Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence and contribution to the program, Master of Fine Art.
WILD THINGS combines my love of portrait photography with sculpture to counter divisive narratives that arise primarily though bodily differences. Through playful materials, colour and absurdity, my work focuses on the ineffable part of the human spirit, in order to create a space that celebrates diversity.
Elli Bardas, The artist with some of her ‘Wild Things’, 2023Elli Bardas, ‘Wild Thing’, 2023Elli Bardas, ‘Wild Thing saying hello’, 2023Elli Bardas, ‘Wild Thing’, 2023 [Work-in-progress documentation]Elli Bardas, ‘Wild Things with other Wild Things’, 2023Elli Bardas, ‘Wild Things outside’, 2022Elli Bardas, ‘Wild Things in the wild’, 2023, street poster exhibitionElli Bardas, ‘Wild things breaking free’, 2022.
Elli Bardas, My original Wild Thing visiting the studio, 2023 [Work-in-progress documentation] Elli Bardas, Wild Things waiting their turn, 2023 [Work-in-progress documentation] Elli Bardas, The shooting of a Wild Thing, 2023 [Process documentation] Elli Bardas, Making a Wild Thing, 2023 [Work-in-progress documentation] Elli Bardas, At the heart of a Wild thing, 2023 [Work-in-progress documentation] Elli Bardas, Lit Wild Things, 2023 [Work-in-progress documentation] Elli Bardas, Wild things gathering, 2023 [Work-in-progress documentation] Elli Bardas, Editing Wild Things, 2023 [Work-in-progress documentation] Elli Bardas, The biggest Wild Thing, 2023 [Installation view: The Gossard Space, RMIT University]
