2025 Awards
2025 Graduates
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⋆.⟡˚ Zoë W ⟡ ݁₊ .
does a sticker make me good? i return to childhood memories where stickers functioned as a currency for achievement. a curated band-aid.… read more …
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Adrian Joseph Canales
ORDER & CHAOS delves into transformation, spiritual healing, and the belief in a higher self through my unique perspective on spirituality and… read more …
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Aiden Fyfield
IN METRO is a varied edition stone lithograph with LEDs and LCD screens, that uses the site of the city to explore… read more …
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Aletta Mira
Working across drawing, painting and sculpture, I investigate spatial, material and hierarchical approaches to making and reconfiguring things to become artworks. An investigation… read more …
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Amelie Stewart
FIRE-BORN MOODS (2025) applies instinctually creative practice to depict landscapes of personal significance. Over this three-year period of study, the landscapes of… read more …
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Arabella McCormack
CIGARETTES, SLUGS, SHAREHOUSES, PREACH INCLUSION, STAY SKINNY, SEEM POOR, HAVE THINGS. Maybe your t-shirt wants to be a part of a flag.… read more …
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Avril Risby
IN THE COMPANY OF PESTS is a set of mixed media woodblock and screenprint images expressing frustration at the level of sexual… read more …
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Bailey Arundell
MIND, BODY AND VEHICLE My research engages with ideas relating to internet culture and all of the strange dark absurdities of being… read more …
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Bel Beggs
The Work of Quiet Hands considers the importance of prioritising care. While certain individuals like Beggs may place an emphasis on care,… read more …
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Charlie Patten
Do You Think I’m Spooky? This facsimile of a being I created for myself is crumbling in my hands. But “they” weren’t… read more …
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Chelsea Parkinson
THE DELICACY OF LIFE Chelsea Parkinson’s practice investigates interconnection between species, exploring how the structures and gestures of the natural world can… read more …
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Christina Rankin
Uniform: An auto-theoretical reflection on agency and conformity within schooling institutions as an adolescent girl with ADHD Uniform employs a combination of… read more …
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Coco L
REMEMBERING is an investigation of the metaphor of the body as ‘home’, positioned as a vessel carrying ancestral memory, pain and reclamation.… read more …
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Edward Roach
‘SOMETIMES ITS DIFFICULT EVEN FOR ME TO UNDERSTAND WHAT I’VE BECOME. AND HARDER STILL TO REMEMBER WHAT I ONCE WAS.’ Painting to… read more …
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Eliza Byrne
Fragmented Identities as Hybridity. Searching for belonging in a cultural “third space”. Eliza Byrne’s practice examines the cultural “third space,” where identity… read more …
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Ella McKanny
Longing For Home: Painted Fragments of Landscapes Left Behind ‘Longing for Home’ Is a series of landscapes that stem from a place… read more …
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Ella Robins
THE WAY HOME is a series of mixed media paintings that explore the idea of home as both a place and a… read more …
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Elspeth Rowell
THINGS presents new ceramic works from artist Elspeth Rowell, challenging the confines of Western classification systems through an installation of objects that… read more …
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Eugenie Gullifer-Laurie (Gigi)
SOMATAESTHESIA: EXPLORING THE INEXPRESSIBLE SENSATIONS OF CHRONIC ILLNESS THROUGH EXPANDED SPATIAL PRACTICE Despite thousands of years of research into the human body,… read more …
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Fangyi Fan (Miko)
”THE PROLIFERATION OF GROWING PAINS” Tracking the emotional expansion of girlhood through fragile ceramic forms . . . In The Proliferation of… read more …
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Georgina Repo
NO THROUGH ROAD: THE DEAD ENDS OF MEMORY LANE explores themes of memory, place, and the complex evolving relationship between physical environments… read more …
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Halle Brown
YOU ARE A WOMAN WITH A MAN INSIDE HER HEAD WATCHING THAT WOMAN, WATCHING A WOMAN AWARE OF THE MAN INSIDE WATCHING… read more …
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Hana Alison
RESPONSE-ABILITY This research project aims to explore how an interdisciplinary practice—creating with and in response to Earthworms—can contribute to a growing awareness… read more …
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Holly Goodridge
Why I Knit My practice explores neurodivergent experience through wearable textiles, participatory performance, and large-scale crochet installation. Rooted in hand-knitting, embroidery, and… read more …
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Hope Fratzeskos
PATTERN OVERLOAD Frequently inspired by optical, fractal, modular, and psychedelic art, I create colourful pattern-based works that merge organic and geometric formations.… read more …
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Huiyi Xiao
My art practice employs performance-based video art to investigate the psychological tensions within Chinese-Australian immigrant subjectivity. Through an auto-ethnographic lens, it excavates… read more …
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Isabell Maria Bilous Artworks 2024 to 2025
Hi! My name is Isabell Maria Bilous, I am a Romanian Mix Media Artist, I have been practicing art for nearly 7… read more …
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Isabella Rose Cort
hush heresy heave (2025) Words are often clumsy in articulating the understanding of the body. This practice-led research project aims to explore… read more …
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Ivy Brady
A ROOM OF HER OWN presents a collection of oil paintings that investigate themes of femininity, identity, and self-presentation within contemporary youth… read more …
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Jade Power
Jade Power is a Naarm/Melbourne based emerging artists practicing primarily in the expanded field of ceramics. Power’s practice is grounded… read more …
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Jade Power
Jade Power is a Naarm/Melbourne based emerging artists practicing primarily in the expanded field of ceramics. Power’s practice is grounded… read more …
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Jarryn Pitts
GO WITH THE FLOW MAN is an oil and acrylic painting on canvas that explores the notion of the awareness of thought. The… read more …
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Jessie Spadon
My approach to being creative, particularly painting, has always been a self-soothing act. Without it I would simply be incomplete. Work in… read more …
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Jiayi (Olivia) Zhu
SEAL COMMUNITY: BETWEEN DIGITAL PLAYFULNESS AND CERAMIC SOULS In Seal Community, I explore the intersection of digital imagination and material intimacy. Originating… read more …
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Joshua Sleep
CATHARSIS Humans have entered the epoch of self-surveillance and datafication through the use of everyday objects. This practice-led research project seeks… read more …
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Kt Hayward
RUN THE GAMUT / RIDE THE LINE is a dedication to the between state, the not quite here or there, the process,… read more …
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Layla Salerno
My name is Layla, I am a printmaking artist who specialises in digital printing with complex installations. My work focuses mainly on… read more …
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Leila Simpson
BACK TO PLAYA SAN BLAS Navigating grief, love, and liminality, this practice-led research project is informed by my mixed-race identity as… read more …
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Lena Stumpf
PRIVILEGE We are overwhelmed by endless streams of information, often forgetting to pause and reflect. Late-stage capitalism, nationalist ideologies and global conflicts… read more …
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Liangwen Qin
Wondering the third space: navigating the politics of personal and collective identity through deconstructive installations and sculptures. The installation project uses multimedia… read more …
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Ludomyr Kemp-Mykyta
HIT ME AS HARD AS YOU CAN: The Carnivalesque Against Australian Nationalism. Australia has a long history of phobic nationalism which… read more …
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Luke Jones
When folding chairs In production, installation or storage, materials behave as provisional alignments with their given materiality. Instability becomes a generative force;… read more …
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Madeleine Appleby
PILLARS OF THE MIND explores how intuition and intentionality informs ones decision making throughout the painting process. My practice is inspired by… read more …
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Maree Nikimaya
STEEL KARKADE- Analysing the strength and brutality of diasporic Black women’s experiences through afrosurrealism The primary purpose of Steel Karkade is… read more …
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Marina Yamazaki
ECHOES BETWEEN WORLDS: Reflections, Ephemerality, and the Presence of Kami Marina Yamazaki is an artist who lives, works, and studies in Naarm/Melbourne.… read more …
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Maya Rogers
IT NEVER RAINS ON GOOGLE MAPS is a project exploring the act of digitally “dropping a pin” on Google Maps. Google Maps… read more …
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Millie Hopton
The Angel in The House: an exploration of complexities and contradictions within contemporary femininity. Woman is not born: she is made. In… read more …
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Molly Dinan
ECHOES ACROSS THE AEGEAN My work explores the connection between my two homes, Crete Greece and Melbourne Australia. While backpacking in 2024,… read more …
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Poppy Clarke
“KINDS OF CONNECTIONS” I’m Poppy Clarke and I’m a multidisciplinary figurative painter. This project is an exhibition about kinds of connections. It… read more …
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Rania Hisham
THERE YOU ARE (2025) brings together individually titled works across various mediums, including an installation, a short film documentary and paintings. This… read more …
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Ruby Tirekidis
This practice-led research draws on a dream world that I carry inside me; a mythological world that I’m uncovering piece by piece.… read more …
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Rufus Punton
PSYCHOLOGICAL LANDSCAPES: TRANSLATING INNER STATES INTO PAINTED FORM Rufus Punton is a painter and printmaker. His work reflects his rural country upbringing… read more …
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Sally Barlow
BETWEEN MOMENT AND MEMORY. I am intrigued by the space between experiencing a moment and holding it as memory. Why do we… read more …
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Sebastian Nuttney
INDEED THERE WILL BE TIME: AN INVESTIGATION INTO TEMPORALITY, PLACE AND BEING IN EXPANDED INSTALLATION PRACTICE Working in response to a disruptive,… read more …
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Sheridan Hume
PAINTING THE DARK ECOLOGY engages with ecological crisis not only as an environmental issue but as a cultural one, confronting life and… read more …
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SHING HEI NATHAN MAN 文承希
Nathan Man is a Hong Kong artist based in Naarm/Melbourne. Working across installation, printmaking, and object-based practice, their work examines the slippages… read more …
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Sophie Gemmill
A Kind of Quiet Heat Terracotta, slip, oxides and glaze, 2025 Sophie Gemmill is a Melbourne based potter creating work that lives… read more …
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Sophie McDarra
WHERE HEARTS ONCE SLEPT is a deeply personal exploration of memory, longing, and childhood. Through these paintings, I invite viewers into the… read more …
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TAMARA PETROV
4 WHEN U SPIN a mixed-media installation exploring the experience of spinning thoughts. In this work, 3D printed flower-like sculptures rotate continuously,… read more …
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Thani Fee
Thani Fee is a multi disciplinary artist based in Naarm (Melbourne), originally from the north west coast of Tasmania. Working within the… read more …
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Tina Burge
A ROOM OF MY OWN This year I’ve had home of my own – an apartment with a courtyard garden – that… read more …
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Vinnie Swarze
Settlement and Refuge Settlement and Refuge is a materially grounded visual meditation on exile, tracing the psychological and relational consequences of forced… read more …
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Yan Xuan
Becoming a Shell My Master’s project is a ceramic sculpture series that explores the fluid and uncertain nature of identity shaped by… read more …
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Yuqing (Anna) Xiang
This practice-led research investigates how painting can stage a spiritual encounter by embodying the principles of non-duality, self-dissolution, and meditative awareness drawn… read more …
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Zara Bell
YOU COULD JUST NOT THINK ABOUT IT FOR FIVE YEARS I am interested in the melding of bodies, surgery, the sharing of… read more …
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Zoe Kamarinos
PAINTING THOSE I KNOW AND LOVE explores transformation, intimacy, and identity through painting. Drawing on Ovid’s Metamorphoses, the work reflects on how… read more …
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Zoe Kamarinos
PAINTING THOSE I KNOW AND LOVE explores transformation, intimacy, and identity through painting. Drawing on Ovid’s Metamorphoses, the work reflects on how… more …
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Yuqing (Anna) Xiang
This practice-led research investigates how painting can stage a spiritual encounter by embodying the principles of non-duality, self-dissolution, and meditative awareness drawn… more …
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Vinnie Swarze
Settlement and Refuge Settlement and Refuge is a materially grounded visual meditation on exile, tracing the psychological and relational consequences of forced… more …
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Tina Burge
A ROOM OF MY OWN This year I’ve had home of my own – an apartment with a courtyard garden – that… more …
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TAMARA PETROV
4 WHEN U SPIN a mixed-media installation exploring the experience of spinning thoughts. In this work, 3D printed flower-like sculptures rotate continuously,… more …
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Sophie McDarra
WHERE HEARTS ONCE SLEPT is a deeply personal exploration of memory, longing, and childhood. Through these paintings, I invite viewers into the… more …
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Sophie Gemmill
A Kind of Quiet Heat Terracotta, slip, oxides and glaze, 2025 Sophie Gemmill is a Melbourne based potter creating work that lives… more …
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SHING HEI NATHAN MAN 文承希
Nathan Man is a Hong Kong artist based in Naarm/Melbourne. Working across installation, printmaking, and object-based practice, their work examines the slippages… more …
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Sheridan Hume
PAINTING THE DARK ECOLOGY engages with ecological crisis not only as an environmental issue but as a cultural one, confronting life and… more …
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Sebastian Nuttney
INDEED THERE WILL BE TIME: AN INVESTIGATION INTO TEMPORALITY, PLACE AND BEING IN EXPANDED INSTALLATION PRACTICE Working in response to a disruptive,… more …
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Sally Barlow
BETWEEN MOMENT AND MEMORY. I am intrigued by the space between experiencing a moment and holding it as memory. Why do we… more …
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Rufus Punton
PSYCHOLOGICAL LANDSCAPES: TRANSLATING INNER STATES INTO PAINTED FORM Rufus Punton is a painter and printmaker. His work reflects his rural country upbringing… more …
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Ruby Tirekidis
This practice-led research draws on a dream world that I carry inside me; a mythological world that I’m uncovering piece by piece.… more …
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Rania Hisham
THERE YOU ARE (2025) brings together individually titled works across various mediums, including an installation, a short film documentary and paintings. This… more …
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Poppy Clarke
“KINDS OF CONNECTIONS” I’m Poppy Clarke and I’m a multidisciplinary figurative painter. This project is an exhibition about kinds of connections. It… more …
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Molly Dinan
ECHOES ACROSS THE AEGEAN My work explores the connection between my two homes, Crete Greece and Melbourne Australia. While backpacking in 2024,… more …
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Millie Hopton
The Angel in The House: an exploration of complexities and contradictions within contemporary femininity. Woman is not born: she is made. In… more …
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Maya Rogers
IT NEVER RAINS ON GOOGLE MAPS is a project exploring the act of digitally “dropping a pin” on Google Maps. Google Maps… more …
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Marina Yamazaki
ECHOES BETWEEN WORLDS: Reflections, Ephemerality, and the Presence of Kami Marina Yamazaki is an artist who lives, works, and studies in Naarm/Melbourne.… more …
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Maree Nikimaya
STEEL KARKADE- Analysing the strength and brutality of diasporic Black women’s experiences through afrosurrealism The primary purpose of Steel Karkade is… more …
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Madeleine Appleby
PILLARS OF THE MIND explores how intuition and intentionality informs ones decision making throughout the painting process. My practice is inspired by… more …
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Luke Jones
When folding chairs In production, installation or storage, materials behave as provisional alignments with their given materiality. Instability becomes a generative force;… more …
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Ludomyr Kemp-Mykyta
HIT ME AS HARD AS YOU CAN: The Carnivalesque Against Australian Nationalism. Australia has a long history of phobic nationalism which… more …
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Liangwen Qin
Wondering the third space: navigating the politics of personal and collective identity through deconstructive installations and sculptures. The installation project uses multimedia… more …
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Lena Stumpf
PRIVILEGE We are overwhelmed by endless streams of information, often forgetting to pause and reflect. Late-stage capitalism, nationalist ideologies and global conflicts… more …
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Leila Simpson
BACK TO PLAYA SAN BLAS Navigating grief, love, and liminality, this practice-led research project is informed by my mixed-race identity as… more …
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Layla Salerno
My name is Layla, I am a printmaking artist who specialises in digital printing with complex installations. My work focuses mainly on… more …
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Kt Hayward
RUN THE GAMUT / RIDE THE LINE is a dedication to the between state, the not quite here or there, the process,… more …
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Joshua Sleep
CATHARSIS Humans have entered the epoch of self-surveillance and datafication through the use of everyday objects. This practice-led research project seeks… more …
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Jiayi (Olivia) Zhu
SEAL COMMUNITY: BETWEEN DIGITAL PLAYFULNESS AND CERAMIC SOULS In Seal Community, I explore the intersection of digital imagination and material intimacy. Originating… more …
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Jessie Spadon
My approach to being creative, particularly painting, has always been a self-soothing act. Without it I would simply be incomplete. Work in… more …
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Jarryn Pitts
GO WITH THE FLOW MAN is an oil and acrylic painting on canvas that explores the notion of the awareness of thought. The… more …
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Jade Power
Jade Power is a Naarm/Melbourne based emerging artists practicing primarily in the expanded field of ceramics. Power’s practice is grounded… more …
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Jade Power
Jade Power is a Naarm/Melbourne based emerging artists practicing primarily in the expanded field of ceramics. Power’s practice is grounded… more …
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Isabella Rose Cort
hush heresy heave (2025) Words are often clumsy in articulating the understanding of the body. This practice-led research project aims to explore… more …
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Isabell Maria Bilous Artworks 2024 to 2025
Hi! My name is Isabell Maria Bilous, I am a Romanian Mix Media Artist, I have been practicing art for nearly 7… more …
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Huiyi Xiao
My art practice employs performance-based video art to investigate the psychological tensions within Chinese-Australian immigrant subjectivity. Through an auto-ethnographic lens, it excavates… more …
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Hope Fratzeskos
PATTERN OVERLOAD Frequently inspired by optical, fractal, modular, and psychedelic art, I create colourful pattern-based works that merge organic and geometric formations.… more …
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Holly Goodridge
Why I Knit My practice explores neurodivergent experience through wearable textiles, participatory performance, and large-scale crochet installation. Rooted in hand-knitting, embroidery, and… more …
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Hana Alison
RESPONSE-ABILITY This research project aims to explore how an interdisciplinary practice—creating with and in response to Earthworms—can contribute to a growing awareness… more …
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Halle Brown
YOU ARE A WOMAN WITH A MAN INSIDE HER HEAD WATCHING THAT WOMAN, WATCHING A WOMAN AWARE OF THE MAN INSIDE WATCHING… more …
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Georgina Repo
NO THROUGH ROAD: THE DEAD ENDS OF MEMORY LANE explores themes of memory, place, and the complex evolving relationship between physical environments… more …
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Fangyi Fan (Miko)
”THE PROLIFERATION OF GROWING PAINS” Tracking the emotional expansion of girlhood through fragile ceramic forms . . . In The Proliferation of… more …
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Eugenie Gullifer-Laurie (Gigi)
SOMATAESTHESIA: EXPLORING THE INEXPRESSIBLE SENSATIONS OF CHRONIC ILLNESS THROUGH EXPANDED SPATIAL PRACTICE Despite thousands of years of research into the human body,… more …
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Elspeth Rowell
THINGS presents new ceramic works from artist Elspeth Rowell, challenging the confines of Western classification systems through an installation of objects that… more …
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Ella Robins
THE WAY HOME is a series of mixed media paintings that explore the idea of home as both a place and a… more …
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Ella McKanny
Longing For Home: Painted Fragments of Landscapes Left Behind ‘Longing for Home’ Is a series of landscapes that stem from a place… more …
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Eliza Byrne
Fragmented Identities as Hybridity. Searching for belonging in a cultural “third space”. Eliza Byrne’s practice examines the cultural “third space,” where identity… more …
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Edward Roach
‘SOMETIMES ITS DIFFICULT EVEN FOR ME TO UNDERSTAND WHAT I’VE BECOME. AND HARDER STILL TO REMEMBER WHAT I ONCE WAS.’ Painting to… more …
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Christina Rankin
Uniform: An auto-theoretical reflection on agency and conformity within schooling institutions as an adolescent girl with ADHD Uniform employs a combination of… more …
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Chelsea Parkinson
THE DELICACY OF LIFE Chelsea Parkinson’s practice investigates interconnection between species, exploring how the structures and gestures of the natural world can… more …
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Charlie Patten
Do You Think I’m Spooky? This facsimile of a being I created for myself is crumbling in my hands. But “they” weren’t… more …
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Bailey Arundell
MIND, BODY AND VEHICLE My research engages with ideas relating to internet culture and all of the strange dark absurdities of being… more …
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Avril Risby
IN THE COMPANY OF PESTS is a set of mixed media woodblock and screenprint images expressing frustration at the level of sexual… more …
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Arabella McCormack
CIGARETTES, SLUGS, SHAREHOUSES, PREACH INCLUSION, STAY SKINNY, SEEM POOR, HAVE THINGS. Maybe your t-shirt wants to be a part of a flag.… more …
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Amelie Stewart
FIRE-BORN MOODS (2025) applies instinctually creative practice to depict landscapes of personal significance. Over this three-year period of study, the landscapes of… more …
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Aletta Mira
Working across drawing, painting and sculpture, I investigate spatial, material and hierarchical approaches to making and reconfiguring things to become artworks. An investigation… more …
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Aiden Fyfield
IN METRO is a varied edition stone lithograph with LEDs and LCD screens, that uses the site of the city to explore… more …
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Adrian Joseph Canales
ORDER & CHAOS delves into transformation, spiritual healing, and the belief in a higher self through my unique perspective on spirituality and… more …
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⋆.⟡˚ Zoë W ⟡ ݁₊ .
does a sticker make me good? i return to childhood memories where stickers functioned as a currency for achievement. a curated band-aid.… more …