RMIT School of Art Graduates 2023
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U Hei Chan, ‘These shadows, they walk beside me, 2023
EXHIBITION:
Bachelor of Arts
(Fine Art)
Opening Night
& Awards Ceremony:
Tue 21 Nov 5:00 – 8:30pm
Exhibition Hours:
Tue 21 Nov 1:00pm – 9:30pm
Wed 22 Nov 11:00am – 5:00pm
Thu 23 Nov 11:00am – 5:00pm
Fri 24 Nov 1:00pm – 9:00pm
Sat 25 Nov 10:00am – 4:00pm
Sun 26 Nov 10:00am – 4:00pm
RMIT Melbourne
City Campus
_Bo-dene Stieler, Studio view, 2023. Photo: Matthew Mu.
EXHIBITION:
Photography,
Fine Art Honours,
MFA & Art in
Public Space
Opening Night &
Awards Ceremony:
Tue 5 Dec 5:00 – 8:30
Exhibition Hours:
Tue 5 Dec 1:00pm – 9:30pm
Wed 6 Dec 11:00am – 5:00pm
Thu 7 Dec 11:00am – 5:00pm
Fri 8 Dec 1:00pm – 9:00pm
Sat 9 Dec 10:00am – 4:00pm
Sun 10 Dec 10:00am – 4:00pm
RMIT Melbourne
City Campus
image: Elli Bardas, ‘Wild Thing’, 2023_
2023 Award Winners Spotlight: Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art)
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Alexandra Cairney
Drawing Studio Award for excellence in drawing-based practices: BETWEEN YARN AND A HARD PLACE is an ongoing exploration of mother-daughter relationships and, by extension, the complex interaction between the maker and the made. In my semi-autobiographical practice, I explore the
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Alice Gaywood
Sculpture Workshop Prize: THE RABBITS is an assemblage of found materials transformed and altered, arranged to echo an imagined agricultural or domestic garden exterior landscape and at the same time an interior domestic setting, similar to a sitting room. As the
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Amy Grover
Firestation Print Studio Exhibition Prize for high academic achievement: MEDIEVAL AND THE MODERN Through a practice of print and illustration my work engages with the ways history and the process of archiving history intersects with personal identity. Building on prints’
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Angela Mezzatesta
Chapman & Bailey Award: A WALK AMONGST NATURE. My practice relates to New Materialism, a philosophy that allows me to open up to an intimate, reciprocal engagement with my materials and immediate surroundings. My current work sits between painting and
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Angelina Innocent
The Moat Bar Awards for excellence in Video and Drawing: DRESS YOU UP IN YOUR LOVE explores the body, identity, and sexuality through a queer feminist lens. Viewers will enter a boudoir-like space to experience an immersive installation comprising video,
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Ciara Steggerda
Koodak Award for the Highest Academic Achievement in Second Year Gold & Silversmithing: CONTEMPORARY TALISMANS is a body of work exploring the involvement of jewellery and objects in everyday rituals. Ciara’s practice explores the idea of the talisman, informed by
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David Bilusic
Perry Summers Sculpture Book Prize for excellent in Sculpture Studio: FORGED is a collection of narrative works that seamlessly intertwine two distinct stories. The first story narrates the tale of The Blacksmith and the Devil, while the second story follows The
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Declan Monaghan
EXILE, is a series of print-based works that explores my experiences and feelings towards masculinity. The works are framed from my own perspective, drawing attention to characteristics in our society that remain patriarchal, exclusionary and/or ‘toxic’.
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Gemma Seymour
Troppo Print Studio Graduate Award: RMIT MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX. RMIT partners with weapons companies.Elbit systems, BAE systems, Thales and Boeing Defence (the list goes on) fund research and scholarships, provide internships and work with RMIT to develop new weaponry technology.
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Jane Cocks
Northcote Pottery Supplies Award: “LISTEN TO THE WILD BEASTS OF THE ISLAND, NIGHT BIRDS AND WITCHES.” These are all terms that have been applied to women who did not conform to a male dominated society. There is a present and historical
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Jasmine Tiger Babayan
RMIT Ceramic Student Association Award: My practice revolves around material interaction, with a focus on ceramic-based processes. Driven by experimentation, my work is a continuous exploration into the interplay between material, process and space through mutual exchange. Jasmine Tiger
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Ka Yan SO (Kelly)
Mejia Group Exhibition Award for excellence in drawing-based practices: ON MY WAY HOME Is our home irreplaceable? Could our ‘home’ be a specific color, language, people, scent, or a sense of nostalgia rooted in childhood memories? This project undertakes an
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Lauren Cameron
RMIT Ceramic Student Association Award: Working predominately in ceramics, Lauren uses ideas and experiences around trauma, beauty, and men in her ceramic forms to explore and challenge ideas about these topics within society. Using wheel thrown, sculpting, and glaze techniques,
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Levi Warren
The Moat Bar Awards for excellence in Video and Drawing: THE BEAUTY & THE TERROR My practice marries cinematic and illustrative elements in the pursuit of elevating both, as I explore communication, storytelling and an interrogation of modern romanticism. I
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Molly Morris-McGinty
Highly commended – Wayne Conduit Prize: NOCTURNAL FLUX – A DIARY OF THE NIGHT My work explores the vitality of the space of night through the influence its atmosphere has upon perception. The work is a dive into the complexity
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Rachael Goy
Mejia Group Exhibition Award excellence in drawing-based practices: THE RECURRENCE OF ACTION – EVENT. My practice, my artworks, my studio, and myself all exist as registrations of time—the limitations of it, the flattening of the past and the constant passing
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Ruby Tirekidis
Highly commended – Wayne Conduit Prize: Narrative is what drives my art practice. My most recent body of work explores the notion of visual storytelling and has been inspired by a personal mythology I have been writing. My paintings tend
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Sam Meekan
Drawing Studio Award for excellence in drawing-based practices: SPIKE THE CANON – This body of painting re-enacts hyper-masculine forms of ‘play violence’ drawn from niche hobbies such as 90s table top and video games. It investigates the vying solipsisms of
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Victoria Lynagh
Walkers Ceramic Award & Stockroom Ceramic Award: FACETS OF A CHANGING LANDSCAPE This body of work reflects the different facets of the changing Australian landscape. Drawing inspiration from controlled burns and wildfires, I blend and contrast the devastation they cause
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Woo Hyun Kang
I Squared Gallery Exhibition Award for excellence in drawing-based practices: ADORATION: DROWNING INTO THE PAST. This practice involves a process of a gradual transition from affection to an attachment, ultimately an obsession. The symbolic space, objects, and colour repeat and
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Zach Edwards
RMIT University Library Art Prize & Joseph Beuys Cafe Drawing Award for excellence in expanded approach to drawing: MY LAWYER THE BUS STOP: a discussion of the unseen, exploring contextualisation through spaces and realms. Currently, in my practice, I have
image: 2022 RMIT School of Art Graduate Exhibition opening ceremony 6 December 2022. Photo: Leni Ciuro
CONTENT NOTIFICATION: Some of works presented include references to trauma, violence, death, nudity and sexual themes.