2024 Awards
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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 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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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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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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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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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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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
The female body is judged biologically, evolutionarily and culturally for its fertility, sexuality, and aesthetics. As a young Western woman, I am… 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 expanded… 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
Sanctuary Reimagined: Unveiling Spiritual rebirth and bicultural renewal through animism, eternalism, repetition, and layering. Sanctuary Reimagined intricately maps my transformative journey of… 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
Between the Lines (2022-24) explores diasporic identity linked to the psychological impacts of colonialism through sculptural installation. My artworks are informed by… 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
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
Reconstructing the vessel depicted in paintings as novel metal work objects. The act of abstracting metal iterations of vessels from paintings blurs… 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
Diya Mathur’s practice explores the transgenerational impacts of the 1947 Partition of India on both collective and personal identities, investigating the liminal… 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 – 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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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
Fiona Morgan is a multi-disciplinary artists based in Wudawurrung country, in regional Victoria. Morgan’s practice is focused on painting and installation, primarily… 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
I Know You of Old: The Transmutation of Metal, Matter and Meaning. My practice-led research uses historical and contemporary metalsmithing techniques to… 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
“Obscenity begins when there is no more stage […] A good illusion is a bad illusion, and a bad 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
Sticky stuff: exploring human-object relationships through found materials. This install-based project uses accumulating, arranging and documenting an excess of found everyday materials… 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
Jason is an established multi-disciplinary, award-winning artist with a 40-year arts practice. He is a stage designer who also creates immersive installation… 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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Jodie Grillmeier
Looking for Mollie uses photography to examine the legacy of taxidermied zoo animals, focusing on Mollie, a Bornean orangutan from Melbourne Zoo… read more …
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Judy Kong
In You is my Honours creative project. I journey through unseen sentiment, memory, and perception, tracing vulnerability and self-preservation woven into familial… read more …
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Juliette Claire
Glimpsing mourning: an encounter of loss, mourning & ecological grief. This project has grown out of the urgency I feel to address… read more …
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Ka Yan So
THE SOFTEST PART THAT I CANNOT SHARE WITH YOU Transformative Journey of Home, Memory and Identity … read 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… read 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… read more …
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Kas Hendy
Creating Stuff out of Existing Stuff (2024). During my ever-growing multi-media art practice, my project embraces material exploration, intuition, instinct and ideas… read 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,… read 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… read 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… 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
Timo Walters is a sculptural artist whose work explores the imaginative potential to reconstruct human subjectivities and narratives by investigating the interconnectedness… 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
Tanya Cubric (b.1991 Montréal) is a multidisciplinary artist from the Balkan-Diaspora currently working and living in Melbourne. As someone who has lived… 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
From embroidering the earth’s mantle to embodying the earth’s core: a note to the spinner. While it is wedged often in discomfort,… 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
THE INK GROWS LESS, THE SEA INCREASES. This practice-led research project engages with longing, magical realism, sensation poetry, and word-to-image translation to… 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
Substantial and Significant is a multimedia installation, involving a combination of performance, projection and sculpture made from found materials associated with the… 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)
Fragments of Identity: Exploring Identity, Migration, and Memory through Ceramics and Printmaking. My Master’s project explores the intricate relationship between personal identity,… 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
Glimpsing mourning: an encounter of loss, mourning & ecological grief. This project has grown out of the urgency I feel to address… 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
Jason is an established multi-disciplinary, award-winning artist with a 40-year arts practice. He is a stage designer who also creates immersive installation… 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
Sticky stuff: exploring human-object relationships through found materials. This install-based project uses accumulating, arranging and documenting an excess of found everyday materials… 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 …
