image: Ali Choudry, screen capture from Breaking Bread, 2022
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Alexander Tuxford
Recipient of the Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence, Bachelor of Arts (Photography)(Honours) Highly Commended. _________________________________ UNTITLED This was the first place I went to with the aim of making new pictures. I wasn’t too sure why. There was something about
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Ali Choudhry
Recipient of the Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence, Bachelor of Arts (Photography)(Honours) sponsored by Kayell Australia. _________________________________ BREAKING BREAD Historical critique of power relationships in photography has focused on broad, categorical, systemic relationships, such as those of, and existing between,
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Georgina Jefford
in honour of arachne and all those who came after her Georgina works predominately as a portrait photographer in Melbourne. She creates self-portraits exploring the metaphor of craft as woman, often incorporating multiple mediums including embroidery, sewing and collage. Georgina
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Hugo Webster
Hugo Webster is an emerging multidisciplinary artist working primarily in photography, video, sound and installation. He currently maintains his practice in Naarm/Melbourne, the unceded land of the Boon Wurrung and Woi Wurrung language groups of the Eastern Kulin Nations. Hugo’s
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Kat Stevens
THE SOFTENING Kat Stevens’ artistic practice focuses on death, dying and the taboo surrounding it. She uses her photography to provoke her audience and to provoke thought. Following her series What Remains (2021), exploring the inevitability of death (showcased in
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Kyle Archie Knight
Recipient of the Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence, Bachelor of Arts (Photography)(Honours) Highly Commended. _________________________________ CRUISING FOR A BRUISING 2022. Photobook, 210 x 297 mm How can a camp vision transform humdrum suburbia? Typically banal, inconsequential, and known for monotony,
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Margot Stewart
Recipient of the RMIT Lightscapes Award. _________________________________ THE SECOND FLESH is an alternative approach to imaging the body, providing a means to avoid the commodifying gaze of patriarchy. The work intends to flip traditional viewing strategies—focusing on grotesque, internal-like imagery instead
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Nathan Harbutt
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Olivia McGregor
UNTITLED This series of videos uses performance to subvert internalised patriarchal views on gender. Using the body and ‘play’, the subject questions common rituals and habits associated with femininity. instagram.com/liiv.mcgregor
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Rhy Dyball
Recipient of the RMIT Lightscapes Award. _________________________________ UNTITLED This series responds to the commonly shared, pervasive sense of dread that characterises life in our era, evoking the ambient anxiety that permeates the contemporary consciousness. Taking elements from the society we live
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Sophie Smith
THE IDEAL AND ILLUSORY FEMININE My youth is dotted with memories. Sitting in the waiting rooms of beauty salons while my mum was being waxed, plucked or lasered, I would entertain myself by flicking through the glossy magazines fanned out
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Spenser Paul
ROAD NOISE Spenser Paul’s Honours project, Road Noise, explores the symbiotic relationship between the culture and activity of motorcycling and the landscape that it inhabits. Motorcyclists exist as features within the landscape, with little insulation from the world around them,