Music and Creative Arts

Transform your future

Southern Cross University's degrees in music, visual arts, creative writing and digital media provide a platform to fulfilling careers in the creative industries.

Our creative arts degrees are delivered at the Lismore campus, in the heart of the Northern Rivers, while our Coomera campus on the Gold Coast also welcomes contemporary music and digital media students.

You will benefit from the knowledge and skills of lecturers with experience and success in their creative fields. You will also have access to superior facilities and an active, multidisciplinary learning community.

We also sponsor major music and arts festivals, offering great opportunities for work placements and networking.

From online learning to purpose-built spaces across our campuses, we offer quality teaching, support and resources for all our students.

From uni jams to playing at festivals

Alex Pereira met Colliflowers frontman Gary Collocott in primary school, sharing nothing more than the same school house colour and a Facebook acquaintance. When Gary put a call out on Facebook years later to start a musical project, Alex, then a Southern Cross Contemporary Music student, took the bait.

The Indie Rock band Colliflowers was born. With three of the four members Southern Cross music graduates, the Colliflowers made their debut at the Byron Beach Hotel and have been playing your go-to dance floor songs across the east coast ever since.