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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Amelia Faye Perri
Bio Statement: Amelia Faye Perri is a ballet-trained artist and emerging arts manager currently completing a Master of Arts Management at RMIT… 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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Angelique Ogierman
A Ogierman, ‘Cascading’, 2025, sterling silver, 2.1 x 17.8 x 2.2cm. UNTITLED/UNRAVELLING Untitled/Unravelling uses a collection of jewellery objects to reflect… 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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Essay – A Woman’s Work is Never Done: The subversion of needlework practise as commentary on domestic labour and the construction of feminine subjectivities under diffuse patriarchal disciplinary regimes
Essay by Gina Corridore for Contextualising Practice Needlework is a multidimensional discipline that has historically served as a socialised cultural tradition, an… read more …
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Essay – Black Horror: Analysing the strength and brutality of diasporic Black women’s experiences through portraiture
Essay by Maree Nikimaya for Contextualising Practice Content warning: This essay discusses domestic violence, suicide, violence, and trauma From 1995 to… read more …
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Essay – Cyclical Movements: Exploring the Connection of Water and the Body
Essay by Angelique Ogierman for Contextualising Practice Acknowledgement I would like to begin by acknowledging the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nations,… read more …
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Essay – How Did I End Up Here?: The Intersectionality of Grief, Queerness, and My Own Art Practice
Essay by Eliza Baker for Contextualising Practice Foreword In 2024, the deaths of several people close to me marked a point… read more …
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Essay – I Choose the Thread: Feminist Resistance Through Craft
Essay by Melanie Sky for Contextualising Practice Acknowledgment I acknowledge the Dja Dja Wurrung, Woi Wurrung, and Boon Wurrung peoples of the… read more …
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Essay – Lawless Girl: Soft Sculpture and the Cultural Aftermath of the 2000s
Essay by Millie Hopton for Contextualising Practice Positionality Statement I am a white, straight, cisgender woman born in 1999, who has… read more …
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Essay – Right to Opacity: Materialising Queer Diasporic Disorientation
Essay by Shing Hei Nathan Man As a queer Hong Kong immigrant residing and working in so-called Australia, I navigate the affective… read more …
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Essay – Take Refuge In What Remains: re-imaging the future of our Western capitalist ruins through a practice of sculpting and scavenging
Essay by Indigo Ripper-Stranieri for Contextualising Practice Introduction / Acknowledgment I offer my respect to the Traditional Custodians of the lands… read more …
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Essay – The flesh of colour, gesture and texture: Subconscious, sensation, and the material force of painting
Essay by Toni Vallance for Contextualising Practice The requirement to write about my work fills me with a small amount of… read more …
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Essay – The gaze is a knife: body-country
Essay by Sara Jajou for Contextualising Practice ‘The gaze…appears as an adversary, a knife, the evil eye…’ (Neugebauer (eds) et al… read more …
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Essay – Through the Fog: The aesthetics of disorientation and the poetics of bodily perception
Essay by Zosia Slifirski Duckett for Contextualising Practice Prologue Two years ago, on a cold wet afternoon in early September, in a… read more …
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Essay – Throwing the baby out with the bathwater: on the defence of history and the defence of reason in leftist critical theory
Essay by Anna McCauley for Contextualising Practice ‘Living money and dying humans, metal as tender as skin and skin as hard… read more …
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Essay – Toward a Non-Hierarchical Material Practice: Entropy, Affordance, and Authorship in Site-Responsive Work
Essay by Luke Jones for Contextualising Practice Material > Inertia > Entropy > Becoming In contemporary installation and sculptural practices,… read more …
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Essay – Transmuting the Matrix: Ethos and praxis for Theatre Building
Essay by Alicia Crowhurst for Contextualising Practice Introduction Transmutation is the action of changing or the state of being changed into another… read more …
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Essay – Unstable Truths: Reactive Materials, Feminist Epistemology, and Autotheory in Interactive Art
Essay by Michelle McLachlan for Contextualising Practice In an era where visual information is incessantly mediated, edited, and curated, the question of… 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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Evie J Taylor
STARSONG starsong is both a meditation and a map – an attempt to locate the self within a vast, interconnected cosmos. Creating this… 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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Flynn Parker-Greer
BEYOND THE SURFACE is a series of objects that aim to translate my ongoing inquiry into how we perceive. It explores our… 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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Liam Adlington
I’LL JUST SAY THANK YA This project explores the experience of parting ways with someone who is important to me. Created during… 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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Lou Wheeler
I WANT TO GROW OLD WITH ALL OF YOU Lou Wheeler is a Narrm/Melbourne based emerging metalwork artist with a special interest… 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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MARLENA LONCARIC
IN MY ROOM.mp4 pays homage to the early 2000s aesthetics of the new age internet, encapsulating the mess, life, and joy held… 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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Quynh Hoa
Bio Statement: Quynh Hoa’s curatorial practice centres on the question ‘What does it mean to be a Vietnamese in the contemporary world?’.… read more …
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Rachael Marie D’cruz
Bio Statement: Rachael Marie D’cruz is a Master of Arts Management students at RMIT University with a background in art history and… 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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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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Shang Gao
Shang Gao is an artist based in Melbourne whose work focuses on the reclamation of materials and the simulation of natural textures.… read more …
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Sheridan Hume
PAINTING THE DARK ECOLOGY engages with the ecological crisis not only as an environmental issue but as a cultural one, confronting life… 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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Sophie Triantafillidis
My creative process is guided by exploration, embracing the unexpected rather than adhering to predetermined design. Improvisation and chance shape my engagement… 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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Viorel Herlin Susanto
I love exploring and creating jewelry and objects inspired by nature. Nature offers a diverse range of feelings, emotions, and thoughts. In… 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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Yuri Guo
Fragments of Earthly Memory My work embodies a quiet alchemy of transformation, where natural elements become vessels of memory and protection. In… 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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Viorel Herlin Susanto
I love exploring and creating jewelry and objects inspired by nature. Nature offers a diverse range of feelings, emotions, and thoughts. In… 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 Triantafillidis
My creative process is guided by exploration, embracing the unexpected rather than adhering to predetermined design. Improvisation and chance shape my engagement… 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 the ecological crisis not only as an environmental issue but as a cultural one, confronting life… 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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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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Rachael Marie D’cruz
Bio Statement: Rachael Marie D’cruz is a Master of Arts Management students at RMIT University with a background in art history and… 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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MARLENA LONCARIC
IN MY ROOM.mp4 pays homage to the early 2000s aesthetics of the new age internet, encapsulating the mess, life, and joy held… 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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Lou Wheeler
I WANT TO GROW OLD WITH ALL OF YOU Lou Wheeler is a Narrm/Melbourne based emerging metalwork artist with a special interest… 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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Liam Adlington
I’LL JUST SAY THANK YA This project explores the experience of parting ways with someone who is important to me. Created during… 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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Flynn Parker-Greer
BEYOND THE SURFACE is a series of objects that aim to translate my ongoing inquiry into how we perceive. It explores our… 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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Evie J Taylor
STARSONG starsong is both a meditation and a map – an attempt to locate the self within a vast, interconnected cosmos. Creating this… 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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Essay – Unstable Truths: Reactive Materials, Feminist Epistemology, and Autotheory in Interactive Art
Essay by Michelle McLachlan for Contextualising Practice In an era where visual information is incessantly mediated, edited, and curated, the question of… more …
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Essay – Transmuting the Matrix: Ethos and praxis for Theatre Building
Essay by Alicia Crowhurst for Contextualising Practice Introduction Transmutation is the action of changing or the state of being changed into another… more …
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Essay – Toward a Non-Hierarchical Material Practice: Entropy, Affordance, and Authorship in Site-Responsive Work
Essay by Luke Jones for Contextualising Practice Material > Inertia > Entropy > Becoming In contemporary installation and sculptural practices,… more …
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Essay – Throwing the baby out with the bathwater: on the defence of history and the defence of reason in leftist critical theory
Essay by Anna McCauley for Contextualising Practice ‘Living money and dying humans, metal as tender as skin and skin as hard… more …
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Essay – Through the Fog: The aesthetics of disorientation and the poetics of bodily perception
Essay by Zosia Slifirski Duckett for Contextualising Practice Prologue Two years ago, on a cold wet afternoon in early September, in a… more …
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Essay – The gaze is a knife: body-country
Essay by Sara Jajou for Contextualising Practice ‘The gaze…appears as an adversary, a knife, the evil eye…’ (Neugebauer (eds) et al… more …
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Essay – The flesh of colour, gesture and texture: Subconscious, sensation, and the material force of painting
Essay by Toni Vallance for Contextualising Practice The requirement to write about my work fills me with a small amount of… more …
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Essay – Take Refuge In What Remains: re-imaging the future of our Western capitalist ruins through a practice of sculpting and scavenging
Essay by Indigo Ripper-Stranieri for Contextualising Practice Introduction / Acknowledgment I offer my respect to the Traditional Custodians of the lands… more …
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Essay – Right to Opacity: Materialising Queer Diasporic Disorientation
Essay by Shing Hei Nathan Man As a queer Hong Kong immigrant residing and working in so-called Australia, I navigate the affective… more …
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Essay – Lawless Girl: Soft Sculpture and the Cultural Aftermath of the 2000s
Essay by Millie Hopton for Contextualising Practice Positionality Statement I am a white, straight, cisgender woman born in 1999, who has… more …
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Essay – I Choose the Thread: Feminist Resistance Through Craft
Essay by Melanie Sky for Contextualising Practice Acknowledgment I acknowledge the Dja Dja Wurrung, Woi Wurrung, and Boon Wurrung peoples of the… more …
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Essay – How Did I End Up Here?: The Intersectionality of Grief, Queerness, and My Own Art Practice
Essay by Eliza Baker for Contextualising Practice Foreword In 2024, the deaths of several people close to me marked a point… more …
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Essay – Cyclical Movements: Exploring the Connection of Water and the Body
Essay by Angelique Ogierman for Contextualising Practice Acknowledgement I would like to begin by acknowledging the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nations,… more …
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Essay – Black Horror: Analysing the strength and brutality of diasporic Black women’s experiences through portraiture
Essay by Maree Nikimaya for Contextualising Practice Content warning: This essay discusses domestic violence, suicide, violence, and trauma From 1995 to… more …
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Essay – A Woman’s Work is Never Done: The subversion of needlework practise as commentary on domestic labour and the construction of feminine subjectivities under diffuse patriarchal disciplinary regimes
Essay by Gina Corridore for Contextualising Practice Needlework is a multidimensional discipline that has historically served as a socialised cultural tradition, an… 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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Angelique Ogierman
A Ogierman, ‘Cascading’, 2025, sterling silver, 2.1 x 17.8 x 2.2cm. UNTITLED/UNRAVELLING Untitled/Unravelling uses a collection of jewellery objects to reflect… 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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Amelia Faye Perri
Bio Statement: Amelia Faye Perri is a ballet-trained artist and emerging arts manager currently completing a Master of Arts Management at RMIT… 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 …