2025 Awards
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Chloe Vella (She/Her)
RMIT Culture Residency Award Helimlich: My Dear Little Grotto Hide me. Don’t look at me. Just let me lie here. Let me… more …
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Elizabeth M. Cole
Mary Oliphant Award Winner Rendered Other and Cast Out: Staging a multi-disciplinary cautionary tale about global warming and Antarctica (2025) My project… more …
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Holly Goodridge
Lowensteins Arts Management Award Why I Knit My practice explores neurodivergent experience through wearable textiles, participatory performance, and large-scale crochet installation. Rooted… 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… more …
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Olivia Lin
NAVA Ignition Prize Winner Room for Nowhere My master’s project explores the embodied expression of uncertainty within states of anxiety through painting-based… more …
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Samira Khadivizand
The ADFAS (Australian Decorative & Fine Arts Society), Yarra Branch and the NAVA Ignition Prize Garment of the Soul Rooted in my… more …
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Yongping Ren
Nearly-Mary Oliphant Award Lotus and Mud: Embracing messiness through wu-wei and expanded ceramics My masters project investigates the Daoist concept of wu-wei… more …
2025 Graduates
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Bina Jean
Sacred Unfolding Sacred Unfolding employs intuitive ink painting, patterns, and fabric installation to explore spirituality, Buddhist philosophy, and phenomenology, drawing on my… read more …
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Camilla Eustance
Scope Creep Scope Creep seeks to address the absurdity of digital capitalism and its effects on ecology and psychology through a multidisciplinary… read more …
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Chloe Vella (She/Her)
RMIT Culture Residency Award Helimlich: My Dear Little Grotto Hide me. Don’t look at me. Just let me lie here. Let me… read more …
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Drashti Kalathiya
In my master’s project, Poetics of Emptiness, I explore the emotional resonance of interior architectural spaces through atmospheric watercolor paintings. This work… read more …
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Elaina Venn
Where Did You Go, Are You Here? The MFA project where did you go, are you here? Explores my childhood trauma through… read more …
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Elizabeth M. Cole
Mary Oliphant Award Winner Rendered Other and Cast Out: Staging a multi-disciplinary cautionary tale about global warming and Antarctica (2025) My project… read more …
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Holly Goodridge
Lowensteins Arts Management Award Why I Knit My practice explores neurodivergent experience through wearable textiles, participatory performance, and large-scale crochet installation. Rooted… 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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Kate Marshall
ENCHANTED BY THE FEELING Enchanted by the Feeling reimagines intimacy through soft sculpture, self-portrait photography, and immersive installation. Employing play, performance, and… read more …
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Ko Jou Chen
PORTABLE STILLNESS: Handmade Miniatures as Traces of Home and Memory My master’s project explores how the making of miniature objects and floating… read more …
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Leigh Woodburgess
Unfolding Impermanence: Collage, Myth, and the Metaphysical Dimensions of Contemporary Painting This project, featuring the 6m kinetic painting Public Dreams/Private Myths, begins… 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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Lydia Lin
Between Two Worlds In this project, the tension between the fragility of rice paper and the resistance of linen installed in the… read more …
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Noah Bridger
PLASTICITIES, malaises, SURVIVALS PLASTICITIES, malaises, SURVIVALS is a practice led project that has emerged out of a personal experience of displacement. Working… read more …
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Olivia Lin
NAVA Ignition Prize Winner Room for Nowhere My master’s project explores the embodied expression of uncertainty within states of anxiety through painting-based… read more …
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Patrick Fox
Patrick Fox (b.1988 Melbourne) This project takes my painting into something new. I started making things. They are sort of sculptures or… read more …
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Samira Khadivizand
The ADFAS (Australian Decorative & Fine Arts Society), Yarra Branch and the NAVA Ignition Prize Garment of the Soul Rooted in my… read more …
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Sharon Lesley
GHOST NET – Capturing Narratives of Ghost Nets Through Soft Sculptural Installations This project manifests an underwater kelp forest. I construct densely… read more …
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Shih-en(Aster) Lin
Ich verstehe nur Bahnhof (I only know the way to the train station) Ich verstehe nur Bahnhof (I only know… read more …
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Vasi Devi
This video essay represents one of my most expansive works to date, weaving together personal narrative and socio-political analysis to examine body… read more …
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Woo Hyun Kang
Space and Memory: Mapping Lived Experience Through Mixed Media Installation and Expanded Painting Space and Memory (2024–25) traces the quiet emotional… read more …
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XINYU YAO
THE LANGUAGE AFTER ME The Language After Me reconfigures the Five Constants of Confucian morality—ren, yi, li, zhi, xin—by reshaping their seal-script… 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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Yining Lyu
Sisyphean Circle: A paper-cut and shadow-puppet installation crafted through precision laser-cutting techniques, critiquing the cyclical fate of patriarchy This work employs paper-cutting,… read more …
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Yongping Ren
Nearly-Mary Oliphant Award Lotus and Mud: Embracing messiness through wu-wei and expanded ceramics My masters project investigates the Daoist concept of wu-wei… read more …