image: Beth Sanderson, ‘Trolley Bits’ 2023, series of six brooches, mild steel, vitreous enamel, stainless steel, sterling silver, gold foil, largest 17.5 x 5 x 2.5cm
2023 Art Awards
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Aisha Hara
Recipient of the ACAE Gallery Award. _________________________________ PAINTING AS AN ACT… more …
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Alexandra Cairney
Drawing Studio Award for excellence in drawing-based practices. BETWEEN YARN AND… more …
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Alexandra Cairney
RMIT Creative Residency Award The female body is judged biologically, evolutionarily… more …
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Alice Gaywood
Sculpture Workshop Prize. THE RABBITS is an assemblage of found materials transformed… more …
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Alice Jordan
Recipient of the BDS Sculpture Prize. _________________________________ BENEATH DAPHNE I am… more …
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Amy Grover
Firestation Print Studio Exhibition Prize for high academic achievement. Sunshine Print… more …
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Anabelle Stonehouse
BEAUTY IN BODILY REALITIES: RECONTEXTUALISING THE FEMININE EXPERIENCE THROUGH EXPANDED… more …
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Annie Wallwork
Recipient of the Drawing Studio Award. _________________________________ THE NATURE OF LOVE… more …
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Billy Raffin
Recipient of the Experimenta Internship Award. _________________________________ EXPLORING COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS THROUGH… more …
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Bonnie-Jean Whitlock
Lowenstein Arts Management Prize. THE JUNK PILE draws upon Bonnie-Jean Whitlock’s… more …
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Celline Mercado
Lowensteins Arts Management Award Winner 2024 Dean’s Award for academic excellence Between… more …
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Chiara Zeta
Recipient of the 44 Frame Factory Graduate Award. ___________________________________ IN/VISIBLE: FEMIN-INE/IST… more …
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Chispa Flaskas
Recipient of the Journal of Public Space Prize. _________________________________ APOCALYPTIC… more …
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David Bilusic
Perry Summers Sculpture Book Prize for excellent in Sculpture Studio: FORGED is… more …
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Deb Lemcke
Recipient of the NAVA Ignition Prize. _________________________________ WHISPER WAVES This research… more …
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Dee Robinson
RMIT Creative Residency Award Reconstructing the vessel depicted in paintings as… more …
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Drey Willows
Recipient of the Troppo Print Studio Graduate Award. __________________________________ RHYTHMIC DISTURBANCE… more …
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dylan marelić
Lowenstein Arts Management Prize. MACHINIC ECOLOGIES is a practice-led project exploring… more …
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Eddie Corney
Firestation Print Studio Graduate Scholarship MICROCOSM. Microcosm is a body of… more …
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Edie Duffy
Recipient of the Wayne Conduit Memorial Award. _________________________________ When people ask,… more …
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Eloise Iona Hurn
Megalo Print Studio Graduate Award AKIN explores the merging of printmaking… more …
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Gomathi Suresh
Recipient of the Lowenstein Arts Management Prize and the NAVA Ignition Prize.… more …
2023 Graduates
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Addin Sugarda
Mary Oliphant Prize. Seventh Gallery Award. BESTOWED: EXPLORING TRAUMA AS A FORM OF INHERITANCE THROUGH CERAMIC SCULPTURES AND RITUALISED PERFORMANCE Reimagining heirlooms from the artist’s Javanese heritage to create ceramic sculptural work, Bestowed challenges the persistence of filial piety in
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Adrienne Cameron
Project executive summary Name: Adrienne Cameron, s3996963 Title: So, you want to be a collector? Outcome: Pamphlet Collector pamphlet Abstract: This project explores the parameters of creating a valuable contemporary fine art collection over a lifetime. Extensive academic research has
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Alex Danay
PAST LIVING: Memory is a Monster/KUTIS I work fluidly in my studio, constantly experimenting and researching materials and methods to find the best ways in which to express two main ideas. The first being the exploration of mental
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Alexander ‘Pug’ Williams
instagram: @notawizard_yet www.alexanderpugwilliams.com GLYPH OF NON-ATTACHMENT My 2023 capstone project is the Glyph of Non-attachment (GON-A). GON-A is a non-static assemblage composed from sculptural objects I have created over the course of my degree. These sculptures are made from industrial
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Alexandra Cairney
Drawing Studio Award for excellence in drawing-based practices. BETWEEN YARN AND A HARD PLACE is an ongoing exploration of mother-daughter relationships and, by extension, the complex interaction between the maker and the made. In my semi-autobiographical practice, I explore the
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Alice Gaywood
Sculpture Workshop Prize. THE RABBITS is an assemblage of found materials transformed and altered, arranged to echo an imagined agricultural or domestic garden exterior landscape and at the same time an interior domestic setting, similar to a sitting room. As the
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Amelia Gill
WEATHER PAINTINGS These works are about the sensibilities of past upper classes, and the cyclical growth of vegetation. I am a painter and draughtsman based in Melbourne and was born on a farm in New Zealand. In my work, through
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Amy Grover
Firestation Print Studio Exhibition Prize for high academic achievement. Sunshine Print Artspace Graduate Award for high academic achievement in Third Year. MEDIEVAL AND THE MODERN Through a practice of print and illustration my work engages with the ways history and
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Ana Sanchez
111 WAYS TO FORGET ̶Y̶O̶U̶ MYSELF This project emerges from Ana’s lived experiences and the dynamics of emotionality and shame. Ana creates pieces of participatory art and ritual performances using her body as a test subject to discover how
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Angela Mezzatesta
Chapman & Bailey Award. A WALK AMONGST NATURE. My practice relates to New Materialism, a philosophy that allows me to open up to an intimate, reciprocal engagement with my materials and immediate surroundings. My current work sits between painting and
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Angelica Zumpo
THE SYMPHONY OF JOCULARITY: UNVEILING THE JOURNEY FROM CHILDHOOD TO ADULTHOOD is a project that explores the harmonious interplay between craft and childhood by weaving together found objects and metals in an effort to explore connections between past and present
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Angelina Innocent
The Moat Bar Awards for excellence in Video and Drawing. DRESS YOU UP IN YOUR LOVE explores the body, identity, and sexuality through a queer feminist lens. Viewers will enter a boudoir-like space to experience an immersive installation comprising
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Angelique Fry
ETERNAL LOOP~REIMAGINING THE BUCKLE In this project I explored contemporary buckle making through the lens of intuitive making. This work seeks to create discussion on the functionality of different buckles by abstracting their form, scale and function. I’m interested
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Angelo Ooi
COMMUNITY is an installation of eighty-eight wheel thrown vases. I view each vessel that I make as a person – individual and unique. In physical form a pot is like a person with a neck, shoulders, belly, hip and foot. When
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Anjali Hunter
GOOD VS EVIL I am an artist with a practice that focuses on sculpture and installation. My practice is a constant exploration of history, religion and the vast realm of the human condition. As a sculpture student at RMIT, I am
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Anna Sanders
Based in Naarm/Melbourne, Sanders’ work addresses the body as material, meaning and muse. Her origins begin with self, yet through analogue manipulation the familiar becomes augmented and re-assembled. Her work spans a multitude of disciplines including, but not limited
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Anthea Cleary
CUT FROM THE SAME CLOTH. The Currawong bird call repeats as dusk approaches and a warm spring air is present. The sun sets over the top paddock as the kangaroos graze on the grass below. My fingernail beds are coated
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Anthea Vayonitis
THE SENSATION OF CONNECTIVE CHROMATIC ENERGY: Lyrical abstraction and the metaphysical in painting. My Master’s project investigates lyrical abstraction through the medium of gestural, embodied and immersive painting. My inspiration is expressed through an intuitive process that explores spiritual
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Arkady Gollings
Reds, Greens, and White. They remind me of Christmas, an American one. A clown mask. The colours on a Liverpool Football Club scarf, a big bushel of Red poppies or a traffic light if White replaced the orange light. Red,
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Ash Worthington
CHERCHEZ LA FEMME! My work is concerned with how women are viewed both in an art world setting and in other narrative forms. We see images of women covering the walls of galleries, so we assume they are present. We
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Aurea Palmer
OUR REGRETTABLE PROPHECY A sculptural installation that calls into question our future under current social condition. It questions society’s cause of climate change and its radical effects on everything, reinforced through the showcase of mundane elements. A portrayal of a
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Ayla Stewart
GIRLHOOD, WOMANHOOD AND THE SPACE BETWEEN This body of works investigates stages of girlhood through to womanhood, and what each of these moments of rebirth might look like from a personal perspective. Each of these moments are driven by periods
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Belinda Field
The Wayne Conduit Memorial Prize. My main area of interest is in contemporary still life painting. My works are observational, using traditional painting methods and working from life. The works often begin by moving, organising and arranging objects before building
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Beth Sanderson
Koodak Award for Enamelling Prize for Technical Excellence. WHIMSY IN THE ORDINARY: AN EXPLORATION OF THE MUNDANE, ROUTINE AND PRECIOUSNESS THROUGH JEWELLERY. My practice explores the domestic space and the ordinary with a focus on processes and objects involved in
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Bo-dene Stieler
Dean’s Award for Excellence Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art). YELLOW CORRIDOR ‘Look into yellow, feel immersed in colour, anchored when close. The plane of the wall intersecting through my bodily matter to secure, tether me to site.’ My practice involves
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Bonnie-Jean Whitlock
Lowenstein Arts Management Prize. THE JUNK PILE draws upon Bonnie-Jean Whitlock’s relationship with material, image and process. “I call the accumulation of experience sustained within my own body my ‘junk pile’, it contaminates everything I say, do and make. I
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Bronwyn Calcutt
THE SOUND OF A PAINTING OF A SONG: EXPLORING HOW SOUND AND IMAGE MAY GENERATE AND ENHANCE EACH OTHER. Over the time of my Master’s study I have made a series of explorations to open creative connections between my concurrent
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Caitlin Kozman
PEER PRINCIPLES IN ARTS MANAGEMENT AND PRACTICE Artists are change agents, agitators, activators – of spaces, places and people. As change agents, today’s artists often work within other frameworks and systems, questioning power dynamics and often leading from
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Carly Spiteri
APHOTIC APOTHECA: OPENING SOON. Come one, come all and step inside, you never know what one might find. An immersive installation allowing visitors to travel through to an undisclosed time and discover the curiosities the little shop has to offer.
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Cheng Peng Long
As an artist who loves nature and walking, nature is often the subject of my work. I am accustomed to observing the details of things and depicting them in my works, which is reflected in the sculptural paintings of various
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Chiara Zeta
MAKING, BREAKING, MAKING: REFLECTING PERSONAL EXPERIENCES OF COMPLEX TRAUMA. This project investigates the multifaceted nature of traumatic memory through the making and breaking of handmade objects grounded in feminine roles. By creatively exploring the process of forming and fragmenting domestic
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Christine Murray
LOSING IT: An exploration involving feelings of loss through Installations with ephemeral sculptures. Losing It consists of three works – Drop, Knocked, and a video work (with sound) titled Pearls in Rain. Each work captures hesitation and anticipation with the use
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Ciara Steggerda
Koodak Award for the Highest Academic Achievement in Third Year Gold & Silversmithing. CONTEMPORARY TALISMANS is a body of work exploring the involvement of jewellery and objects in everyday rituals. Ciara’s practice explores the idea of the talisman, informed by
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Coco Jones
BDS Sculpture Prize for outstanding portfolio. TETHERED By temporalities, I am always tethered, but forced to move forward despite it; these opposing internal conflicts causes loss of presentness, how am I to exist? Tethered is a multimedia artwork that investigates
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Curtis Costa
44 Frame Factory Graduate Award. AM I ENOUGH? is a personal expression of emotion, identity, and societal reflection. The portrayal of athletic body ideals as symbols of masculine health is often amplified by social media and Hollywood stars resorting to
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Damien Tune
CENOZOICA is a physical record of a conceptual self. A sculptural work dedicated to the changing and shifting idea of what makes us who we are, and the experiences that change us. Immortalised in 60-million-year-old igneous basalt mined in Victoria,
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Daniel A’Vard
THE WAY FORWARD IS BACK The world, the universe, began in energy, in light. The first thing recorded, whether it is the Big Bang or Genesis, is light. Light is the finger marks of the creation of the universe. When we
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David Bilusic
Perry Summers Sculpture Book Prize for excellent in Sculpture Studio: FORGED is a collection of narrative works that seamlessly intertwine two distinct stories. The first story narrates the tale of The Blacksmith and the Devil, while the second story follows The
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Declan Monaghan
EXILE, is a series of print-based works that explores my experiences and feelings towards masculinity. The works are framed from my own perspective, drawing attention to characteristics in our society that remain patriarchal, exclusionary and/or ‘toxic’.
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Dee Robinson
FLOTILLA OF BOATS In my creative practice I have explored theories of flow, play, and the relationship between making with memory and place. I combine these concepts by fabricating a fleet of vessels, using traditional gold and silversmithing
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Dominik Zarówny
COUTURE OF DESIRE, which takes the form of a discomforting installation, challenges the conventional notions of beauty and eroticism and explores depictions of the so-called ‘perverse’ in human fantasy. It is within this delicate tension that my sculptural garments find the
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Dougal Campion
LEARNING HOW TO BUILD THE ULTIMATE MECHANICAL ORGANISM Hello I’m Dougal. I came to uni, made some friends and built some more. \I’ve been learning how to build robots so they can speak for themselves. Being alive
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Drey Willows
THE THEATRE OF VIOLENCE This project is an exploration of the intense focus on violence in media and popular culture. I am curious about a society that views violence as entertainment and how this is reflective of rape culture. Rape
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dylan marelić
Lowenstein Arts Management Prize. MACHINIC ECOLOGIES is a practice-led project exploring the interfaces between humans, technology and the environment through transmedia installation. The installation space stages a re-imagined landscape composed of screen-based works, 3D prints, robotic assemblages and generative sound. These
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Eilish Sherlock
SQUISH: RESEARCHING SKIN WITHIN PAINTING Studies of the human form, with a focus on flesh. Examining the body’s unique movements and malleability. An inquiry into how physical senses such as grabbing and squishing, can be depicted within painting. Finishing my
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Elaina Venn
AN UNCHARTED PATH To lay down a path, you begin by digging a hole. It can be challenging work. It involves risk. What if it collapses? What if you uncover something undesirable? What if it all leads to nothing, a
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Elle Goudis
Elle Goudis is a female artist who is based in Melbourne/Naarm. She is currently studying in her final year (2023) of a Bachelor of Fine Art at RMIT University with a specialisation in Painting. She explores the concept of portraiture
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Elli Bardas
Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence and contribution to the program, Master of Fine Art. WILD THINGS combines my love of portrait photography with sculpture to counter divisive narratives that arise primarily though bodily differences. Through playful materials, colour and absurdity,
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Emily Gaule
BUTCH FEMME NATAL I am not obsessed with weddings. Nor am I obsessed with men. My art practice is the opposite. I am interested in sexuality, performance and failure. I do this for myself and for other women in my
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Emma Lynes
I LOOK AT YOU, AND YOU LOOK AT ME: RECOGNISING THE SELF IN THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT. My work explores the inherent power of the natural environment and its ability to be used as a mirror with which to explore the
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Emma x Zhang
NAVA Ignition Prize. DIGITAL WONDERSCAPES Exploring the wonder and new ways of seeing natural phenomena through atmospheric colourful light projections I use the ephemeral nature of light to explore and interrogate new ways of seeing, by employing digital techniques and
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Emmica Lore
I WANTED TO BE CLEVER BUT DECIDED TO JUST GO BIG is a large-scale sculpture engaging in witty institutional critique. Crafted from household materials, the work pokes friendly fun at the art world (whilst not being above it). [Note: The
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Erica Fraser
遷移 (SEN – I) This project encapsulates multidisciplinary works that document and embrace transitory and oppositional forces through a combination of scale, medium and colour. This collection of works walks a fine line between abstraction and representation of the artist’s
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Essay – All my love, Alex
Essay By Alex Cairney for Contextualising Practice The final product will never be as satisfying, as filled with power and potential, as the process of its making. (Grant 2017) Dear Mum, Thank you for clothing, feeding, and nurturing me into
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Essay – Ethical Considerations for Artists Depicting Subjects: Suggestions and Self-Reflection
Essay by Lucas Jennings for Contextualising Practice When artists depict other people in their work, there is an imbalanced power dynamic, and critical ethical considerations arise. As my practice demonstrates, the need for ethical consideration becomes imperative when the depicted
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Essay – How a spider helped me to understand the world: Symbiosis, the Anthropocene and new materialism
Essay by Sophia Liddy for Contextualising Practice Acknowledgment I would like to begin by acknowledging the traditional owners of the land on which I make, the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. I pay my respects to Elders past,
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Essay – How can practice create an asexually and aromantically queer space in an archive of allonormativity?
Essay by Alex Pretyman for Contextualising Practice Introduction Within western archives, be that art-historical, social, queer, other archives, there is a distinct – or to many, not-so-distinct – absence of the asexual and aromantic. Asexuality can be defined as experiencing
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Essay – In Defence of Fumbling: embracing improvisation in art-making
Essay by Yvonne Rambeau for Contextualising Practice Introduction The process of art-making can vary greatly from artist to artist. Though many feel the need to exert control over uncertainty through an ordered and planned process, American art educator Erica
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Essay – Intuition and the Creative Act
Essay written by Alexander ‘Pug’ Williams for Contextualising Practice My mother is an artist and a natural dyer. My grandfather was a naturalist, and an engineer. Their passion and curiosity for the world flows through my blood and was
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Essay – Liminal Spaces: how can a mixed-media practice play a role in disrupting binary oppositions?
Essay by Ivy Rose for Contextualising Practice So, don’t give me your tenets and your laws. Don’t give me your lukewarm gods. I want the freedom to carve and chisel my own face, to staunch the bleeding with
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Essay – Memory, Phenomenology and Mono-Ha: Working with the Earth
Essay by Rose Whitlock-Whyte for Contextualising Practice I grew up in a part of semi-rural Victoria outside of a small town, where the bush was my playground. At the age of eight, my family experienced the Black Saturday (2009) bushfires,
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Essay – Phenomenology and the landscape of being
Essay by Odin Strbac Low for Contextualising Practice Acknowledgment I pay my respects to the Traditional Custodians of the land in Naarm (Melbourne), including the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation, as well as the Taungurung and Yorta Yorta
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Essay – Pink Impressions: exploring the affective power of pink
Essay by Jade Armstrong for Contextualising Practice Introduction As Fingerhut and Prinz have articulated, the value of art traditionally depended on aesthetic beauty, though over the last decade, notions of value have shifted towards sensory engagement (2018). According to
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Essay – The Modern Teenager: the impacts of film and television on the construction of identity
Essay by Ekaterina (Katya) Ryzhikh for Contextualising Practice The rise in the availability of technology and media as entertainment has had a profound impact on the experiences of growing up. While technology, in particular mobile phones and tablets, were
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Essay – Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana: the ethical non-monogamy of humour and surrealism
Essay by Emmica Lore for Contextualising Practice Introduction Welcome to my essay, where humour takes a tumble into the realm of the surreal. It’s hard to shake the feeling that analysing why something is funny is just, uncool. I find
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Essay – Transforming Trauma: The Role of Immersive Installations as Transitional Objects in Exploring Personal History
Essay by Ka Yan So (Kelly) for Contextualising Practice The artist transforms the personal into the universal, creating an object that can be experienced and felt by others, that has the power to move and inspire. (Townsend 2019) Creating installation
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Essay – Uncertain Identity
Essay by Luna Yang for Contextualising Practice According to Stets and Bourke, structured society imparts values that individuals identify themselves with, which form the basis of one’s identity (2000). As a young adult, when it come to the topic of
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Essay – 你吃了吗? (Have you eaten yet?): recreating gustatory memories to process diasporic experience and identity
Essay by Jessica Guo (郭悦娜) for Contextualising Practice When I was in grade two, I was praised by my white teachers for my English proficiency. But at Saturday Chinese School, I was terrible. I hated learning my language. I found
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Eva Mikelin
FABRIC PANELS: YOU PAY FOR MY MEMORIES These fabric panels and installations are part of an ongoing series of work from 2021 addressing domestic crafts and labour in both concept and process. The arduous practices of hand stitching, darning, and
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Evangeline Clark
‘GIRLY’ AND BODILY is a research project that aims to immerse the viewer in a bodily experience of painting installation that explores excessively bright colours and cute ‘girly’ bubbly forms to reclaim them as a symbol of powerful femininity. I
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Fiona Soeding
TRANQUILO (A VISUAL ODE TO SERENITY) Since the beginning of 2023, my artistic journey has shifted its focus. I originally explored how external influences, such as The Seven Deadly Sins, shape our beliefs and behaviour. This exploration deepened my understanding
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Freda Drakopoulos
Care | Support | Understanding | Curate | Ethics. I, Freda Drakopoulos, live and work on the unceded sovereign land of the Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation, I acknowledge and pay my respects to Elders, past
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Geena Pereira
FROM MY MOTHER examines the passing on of knowledge through the maternal line, together with celebrating the female body and their unpaid, unseen, and undervalued labour in the context of Indian culture. Through the framework of contemporary feminism, it seeks to
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Gemma Seymour
Troppo Print Studio Graduate Award for high academic achievement in third year. RMIT MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX. RMIT partners with weapons companies.Elbit systems, BAE systems, Thales and Boeing Defence (the list goes on) fund research and scholarships, provide internships and work
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Georgia Lomax
I AM FEARLESS embarks on the rewriting of self-talk, reconfiguring the internal narrative as a method of post-traumatic recovery. It’s a journey of reclaiming the self through the process of making, reshaping the internal to manifest a better external. The
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Georgina Owassapian (Georgina de Manning)
ALIAS & ARTIST delves into the murky waters of art in the age of the internet. Through layered installations, niche subcommunities are brought out from the ether into the corporeal realm. By merging the online with the offline, the complexities
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Grace Elizabeth Flinn
PURSUIT OF TRANSLATION An exploration of the many transformative processes of casting metal in relation to my automatic drawings. Drawing has always been the cornerstone of my practice. Drawn lines have a magical nature to them, a nature I have
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Greta Ermacora
This project translates the narrative of a person’s intimate life, the moments they find precious by translating casual collections of ephemera and sentimental pictures into permanent formal paintings. Inspired by the seemingly universal way people present their individual collections like
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Guaire McKenna
I SHOT MYSELF WITH A SILLY LITTLE GUN, IT WAS VERY EASY TO TALK ABOUT. My art aims to be ‘ultra accessible’ discussing otherwise serious themes with a silly and childish look to it. The use of common material allows
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Hanieh Khamisi
WOMAN, LIFE, FREEDOM The ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ movement started as a result of the death of a young Iranian girl named Mahsa Amini who was sentenced to death by the morality police because of not following the dress codes. The
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Hannah Caprice
Honours Fine Art Travelling Award. INTIMUS BOUND is a playful exploration of the search for emotional intimacy through imagined, metamorphic and metaphorical narratives. This body of work encompasses a year-long project contained in a single artist’s book. In what often
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Hannah Hall
SLACK, refers to the looseness between taut stitches, alternating between moments of tension and relief. This is a project where fields of expanded painting and craft practices collide, to create works that occupy a hybrid space between painting and textile.
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HAOZHE WANG
REALITY IN THE FANTASY How to convey and present a world in ten seconds? There may be different physical laws, different creatures, different geography in this world – the point is, it’s not the world you’re familiar with.
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Honey Lili Bella Garrett
Traversing Girly ✩ Through the act of painting, I traverse the thematics of ‘girly’, a murky term unto itself, and cultivate a dream-like world that subtly reclaims and elevates traditionally trivialised, overtly feminine symbols. My practice is a playful
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Hongyu Chen
RESEARCH PAPER: The Value of Inheriting Chinese Traditional Landscape Painting in Shaping an Individual’s Identity. Abstract This paper’s discussion is built upon the significance of identity conveyed by traditional Chinese landscape painting. By applying Stuart Hall’s thesis on cultural recognition,
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Imke Breayley
WHAT A PRETTY YOUNG GIRL My artwork in the 2023 Graduate Exhibition is about feelings of anger and conflict about being a woman and wanting to embrace femininity but knowing how tightly that is linked to a capitalist and misogynistic
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Ingrid Mascoll
Born in 2002, I am a multidisciplinary artist growing into a woman during the age of social media. I am inspired by the ‘trash’ aesthetic of blogging culture and how unrestricted internet access as a child has affected my growth
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Iona Julian-Walters
Spiralling outward from the central practice of drawing, my work covers a number of mediums and practices from drawing to photography, performance and installation. Drawing is often overlooked within the artistic cannon as an approach that is preparatory, or incomplete,
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Ivy Rose
KITTEN HEEL FANTASY Ivy Rose is a multidisciplinary artist working between drawing, print, photography, sculpture and costuming, revolving around themes of queer expression and gender performance. Obsessing over camp, kitsch and the excessively extravagant through their diverse practice, and always
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Jale Sezai
Dean’s Award for Excellence in Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) (Honours). The Emily Hope Prize- Professor AD Hope Endowment Award. SOMETIMES I CAN’T EVEN SLEEP BECAUSE I LOVE SOMEONE SO MUCH: AN EXPLORATION OF DEVOTION, LOVE, AND CRAFT THROUGH FANDOM
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Jana Papantoniou
Kings ARI Award. BLINDNESS: A MODE OF ABSTRACTION My practice harnesses my lived experience as a legally blind artist to explore and develop a pictorial language around perception itself. Conceptually, this project is concerned with destabilising the notion of blindness
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Jane Cocks
Northcote Pottery Supplies Award: “LISTEN TO THE WILD BEASTS OF THE ISLAND, NIGHT BIRDS AND WITCHES.” These are all terms that have been applied to women who did not conform to a male dominated society. There is a present and historical
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Janet Drury
WHAT’S THEIR STORY? The whole thing started with a dusty dilapidated cardboard box at the back of the cupboard under the stairs. It almost went straight into the skip, but B had had dementia and we’d already found a roll
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Jasmine Tiger Babayan
RMIT Ceramic Student Association Award: My practice revolves around material interaction, with a focus on ceramic-based processes. Driven by experimentation, my work is a continuous exploration into the interplay between material, process and space through mutual exchange. Jasmine Tiger
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Jesse Mahoney
TRUSTWORTHY WEBSITE is an online interactive installation. It responds to the user’s actions by presenting satirical content through retro graphics, images, and rhetorical texts. These features contain misinformation to arouse suspicion and existential questions on the nature of internet navigation
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Jessica Elizabeth Beach
NOT SO JELLY This project explores the the existence of jellyfish, specifically Peach Blossoms and their current endangerment, through the form of intaglio prints from copper in order to investigate their form and also processes of preservation. It delves into the
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Suzanne Mockridge
Why don’t more people visit cultural institutions? Why is this…
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Sarah Catania
UNTITLED This multidisciplinary project incorporating textiles, printmaking, and installation, explores…
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Sandra Flores
MATTERS proposes that creating multi-sensory atmospheres in sculptural installation art can…
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Raven Dawn
Sometimes, the classroom environment needs JUST A LITTLE BIT OF SPICE! and…
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Mollie-Rose Chislett
URBAN ANIMALIA: Exploring the human-animal relationship within the ever-growing urban scape…
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Khashayar Salmanzadeh
Utilising the expressive qualities of paint, my creative practice intertwines…
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KATELYN JANE FERENCZ (ARTSOPISSFACE)
Composite Award. CYBERROT: CORPOREAL DECAY INSIDE LIMINAL TECHNOLOGIES CYBERROT CYBERROT…
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