible Archive.