2024 Awards

2024 Graduates

  • Alba Goodey Artacho

    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 …

  • Amina Qasim Zada

    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 …

  • Amy Wyborn

    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 …

  • Astrid Visser

    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 …

  • Blanca Padros-Quintana

    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 …

  • Christina Rankin

    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 …

  • Dai Shijie

    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 …

  • Debbie Ewington

    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 …

  • Debra Higgins

    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 …

  • Dhishni de Silva

    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 …

  • Ella Barker

    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 …

  • Ella Simpson

    Ella Simpson

    RABBIT OUT OF A HAT: AN AMALGAMATION OF THE FEMININE UNCONSCIOUS. My unconscious. Canvas & paper & oil paint & ink. Archives.… read more …

  • Elli sheeran

    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 …

  • Emily Marker

    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 …

  • Esther White

    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 …

  • Gabrielle Turco

    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 …

  • Grace Mitchell

    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 …

  • Holly Clark-Milligan

    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 …

  • Huihua Gu

    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 …

  • Idgie Kagan

    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 …

  • Imogen Mathews

    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 …

  • J. Findlay

    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 …

  • Karen Yvette Clarke

    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 …

  • Katya Ryzhikh

    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 …

  • Kepsibel

    Kepsibel

    ‘This shelter is always open, this shelter is always ready to receive, this shelter offers you the most precious gift.’ Kepsibel’s creative… read more …

  • Lilah Summers Dixon

    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… read more …

  • Maeve Hatton

    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… read more …

  • Meg Kelso

    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 …

  • Molly Baker

    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… read more …

  • Rebekah Suter

    Rebekah Suter

    On losing oneself, or the breaking and healing of the soul.   There is memory in every fragment. A fragment of paper,… read more …

  • Sahla Safia Arundati

    Sahla Safia Arundati

    My artistic work began with an ache – an absence shaped by distance and the subtle weight of diaspora. Living away from… read more …

  • Sarah Ring

    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.… read more …

  • Shaemus Anketell

    Shaemus Anketell

    My studio work in this exhibition focuses on the grid and how it can be used to recreate an image, both accurately… read more …

  • Shaina Finch

    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… read more …

  • Sofya Mikhaylova

    Sofya Mikhaylova

    Through the series Dream States, Sofya investigates the relationship between dreams and reality, as well as mental and physical states. She uses… read more …

  • Sophia Kate Jacoby

    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… read more …

  • Stella Tavener

    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.”… read more …

  • Stephanie Grace Giannini

    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… read more …

  • Sylva Storm

    Sylva Storm

    COMING ONTO ME: AWAY FROM ME. I want to write you a love letter.   This project considers desire, and discomfort. ‘Often… read more …

  • Tallulah Ainsworth

    Tallulah Ainsworth

    BLIND FAITH. Walk through the desert for 1000 miles. Feel the steps of your body as you do, the shift of your… read more …

  • Wang Zi Yu

    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 …

  • Wenjing Zhang

    Wenjing Zhang

    My research is related to memory, and I collected many memories and images from my childhood and recollections. My collection reveals around… read more …

  • Yuqing (Anna) Xiang

    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 …