2025 Painting Studio

2025 Awards


2025 Graduates

  • Aletta Mira

    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 …

  • Alice Martin

    Alice Martin

      Of Figure, Feather, and the Pursuit of a Fable | Encapsulating the Invisible Illness Experience through the Intersection of Painting and… read more …

  • Arabella McCormack

    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 …

  • Bailey Arundell

    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 …

  • Cate Laidler

    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 …

  • Chelsea Parkinson

    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 …

  • Christina Rankin

    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 …

  • Edward Roach

    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 …

  • Eliza Byrne

    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 …

  • Ella McKanny

    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 …

  • Georgina Repo

    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 …

  • Helena Kean-Ong

    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 …

  • Ivy Brady

    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 …

  • Jarryn Pitts

    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 …

  • JENNIFER SZE NGA MOK

    JENNIFER SZE NGA MOK

    AN EXISTENTIAL ABSURDITY OF VASTNESS                                 The… read more …

  • Jesse Chabrier-Pope

    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 …

  • Jessie Spadon

    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 …

  • Lena Stumpf

    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 …

  • Luke Jones

    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 …

  • Madeleine Appleby

    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 …

  • Maree Nikimaya

    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 …

  • Marina Yamazaki

    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 …

  • Matthew Mifsud

    Matthew Mifsud

    BUFFER: WRESTLING DIGITAL HYPERABUNDANCE AND THE PROJECTED CORPOREAL, OR: HELP!! THERE’S PLASTIC IN MY F*CKING BRAIN 😱😱😱  My entire living memory has… read more …

  • Maya Rogers

    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 …

  • Millie Hopton

    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 …

  • MOXIE (Hannah Yost)

    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 …

  • Poppy Clarke

    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 …

  • Qirui Liu

    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 …

  • 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 …

  • Sheridan Hume

    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 …

  • Sophie McDarra

    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 …

  • Thani Fee

    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 …

  • Tully Mitchell

    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 …

  • Vanessa (Yige) Chen

    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 …

  • Wallis Yuen Ying Chan

    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 …

  • Zoe Kamarinos

    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 …