2025 Awards
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Aiden Fyfield
Awarded the 2025 Sunshine Print Artspace, OBSA Award IN METRO is a varied edition stone lithograph with LEDs and LCD screens, that… read more …
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Aleksander Morris
WINNER – DRAWING STUDIO Jack Willet Industry Engagement Award, 2025 Memory Transplants is a collection of paintings based on my grandparents’ photographic… read more …
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Alicia Belle
WINNER – DRAWING STUDIO Alpha 60 Prize, 2025 THE AVIARY The Aviary is an investigation of memory as a simulacrum: the notion… read more …
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Amelie Vorchheimer
WINNER – DRAWING STUDIO Adele Wilkes Industry Engagement Award, 2025 I HAVE DETAINED YOUR ATTENTION My practice begins where systems break. In… read more …
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Angelique Ogierman
BA Fine Art Gold & Silversmithing Awards Recover and Rework Silver Prize Supported by Hendrik Forster, Designer Maker A Ogierman, ‘Cascading’, 2025, sterling… read more …
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Anna McCauley
AWARD WINNER – Breaking the Mold Sculpture Prize for experimentation in the Sculpture Studio, 2025 I work across mediums to create… 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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Ash Dor-Shiffer
WINNER – DRAWING STUDIO Bold and the Beautiful prize, 2025 read more …
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Bei
Highly commended: ACAE Gallery Award Some beginnings are not chosen but given — and once given, we begin to see, and begin to… read more …
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Charlie Patten
WINNER – RMIT Creative Award Do You Think I’m Spooky? This facsimile of a being I created for myself is crumbling in… read more …
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Davin Ivatts
AWARD WINNER – Sculpture Workshop Prize for excellence in the Sculpture workshop, 2025 TO/FROM SMITHEREENS – Some time ago, I watched… read more …
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Dionne Ogilvie
Awarded the 2025 Baldessin Studio, OBSA Graduate Award feeling/feeling is a site-responsive series of work exploring the sensory and emotive dimensions of landscape… read more …
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Elijah Fernandez
WINNER – DRAWING STUDIO Bold and the Beautiful prize, 2025 @namestevibes Namaste, welcome beautiful lightbeings! Are You ready to Ascend? Liberate… read more …
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Elspeth Rowell
Award: Fiona Myer Ceramic Award Award: Stockroom Kyneton Exhibition Award: Walker Ceramics Award for Academic Excellence THINGS presents new… read more …
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Flynn Parker-Greer
2025 BA Fine Art Gold & Silversmithing Awards -Wolf Wennrich Award for Craftmanship -RMIT Gold & Silversmithing Technology Prize (AJS) BEYOND THE… read more …
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Gina Corridore
WINNER – DRAWING STUDIO Isquared Gallery Exhibition Award, 2025 A Woman’s Work is Never Done A Woman’s Work is Never Done (2025)… read more …
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Halle Brown
Awarded the 2025 Richard Harding RMIT Graduate Residency Award YOU ARE A WOMAN WITH A MAN INSIDE HER HEAD WATCHING THAT WOMAN,… read more …
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Hana Alison
WINNER – Exegesis Award for Exceptional Art Writing RESPONSE-ABILITY This research project aims to explore how an interdisciplinary practice—creating with and in… 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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Huiyi Xiao
WINNER – Deans Award for Academic Excellence WINNER – Associate Dean Award for Innovation WINNER – Travel Scholarship WINNER – Art for… read more …
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Idgie Kagan
WINNER – Professional Practice Award – Awarded by the Technical Team In Brine I was an egg, an egg developed in my… read more …
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Jade Power
WINNER – RMIT Creative Award Jade Power is a Naarm/Melbourne based emerging artist practicing primarily in the expanded field of… 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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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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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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Lilian Fung
BA Fine Art Gold & Silversmithing Awards 2025 Gold & Silversmithing Club Conceptual Design Outcomes Award THE TRACE OF THE TEAR is… read more …
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Lilu Hosking
WINNER – DRAWING STUDIO Bold and the Beautiful prize, 2025 We Gather, We Rise, We Fall. This large-scale robotic fabric installation reflects… read more …
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Lou Wheeler
2025 BA Fine Art Gold & Silversmithing Awards -Emily Hope Prize for a figurative work -Koodak Award for the Highest Academic Achievement… read more …
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Ludomyr Kemp-Mykyta
WINNER – Compelling and Original Work HIT ME AS HARD AS YOU CAN: The Carnivalesque Against Australian Nationalism. Australia has a… 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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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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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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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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Molly Dinan
Award: Garland Award for Innovative Storied Object ECHOES ACROSS THE AEGEAN My work explores the connection between my two homes, Crete… 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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Rukaya Salum Ali-Springle
WINNER – DRAWING STUDIO Bold and the Beautiful prize, 2025 REALM REALM is an immersive digital mural exploring how diasporic memory fragments… read more …
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Sebastian Nuttney
WINNER – RMIT Creative Award INDEED THERE WILL BE TIME: AN INVESTIGATION INTO TEMPORALITY, PLACE AND BEING IN EXPANDED INSTALLATION PRACTICE Working… read more …
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Sophie Gemmill
Award: Ceramic Club Award A Kind of Quiet Heat Terracotta, slip, oxides and glaze, 2025 Sophie Gemmill is a Melbourne based… read more …
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Su Shar Latt
WINNER – THE MOAT Video award, 2025 Su Shar Latt is a video-based performance artist who explores the relationship between her body… read more …
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Tate Maxwell
WINNER – DRAWING STUDIO Joseph Beuys Cafe Drawing Award, 2025 Tate Maxwell is an artist working in the expanded field of… read more …
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Teagan Lown
AWARD WINNER – BDS Sculpture Prize for outstanding folio, 2025 Teagan is a sculpture-based artist with a vested interest in repurposing… 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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Viorel Herlin Susanto
Sub 27 Exhibition Award Winner I love exploring and creating jewelry and objects inspired by nature. Nature offers a diverse range… read more …
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Yuqing (Anna) Xiang
WINNER – Compelling and Original Work This practice-led research investigates how painting can stage a spiritual encounter by embodying the principles of… read more …
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Yuri Guo
BA Fine Art Gold & Silversmithing Awards 2025 Gold & Silversmithing Club Craft Award Fragments of Earthly Memory My work embodies a… read more …
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Zoe Denton
WINNER – DRAWING STUDIO Bold and the Beautiful prize, 2025 the violent feminine : a ventilation of clothed trauma Tax Return [Iteration… 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 …
2025 Graduates
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(Yuko) Feier Yao
RESEARCH ON GOLD FOIL Yuko’s practice centres on the poetic potential of gold foil—a material that transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary.… read more …
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⋆.⟡˚ Zoë W ⟡ ݁₊ .
does a sticker make me good? i return to childhood memories where stickers functioned as a currency for achievement. a curated band-aid.… read more …
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Adrian Joseph Canales
ORDER & CHAOS delves into transformation, spiritual healing, and the belief in a higher self through my unique perspective on spirituality and… read more …
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Aiden Fyfield
Awarded the 2025 Sunshine Print Artspace, OBSA Award IN METRO is a varied edition stone lithograph with LEDs and LCD screens, that… read more …
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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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Aleksander Morris
WINNER – DRAWING STUDIO Jack Willet Industry Engagement Award, 2025 Memory Transplants is a collection of paintings based on my grandparents’ photographic… read more …
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Alessia Catalano
SCAR TISSUE This body of work reimagines the car beyond its associations with function, speed and masculinity, framing it instead as a… 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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Alex(andra) de Jong
Human agent: AN ENTANGLED ALMAGAMATION OF CUMULATIVE EXPERIENCE: The experience of being aware of being. The experience of relating to natural forces.… 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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Alicia Belle
WINNER – DRAWING STUDIO Alpha 60 Prize, 2025 THE AVIARY The Aviary is an investigation of memory as a simulacrum: the notion… read more …
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Amelia Faye Perri
Bio Statement: Amelia Faye Perri is a ballet-trained artist and emerging arts manager currently completing a Master of Arts Management at RMIT… 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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Amelie Vorchheimer
WINNER – DRAWING STUDIO Adele Wilkes Industry Engagement Award, 2025 I HAVE DETAINED YOUR ATTENTION My practice begins where systems break. In… read more …
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Angelique Ogierman
BA Fine Art Gold & Silversmithing Awards Recover and Rework Silver Prize Supported by Hendrik Forster, Designer Maker A Ogierman, ‘Cascading’, 2025, sterling… read more …
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Anjali Krishnapillai-Spode
FOND MEMORIES IN MY HEAD Be loud, Be funny, Reach each catharsis, Release shame. I want to put intimate things on a… read more …
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Anna McCauley
AWARD WINNER – Breaking the Mold Sculpture Prize for experimentation in the Sculpture Studio, 2025 I work across mediums to create… 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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Asha Naomi Sym
Bio Statement: Working with textiles and garment construction techniques, Asha Syms’ approach to fashion is rooted in storytelling through design and finish.… 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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Astari Mudana
Bio Statement: My cultural background plays a key role in shaping my interest and motivation for curating this specific event. I grew… read more …
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Avril Risby
IN THE COMPANY OF PESTS is a set of mixed media woodblock and screenprint images expressing frustration at the level of sexual… read more …
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Axalotol
UNADULTERATED Unadulterated is the beginning of a collection that focuses on words that I love. Unadulterated, rage, death, worship, longing, filth, rot,… 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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Bec Gynes
Bio Statement: Bec Gynes is an interdisciplinary creative and arts worker. With an undergrad in Fine Arts from the VCA, her love… 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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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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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 Patten
WINNER – RMIT Creative Award Do You Think I’m Spooky? This facsimile of a being I created for myself is crumbling in… 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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Chloe Lim
SMELL OF uncovers the relationship between olfaction and memory. A materialisation of memory, the mixed-media installation centres around the scent of Yu… read more …
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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 …
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Coco L
REMEMBERING is an investigation of the metaphor of the body as ‘home’, positioned as a vessel carrying ancestral memory, pain and reclamation.… read more …
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David Xu
Bio Statement: David Xu is a graduate of Master of Arts Management student. He is passionate about LGBTQIA+ rights as a member… read more …
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Davin Ivatts
AWARD WINNER – Sculpture Workshop Prize for excellence in the Sculpture workshop, 2025 TO/FROM SMITHEREENS – Some time ago, I watched… read more …
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Dionne Ogilvie
Awarded the 2025 Baldessin Studio, OBSA Graduate Award feeling/feeling is a site-responsive series of work exploring the sensory and emotive dimensions of landscape… 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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Effye Chen
Bio Statement: Effye Chen is a Creative Producer, Event Planner, Marketing Strategist, and Designer who combines a decade of multinational marketing experience… read more …
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Elijah Fernandez
WINNER – DRAWING STUDIO Bold and the Beautiful prize, 2025 @namestevibes Namaste, welcome beautiful lightbeings! Are You ready to Ascend? Liberate… 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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Ella Simpson
CONFINE DELL’INFERNO: PAINTING AS AN EXPULSION This practice-led research project grew out of a need to navigate my obsessive-compulsive (OCD) thoughts… read more …
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Elle Goudis
HOLDING THE MOMENT This practice-led research examines how the act of painting can transform ordinary, private moments into heightened visual experiences. Painting… read more …
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Elspeth Rowell
Award: Fiona Myer Ceramic Award Award: Stockroom Kyneton Exhibition Award: Walker Ceramics Award for Academic Excellence THINGS presents new… read more …
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Essay – A Woman’s Work is Never Done: The subversion of needlework practise as commentary on domestic labour and the construction of feminine subjectivities under diffuse patriarchal disciplinary regimes
Essay by Gina Corridore for Contextualising Practice Needlework is a multidimensional discipline that has historically served as a socialised cultural tradition, an… read more …
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Essay – Black Horror: Analysing the strength and brutality of diasporic Black women’s experiences through portraiture
Essay by Maree Nikimaya for Contextualising Practice Content warning: This essay discusses domestic violence, suicide, violence, and trauma From 1995 to… read more …
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Essay – Cyclical Movements: Exploring the Connection of Water and the Body
Essay by Angelique Ogierman for Contextualising Practice Acknowledgement I would like to begin by acknowledging the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nations,… read more …
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Essay – How Did I End Up Here?: The Intersectionality of Grief, Queerness, and My Own Art Practice
Essay by Eliza Baker for Contextualising Practice Foreword In 2024, the deaths of several people close to me marked a point… read more …
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Essay – I Choose the Thread: Feminist Resistance Through Craft
Essay by Melanie Sky for Contextualising Practice Acknowledgment I acknowledge the Dja Dja Wurrung, Woi Wurrung, and Boon Wurrung peoples of the… read more …
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Essay – Knowing me, Knowing Material: Mapping the Relationship Between Artist and Medium
Essay by Teagan Lown for Contextualising Practice Acknowledgement To begin, I would like to acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land… read more …
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Essay – Lawless Girl: Soft Sculpture and the Cultural Aftermath of the 2000s
Essay by Millie Hopton for Contextualising Practice Positionality Statement I am a white, straight, cisgender woman born in 1999, who has… read more …
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Essay – Right to Opacity: Materialising Queer Diasporic Disorientation
Essay by Shing Hei Nathan Man As a queer Hong Kong immigrant residing and working in so-called Australia, I navigate the affective… read more …
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Essay – Take Refuge In What Remains: re-imaging the future of our Western capitalist ruins through a practice of sculpting and scavenging
Essay by Indigo Ripper-Stranieri for Contextualising Practice Introduction / Acknowledgment I offer my respect to the Traditional Custodians of the lands… read more …
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Essay – The flesh of colour, gesture and texture: Subconscious, sensation, and the material force of painting
Essay by Toni Vallance for Contextualising Practice The requirement to write about my work fills me with a small amount of… read more …
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Essay – The gaze is a knife: body-country
Essay by Sara Jajou for Contextualising Practice ‘The gaze…appears as an adversary, a knife, the evil eye…’ (Neugebauer (eds) et al… read more …
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Essay – Through the Fog: The aesthetics of disorientation and the poetics of bodily perception
Essay by Zosia Slifirski Duckett for Contextualising Practice Prologue Two years ago, on a cold wet afternoon in early September, in a… read more …
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Essay – Throwing the baby out with the bathwater: on the defence of history and the defence of reason in leftist critical theory
Essay by Anna McCauley for Contextualising Practice ‘Living money and dying humans, metal as tender as skin and skin as hard… read more …
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Essay – Toward a Non-Hierarchical Material Practice: Entropy, Affordance, and Authorship in Site-Responsive Work
Essay by Luke Jones for Contextualising Practice Material > Inertia > Entropy > Becoming In contemporary installation and sculptural practices,… read more …
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Essay – Transmuting the Matrix: Ethos and praxis for Theatre Building
Essay by Alicia Crowhurst for Contextualising Practice Introduction Transmutation is the action of changing or the state of being changed into another… read more …
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Essay – Unstable Truths: Reactive Materials, Feminist Epistemology, and Autotheory in Interactive Art
Essay by Michelle McLachlan for Contextualising Practice In an era where visual information is incessantly mediated, edited, and curated, the question of… read more …
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Eugenie Gullifer-Laurie (Gigi)
SOMATAESTHESIA: EXPLORING THE INEXPRESSIBLE SENSATIONS OF CHRONIC ILLNESS THROUGH EXPANDED SPATIAL PRACTICE Despite thousands of years of research into the human body,… read more …
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Evie J Taylor
STARSONG starsong is both a meditation and a map – an attempt to locate the self within a vast, interconnected cosmos. Creating this… read more …
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Fangyi Fan
”THE PROLIFERATION OF GROWING PAINS” Tracking the emotional expansion of girlhood through fragile ceramic forms . . . In “The Proliferation of… read more …
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Flynn Parker-Greer
2025 BA Fine Art Gold & Silversmithing Awards -Wolf Wennrich Award for Craftmanship -RMIT Gold & Silversmithing Technology Prize (AJS) BEYOND THE… read more …
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Genevieve Wearne
Talk to Me – A Dialogue with Self-Portraiture My series explores self-portraiture as a fluid and mutable study of self. Turning up… 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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Gina Corridore
WINNER – DRAWING STUDIO Isquared Gallery Exhibition Award, 2025 A Woman’s Work is Never Done A Woman’s Work is Never Done (2025)… read more …
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Giovanna Da Silva
I SEE SIGNS – Archiving the Everyday Through the Practice of Noticing is an observational series developed during the Masters of… read more …
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Halle Brown
Awarded the 2025 Richard Harding RMIT Graduate Residency Award YOU ARE A WOMAN WITH A MAN INSIDE HER HEAD WATCHING THAT WOMAN,… read more …
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Hana Alison
WINNER – Exegesis Award for Exceptional Art Writing RESPONSE-ABILITY This research project aims to explore how an interdisciplinary practice—creating with and in… read more …
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Haotian Huang
Bio Statement: Haotian Huang is a master’s in arts management with a background in painting and environmental design and an avid fan… 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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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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Hope Fratzeskos
PATTERN OVERLOAD Frequently inspired by optical, fractal, modular, and psychedelic art, I create colourful pattern-based works that merge organic and geometric formations.… read more …
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Huafei Du
Bio Statement: Huafei Du is a fashion designer with a strong interest in curatorial practice and contemporary arts. Her work explores the… read more …
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Huiyi Xiao
WINNER – Deans Award for Academic Excellence WINNER – Associate Dean Award for Innovation WINNER – Travel Scholarship WINNER – Art for… read more …
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Idgie Kagan
WINNER – Professional Practice Award – Awarded by the Technical Team In Brine I was an egg, an egg developed in my… read more …
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Indigo Ripper-Stranieri
Walk through the meadows of time, discover what’s left. Observe how the earth is endless, eternal and unforgiving. Watch as the world… read more …
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Isabell Maria Bilous Artworks 2024 to 2025
Hi! My name is Isabell Maria Bilous, I am a Romanian Mix Media Artist, I have been practicing art for nearly 7… read more …
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Isabella Rose Cort
hush heresy heave (2025) Words are often clumsy in articulating the understanding of the body. This practice-led research project aims to explore… 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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Isobel Magilton
THEATRE OF ONE explores interiors and exteriors. When masks are worn, a tension is created through the inclusion, alteration and omission of… 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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Jade Lees-Pavey
A Perfect Failure An installation of multiple works, exploring the themes of Empathy, Empowerment, Family, Social Justice and Housing (especially the failures… read more …
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Jade Power
WINNER – RMIT Creative Award Jade Power is a Naarm/Melbourne based emerging artist practicing primarily in the expanded field of… read more …
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Jaeeun Jang
Bio Statement: Jaeeun (Jay) is a South Korean producer and coordinator with practical experience across theatre, events, and arts management. Her roles… 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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Jay Nelson
MY DRAGONS Mixed media, 2025 This work explores the artist’s personal experience of growing up with mental health struggles, mental illness and… 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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Jessica Guo
身体健康//Shen Ti Jian Kang//Wishing you Good Health: an autoethnographic exploration of identity, culture, and family My relationship with my Chinese heritage… read more …
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Zosia Slifirski Duckett
SAME SPIRITS NEW FORMS it’s all an echo / i sent myself long ago / same spirits new forms Gesture, light, and… 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… more …
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Zoe Denton
WINNER – DRAWING STUDIO Bold and the Beautiful prize, 2025 the violent feminine : a ventilation of clothed trauma Tax Return [Iteration… 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… more …
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Yuqing (Anna) Xiang
WINNER – Compelling and Original Work This practice-led research investigates how painting can stage a spiritual encounter by embodying the principles of… 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,… more …
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Viorel Herlin Susanto
Sub 27 Exhibition Award Winner I love exploring and creating jewelry and objects inspired by nature. Nature offers a diverse range… more …
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Violet Spirason
UTOPIA (REMIND ME) explores the significance of the object in connection to memory. The work comprises of 5 monuments made after significant… more …
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Vinnie Swarze
Settlement and Refuge Settlement and Refuge is a materially grounded visual meditation on exile, tracing the psychological and relational consequences of forced… more …
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Veronika Tan
HIERARCHY This body of work explores the relationship between luxury brands and their monogram logos, reinterpreted through architectural forms that evoke sophistication… more …
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Velianne Wu
Untitled (Insomnia) In this series of drawings, I am materialising and transforming the affects evoked by the depression, numbness and suffocation in… more …
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Vanessa Tang
Bio Statement: Vanessa Tang is a Naarm/Melbourne-based arts manager and artist. Formerly an educator, she is passionate about connecting art with the… more …
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Uvini Ashcharya Yahampath
Bio Statement: Uvini Ashcharya Yahampath is a Master of Arts (Arts Management) student at RMIT University, with a background in fashion and… more …
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Ulises Resendiz
Bio Statement Ulises Resendiz is a Mexican-born, St Kilda–based symbolist-surreal artist whose work explores the tension between beauty and contradiction. As an… 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… 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… more …
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Tina Burge
A ROOM OF MY OWN This year I’ve had home of my own – an apartment with a courtyard garden – that… more …
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THAT QUOC THIEN TON
“Concerte Melbourne” is a photographic series that delves into architectural design, specifically revisiting iconic and often controversial Brutalist architecture. Often misunderstood, these… more …
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Teagan Lown
AWARD WINNER – BDS Sculpture Prize for outstanding folio, 2025 Teagan is a sculpture-based artist with a vested interest in repurposing… more …
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Tate Maxwell
WINNER – DRAWING STUDIO Joseph Beuys Cafe Drawing Award, 2025 Tate Maxwell is an artist working in the expanded field of… more …
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TAMARA PETROV
4 WHEN U SPIN a mixed-media installation exploring the experience of spinning thoughts. In this work, 3D printed flower-like sculptures rotate continuously,… more …
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Su Shar Latt
WINNER – THE MOAT Video award, 2025 Su Shar Latt is a video-based performance artist who explores the relationship between her body… more …
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Stella Wadeson
Bio Statement: Stella Wadeson (she/her) is a multidisciplinary arts worker engaging working with people from all walks of life. She is an… more …
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Sophie Triantafillidis
My creative process is guided by exploration, embracing the unexpected rather than adhering to predetermined design. Improvisation and chance shape my engagement… 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… more …
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Sophie Gemmill
Award: Ceramic Club Award A Kind of Quiet Heat Terracotta, slip, oxides and glaze, 2025 Sophie Gemmill is a Melbourne based… more …
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Sienna Pavlovski
WITHIN COMFORT is an ethereal and poetic textile-based installation that reflects on the dialogue between self and the immaterial. This work is… more …
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SHING HEI NATHAN MAN 文承希
Nathan Man is a Hong Kong artist based in Naarm/Melbourne. Working across installation, printmaking, and object-based practice, their work examines the slippages… 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… more …
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Seth Cooper-Kennington
TOOLS explores the deep connection between creator and creation. As art becomes further enveloped by trend and algorithm, the human element becomes lost.… more …
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Selina Vicenzino
My Mother’s Clothes Selina Vicenzino My Mother’s Clothes reflects on the women who raised me, exploring femininity, memory & loss, and how… more …
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Sebastian Nuttney
WINNER – RMIT Creative Award INDEED THERE WILL BE TIME: AN INVESTIGATION INTO TEMPORALITY, PLACE AND BEING IN EXPANDED INSTALLATION PRACTICE Working… more …
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Sarah Gulline
TENDERTHREADS: This installation centres on the tactile and emotional potentials of material. Using found textiles and yarn, tenderthreads unfolds as an exploration… more …
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Sara Jajou
APPARITIONS is a provocation of the Western colonial gaze and the construction of the Other. In the words of Daniel Neugebauer in Counter… more …
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Sally Barlow
BETWEEN MOMENT AND MEMORY. I am intrigued by the space between experiencing a moment and holding it as memory. Why do we… more …
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Rupa Anurendra
PEACE AND LOVE AND BEAUTY AND FREEDOM AND… ‘Peace And Love And Beauty And Freedom And Love And Regret And’ was my… more …
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Rukaya Salum Ali-Springle
WINNER – DRAWING STUDIO Bold and the Beautiful prize, 2025 REALM REALM is an immersive digital mural exploring how diasporic memory fragments… 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… more …
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Ruby Tirekidis
This practice-led research draws on a dream world that I carry inside me; a mythological world that I’m uncovering piece by piece.… 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… more …
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Rania Pappas
BUTTER FACE This practice-led research project examines the performative role of gender within contemporary heteronormative scripts using boudoir parody performance that… 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… more …
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Rachael Marie D’cruz
Bio Statement: Rachael Marie D’cruz is a Master of Arts Management students at RMIT University with a background in art history and… more …
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Promise Mudzingwa
Bio Statement: Promise Mudzingwa is stage manager, designer, director and killer storyteller. Graduating from a Bachelor of Dramatic Arts degree (Majoring in… 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… 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… more …
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Montana May
X marks the spot: Traversing the tension between Liminal spaces, The ‘Australian Gothic’, and a permeable reality X MARKS THE SPOT is… more …
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Molly Dinan
Award: Garland Award for Innovative Storied Object ECHOES ACROSS THE AEGEAN My work explores the connection between my two homes, Crete… more …
