RMIT graduates make heartbreaking tribute to Isla Bell in Graduate Exhibition
CONTENT NOTE: discussion of gendered violence.
A group of young RMIT art students have pulled their works from their university’s end of year showcase to instead honour slain teen Isla Bell and the additional 85 women killed in Australia in 2024. The November 19-24 showcase marked the “biggest event” of students’ three year course, the chance to display the product of a gruelling semester of work to perspective buyers, family and friends, and most of all, an “opportunity to make a start in the art world”. But rather than displaying their work, students flipped their canvases to hide their art, scrawling the name “Isla Bell” across the walls instead.
Visible Older Women (VOW) performing an iteration of The Pedestal Project before the opening ceremony for BA Photography, Photography & Art Honours, and Masters Graduate Exhibition, Tue 3 Dec 2024.
Catherine Magill, Visible Older Women (VOW) performing an iteration of The Pedestal Project before the opening ceremony for BA Photography, Photography & Art Honours, and Masters Graduate Exhibition, Tue 3 Dec 2024.
Catherine Magill, Visible Older Women (VOW) performing an iteration of The Visible Older Women (VOW) performing an iteration of The Pedestal Project before the opening ceremony for BA Photography, Photography & Art Honours, and Masters Graduate Exhibition, Tue 3 Dec 2024.
Catherine Magill, Visible Older Women (VOW) performing an iteration of The Pedestal Project before the opening ceremony for BA Photography, Photography & Art Honours, and Masters Graduate Exhibition, Tue 3 Dec 2024.
Catherine Magill, Visible Older Women (VOW) performing an iteration of The Pedestal Project before the opening ceremony for BA Photography, Photography & Art Honours, and Masters Graduate Exhibition, Tue 3 Dec 2024.
Catherine Magill, Visible Older Women (VOW) performing an iteration of The Pedestal Project before the opening ceremony for BA Photography, Photography & Art Honours, and Masters Graduate Exhibition, Tue 3 Dec 2024.
Catherine Magill, Visible Older Women (VOW) performing an iteration of The Pedestal Project before the opening ceremony for BA Photography, Photography & Art Honours, and Masters Graduate Exhibition, Tue 3 Dec 2024.
Catherine Magill, Visible Older Women (VOW) performing an iteration of The Pedestal Project before the opening ceremony for BA Photography, Photography & Art Honours, and Masters Graduate Exhibition, Tue 3 Dec 2024.
Catherine Magill, Visible Older Women (VOW) performing an iteration of The Pedestal Project before the opening ceremony for BA Photography, Photography & Art Honours, and Masters Graduate Exhibition, Tue 3 Dec 2024.
Hannah Morel, ‘Public Pedagogies’, RMIT School of Art, chalking in Rodda Lane, BA Photography, Photography & Art Honours, and Masters Graduate Exhibition opening, Tue 3 Dec 2024.
RMIT School of Art, chalking in Rodda Lane, BA Photography, Photography & Art Honours, and Masters Graduate Exhibition opening, Tue 3 Dec 2024.
