Creativity

Intermission 2026: A Mid-Point, Not a Finish Line

INTERMISSION 2026 celebrates the creative evolution of LCI Melbourne's Design Lab 3 students, showcasing works from Fashion & Costume Design, Visual Arts, Interior Design, Graphic & Digital Design, and, for the first time, Bachelor of Business & Innovation. Marking the halfway point of their Bachelor of Design Arts journey, the exhibition highlights experimentation, growth, and the courage to present ideas that are still taking shape.

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A crowd of people attends an art exhibition, with various artworks displayed on the walls and easels set up for live art creation.

Thursday night, the doors opened at LCI Melbourne and the walls disappeared.

INTERMISSION 2026 brought together the work-in-progress of our Design Lab 3 students — across Fashion & Costume Design, Visual Arts, Interior Design, and Graphic & Digital Design — at the exact midpoint of their Bachelor of Design Arts degree. For the first time, students from our Bachelor of Business & Innovation joined the showcase too, their entrepreneurial concepts sitting alongside the art, design and fashion work on the gallery walls.

A man in a kilt and a group of young women are at an event with the word "INTERMISSION" on the screen.

This year, Intermission also opened its doors to EMERGE: Future Creators Art & Design Competition, welcoming finalists from secondary schools across Victoria and beyond. Their work was exhibited in the LCI Melbourne gallery, and category winners were announced live on Opening Night.

Congratulations to our 2026 EMERGE winners: Siena Gendala (Art – Visual Arts), Hayley Sadler (Art – Photography), and Tianhao Du "Danny" (Fashion). Each receives a 20% scholarship toward an LCI Melbourne undergraduate course.

"Intermission isn't just an exhibition — it's a pause button on the creative journey," said Adriano Di Prato, Executive Director, APAC. "It's a chance to stand still long enough to see how far our artists, designers and emerging entrepreneurs have already come. This is the mid-point, not the destination — the moment where risk-taking becomes visible, and ideas that felt fragile in a studio suddenly hold their own in a gallery."

What struck us most wasn't just the work on the walls, extraordinary as it was — it was the people behind it. The late nights. The pride of someone stopping to really look. The quiet courage of putting something unfinished, still-becoming, out into a room full of strangers.

The exhibition runs through Friday 18 September, Monday to Friday, 10am–4pm, at LCI Melbourne, 150 Oxford Street, Collingwood.

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