UNSW Art & Design

The University of New South Wales Faculty of Art and Design (previously College of Fine Arts (COFA)) is the creative arts faculty of the University of New South Wales and is located on Oxford Street, Paddington, Sydney, Australia.

In 1975 the visual art section of the National Art School was taken under the auspices of the Alexander Mackie College, becoming a ‘multi disciplinary’ college with a School of Art and a School of Teacher Education;. In 1982 Alexander Mackie College was reconstituted into two separate institutions - the St George Institute of Education and the City Art Institute, which, along with other bodies, became part of the Sydney College of Advanced Education (Sydney CAE).

The City Art Institute seceded from Sydney CAE in 1987 and joined the Sydney College of the Arts (SCA) to create the NSW Institute of the Arts. The two institutions remained at their original locations in Paddington and Balmain but the partnership was short-lived. In 1988 Federal legislation removed the distinction between state-owned Colleges of Advanced Education and federally funded universities, resulting in the amalgamation of most CAEs with existing universities. The devolution of NSW Institute of the Arts was included in these changes, made effective on 1 January 1990, when Sydney College of the Arts joined the University of Sydney and the City Art Institute, renamed the College of Fine Arts (COFA), became a faculty of The University of New South Wales.

Still located at the original Paddington Campus, COFA was renamed UNSW Art & Design in July 2014. Its activities include teaching of and research in art, design and multi media, art history and theory and art education. It offers bachelor, master and doctoral degrees in fine art, art education, art theory, design and art administration.

In May 2009, the Federal Government gave UNSW Art & Design $48 million, through the Education Investment Fund (EIF), for the $58 million Gateway@COFA redevelopment.

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