2024 Awards
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Alexandra Cairney
RMIT Creative Residency Award The female body is judged biologically, evolutionarily and culturally for its fertility, sexuality, and aesthetics. As a young… read more …
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Alexandra Pellegrino
ALPHA 60 AWARD WINNER VEILED REFLECTIONS – THE WARDROBE AS A LIMINAL STRUCTURE OF INTERSECTING IDENTITIES explores the healing potential of… read more …
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Amina Qasim Zada
Winner: The Fullstop Framing Company Award. https://www.fullstopframing.com/ Highly Commended: ACAE Gallery. https://acaearts.com.au/ My work emerges from a process that is both… read more …
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Anabelle Stonehouse
BEAUTY IN BODILY REALITIES: RECONTEXTUALISING THE FEMININE EXPERIENCE THROUGH EXPANDED CERAMIC PRACTICE is a studio based research project that employs an… read more …
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Angela Sexton
Yarra Sculpture Gallery Exhibition Award http://www.yarrasculpturegallery.com.au/ WHEN PUSH COMES TO SHOVE is an invitation to propel this object into motion. I ask… read more …
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Bea Yu
Melbourne Art Supplies Award Winner Sanctuary Reimagined: Unveiling Spiritual rebirth and bicultural renewal through animism, eternalism, repetition, and layering. Sanctuary Reimagined intricately… read more …
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Betty Knibbs
THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL AWARD WINNER fragments of deterioration. Betty’s work explores echoes of human presence, navigating the blurred boundaries between… read more …
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Brooklyn Rush
R.L.Foote Design Studio – Residency Award Unearthed looks at the hidden networks below the surface that create a complex, functioning ecosystem that… read more …
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Catherine Weng
THE MOAT AWARD WINNER CACHEXIA. A surreal exploration of the decaying body, born from the intersection of personal experience and the unsettling… read more …
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Celine Babet
Garland Award for Innovative Storied Object Celine Babet explores how a cultural lifestyle has influenced her sense of self by making works… read more …
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Celline Mercado
Lowensteins Arts Management Award Winner 2024 Dean’s Award for academic excellence Recipient for DEBUT XXI at Blindside ARI (April 2025) https://blindside.org.au/ Between the… read more …
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Charlie Patten
Megalo Print Studio Graduate Award MYCELIA – a venture into my past, honouring the previous versions of myself that allowed me to… read more …
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Christina Rankin
Winner: Tolarno Hotel Award. UNIFORM: Autobiographical reflections on the interplay between conformity, gender and neurodiverse thinking. Uniform explores the intricate dynamics of… read more …
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Cien Su
Winner – Koodak Award for Enamelling – Technical Excellence (presented by Koodak Jewellery Supplies) Haeng-Bok (행복 Happiness & Luck). As a… read more …
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Cornelius Wong
Kings Artist-Run exhibition award https://www.kingsartistrun.org.au/ DUST PIECE. With everything packed into boxes, all that’s left is dust. instagram.com/ms.homunculus … read more …
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Debra Higgins
Garland Award for Innovative Storied Object. Highly commended: Chapman and Bailey. Searching for Light, The One Tree, and the Universe in a… read more …
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Dee Robinson
RMIT Creative Residency Award Reconstructing the vessel depicted in paintings as novel metal work objects. The act of abstracting metal iterations of… read more …
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Dhishni de Silva
Winner: ACAE Gallery Award. In my practice, I weave together cultural influences, memories, emotions, and the subtleties of everyday existence. Observation is… read more …
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Diya Mathur
Deans Award Winner ADFAS (Australian Decorative & Fine Arts Society), Yarra Branch – Young and Emerging Artists Fund Award Winner Diya Mathur’s… read more …
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Eddie Corney
Firestation Print Studio Graduate Scholarship MICROCOSM. Microcosm is a body of work investigating the patterns, convergences and linkages between life on earth. … read more …
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Ella Barker
Winner: Chapman and Bailey Award. In this series of paintings, I am thematically concerned with creating intriguing geometric compositions of figures and… read more …
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Eloise Iona Hurn
Megalo Print Studio Graduate Award AKIN explores the merging of printmaking and collage, alongside my investigating of different copper-plate making techniques. Print-making… read more …
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Emily Song
JOSEPH BEUYS CAFE AWARD WINNER THE MOAT AWARD WINNER ENERGY IN MOTION AND A ‘MOVING DRAWING’ – transformations of individual drawings expand… read more …
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Felicia
44 Frame Factory Graduate Award GAME GIRLS. Game Girls is a project in response to the sexism seen in the video game… read more …
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Fiona Morgan
ADFAS (Australian Decorative & Fine Arts Society), Yarra Branch – Young and Emerging Artists Fund Award Winner Fiona Morgan is a multi-disciplinary… read more …
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Gail Hunt
Winner – 2024 RMIT Gold & Silversmithing Studio Prize ALL HAIL THE GIANTS – a wooden love story for old growth… read more …
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Grace Elizabeth Flinn
Wolf Wennrich Award for Craftsmanship I Know You of Old: The Transmutation of Metal, Matter and Meaning. My practice-led research uses historical… read more …
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Grace Rokesky
R.L.Foote Design Studio – Residency Award RMIT Ceramic Student Association Club Year 3 Award UNTITLED is a large-scale nest-like structure that aims… read more …
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Heidi Kwong
Stockroom Kyneton – Exhibition Award R.L.Foote Design Studio – Residency Award Walkers Ceramic Award – Accademic Excellence RMIT Ceramic Student Association Club… read more …
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Holly Clark-Milligan
Garland Membership Award. UNSETTLED LIVING. My grandparents said to never buy a house near a willow tree. They said its roots… read more …
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Indianah (Smith-Johns)
JACK WILLET STUDIO VISIT AWARD WINNER A SLEEPWALK FROM ME TO YOU. When sleep becomes me, I dream of walking from me… read more …
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Jack Ioannou
Print Council of Australia Graduate Award My practice explores the intersections of identity, culture, and landscape through the print medium. Inspired by… read more …
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Jade Cargill
WINNER of the Sculpture Workshop Prize 2024 “Obscenity begins when there is no more stage […] A good illusion is a… read more …
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Jade Power
Fiona & Sidney Myer Ceramic Art Award Stockroom Kyneton – Exhibition Award I make art to better understand myself and my… read more …
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James Horrocks
Troppo Print Studio Graduate Award FOR YOUR PLEASURE. Throughout my creative practice, I aim to challenge the traditional conventions of art… read more …
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Jasmin Seale
RMIT Culture Residency Award Winner Sticky stuff: exploring human-object relationships through found materials. This install-based project uses accumulating, arranging and documenting an… read more …
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Jason Lehane
Nearly-Mary Oliphant Award Winner Jason is an established multi-disciplinary, award-winning artist with a 40-year arts practice. He is a stage designer who… read more …
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Juliette Claire
Melbourne Artist Supplies – Professional Practice Award The Koodak Award for Academic Excellence in Gold and Silversmithing Glimpsing mourning: an encounter of… read more …
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Katya Ryzhikh
Winner: Wayne Conduit Award. When I watch a coming of age film, I feel seen. When I watch an action film,… read more …
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Lachlan Vasic
Winner – 2024 RMIT Gold & Silversmithing Technology Prize (presented by Australian Jewellers Supplies) Lachlan Vasic is a Naarm/Melbourne-based artist, forming… read more …
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Lala Zarei (La’la)
Recipient for DEBUT XXI at Blindside ARI (April 2025) https://blindside.org.au/ Fragments of Identity: Exploring Identity, Migration, and Memory through Ceramics and Printmaking.… read more …
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Laura de Carteret
Winner – 2024 RMIT Gold & Silversmithing Studio Prize Laura de Carteret is a French-Australian artist based in Melbourne, Australia. They… read more …
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Lauren Johnston
Technician’s / Studio Karma Graduate Award My practice is informed by research and concept and is constantly evolving as I lean into… read more …
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Li Letitia Shen
Winner – 2024 RMIT Gold & Silversmithing Studio Prize Since 2020, Letitia has shown abroad, with her work exhibited in group… read more …
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Luke Morris
ISQUARED GALLERY EXHIBITION AWARD WINNER ALLEGORICAL AND INNATE GESTURES OF THE HAND is engaged with intuitive modes of making and the… read more …
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Meg Kelso
Garland Membership Award. Fugitive memories: I’ve watched you my whole life, now I see you. ‘The fragments re-emphasise subjectivity, due to their… read more …
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Mei Wah Williams
Dean’s Award for Excellence in Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) (Honours). Travel Scholarship Award. Ballarat International Foto Biennale GradFoto 2024 finalist. ____________________________________________________… read more …
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Michelle Mclachlan
Print Council of Australia Graduate Award Michelle is a Melbourne based artist, specialising in printmaking, photography and alternative practices.Her work is… read more …
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Milla Morgan
THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL AWARD WINNER Reframing perception. As a proud Italian Aboriginal from the Wiradjuri and Yorta Yorta people, I… read more …
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Minadi Gajaman Kankanamge
WINNER – Breaking the Mould Sculpture Prize for experimentation in the Sculpture Studio ‘where water and earth resonate; ජල තරංගා’ is inspired… read more …
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Myriam Hampson-den Elzen
Community of Practice Award THE INK GROWS LESS, THE SEA INCREASES. This practice-led research project engages with longing, magical realism, sensation poetry,… read more …
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Opening Night & Awards Ceremony 5pm – 8pm Tue 19 Nov
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Opening Night & Awards Ceremony 5pm – 8pm Tue 3 Dec
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Qianxun Li
Winner – Koodak Award for Highest Academic Achievement (presented by Koodak Jewellery Supplies) The Whispers of Nature. When we feel saddened… read more …
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Rachel Wheeler
RMIT Ceramic Student Association Club Year 3 Award AN INBETWEENNESS OF TIME reflects that great feeling of loss, where time seemingly… read more …
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Ruby Hughes
Winner – Emily Hope Award for Figurative Work (donor Professor AD Hope Endowment) Growing up on the Mornington Peninsula, I have… read more …
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Ryan Campbell
Artbox Commission Graduate Award The Assembly Line is a series of figurative monotype prints on fabric, wrapped around handmade frames. The figures… read more …
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Sara Cope
Australian Print Workshop Residency Award WHAT A RELIEF. The phrase ‘chook scratches’ sometimes refers to ‘untidy, organic marks’. What a Relief is… read more …
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Sean Leegel
621 ARTSPACE EXHIBITION AWARD WINNER Suggestion. Records of emotion by Sean Leegel. read more …
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Siena Shirres
Sunshine Print Artspace Graduate Award Reflections of Light in Time is formed through the combination of traditional copper plate etching and experimental… read more …
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Sophie Malvestuto
Winner: BDS Prize for Excellence in Sculpture From embroidering the earth’s mantle to embodying the earth’s core: a note to the spinner.… read more …
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Tanya Cubric
Mary Oliphant Award Winner Tanya Cubric (b.1991 Montréal) is a multidisciplinary artist from the Balkan-Diaspora currently working and living in Melbourne. As… read more …
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Timothy Walters
Winner: BDS prize for excellence in Sculpture. Timo Walters is a sculptural artist whose work explores the imaginative potential to reconstruct human… read more …
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Wang Zi Yu
Winner: Trocadero Art Space Exhibition Award. http://www.trocaderoartspace.com.au/ Highly Commended: ACAE Gallery. https://acaearts.com.au/ I lift my heart with my hands into the night… read more …
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Yuqing (Anna) Xiang
Highly Commended ACAE Gallery. Highly Commended Tolarno Award. _________________________________ The Unseen Energy. “Non-be-ing (wu) is the beginning of the heavenly and the… read more …
2024 Graduates
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Abi Corden
AND SO THE CYCLE CONTINUES explores the conversation between influence and identity. Experiencing life through memories and cultivating a persona based on… read more …
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Aiko Yuen
Born in 2002, Aiko is an Australian painter of Asian diaspora, currently maintaining her practice on Wurundjeri Land of the Kulin Nations… read more …
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Alannah Borg
I acknowledge, pay respect, and pay the rent to the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands on which I live… read more …
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Alba Goodey Artacho
Loss of my assumptive world refers to a significant part of my grieving process, the expectation for a person to continue to… read more …
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Alexandra Cairney
RMIT Creative Residency Award The female body is judged biologically, evolutionarily and culturally for its fertility, sexuality, and aesthetics. As a young… read more …
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Alexandra Nosova
SASHA’S A to Я COLLECTION: A REFLECTION ON NATIONAL IDENTITY THROUGH PRINTED IMAGES OF ICONIC SYMBOLS AND EMBLEMS. My work explores… read more …
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Alexandra Pellegrino
ALPHA 60 AWARD WINNER VEILED REFLECTIONS – THE WARDROBE AS A LIMINAL STRUCTURE OF INTERSECTING IDENTITIES explores the healing potential of… read more …
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Alice Qian
This thesis explores the potential of The Muse Mandarin (TMM), a Melbourne-based cultural tour business designed for Mandarin-speaking audiences. By leveraging the… read more …
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Amina Qasim Zada
Winner: The Fullstop Framing Company Award. https://www.fullstopframing.com/ Highly Commended: ACAE Gallery. https://acaearts.com.au/ My work emerges from a process that is both… read more …
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Amy Wyborn
WUNDERKAMMER. Dissection of the mind and matters. Eclectic. Found objects. Curiosities. Undiscovered. Line. Boundary. Trashy. Tacky. Campy. Lace. Tulips. Bugs. Moon. Sun.… read more …
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Anabelle Stonehouse
BEAUTY IN BODILY REALITIES: RECONTEXTUALISING THE FEMININE EXPERIENCE THROUGH EXPANDED CERAMIC PRACTICE is a studio based research project that employs an… read more …
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Angela Sexton
Yarra Sculpture Gallery Exhibition Award http://www.yarrasculpturegallery.com.au/ WHEN PUSH COMES TO SHOVE is an invitation to propel this object into motion. I ask… read more …
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Angelica Zumpo
Home as Qualia: Reflections on the miniature object. My practice-led research project Home as Qualia: Reflections on the miniature object is an… read more …
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Angelina Innocent
MISOPHONIA. (installation, performance and sound) Misphonia explores performativity; social scripting/masking, the psyche, the central nervous system and the erotic (as power/life source),… read more …
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Angelique Jenkins
Stardust: Ascension and the Art I Never Made. My practice-based research investigates the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) within a queer photographic… read more …
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Angelique Rebillard
PASS THE BUTTER is a self-portrait that unfolds across various mediums and techniques. This piece delves into the emotions I can encounter in… read more …
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Anna Kouvelas
UNRAVELLING is a textile-based work that uses both handmade and found materials to delve into the themes of women’s work, girlhood and… read more …
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Ariene Lam
My art practice is closely connected to my life experiences, and this year, I focused on my relationship with my mother as… read more …
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Astrid Visser
UN-PACK EXPRESSION THROUGH MATERIALITY. My practice consists of expressing emotions through imagery and materiality, pent-up feelings using symbolism as such dog figures… read more …
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Bea Yu
Melbourne Art Supplies Award Winner Sanctuary Reimagined: Unveiling Spiritual rebirth and bicultural renewal through animism, eternalism, repetition, and layering. Sanctuary Reimagined intricately… read more …
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Belinda Farinaccia
This practice-led research project investigates the interplay between the seen and unseen within textile art installation practice. Central to this research is… read more …
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Betty Knibbs
THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL AWARD WINNER fragments of deterioration. Betty’s work explores echoes of human presence, navigating the blurred boundaries between… read more …
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Blanca Padros-Quintana
The Grand Tour, A Contemporary Take. Solo travelling and backpacking has been a transformative experience for me. Following the isolation we all… read more …
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Bo-dene Stieler
YELLOW CORRIDOR My site-specific installation practice uses the colour yellow to translate a neurodiverse experience of architectural space. Using a yellow cube… read more …
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Brooklyn Rush
R.L.Foote Design Studio – Residency Award Unearthed looks at the hidden networks below the surface that create a complex, functioning ecosystem that… read more …
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Catherine Magill
Catherine Magill is a Naarm /Melbourne-based dance artist with thirty years performance experience. Creating in the emerging moment, Catherine interweaves spontaneous, responsive… read more …
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Catherine Weng
THE MOAT AWARD WINNER CACHEXIA. A surreal exploration of the decaying body, born from the intersection of personal experience and the unsettling… read more …
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Celine Babet
Garland Award for Innovative Storied Object Celine Babet explores how a cultural lifestyle has influenced her sense of self by making works… read more …
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Celline Mercado
Lowensteins Arts Management Award Winner 2024 Dean’s Award for academic excellence Recipient for DEBUT XXI at Blindside ARI (April 2025) https://blindside.org.au/ Between the… read more …
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Charlie Patten
Megalo Print Studio Graduate Award MYCELIA – a venture into my past, honouring the previous versions of myself that allowed me to… read more …
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Charlotte Nheu
KIPPLE. Kipple pays homage to the object and its collector. This work’s nomenclature follows Philip K. Dick’s novel, Do Androids Dream of… read more …
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Christina Rankin
Winner: Tolarno Hotel Award. UNIFORM: Autobiographical reflections on the interplay between conformity, gender and neurodiverse thinking. Uniform explores the intricate dynamics of… read more …
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Cien Su
Winner – Koodak Award for Enamelling – Technical Excellence (presented by Koodak Jewellery Supplies) Haeng-Bok (행복 Happiness & Luck). As a… read more …
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Cornelius Wong
Kings Artist-Run exhibition award https://www.kingsartistrun.org.au/ DUST PIECE. With everything packed into boxes, all that’s left is dust. instagram.com/ms.homunculus … read more …
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Dai Shijie
The theme of my project is an imaginative exploration of unreal dragons: Dragon is Everywhere. The entire project reflects my ongoing exploration… read more …
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Daisy Giuffrida
UNTITLED captures the idea of abstract ceramic forms that combines two textures. One with a fluid, glossy surface that reflects light and… read more …
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Daniel Longo
Grotesque embodiments in a phenomenological probe of human desire through anatomical dismemberments and the antagonism of corporeal boundaries: A CARNAL DISSECTION read more …
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Debbie Ewington
FRAGMENTS AND THREADS. My art journey started in earnest five years ago. My daughter had just commenced her first year at RMIT… read more …
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Deborah McHugh
SHEARED HAIR, SHAVED HEAD. I am a sculpture artist based on Wadawurrung Country with a background in textile art. My practice interprets… read more …
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Debra Higgins
Garland Award for Innovative Storied Object. Highly commended: Chapman and Bailey. Searching for Light, The One Tree, and the Universe in a… read more …
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Dee Robinson
RMIT Creative Residency Award Reconstructing the vessel depicted in paintings as novel metal work objects. The act of abstracting metal iterations of… read more …
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Dhishni de Silva
Winner: ACAE Gallery Award. In my practice, I weave together cultural influences, memories, emotions, and the subtleties of everyday existence. Observation is… read more …
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Diya Mathur
Deans Award Winner ADFAS (Australian Decorative & Fine Arts Society), Yarra Branch – Young and Emerging Artists Fund Award Winner Diya Mathur’s… read more …
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Eddie Corney
Firestation Print Studio Graduate Scholarship MICROCOSM. Microcosm is a body of work investigating the patterns, convergences and linkages between life on earth. … read more …
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Ella Barker
Winner: Chapman and Bailey Award. In this series of paintings, I am thematically concerned with creating intriguing geometric compositions of figures and… read more …
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Ella Simpson
RABBIT OUT OF A HAT: AN AMALGAMATION OF THE FEMININE UNCONSCIOUS. My unconscious. Canvas & paper & oil paint & ink. Archives.… read more …
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Ellen Vince-Moin
Through intense and obsessive patterning, I have made pen drawings on paper that seek to depict the sublime. Conceptually engaged with the… read more …
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Elli sheeran
Nothing happens in a vacuum. “I believe that neurobiology can contribute to an understanding of aesthetics, but it cannot do so in… read more …
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Eloise Iona Hurn
Megalo Print Studio Graduate Award AKIN explores the merging of printmaking and collage, alongside my investigating of different copper-plate making techniques. Print-making… read more …
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Emily Marker
Masking tape, paper, and other bits and pieces: material exploration and jumping between tasks. Over the last year, my practice has focused… read more …
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Emily Song
JOSEPH BEUYS CAFE AWARD WINNER THE MOAT AWARD WINNER ENERGY IN MOTION AND A ‘MOVING DRAWING’ – transformations of individual drawings expand… read more …
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Emma Lynes
AFFINITY investigates how material expression through painting can be used to explore personal affect and relationality to the natural environment. This project… read more …
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Essay – Possibilities Await in Synthesis: Dismantling Modes of Interpretation to Maximise Imaginative Potential within Sculpture
Essay by Jade Cargill for Contextualising Practice The topic of this essay and my art is imagination. Within a world that prescribes… read more …
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Essay – The Knight of Malta: How the unconscious informs the creation of abstract painting
Essay by Ella Simpson for Contextualising Practice Every work of art is a child of its time, while often it is the… read more …
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Essay – Abortion and Queerness: the politics of excavating the closet through confessional performance practice
Essay by Sylva Storm for Contextualising Practice Content Warning: this essay discusses abortion, reproductive rights and queer trauma and contains images of… read more …
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Essay – Animality and Autism: Honouring Shared Experiences of Otherness
Essay by Grace Rokesky for Contextualising Practice ‘Appearance and Behavioral Observations: Throughout sessions, Grace presented tidy and well-groomed. She had short stature,… read more …
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Essay – Automatic drawing and spontaneity in motion: an exercise in trusting the process
Essay by Emily Song for Contextualising Practice Introduction The tendency to overly control and calculate the result of an artwork during the… read more …
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Essay – Becoming Nomadic
Essay by Timothy Walters for Contextualising Practice Acknowledgement I would like to acknowledge that I live, work and study on the unceded… read more …
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Essay – Burnt Out: unlearning perfection through meditative crafting
Essay by Anna Kouvelas for Contextualising Practice Acknowledgment I would like to begin by acknowledging the Traditional Custodians of the land on… read more …
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Essay – Ecological Obituaries: Mourning the More-than-Human
Essay By Holly Clark-Milligan for Contextualising Practice Acknowledgement I pay my respects to the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nations, Traditional Custodians… read more …
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Essay – Encountering Illness Narratives through Contemporary Practice
Essay by Eugenie Gullifer-Laurie for Contextualising Practice Pain To experience ineffable pain, when it has no identifiable source and no external mark… read more …
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Essay – Fragmented Identities: critiquing societal pressures and conformity within the diasporic experience through creative practice
Essay by Sahla Safia Arundati for Contextualising Practice In a globalised world, art can powerfully critique societal pressures of conformity and the… read more …
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Essay – How can the ephemerality of bioplastic revive ecocentrism for the ecological world in the Anthropocene?
Essay by Stephie Ng for Contextualising Practice ‘So, we can’t save the world by playing by the rules, because the rules have… read more …
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Essay – Reconstruct the scene in fragments of memories: A manifesto for photographic collage
Essay by Sebastian Nuttney for Contextualising Practice This essay aims to detail my approach and methodology for photographic collages. This framework, presented… read more …
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Essay – Transformative textiles: How can the combination of textile and subtractive painting methods convey autobiographical narratives of trauma and memory?
Essay by Christina Rankin for Contextualising Practice This essay explores the connections between textile, memory, and trauma, focusing on how my artwork… read more …
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Esther White
The focus of this project continues themes I am continually drawn back to in my practice. Broadly, my practice comes from a… read more …
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Ethan Lazaric
DREAM CATCHERS. Dreams are an essential part of the human condition, acting in the subconscious mind of every individual. Through sculpture, I… read more …
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Felicia
44 Frame Factory Graduate Award GAME GIRLS. Game Girls is a project in response to the sexism seen in the video game… read more …
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Fiona Morgan
ADFAS (Australian Decorative & Fine Arts Society), Yarra Branch – Young and Emerging Artists Fund Award Winner Fiona Morgan is a multi-disciplinary… read more …
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Gab Lewis
Naarm /Melbourne-based arts worker, Gab Lewis applies her background in fine arts and experience in the creative industry to her emerging curatorial… read more …
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Gabrielle Turco
My practice is greatly impacted by my experiences with undiagnosed neurodivergence, growing up queer, and grappling with mental illness. While these features… read more …
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Gail Hunt
Winner – 2024 RMIT Gold & Silversmithing Studio Prize ALL HAIL THE GIANTS – a wooden love story for old growth… read more …
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Georgia Drummond
Here With Me is an immersive installation designed as a sanctuary for conversation and connection. Amid the overwhelming negativity and isolation we… read more …
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Glenda Chaplyn
AMULETS FOR THE EARTH: This speculative research project imagines a post-Anthropocene world where food and plant production and growth rely on human… read more …
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Grace Elizabeth Flinn
Wolf Wennrich Award for Craftsmanship I Know You of Old: The Transmutation of Metal, Matter and Meaning. My practice-led research uses historical… read more …
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Grace Mitchell
STEALING FOG is an exploration of concealment. I work in an expanded painting practice, with most of my works being concerned with… read more …
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Grace Rokesky
R.L.Foote Design Studio – Residency Award RMIT Ceramic Student Association Club Year 3 Award UNTITLED is a large-scale nest-like structure that aims… read more …
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GyuIn Hanh
THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL AWARD WINNER At last, You Become Me. At last, I Become You (2024) Through this project, I… read more …
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Hannah Morel
This Master’s project investigates themes of labour, care and environment through public pedagogy and institutional critique. This work consists of questions and… read more …
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Hatice Fikircier
AI in Museums. I have written a research essay on the current impacts and future potentials of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on the… read more …
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Heidi Hess
sixteen years away. My digital painting series sixteen years away, draws from my experiences being an expat until adulthood and the sense… read more …
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Heidi Kwong
Stockroom Kyneton – Exhibition Award R.L.Foote Design Studio – Residency Award Walkers Ceramic Award – Accademic Excellence RMIT Ceramic Student Association Club… read more …
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Holly Clark-Milligan
Garland Membership Award. UNSETTLED LIVING. My grandparents said to never buy a house near a willow tree. They said its roots… read more …
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Huihua Gu
Huihua Gu (b.2003) is an emerging multi-disciplinary artist who focuses on painting and sculpturing. He also explores tremendous areas and ideas, always… read more …
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Idgie Kagan
CONTENT NOTE: reference to gender-based violence. This work was created on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung… read more …
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Imogen Mathews
LANDSCAPES AND TREPIDATION. Utilising a combination of oil paint on wood and paper, my works explore the complexities of human fear through… read more …
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Indianah (Smith-Johns)
JACK WILLET STUDIO VISIT AWARD WINNER A SLEEPWALK FROM ME TO YOU. When sleep becomes me, I dream of walking from me… read more …
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J. Findlay
Welcome to my suburban backyard, where I invite you to immerse yourself in the sensory experience of my nature-inspired art installations, collectively… read more …
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Jack Ioannou
Print Council of Australia Graduate Award My practice explores the intersections of identity, culture, and landscape through the print medium. Inspired by… read more …
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Jade Cargill
WINNER of the Sculpture Workshop Prize 2024 “Obscenity begins when there is no more stage […] A good illusion is a… read more …
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Jade Power
Fiona & Sidney Myer Ceramic Art Award Stockroom Kyneton – Exhibition Award I make art to better understand myself and my… read more …
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Jake Clover
This practice-led research project unites my digital and non-digital artworks to build digital worlds that invite exploration and create a sense of… read more …
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James Horrocks
Troppo Print Studio Graduate Award FOR YOUR PLEASURE. Throughout my creative practice, I aim to challenge the traditional conventions of art… read more …
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Jamison Zmood
ON EXIT WOUNDS: A WALKING TOUR OF THINGS LEFT BEHIND (For Dawn Kelly) My practice persistently engages with concepts of the archive,… read more …
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Jasmin Seale
RMIT Culture Residency Award Winner Sticky stuff: exploring human-object relationships through found materials. This install-based project uses accumulating, arranging and documenting an… read more …
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Jasmine Kiyomi Roe-Bose
CNIDAGARIDEX [Mushroom Jellyfish]. This project brings into being an encyclopedic database of imagined ecology that introduces new, unusual lifeforms known as mushroom… read more …
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Jason Lehane
Nearly-Mary Oliphant Award Winner Jason is an established multi-disciplinary, award-winning artist with a 40-year arts practice. He is a stage designer who… read more …
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Jeffrey Chieu
Beyond the Uncertainty is a mixed-medium animation project that explores the concept of uncertainty and the experience of having those feelings, while… read more …
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Jermaine Ibarra
WILD COMBINATION focuses on the act of ‘authoring’ and ready-made simulacra. Wild Combination reflects on the immateriality of memory, the arduous effort… read more …
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Joanna Richard
My practice uses performance, installation, sound, video, and digital technologies to examine the creation and perpetuation of national myths and how they… read more …
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ZIQuan Hong
My monster friends. Everyone has childhood memories in their hearts, and those innocent times are like candies with different flavors that accompany… more …
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Zakkiya Hamza
CURATORIAL PROPOSAL AND RESEARCH ON THE ‘INVISIBLE LABOUR’ OF ARTISTS. Invisible labour is a defining characteristic of the identity, process and practice… more …
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Yuqing (Anna) Xiang
Highly Commended ACAE Gallery. Highly Commended Tolarno Award. _________________________________ The Unseen Energy. “Non-be-ing (wu) is the beginning of the heavenly and the… more …
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Yujia Ding
The project is a mixed-media installation documenting the passage of time and space, particularly during the journey from home to Australia. This… more …
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Yiming Wang
My artistic practice focuses on ceramic sculpture, embodying the complementary relationship between logical thought and intuitive making. The works record the traces… more …
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Ya Juan Long
DUAL IDENTITY. The Language of Materials: Memory and Identity in Contemporary Art examines the interplay between identity and cultural heritage by exploring… more …
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Wenjing Zhang
My research is related to memory, and I collected many memories and images from my childhood and recollections. My collection reveals around… more …
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Wang Zi Yu
Winner: Trocadero Art Space Exhibition Award. http://www.trocaderoartspace.com.au/ Highly Commended: ACAE Gallery. https://acaearts.com.au/ I lift my heart with my hands into the night… more …
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Vittoria Cugno
THE FUTURE IS FICKLE: A FALSE PROMISE. Vittoria Cugno (b.2001) is an emerging Melbourne-based artist who specialises in oil figurative paintings. Her… more …
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Timothy Walters
Winner: BDS prize for excellence in Sculpture. Timo Walters is a sculptural artist whose work explores the imaginative potential to reconstruct human… more …
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Tessa Christie
This Masters project, through small-scale graphite drawings, explores the intersection of public and private personas through the elevation of mundane moments. By… more …
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Tess Hider
‘Sew, what’s wrong with you?’ is a large-scale soft sculpture installation work, using humour and the Pop Art style to engage with… more …
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Tanya Cubric
Mary Oliphant Award Winner Tanya Cubric (b.1991 Montréal) is a multidisciplinary artist from the Balkan-Diaspora currently working and living in Melbourne. As… more …
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Tallulah Ainsworth
BLIND FAITH. Walk through the desert for 1000 miles. Feel the steps of your body as you do, the shift of your… more …
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Sze Tjin Yek
MOTHER IN BRAILLE. My Honours project explores how sculpture, installation and personal symbolism can address intimate family bonds, strong feelings and things… more …
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Sylva Storm
COMING ONTO ME: AWAY FROM ME. I want to write you a love letter. This project considers desire, and discomfort. ‘Often… more …
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Susannah Collins
QUIET CURIOSITIES: EXPLORING PERSONAL REVERIE THROUGH COLLECTED ASSEMBLAGE AND PARALLEL PAINTING. My art practice combines assemblage and painting – transforming overlooked materials,… more …
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Sun Wai Wise Yeung
Artist Bio Sun Wai Wise Yeung Yeung was born in China, grew up in Hong Kong and is studying in Melbourne. Yeung… more …
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Stephanie Grace Giannini
ONCE MY FLOWERS FELL INTO THE OCEAN. An exploration of lost connections to the maternal and biophilic, a project of stories and… more …
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Stella Tavener
“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way—things I had no words for.”… more …
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Stella Kemp
Offcuts and Fragments is a series of assemblages exploring the beauty found in remnants, including the leftover metal material found by me… more …
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Sophie Malvestuto
Winner: BDS Prize for Excellence in Sculpture From embroidering the earth’s mantle to embodying the earth’s core: a note to the spinner.… more …
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Sophia Kate Jacoby
My practice takes up space, it exhausts itself emotionally, and tears its own heart out. Obsessions and emotions are pinned down temporarily… more …
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Sofya Mikhaylova
Through the series Dream States, Sofya investigates the relationship between dreams and reality, as well as mental and physical states. She uses… more …
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Sin Tung Liu (Cheryl)
Devices of Desire. This research project explores desire as a human experience through the context of arcade machines and vending machines. Inspired… more …
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Siena Shirres
Sunshine Print Artspace Graduate Award Reflections of Light in Time is formed through the combination of traditional copper plate etching and experimental… more …
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Shaina Finch
Learning Through Unlearning: The abandonment of Ideas and Embracing Process-Based Painting My work is guided by my interest in deepening the connection… more …
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Shaemus Anketell
My studio work in this exhibition focuses on the grid and how it can be used to recreate an image, both accurately… more …
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Sebastian Nuttney
HIGHLY COMMENDED MOMENTS CALLING ACROSS AN EMPTY ROOM. A teacher once told me in a drawing class, that people are obsessed with… more …
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Sean Leegel
621 ARTSPACE EXHIBITION AWARD WINNER Suggestion. Records of emotion by Sean Leegel. more …
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Saraid Banahan
DEMETER’S LAMENT is a sculptural composition of entwined material energy from deep ecological time reconstructed into an offering for the post-industrial age,… more …
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Sarah Ring
BRITTLE AND TRANSPARENT LIKE GLASS contemplates my mixed Japanese and Anglo-Australian heritage, exploring the abstract space that exists between these two cultures.… more …
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Sahla Safia Arundati
My artistic work began with an ache – an absence shaped by distance and the subtle weight of diaspora. Living away from… more …
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Sabrina Petrucco
My project, (Un)filtered Acts, explores the paradoxical tension between smoking as both a symbol of rebellion and an abject, harmful reality. My… more …
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Ryan Campbell
Artbox Commission Graduate Award The Assembly Line is a series of figurative monotype prints on fabric, wrapped around handmade frames. The figures… more …
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Ruby Hughes
Winner – Emily Hope Award for Figurative Work (donor Professor AD Hope Endowment) Growing up on the Mornington Peninsula, I have… more …
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Rose Angela John
Rose is a multi-disciplinary artist, presently focusing on handmade and self-designed jewellery installations. As an individual of Australia’s large South Asian diaspora,… more …
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River Byers-Rundle
Separating the Heavens and Earth investigates the basic elements that impress on us visually: pattern, shape, colour, story, and within all these… more …
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Regina Hendrasputri
PRASASTI KELUARGA, translated as ‘Family Inscription,’ is part of my journey to explore, relearn, reclaim, and reinterpret my Javanese culture and heritage. As a… more …
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Rebekah Suter
On losing oneself, or the breaking and healing of the soul. There is memory in every fragment. A fragment of paper,… more …
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Rain Richardson ☂
My artistic practice centers on printmaking, focusing on artist books and sculptural art objects inspired by the natural world and the dynamics… more …
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Rachel Wheeler
RMIT Ceramic Student Association Club Year 3 Award AN INBETWEENNESS OF TIME reflects that great feeling of loss, where time seemingly… more …
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Qianxun Li
Winner – Koodak Award for Highest Academic Achievement (presented by Koodak Jewellery Supplies) The Whispers of Nature. When we feel saddened… more …
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Qi Li (Amia)
Artist Li Qi expresses the specific context of an individual’s life by connecting her personal body perception with the objects in her… more …
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Oliver Bulbeck
UNVEILING DREAMSCAPES: Messages of the Subconscious & Unconscious – Examining through Pencil Gestures. This project explores symbolism and meaning of my dreams… more …
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Myriam Hampson-den Elzen
Community of Practice Award THE INK GROWS LESS, THE SEA INCREASES. This practice-led research project engages with longing, magical realism, sensation poetry,… more …
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Moon Ramone
Beyond the Canvas My art is abstract Neurographica, which seeks to depict subjective reality by documenting an experience of the present… more …
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Molly Morris-McGinty
Nocturnal Flux: Discovering Dimensions of Night. This project explores my changed way of looking and feeling at night through partially deconstructed, shifting,… more …
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Molly Baker
The Un-gendered Object: An exploration of abjection and identity through art practice. “Human perception of the body is so acute and knowledgeable… more …
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Minadi Gajaman Kankanamge
WINNER – Breaking the Mould Sculpture Prize for experimentation in the Sculpture Studio ‘where water and earth resonate; ජල තරංගා’ is inspired… more …
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Milla Morgan
THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL AWARD WINNER Reframing perception. As a proud Italian Aboriginal from the Wiradjuri and Yorta Yorta people, I… more …
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Michelle Mclachlan
Print Council of Australia Graduate Award Michelle is a Melbourne based artist, specialising in printmaking, photography and alternative practices.Her work is… more …
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Melanie Tang
The flow of desires and obligations. My Master’s project explores the multitude of layers concerning diaspora identity and socio-cultural hybridity through multimedia… more …
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Mei Wah Williams
Dean’s Award for Excellence in Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) (Honours). Travel Scholarship Award. Ballarat International Foto Biennale GradFoto 2024 finalist. ____________________________________________________… more …
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Maryam Attar Bashi
Maryam Attar is an Iranian-born visual artist based in Melbourne, Australia, specialising in immersive installation art. Her practice focuses on painting and… more …
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Maeve Hatton
Everchanging and Ephemeral: Exploration of phenomenological experiences in nature. In my practice, I’m interested in the study of phenomenology. I’m especially drawn… more …
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Madelyn McKenzie
Madelyn McKenzie is a ceramic artist based in Naarm/Melbourne. Her work is inspired by the decorative arts, traditions in particular Victorian-era wrought… more …
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Luna Yi Jia Yang
MY QUEER BODY: SELF-ACCEPTANCE AND HEALING THROUGH AN INTERSECTIONAL LENS. This activist practice-led research project explores my Chinese-Australian, queer and non-binary positionality… more …
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Luke Morris
ISQUARED GALLERY EXHIBITION AWARD WINNER ALLEGORICAL AND INNATE GESTURES OF THE HAND is engaged with intuitive modes of making and the… more …
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Lucy Ramsay
Lucy Ramsay (she/her) is a contemporary mixed-media artist originally from Ngunnawal country (Canberra) and living and practicing in Narrm/Melbourne. Graduating at RMIT… more …
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Lucy Lenton
FAMILIAR FACES. This linocut wallpaper will turn any room into a vibrant, artistic setting with its vibrant colours and captivating faces. The… more …
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Lize Myburgh
Lize Myburgh aims to capture that moment when the dust settles and the silence sets in—a moment of quiet devastation where the… more …
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Lillian Catriona Flügge
Revolting. My name is Lillian Catriona Flügge. I am a silversmith in training studying BA Gold & Silversmithing here at RMIT. In… more …
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Lilah Summers Dixon
So you know, I’m all yours… represents a devotion of love without shame, a dedication of my entire self to the interplay… more …
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Li Letitia Shen
Winner – 2024 RMIT Gold & Silversmithing Studio Prize Since 2020, Letitia has shown abroad, with her work exhibited in group… more …
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Leonardo Valladares
Redrafting Reality: Exploring Architectures through Memory and Fantasy In this project I explore the interplay of reality and imagination, combining strict architectural… more …
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Lauren Johnston
Technician’s / Studio Karma Graduate Award My practice is informed by research and concept and is constantly evolving as I lean into… more …
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Laura de Carteret
Winner – 2024 RMIT Gold & Silversmithing Studio Prize Laura de Carteret is a French-Australian artist based in Melbourne, Australia. They… more …
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Lala Zarei (La’la)
Recipient for DEBUT XXI at Blindside ARI (April 2025) https://blindside.org.au/ Fragments of Identity: Exploring Identity, Migration, and Memory through Ceramics and Printmaking.… more …
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Lachlan Vasic
Winner – 2024 RMIT Gold & Silversmithing Technology Prize (presented by Australian Jewellers Supplies) Lachlan Vasic is a Naarm/Melbourne-based artist, forming… more …
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Keenan Haagen
Minerals is an installation characterised by mirror-polished bronze forms, placed in harmony with large natural stones. The work aims to reconnect viewers… more …
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Kayla Steinbruckner
Be/Longing: Documenting the ‘invisible’ through lens-based practices. Be/Longing uses lens-based practices to document the transition into adulthood and how ‘longing’ can accompany… more …
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Katya Ryzhikh
Winner: Wayne Conduit Award. When I watch a coming of age film, I feel seen. When I watch an action film,… more …
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Kate Weeks
NO ONE TOLD ME I WAS LIVING IN A BRUTALIST NIGHTMARE MARK II. “Cumbernauld, a land of concrete mounds interspersed with grassy… more …
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Kate Stewart
hope fall / Exploring the destabilisation of the present moment through material poetics and installation practice. In this object-based installation, I aim… more …
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Kate Driscoll
Reclamation of the Body is a project that seeks to give voice to the language and experience of the body through painting,… more …
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Karen Yvette Clarke
Lost in Translation is an autoethnographic journey through the visual iconography of mid-century design and domestic space. Combining nostalgia with visual elements… more …
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Kai Hidalgo
HYPHENATED SPACE. As a print-maker and mixed-media artist, my work navigates the evolving relationship between heritage and modernity, shaped by my experience… more …
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Juliette Claire
Melbourne Artist Supplies – Professional Practice Award The Koodak Award for Academic Excellence in Gold and Silversmithing Glimpsing mourning: an encounter of… more …
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Jodie Grillmeier
Looking for Mollie uses photography to examine the legacy of taxidermied zoo animals, focusing on Mollie, a Bornean orangutan from Melbourne Zoo… more …
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Joanna Richard
My practice uses performance, installation, sound, video, and digital technologies to examine the creation and perpetuation of national myths and how they… more …
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Jermaine Ibarra
WILD COMBINATION focuses on the act of ‘authoring’ and ready-made simulacra. Wild Combination reflects on the immateriality of memory, the arduous effort… more …
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Jeffrey Chieu
Beyond the Uncertainty is a mixed-medium animation project that explores the concept of uncertainty and the experience of having those feelings, while… more …
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Jason Lehane
Nearly-Mary Oliphant Award Winner Jason is an established multi-disciplinary, award-winning artist with a 40-year arts practice. He is a stage designer who… more …
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Jasmine Kiyomi Roe-Bose
CNIDAGARIDEX [Mushroom Jellyfish]. This project brings into being an encyclopedic database of imagined ecology that introduces new, unusual lifeforms known as mushroom… more …
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Jasmin Seale
RMIT Culture Residency Award Winner Sticky stuff: exploring human-object relationships through found materials. This install-based project uses accumulating, arranging and documenting an… more …
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Jamison Zmood
ON EXIT WOUNDS: A WALKING TOUR OF THINGS LEFT BEHIND (For Dawn Kelly) My practice persistently engages with concepts of the archive,… more …
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James Horrocks
Troppo Print Studio Graduate Award FOR YOUR PLEASURE. Throughout my creative practice, I aim to challenge the traditional conventions of art… more …
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Jake Clover
This practice-led research project unites my digital and non-digital artworks to build digital worlds that invite exploration and create a sense of… more …
