image: ARTSOPISSFACE (KATELYN FERENCZ), ‘CYBERROT’, 2023, [install version 3], data projection, 5.1 surround sound, Meta Quest 2 VR .
2023 Awards
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Beth Sanderson
Koodak Award for Enamelling Prize for Technical Excellence. WHIMSY IN THE ORDINARY: AN EXPLORATION OF THE MUNDANE, ROUTINE AND PRECIOUSNESS THROUGH JEWELLERY. My practice explores the domestic space and the ordinary with a focus on processes and objects involved in more …
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Hannah Caprice
Honours Fine Art Travelling Award. INTIMUS BOUND is a playful exploration of the search for emotional intimacy through imagined, metamorphic and metaphorical narratives. This body of work encompasses a year-long project contained in a single artist’s book. In what often more …
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Jale Sezai
Dean’s Award for Excellence in Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) (Honours). The Emily Hope Prize- Professor AD Hope Endowment Award. SOMETIMES I CAN’T EVEN SLEEP BECAUSE I LOVE SOMEONE SO MUCH: AN EXPLORATION OF DEVOTION, LOVE, AND CRAFT THROUGH FANDOM more …
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Jana Papantoniou
Kings ARI Award. BLINDNESS: A MODE OF ABSTRACTION My practice harnesses my lived experience as a legally blind artist to explore and develop a pictorial language around perception itself. Conceptually, this project is concerned with destabilising the notion of blindness more …
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Jessica Phillips
Liquid Architecture Award. ECHO is an immersive installation of reflection and revealing. Named for the Oread, one’s reflection is infinitely duplicated and fractured upon entering the work, as they are simultaneously aware of invisible onlookers who can see clearly through more …
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Justyne Allen
The Bold and The Beautiful Award. INTO THE CAPITALOCENE “Shower him with all earthly blessings, plunge him so deep into happiness that nothing is visible but the bubbles rising to the surface of his happiness, as if it were water; more …
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KATELYN JANE FERENCZ (ARTSOPISSFACE)
Composite Award. CYBERROT: CORPOREAL DECAY INSIDE LIMINAL TECHNOLOGIES CYBERROT CYBERROT CYBERROT CYBERROT CYBERROT ROT ROT ROT ROT ROT IT’S ROTTING DECAYING SPREADING DISTORTING GLITCHING ENDLESS more …
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Rachel Simoons
Alpha 60 Award. Wolf Wennrich Award for Craftmanship – Mr Michael Wennrich Endowment. THE DIAGRAMMATIC IMPULSE: WAYS OF KNOWING Diagrams are abstractions, taming messy reality through their orderly summaries of information and relationships. In my practice I explore the formal more …
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Sarah Lockey
Highest Academic Achievement in Honours Year Gold & Silversmithing. IN THE GARDEN: AN EXPLORATION OF MEANING, MATERIAL AND CONNECTION Whilst acknowledging that all our actions impact others, both human and non-human, and that all beings are connected, I explore more …
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Tamara Perrett
The Bold and the Beautiful Award. DESIRING THE SELF: Embracing Autonomy & Rethinking The Gaze I am a young, queer, multi-disciplinary artist based in Melbourne/Naarm working across mediums of painting, drawing, sculpture and video performance. My artistic practice explores how more …
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Teegan Horat
Wolf Wennrich Award for Craftmanship – Mr Michael Wennrich Endowment. I SPOKE TO AN ECHO: THE JEWELLERY STUDIO AS AN ARCHIVE OF HUMAN INTERACTION WITH MATERIAL The bench peg (or bench pin) is a timber object affixed to the jewellers more …
2023 Graduates
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Beth Sanderson
Koodak Award for Enamelling Prize for Technical Excellence. WHIMSY IN THE ORDINARY: AN EXPLORATION OF THE MUNDANE, ROUTINE AND PRECIOUSNESS THROUGH JEWELLERY. My practice explores the domestic space and the ordinary with a focus on processes and objects involved in
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Carly Spiteri
APHOTIC APOTHECA: OPENING SOON. Come one, come all and step inside, you never know what one might find. An immersive installation allowing visitors to travel through to an undisclosed time and discover the curiosities the little shop has to offer.
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Chiara Zeta
MAKING, BREAKING, MAKING: REFLECTING PERSONAL EXPERIENCES OF COMPLEX TRAUMA. This project investigates the multifaceted nature of traumatic memory through the making and breaking of handmade objects grounded in feminine roles. By creatively exploring the process of forming and fragmenting domestic
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Drey Willows
THE THEATRE OF VIOLENCE This project is an exploration of the intense focus on violence in media and popular culture. I am curious about a society that views violence as entertainment and how this is reflective of rape culture. Rape
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Eilish Sherlock
SQUISH: RESEARCHING SKIN WITHIN PAINTING Studies of the human form, with a focus on flesh. Examining the body’s unique movements and malleability. An inquiry into how physical senses such as grabbing and squishing, can be depicted within painting. Finishing my
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Elaina Venn
AN UNCHARTED PATH To lay down a path, you begin by digging a hole. It can be challenging work. It involves risk. What if it collapses? What if you uncover something undesirable? What if it all leads to nothing, a
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Evangeline Clark
‘GIRLY’ AND BODILY is a research project that aims to immerse the viewer in a bodily experience of painting installation that explores excessively bright colours and cute ‘girly’ bubbly forms to reclaim them as a symbol of powerful femininity. I
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Georgina Owassapian (Georgina de Manning)
ALIAS & ARTIST delves into the murky waters of art in the age of the internet. Through layered installations, niche subcommunities are brought out from the ether into the corporeal realm. By merging the online with the offline, the complexities
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Hannah Caprice
Honours Fine Art Travelling Award. INTIMUS BOUND is a playful exploration of the search for emotional intimacy through imagined, metamorphic and metaphorical narratives. This body of work encompasses a year-long project contained in a single artist’s book. In what often
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Hannah Hall
SLACK, refers to the looseness between taut stitches, alternating between moments of tension and relief. This is a project where fields of expanded painting and craft practices collide, to create works that occupy a hybrid space between painting and textile.
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Iona Julian-Walters
Spiralling outward from the central practice of drawing, my work covers a number of mediums and practices from drawing to photography, performance and installation. Drawing is often overlooked within the artistic cannon as an approach that is preparatory, or incomplete,
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Jale Sezai
Dean’s Award for Excellence in Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) (Honours). The Emily Hope Prize- Professor AD Hope Endowment Award. SOMETIMES I CAN’T EVEN SLEEP BECAUSE I LOVE SOMEONE SO MUCH: AN EXPLORATION OF DEVOTION, LOVE, AND CRAFT THROUGH FANDOM
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Jana Papantoniou
Kings ARI Award. BLINDNESS: A MODE OF ABSTRACTION My practice harnesses my lived experience as a legally blind artist to explore and develop a pictorial language around perception itself. Conceptually, this project is concerned with destabilising the notion of blindness
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Jessica Phillips
Liquid Architecture Award. ECHO is an immersive installation of reflection and revealing. Named for the Oread, one’s reflection is infinitely duplicated and fractured upon entering the work, as they are simultaneously aware of invisible onlookers who can see clearly through
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Jing Liang
BETWEEN PERSONAL AND THE GENDER POLITICS: THE SYMPHONY OF MATERIAL SUBSTANCES, ACTIONS, AND BODY MOVEMENTS Through creative practices informed by ceramic processes, this practice-led research project explores gender identity within the context of contemporary Chinese society, delving into narrations, experiences,
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Justyne Allen
The Bold and The Beautiful Award. INTO THE CAPITALOCENE “Shower him with all earthly blessings, plunge him so deep into happiness that nothing is visible but the bubbles rising to the surface of his happiness, as if it were water;
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Kahli Perkins
WAVE DYNAMICS: an interweaving of wave phenomena, becoming, and geometric abstraction. Waves appear in many forms: in the warmth of sunlight, in colour, in the swell of the ocean, in music, and in our heads and hearts. They are fundamental
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KATELYN JANE FERENCZ (ARTSOPISSFACE)
Composite Award. CYBERROT: CORPOREAL DECAY INSIDE LIMINAL TECHNOLOGIES CYBERROT CYBERROT CYBERROT CYBERROT CYBERROT ROT ROT ROT ROT ROT IT’S ROTTING DECAYING SPREADING DISTORTING GLITCHING ENDLESS
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Khashayar Salmanzadeh
Utilising the expressive qualities of paint, my creative practice intertwines realistic portraiture with abstracted Farsi and Arabic calligraphy to raise insights into the spiritual reality of the human condition. Drawing on the writings of the Baháʼí Faith, a religious minority
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Lala Zarei
TO THE SKY WITH HOPES AND DREAMS: IMAGES OF RETRACING THE PAST PRINTED ON CERAMICS In this project, I use different art techniques like printmaking, collage, pottery, and ceramics to explore my personal experiences and connect them with broader
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Mollie-Rose Chislett
URBAN ANIMALIA: Exploring the human-animal relationship within the ever-growing urban scape of Australia. Urban Animalia engages the subject matter of birds, insects, reptiles and mammals as devices to explore the adaptation of animals to the Victorian landscape. I engage in the
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Rachel Simoons
Alpha 60 Award. Wolf Wennrich Award for Craftmanship – Mr Michael Wennrich Endowment. THE DIAGRAMMATIC IMPULSE: WAYS OF KNOWING Diagrams are abstractions, taming messy reality through their orderly summaries of information and relationships. In my practice I explore the formal
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Rubyanna Edwards
Colour is Content – a scandalous notion. Colour, I keep telling myself, can be anything it wants to be. An untouchable, anthropomorphic body of expression. An agitator. A goddess. It seems however, that the higher values of colour are all too well
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Sandra Flores
MATTERS proposes that creating multi-sensory atmospheres in sculptural installation art can reconnect us to our sensitive and material nature, blurring the boundaries between participants, artwork and environment. These gatherings could become sites for (renewed) embodiment whilst revolting against hegemonic power structures
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Sarah Lockey
Highest Academic Achievement in Honours Year Gold & Silversmithing. IN THE GARDEN: AN EXPLORATION OF MEANING, MATERIAL AND CONNECTION Whilst acknowledging that all our actions impact others, both human and non-human, and that all beings are connected, I explore
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Sharon Lesley
CONCILIATION: THE ARID GARDEN Roots are intriguing. They are an engagement – a plant’s engagement with the soil, a grounding, a base, an establishment, support to stand up and remain standing against outside forces and elements, a seeking of sustenance
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Tamara Perrett
The Bold and the Beautiful Award. DESIRING THE SELF: Embracing Autonomy & Rethinking The Gaze I am a young, queer, multi-disciplinary artist based in Melbourne/Naarm working across mediums of painting, drawing, sculpture and video performance. My artistic practice explores how
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Teegan Horat
Wolf Wennrich Award for Craftmanship – Mr Michael Wennrich Endowment. I SPOKE TO AN ECHO: THE JEWELLERY STUDIO AS AN ARCHIVE OF HUMAN INTERACTION WITH MATERIAL The bench peg (or bench pin) is a timber object affixed to the jewellers
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Tracey Ann Jones
AN EMBER IN THE PAINT: A STRATEGIC APPROACH TO AFFECT AND TIME. My project investigated the possibility of embedding something into a painting while it was being made so that, at some future point, it would spark into life and
