2025 Awards
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Arabella McCormack
Sub 27 Exhibition Award Winner CIGARETTES, SLUGS, SHAREHOUSES, PREACH… read more …
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Jarryn Pitts
Highly Commended: Fagan and Corser Award for Figurative Painting (previously the Tolarno… read more …
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Luke Jones
Robin Kingston Award for Contemporary Abstraction When folding chairs In production, installation… read more …
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Rania Hisham
ACAE Gallery Award: winner THERE YOU ARE (2025) brings together individually titled… read more …
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Rufus Punton
Wayne Conduit Award Sub 27 Exhibition Award Winner PSYCHOLOGICAL LANDSCAPES:… read more …
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Zoe Kamarinos
Award: Fagan and Corser Award for Figurative Painting (previously the Tolarno Award) … read more …
2025 Graduates
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Alannah Heslop
A POSTCARD TO NATURE – AN APPRECIATION FOR THE NATURAL WORLD My work engages with nature, aiming to capture an appreciation for… 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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Alice Martin
Of Figure, Feather, and the Pursuit of a Fable | Encapsulating the Invisible Illness Experience through the Intersection of Painting and… 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
Sub 27 Exhibition Award Winner CIGARETTES, SLUGS, SHAREHOUSES, PREACH INCLUSION, STAY SKINNY, SEEM POOR, HAVE THINGS. Maybe your t-shirt wants to… read more …
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Ashlin Lyons
The material language of identity is the catalyst of my artistic inquiry into embodied connection between people, animals, and environment. This body… 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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Cate Laidler
Undoing the Self: Memory, Temporality, and the Transformative Act of Painting My work unfolds within the fluid terrain of memory, identity, and… read more …
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Charlie Peile
Spliced is a collection of Photographs, Paintings, and costumes related to the theme of the characterisation of different parts of… 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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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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Elisha Mei Daniel
INTERTWINED: finding the sacred in the everyday Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your… read more …
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Eliza Baker
Eliza Baker is a Melbourne-based artist (b. 2003) originally from rural New South Wales. Through her practice, Baker seeks to transform… 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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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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Hartley Snape
DECONSTRUCTION TODAY: OF COURSE I EAT THE APPLE AFTERWARDS To get at the good stuff. Writing fast, and for at least half… read more …
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Helena Kean-Ong
THE PLACES WE CANNOT RETURN TO Paintings of Memories Reignited, Exploring the Absence of Him. This project explores the relationship between memory,… read more …
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Isabelle Hacon
IN MY IMAGE In My Image explores painting as a space where memory stirs rather than settles; where the past flickers in… 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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Jarryn Pitts
Highly Commended: Fagan and Corser Award for Figurative Painting (previously the Tolarno Award) GO WITH THE FLOW MAN is an oil and acrylic painting on… read more …
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Jennifer Wang
Tender is the Flesh (2025) engages with ideas of skin as both surface and material agency: a site where identity, memory, and trauma… read more …
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Jesse Chabrier-Pope
OPEN EYES AND CLOSED DOORS explores the intimate connections between place, memory and acceptance. The diptych provides a glimpse into my internal… 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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Jocelyn Leung
ENERGISING THE SPIRIT: MOMENTUM AND MINDFULNESS IN THE ART OF EXERCISE AND MOVEMENT EXPLORED THROUGH PAINTING Jocelyn is an emerging artist specialising… read more …
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Joy Jinan Jia
The ADFAS (Australian Decorative & Fine Arts Society), Yarra Branch Award Winner Acne on Memory employs expanded painting and… read more …
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Ka Chun Yu (Kenneth)
UNPLAYED MEMORIES focuses on empty playgrounds and tiled passageways in ordinary daylight. In these paintings, I use both vivid and pastel colours… read more …
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Lance Zuniga
Highly commended: ACAE Gallery Award This project begins with refusal and spite – the refusal to confess, to perform, to be legible. In… 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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Luke Jones
Robin Kingston Award for Contemporary Abstraction When folding chairs In production, installation or storage, materials behave as provisional alignments with their given materiality. Instability… 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
Highly commended: All the Very Best Award Chapman and Bailey Award for Excellence in Contemporary Painting The Garland Award STEEL KARKADE- Analysing… 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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Matthew Mifsud
All the Very Best Award BUFFER: WRESTLING DIGITAL HYPERABUNDANCE AND THE PROJECTED CORPOREAL, OR: HELP!! THERE’S PLASTIC IN MY F*CKING BRAIN 😱😱😱 … 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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Melanie Sky
I MADE IT COZY SO YOU’D FEEL THE TENSION This installation transforms a domestic scene into the site of protest and reclamation.… read more …
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Millie Hopton
Red Gallery Exhibition Award The Angel in The House: an exploration of complexities and contradictions within contemporary femininity. Woman is not born: she… read more …
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MOXIE (Hannah Yost)
Hannah Yost (MOXIE) is based in Melbourne, Australia. She completed a diploma of visual arts (2022) Bachelor of Fine Arts at RMIT… read more …
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Piper Evison
I LOVE MY SISTER investigates the fragile boundaries between childhood memory, safety, imagination, and grief. Through a studio practice rooted in play… 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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Qirui Liu
WE PART FOREVER IN TOMORROW’S SUNSHINE（我们在阳光灿烂的明天永别）is a large-scale oil painting with gold leaf, focusing on water and reflections to explore themes of… read more …
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Rania Hisham
ACAE Gallery Award: winner THERE YOU ARE (2025) brings together individually titled works across various mediums, including an installation, a short film documentary and… read more …
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Ruby Fiedler
Sub 27 Exhibition Award Winner BODIES HOLD This body of work explores ideas of containment and boundaries. I am interested in how… read more …
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Rufus Punton
Wayne Conduit Award Sub 27 Exhibition Award Winner PSYCHOLOGICAL LANDSCAPES: TRANSLATING INNER STATES INTO PAINTED FORM Rufus Punton is a painter and… read more …
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S. Raelle
WHEN THE EARTH REMEMBERS is a gestural act of salvation, a primal ritual that confronts personal trauma by dissolving the self into… 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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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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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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Toni Vallance
Chapman and Bailey Award for Excellence in Contemporary Painting THE INTRA-ACTION OF PAINTING: SURFACE, COLOUR, AND GESTURE AS EMBODIED KNOWLEDGE The… read more …
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Tulley Powell
Highly commended: All the Very Best Award RUIN “The truth is, cathedrals don’t mean anything special to me. Nothing. They’re something to… read more …
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Tully Mitchell
WHAT WE SHARE Through painting and sculpture, I explore what it means to exist within a body and to feel a sense… read more …
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Vanessa (Yige) Chen
Wombs Enter my body and bear all it bears. Gaze upon me and meet the eyes that gaze This project, inspired by… read more …
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Wallis Yuen Ying Chan
Fragment Of Affection Fragments of Affection is an ongoing series that traces the fragile relationship between melancholy, memory and tenderness through my… read more …
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Zahra O’Dea
MY HANDS EXIST AND WITH THEM I CREATE PROBLEMS AND ART. To grasp something is to care for it, to hold… read more …
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Zoe Kamarinos
Award: Fagan and Corser Award for Figurative Painting (previously the Tolarno Award) PAINTING THOSE I KNOW AND LOVE explores transformation, intimacy, and identity through… read more …
