Arc Creative is a student organisation dedicated to providing professional development opportunities and social activities to UNSW Art & Design students to make the Arts more accessible. 

At Arc Creative we encourage you to experiment, engage and enjoy. Whether you're into art, design, curation, writing, editing, podcasting, filming or social media, Arc will help you develop your skills and find like-minded students to collaborate with, equipment, and spaces to get your work out there. We’ve got exhibition spaces to show your work, student-run media to publish your writing and podcasts, and industry-experienced Arc staff to mentor your creative journey and teach you those things you don't learn in the classroom.

Whatever you’re interested in trying, whatever you’d like to learn, start your journey here.

Kudos is an offsite pop-up gallery space led by emerging artists, curators, and performers. 

Kudos provides professional exhibition experiences to UNSW Art & Design community members and alumni to ensure that emerging artists are supported through the first steps into the Art World.

Between 1998 - 2020 Kudos was Kudos Gallery at its physical site housed in No.6 Napier St, Paddington, a professional off campus exhibition space. Kudos Gallery hosted between 10-20 exciting shows from students, alumni, and all kinds of emerging creatives. With it’s doors always open to showcasing experimental concepts Kudos Gallery was host to a wide range of unparalleled public programs, workshops, buzzing opening nights, performance nights, and much more over the years

Follow us at @kudos_arc on Instagram to keep up to date with our exhibitions, programming, and paid performance opportunities available to students and recent graduates.

AD Space is an on-campus gallery space led by early career artists 

Since 2017, AD Space has supported artists, designers, curators and writers at UNSW Art & Design during a crucial stage in their career. 

We work with them to deliver a student-led program of exhibitions, workshops and professional development opportunities. Yearly highlights include the Tim Olsen Drawing Prize, Jenny Birt Award and ANNUAL graduate exhibition.

We are a student-run exhibition space which empowers students to develop their practice, take risks and connect with audiences. 

* AD Space is funded and managed by Arc @ UNSW Ltd in partnership with UNSW Art & Design