Shifting Grounds: Diploma in Fine Arts graduation showcase

Event information
Date and time
16 May–3 Jun 2026

Opening night: 15 May 2026, 6:30pm–8:30pm

Opening hours
16–20 May 2026: 12:00pm–7:00pm (closed on Sundays)
22 May–3 Jun 2026: 12:00pm–8:00pm daily

Location

Gallery 1, LASALLE’s McNally Campus

Admission

Free

Event information
Date and time
16 May–3 Jun 2026

Opening night: 15 May 2026, 6:30pm–8:30pm

Opening hours
16–20 May 2026: 12:00pm–7:00pm (closed on Sundays)
22 May–3 Jun 2026: 12:00pm–8:00pm daily

Location

Gallery 1, LASALLE’s McNally Campus

Admission

Free

Event details

This exhibition traces the graduating Diploma in Fine Arts students’ journey through an artistic practice understood not as a series of fixed results but as a living condition. 

They have learned to adapt and treat materials as active partners, holding memory, inviting touch and carrying potential. Rather than seeking resolved resolutions, they have embraced states of transition, moving between the formed and the forming, the present and what lingers.

Central to their process has been a quiet act of pre‑positioning. They arrange their studio spaces, their materials and their uncertainties before the first mark is made. This deliberate staging becomes a kind of playground, a catharsis palace where inquiry stays open, and vulnerability is welcomed. They have moved through cycles of searching and researching, constantly repositioning their visual and conceptual identity. Abstraction, reminiscence and expression layer upon one another, deepening through repetition and return.

What you see on these walls is not a declaration of arrival or a finished product but a field of encounter. The works do not separate into neat parts. Instead, meaning emerges through proximity, attention, and the slow act of folding and unfolding of experience into form. Each piece holds the residue of questions asked and reasked. 

This exhibition invites you to witness not only what these young artists have made but how they have become, through restless care and courageous play.

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