Recipient of the Composite Moving Image Agency and Media Bank Award and the Jack Willet 1301SW Honours Award. _________________________________ HERE/THERE (AND ME IN-BETWEEN) Just like walking in an alley, looking to see what will happen, then walking into another alley
VULNERABLE is an immersive experience of visual and emotional rhythm, movement, sound, and light. Vulnerability is power. Power is gained through relationships and connections with other people, which is grounded in the ability and willingness to be vulnerable. The work
Recipient of the Kallman Feitel Endowment and the World Centred Award: The Perimeter Books Award. _________________________________ WHISPERING A SECRET INTO A SEALED BAG explores what Édouard Glissant describes as the ‘right to opacity’. The book presents itself, both in form
The imagery in my work is akin to a form of assemblage and is intended to challenge notions of totality. Through relations of exteriority and emergent properties, these works may be understood in terms of material, expression, stability and coding.
Recipient of the ACAE Gallery Award. _________________________________ PAINTING AS AN ACT OF TRANSLATION Through painting, I aim to echo musical forms into the visual. The resultant body of work explores the kinetic symbology of music, linguistics, hybridity, and inner worlds.
ROOH OF PAKISTAN Encapsulating the essence of Pakistan with its traditional cuts, meticulous craftsmanship and vivacious colours, each edit from this collection draws inspiration from the rich Pakistani culture and heritage bound to make you look classy and stylish. Rooh
FROM YOUR BIRTH TO THE ONE YOU GAVE ME Within my work I aim to explore notions of rebirth and queer femme identity, utilising text and humour. In the digital age, I am surrounded by constant sources of stimuli, which
Recipient of the The ADFAS (Australian Decorative & Fine Arts Society), Yarra Branch Award _________________________________ ISOLATED FACES metaphorically explores anxieties of isolation and belonging. This project is a self-reflexive study that utilises non-traditional portraiture by shadowing the faces of loved ones to
LIGHT, SHADOW, AND OTHER SOUNDS is a body of multi-media work that explores the symbiotic relationship between image and sound. Presented in the considered form of a classic CD digipak, the work combines photography, sound art, music and graphic design
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
IMPRINT & IMPRESSION An exploration of the materiality of fabric through the print medium. How one material can be transformed through the matrix, and furthermore, the print itself. A print-based triptych that explores the nature of fabric in its form
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,
Recipient of the BDS Sculpture Prize. _________________________________ BENEATH DAPHNE I am an aspiring sculptural and installation-based artist located in Kulin country, Melbourne Australia. I will soon be graduating with my Bachelor of Fine Art, specialising in Sculpture at RMIT. I
VICARIOUS YOUTH is a street photography series, that depicts the psychological struggles of adolescents attempting to reintegrate into the cacophony of the post-lockdown world. It explores the idea of experiencing youth through the captured moments of others. This voyeuristic approach emulates
ADDITIONAL VALUE A series of matchbox sculptures to explore material and consumerism. In the wave of consumerism, commodities are taking over our lives and defining everyone. I am hoping to expose this power and draw attention to the power of
My work is a wide-ranging entanglement of found imagery and intersecting concepts that manifest in chaotic and often psycho-surreal narratives. Ultimately, I see my practice as a form of sensation seeking and psychoanalytical tool that speaks of the human condition
MAKING SPACE FOR DETAIL Reflecting the adolescent urge to document everything, my work is an act of noticing, collecting, and giving attention to the minute minutiae, the detritus of our culture and the beauty of the mundane, transforming each detail
FOUND MOVEMENT IN FOUND SPACE Dance as art and choreology are the foundation of my current practice, looking at the relationship between personal movement style and visual aesthetic as the remnants of an artist left in their work. Starting with
THE DIVINE EQUINE. Amy Gagnon (b.2000) is an artist residing and practising on Wurundjeri Land in Naarm (Melbourne). She is currently in her final year of a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting) at RMIT University. Recent exhibitions include the group
AFTER SCHOOL is a reflection of youth culture and adolescence, the moments between childhood and adulthood that are chaotic, and formative. Based on memory, experience and observations, the lighthearted scenes suggest freedom, pleasure and excitement for what is to come.
This series explores neuroqueer (autistic/queer) (dis)embodiment and alienation. Through a queer, posthuman and xenofeminist framework, the work brings into focus the inherently queer interbodily experiences of the neuroqueer bodymind. The work offers a narrative imagining for the neuroqueer networked self; a self joyfully enmeshed with the technological and the non-human.
Inside the installation space, scripted spaces unfold, interact and nest with and inside each other. The body transforms into data; the data flow from our fingertip, through the camera, into the central processing unit. At this moment, we are all cyborgs.
REFRACTIONS OF REFLECTIONS is an exploration of the inner self channelled through the waves of water—an embodied experience of fluidity within my identity. The extensions of water, and the structure it holds is as transient as our flow with life
SCENERY FROM THE SUBCONSCIOUS A subconscious exploration of memory and place through the use of intuitive marks and abstraction. This multi-media project explores the artistic potential of the subconscious mind and its relationship to place. More specifically, the natural world
OF AIR , LIGHT AND WATER Shifting colours move through bands of blues and violets with a shimmer of red. The atmosphere becomes dusky as the large fabric installation lights up: iridescent silky silver-blue flows from above, mingling with
BODY VERTICAL My video installation uses advanced editing, special effects and compositing techniques to interrogate patriarchally-skewed cinematic codes embedded in mainstream film. Crucially, it responds to feminist screen theory in seeking new ways to represent the material female body. By
OBJECTIFIED SWANS Through the lens of a sexual fantasy featuring the feminine within a 70s kitsch-pornographic-inspired environment, Objectified Swans attempts to undermine female binaries and expose them to be patriarchal weapons adopted to suppress a woman’s sexual
Recipient of the Drawing Studio Award. _________________________________ THE NATURE OF LOVE ‘Trauma and shit going down in childhood is [not] inherently interesting…it’s chronic, commonplace, sometimes dramatic and often tedious in its stranglehold of repetitions, daily struggles, and predictable and
Recipient of the Client Centred Award: Sun Studios Award and the Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence, Bachelor of Arts (Photography) sponsored by Arten Framing. _________________________________ THE JOURNEY OF CHOCOLATE is made up of seven handmade chocolate slides, each designed to create
THERE WON’T BE ANOTHER TIME is an exploration of childhood. Looking at both the universality of childhood experience, and the differences in my and my parent’s upbringing, I consider the question: What would it be like to meet our parents
THE FEMININE ART OF SHOOTING: the collision between fine art and firearms My shooting is still. Not violence, not fervour. My shooting is controlled breath as I kneel in the grass, surrounded by trees. Millimetric adjustments of my cheek and
Recipient of the Emily Hope Award for a figurative work— Donor Professor AD Hope Endowment. _________________________________ DOMESTIC RITUAL My practice explores the domestic space and the mundane with a focus on the processes and objects involved in food preparation. The
Recipient of the Experimenta Internship Award. _________________________________ EXPLORING COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS THROUGH MOVING IMAGE AND MUSIC PROJECTS SITUATED IN PUBLIC SPACE In my Master’s research, I have been using the moving image and music to explore collective consciousness, dreams, and time.
EMBRACE To me, art has always been a form of therapy. I have found that the work that I create often is a mystery to me, as I follow the journey which my work takes me through. The meaning slowly
Analyze the practice of immersive theater in small cities of China ——Case study “Youjian Pingyao” The Chinese performing arts market has been developing at an unprecedented rate in recent years, providing more choices for people’s spiritual life. Many performance groups
Recipient of the Kallman Feitel Endowment and the Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence, Bachelor of Arts (Photography) Highly Commended. _________________________________ BLUE is a visual and written exploration of the self, following an adult ADHD and ASD diagnosis and coming to an
Recipient of the Chapman & Bailey Award for Excellence in Contemporary Painting. _________________________________ LANDSCAPE / ESCAPE ‘As an artist I’m trying to reflect something back to myself. A feeling, understanding, sense of the world…’ —Kiki Smith Exploring the silent language
DATA CYMATIC explores the fluidity of digital data through the creation of visuals and sound and their connectivity. Audio-reactive connections between a combination of renders and source imagery have been coded to the sound source to rip the visual data
THE GOTHIC NURSERY An exploration of childhood spaces through immersive art. From one world you will stepinto another yet unmetShadows rising in the corners,are you one of the mourners?The child no longer seeninto a world in betweenEverything left to
Recipient of the Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence and contribution to the program, Master of Fine Art. _________________________________ TOWARDS REPOSE An exploration of materiality and ephemerality through the use of organic matter and geometric patterns. This multidisciplinary research project frames
CATHERINE’S REEF Through ceramic hand-building, I create sculptures that are heavily textured, painted with bold, bright primary and secondary colours. My ceramic outcome often consists of an installation of sculptural objects grouped to create a larger work. Present-day environmental issues,
LESS OF AN INTERNAL MONOLOGUE MORE A PATCHY CONFERENCE CALL is a body of work that seeks to understand and connect with others, through the exploration of my own inner workings. As a woman with ADHD, my works are inevitably a
ART AND MUSEUM MANAGEMENT DURING THE COVID-19 DIGITAL ADAPTATION Most of my research projects are written with reference to the situation of Covid-19. I have been living in Melbourne during my study. I have seen so many ways that art
DIGITAL SKIN (she/they)Charlie is a Naarm-based artist working on the land of the Wurundjeri people. Starting their practice as a fine art painter, Charlie now explores new media with a focus on hybrid retro-future technologies, creating installations that consider feelings
I acknowledge the traditional owners of the lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nations on whose unceded lands we live, work and learn. I would also like to
STILL WATERS RUN DEEP explores the existence of a ‘safe space’ in response to personal sufferings of anxiety and insomnia. The large acrylic paintings on calico material are designed with intuitive, unconscious gestures as a means of healing through the
THE PAIN OF LOVE REMOVED is an art-based project by Chelsea Lee Picken exploring discourses of sexual dysphoria, contemporary gender issues as a form of therapy to reconcile with her own being. Combining written passages with intimate black and white
Recipient of the 44 Frame Factory Graduate Award. ___________________________________ IN/VISIBLE: FEMIN-INE/IST RESPONSES TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE This project uses hand-made textiles and print-informed media to explore women’s responses to domestic violence. It is informed by my developing understanding of trauma theory
Recipient of the Journal of Public Space Prize. _________________________________ APOCALYPTIC THERAPEUTIC A speculative journey into the future of our climate vulnerable ecologies through virtual reality and participation Apocalyptic therapeutic is a laboratory of drawings, writing, virtual renders, and participatory
WUNDERKAMMERN OF OBJECTIFIED SIGNIFICANCE – WOMAN CLAIMS THAT A LEFT FOOT BOOT IS HER DAUGHTER AND HER HUSBAND IS A DIRTY COUCH I am a Naarm (Melbourne) based multi-disciplinary artist, who makes installations, video and sculptural works as well as
IMMORTAL CLICKSTREAM IMMORTAL CLICKSTREAM uses my browser history as source material for a series of mixed media works exploring meaning and identity in a world overburdened with data and indiscriminate visual noise. Images related to my internet search history are archived
Christine Murray (she/her) is an object-based artist trained in gold & silver smithing with a Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) at RMIT. She has also completed a Bachelor of Contemporary Arts majoring in Animation and Digital Culture (Deakin University). Murray
SEX: EVERYONE AND YOU Sex education plays an incredibly important role in the development of early sexual experiences and sexual behaviours into adulthood. The absence of adequate sexual health education leads to the prevalence of several health and human development
Internal dialogue, self-image, grotesque, gothic, infested, decay, temporality, memento mori, bodily and paradox are words and phrases that could describe my work. Through a self-reflective lens, I use oil painting, drawing and sculpture as a visual language to explore themes,
COSMIC SALAD: DE-FIGURES AND UN-SCENES life’s about hazard and fate. – dad I think there is a structure to chaos, and a divinity in the absurd. Through visual experimentation and the re-contextualisation of found objects, my work explores
[1] FUTUREFOUND BUTTON:A dialogue between C (she) and F (the plant) C: They say regrets are based on wrong premises. What do you think.F: I think very little.C: Why are you here.F: To fill in the silence. F: What’s Sam
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FEMINISM & THE OCCULT attempts to challenge the viewer as to whether or not their pre-conceived ideas as to what a witch is have been informed by, and/or contributed to, the misogyny, ageism, racism and violence that often overshadows the
CHAOS AFTER SORROWS Dan Su’s intuitive abstract painting explores the tensions that stir as we enter and pass through heightened emotions and states. Beginning with a linen or canvas substrate, and employing the visual language of abstraction, Su uses broad
ARTIFACT 7 explores the lines between documentation and artwork through the installation of unorthodox print, video, and painting. I paint on hard surfaces over long durations, and then pour PVA adhesive over it and peel it back as a pseudo monoprint.
OCEAN CULTURES is a photo documentary of my personal journey in finding a connection towards the ocean. This documentary investigates the perspectives of different maritime figures such as fishermen, shipwrights, and maritime curators to learn from their lived experiences and to
THE VERY STATE I am Darcy Lazarus and tonight, you are my voyeur. They are listening to you. While you’re on the phone to your Mum, engaging in half-whispered pillow talk or speaking to your cat in a nauseating
POINT OF VIEW (musing from previous years of art school) I can see the internet as a machine that has already swallowed us all whole. The internet then spews over itself, reformulating its own contents to produce more—feeding itself on
SADNESS TOWARDS FADED TEARS My name is Deanna Versace. I’m an emerging artist in Australia who uses the pronouns she/her. I have been part of the RMIT institution for four years, completing my bachelor’s degree in printmaking. I had the
Recipient of the NAVA Ignition Prize. _________________________________ WHISPER WAVES This research project grew out of an interest in how our brains work and the different ways that we can influence them by engaging with creativity and the natural world. The
Recipient of the Bold and Beautiful Art Prize and the Wolf Wennrich Award for Craftmanship – Mr Michael Wennrich Endowment. _________________________________ In my creative practice, I have explored the inter-dependency of species using the symbiotic relationships between coral and people
WORLD BUILDING AND SPATIAL DRAWING: PLAY THE GAME, DON’T DIE Rooted in modalities of playfulness, my current work spans object-based installation, drawing and painting. These works navigate structures and hierarchies of gender through symbols and the personification of objects. The
My watercolour painting practice reveals and communicates ideas of an ‘inner self’ via imagery that evokes a conscious and unconscious self, along with personal identity and attachment. Each of my paintings focuses on reconstructing something from the past via thoughts
ASHES OF TIME ASHES OF TIME explores the idea of harmony between Eastern philosophy and nature, through a surrealist approach to landscape photography, aiming to achieve a visual dissonance that questions human intervention in nature. At the same time, the
Recipient of the Troppo Print Studio Graduate Award. __________________________________ RHYTHMIC DISTURBANCE is a creative project that explores the lived experience of traumatic grief under intense media scrutiny and public opinion. The project uses experimental print-informed techniques to reflect how the
Recipient of the Wayne Conduit Memorial Award. _________________________________ When people ask, I say I paint pictures of vases. These paintings have been drawn from particularly endearing eBay listings of ‘fat lava’ pottery. Digital images have become so ubiquitous that we
SQUISH Summary: Studying the nature of skin/flesh and its movement. Differing skin types, as in aged, blemished, scarred etc. and what those contexts translate to within the human structure. Skin in daily movement and light, stretched, pulled and squished in
STRUCTURED BODIES focuses on the never-ending relationship between memory, place and the body and explores these connections through drawing and painting. Driven by the impact of contextual surroundings on the self, the places we choose to inhabit, the places we
UNDEFINED Utilising a combination of self-portraiture, social media screenshots, archival photography and handwritten reflections from personal journals, Eloise explores the disenchantment of love and modern dating with honesty and a sense of humour. With UNDEFINED, she deconstructs the idyllic narratives
EMOTIONAL! is a children’s picture storybook that explores emotions as they are experienced in all of their new, strange intensity by children and aims to assist them in understanding these feelings. It follows the journey of a young, horned girl
AND SHE WAS LYING IN THE GRASS When sharing experiences with others, it’s easy to assume that people feel or think the same way as we do. However, by simply being alive our perspective will never be the
GRANDMA’S WARDROBE is an exploration of Australian fashion throughout history. Using vintage clothing that corresponds to specific dates and eras, a timeline of fashion is thus laid out. Ten decades have been explored, with their distinct styles and trends showcasing
NEOMA: NEW MOON (Greek origin) Time is abstract. Time is constantly moving forward. Time is fluid. This project documents the abstract nature of time and the visual cues that remind us of time passing. Everywhere around us, time flows, leaves
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
MATTERFLOW My creative practice is an exploration of material and transformation, and is focused on ceramic-based processes. I draw on traditional ceramic techniques, such as mould making, slip casting and glaze development, which I use in unconventional ways to create
Essay by Jennifer Pattinson as part of Contextualising Practice course. I have spent the majority of my life fascinated – bordering on obsessed – with animals, specifically those which are wild, undomesticated, or otherwise out of reach.[1] Since
Essay by Amber Macklin as part of Contextualising Practice course. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I recognise my own positionality as a settler-Australian with Scottish, Spanish and German heritage. I grew up on Gubbi Gubbi country in Southeastern Queensland and now live, work, and
Essay by Andrew Poduska as part of Contextualising Practice course. The ways in which artists relate to materials and how they are used can offer a great insight into their personal history and the inner sanctum of their mind.
Recipient of the ArtLink Writing Award Year 3. _________________________________ Essay by Lexi Appleby as part of Contextualising Practice course. In this essay, I will explore the growing disparity in cultural capital between rural and urban Australia. I endeavour to
Essay by Lily Baxter as part of Contextualising Practice course. My installation Watching clothes dry (2021-2022) (Figure 1.1 & 1.2) explores the workings of the domestic realm. Through slow and thoughtful making and arranging, the works direct attention to
Essay by Amy Gagnon as part of Contextualising Practice course. My figurative painting practice concerns itself with feminist imagery, and in recent years, this has manifested itself through depictions of women engaging with animals, specifically, horses. This essay focuses
Essay by Drey Willows as part of Contextualising Practice course. Content Warning: This essay discusses loss, grief and trauma. On the 16th of April, I spoke to you in text. We spoke about how it would be great to catch
Essay by Maria Flores as part of Contextualising Practice course. Ancient and earthly material in the form of limestone shapes my everyday as a printmaker working primarily in lithography. The crux of my practise is working through my thoughts
Essay by Lara Gough as part of Contextualising Practice course. The objective of this essay is to analyse the importance of sincerity in my artistic practice. I will investigate how sincerity manifests in my creative methodology, cultivation of reference
Essay by Hattie Pervan as part of Contextualising Practice course. Ko Ngongotaha te maunga (Ngongotaha is my mountain) Ko Rotorua te roto (Rotorua is my lake) Ko Te Arawa te waka (Te Arawa is my canoe) Ko Ngāti Whakaue
Essay by Sandra Flores as part of Contextualising Practice course. INTRODUCTION Contemporary Western thought has been gradually giving the body a more central role (Voparil & Giordano 2015). This somatic turn responds both to recent scientific discoveries and to
Essay by Edie Duffy for Contextualising Practice. The painting Or however many it’s been through depicts the corner of a darkened room, nearly empty, only a solitary bent-steel chair sat against the wall. Projected onto the scene is the
Essay by Kathryn Ruddick as part of Contextualising Practice course. The ancient spirits are all around us. They awaken from their slumber when someone is willing to listen. They have many messages. To hear them, the student must be quiet
Essay by Jyoti Murray as part of Contextualising Practice course. This essay discusses my current practice that investigates the subtle body as a spiritual-physical system via the framework of Tantra Yoga and Hindu mythology. The inspiration that fuels my jewellery
FAST/SLOW WE HOLOMETABOLISE Holometabolism, also called complete metamorphosis, is a form of insect development which includes four life stages: egg, larva, pupa and imago (adult) –Wikipedia Fast/Slow We Holometabolise is a multimedia diary of transformation in the face of illness,
1994, YEAR OF THE MUTT Evelyn Challinor (b.1994) is a mixed-race Chinese-Australian artist, originally from Gadigal and Yuin Land. She currently resides in Naarm, practising between the fields of fine art and horticulture. Through the process of thinking-through-making, my practice
A REBIRTH. My paintings move between abstraction and figuration, drawing imaginative succour from peasantry and European brides. My work explores the power of melancholia, weaving themes of longing and passing time through transparent colour fields and abstract compositions. I contrast
AHH! MY EYES! Exploration of frames, surfaces, absence, mise en abyme, self reference, eye-brain connection, paradox, distortion of perception. My practice revolves around the interface between the senses and ‘objective’ reality.
THE CHANGING ROOM PROJECT is a research-based investigation on the quest for ideal structural and related processes for a socially engaged arts organisation in 2023. The call for structural change within arts organisations and their funders is made loud
AFTER HOME. Through exploring connections to home, familiarity and nostalgia in conjunction with the ideas of the afterlife, the uncanny and the unsettling, this project merges the two to create a series that not only includes objects from home set
REWORKING LANDSCAPES The following imagery has been produced on Boon Wurrung, Wadda Wurrung, Woi Wurrung and Latji Latji lands of the Eastern and Western Kulin nations. I acknowledge these language groups to be the traditional owners of the land and
FIRST PEOPLES ART CURATION METHODOLOGY AND KEY ANALYSIS OF AUDIENCE INTERPRETATION IN VICTORIA, FOCUSING ON THE KOORIE HERITAGE TRUST, INC. AND MELBOURNE MUSEUM. Wotjobaluk/Djubagalk/Jadawadjali Arts practitioner, Curator and Teacher In 2022, the push for insights into First Peoples lives and
A HOME FOR LOST THINGS In my creative practice, I have explored the body through drawing and the sculptural medium, unpacking notions of how we host our lived experiences within us, along with what it means to find a ‘home’
HOUSE OF WAX comments on reproduction and re-appropriation. I am re-appropriating horror films that have either been remade or were heavily influenced by other films. The images focus on themes of the uncanny (castration, double, involuntary repetition and animistic conceptions of
BLURRED is an abstract installation work encompassing themes of cultural identity, accidental photography, and liminal spaces. The intersection of these themes is an experience-based work on how blurred identity and layers of the self can become. Accidental photography and the
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
NOT NOTHING/IT’S SOMETHING explores an embodied approach to materiality to investigate the loss of self and gender politics in relation to creative freedom through a series of metaphorical artworks. Materiality and humour are used to interrogate gender oppression while seeking
Recipient of the Lowenstein Arts Management Prize and the NAVA Ignition Prize. _________________________________ THE SECOND LANGUAGE Navigating Marginalised Ecologies Using a Multi-Disciplinary Practice. This multi-disciplinary project combines ceramic objects, paper, video, and the recorded voice to examine issues of ecological degradation
Recipient of the Baillot & Balfour Endowment. _________________________________ HEAVENLY CREATURES is a photographic project exploring alternative methods of representing the female body in fashion photography. The commercially-inspired photographs accentuate rather than hide aspects of the female body that society deems
BEHIND THE GRAPHICS – UNDER THE HOOD is the photographic exploration of the typically unseen light of infrared photography and the enhancement of graphic design and its power to completely alter traditional elements of photography while expressing the use of
SENSE OF SELF Lover, You Should’ve Come Over [diptych], 2022, ink and acrylic on stretched canvas, 90cm x 90cm. SENSE OF SELF is an exploration of identity through spirituality, symbolism, colour and connection with mother nature. It involves heavily
0 to ∞ ‘My painting is not limited at all. I have many possibilities, in terms of approach. And the reason I have that is because I’m not limited by a certain narrative that I want to get across.
FOS”CELL“ISED For this sculptural project, I will sculpt and cast a collection of stylised cells out of plaster, using a silicone-based mould as well as brush-and-pour techniques to create a unique assemblage that represents my themes of materiality, identity and
QUIET OBJECTS My Practice is a continuous cycle of making and material exploration, approaching each new work with curiosity and play. This body of work consists of various painting-and-textile wall works that sit alongside small-scale ceramic sculptures. Through the juxtaposition
WE WILL BE YOUR HERO BABY An exploration of the painterly as a visual language for creating playfully critical narratives across a variety of historically loaded material surfaces. My studio based practice intuitively draws from a personalised painterly vocabulary
Recipient of the Robyn Beeche Award. _________________________________ OF STRANGE WEATHER Born of the 1924 Manifesto of Surrealism, ‘Breton demanded that a work of surrealist art should be a window through which the viewer could look upon some inner landscape of
UN… DERR.. STANDING… COMMUNICATIVE DRAWING INSTALLATIONS This project looks at the busy mind as author—in the dialogue between the author and the viewer, between the internal and external. The work functions as a gateway between the two, as a means
WHAKAPAPA BLEEDS RED a material exploration of blood quantum discourse in a decolonial context Ko Ngongotaha te maunga (Ngongotaha is my mountain) Ko Rotorua te roto (Rotorua is my lake) Ko Te Arawa te waka (Te Arawa is my
I want to express a highly free modern aesthetic work beyond the pictorial framework of orthodox painting. The project explores the formal and conceptual aesthetics of Minhwa paintings in a nuanced way through material explorations. For me, these paintings
EUDAEMONIA: A rebellious approach to expanded painting Osborne-Snell’s practice encompasses functional art displayed on the body as well as textile wall pieces. His emphasis on unconventional, wearable art creates multidisciplinary parallels between art, fashion and design. Snell works with a
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
WHAT CAME FIRST; THE GIRL OR THE BODY is an exploration into what makes us who we are. It is an insight into my own personal being, an answer to the question; ‘am I my own person, or am I
I AM, I WAS. I was, I am is a textual and painterly exploration of neurodivergence and queerness. The ideas of facets of one’s being are always present, inseparable from childhood to adulthood. I was, I am utilises striking text,
Recipient of the Liquid Architecture Prize. _________________________________ MISCEGENASIAN My practice is interdisciplinary and includes audio-visual media, performance, installation, and publication. Conceptually, my creative work is focused on critical discourses around white supremacy in gay culture, which forms via exaggeration and
SEX ME UP Ivry Elisabeth is currently creating paintings and tufted tapestry works that explore gender—particularly limiting perceptions of the female identity. Within these works, she has a tendency towards the incorporation of figurative or symbolic elements and kitsch aesthetics
DISTANT RAYS Thermoformed acrylic, citrus dichroic film, a dedo light, a turning mechanism, fishing line, brass eyelets, a speaker and a looped 10-minute soundscape (a recording of the artist playing a rain stick she made and Tibetan bowls). Jade’s work
Recipient of the Perry Summers Sculpture Book Prize. _________________________________ RELOADED LANDS I am a sculptural installation artist located in Wathaurong Country, Ocean Grove, Victoria. Throughout my practice, I explore environmental themes and eco-activist art. I am influenced by my intrinsic
PUNK FAKE-LORE A multi-media project examining the relationship between Central Asian invented traditions and folklore. This project takes messages and themes from Central Asian folklore and recontextualises them to fit into a modern Central Asian narrative as a means of
Recipient of the Artbox Commission Graduate Award. _________________________________ PAPER DETECTIVE is an exploration of non-destructive collage, digital reproduction, and the symbiotic nature of culture and media. Clippings from 90s comic books and fine art books are recontextualised to create modern stories
I’LL NEVER LOVE ANYONE AS MUCH AS I LOVE YOU… OR YOU… OR YOU… OR YOU… This body of work is as an exploration of self and is a love letter to the many characters I have loved across my
A POSTCARD TO AOTEAROA (New Zealand) is a series of images exploring the emancipating concept of escapism, but consequential from the misfortune of not being able to return home, due to lockdown restrictions in Melbourne at the time. Jenkinson, who originally
Recipient of the Art Centred Award: The Centre for Contemporary Photography Award. _________________________________ IT WILL BE BEAUTIFUL is a series that probes the female experience, as informed by our subconscious mind. Recurring themes of surrealism and the human body in disarray are
THE HEART THAT BLEEDS IS THE HEART THAT GROWS. A series of illustrative works exploring the essence of healing in solitude. The story-like depictions present a lonely and treacherous process of healing and understanding one’s inner conflict. The objective nature
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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SKIRMISH springs forward, embellishing the gallery space with contemporary allegory. Jazz Duncan’s figures breach the confines of dreams in lively gesticulation. Each evoking curiosity, revelation, and gestalt shift in the onlooker. JAVELIN, the first work in this series, envisions a
Recipient of the BDS Sculpture Prize. _________________________________ COMFORT IN THE FEAR is a work exploring the relationship we, as humans, have with our childhood, and how as we grow into adults we change to see what was once a familiar
LIMINAL In the summer—weather permitting—I tend to sleep with my bedroom window open. Recently, I have been alerted to the presence of ringtail possums by the tell-tale scratching sound of their tiny claws as they run up and down the
UNTITLED My major project is a fictionalised miniature world based in the 1950s exploring themes of traditional domesticity, loneliness, and the mundane. Using a tableaux style of photography, I created a narrative within a miniature set in 1:12 scale, that
MARRIAGE Everyone has a different interpretation of marriage at different stages of their lives. Different cultures and family backgrounds also shape people’s view of marriage. Based on her culture and background, Jennifer presents her unique views and interpretations of marriages
Recipient of the Northcote Pottery Award and the RMIT Ceramic Student Association Club Year 3 Award. _________________________________ CLAY, CONTROL AND I. Jess Dybing’s work explores the changing states between flow and matter on the pottery wheel. Whilst the process of
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SUNSET DREAMING We all dream, day or night. Sunset dreams can represent the beginning of a new phase in life, readiness for a fresh start, and the promise of a new beginning. As mentioned in the Bible, in the book
We already live in a world surrounded by information technology, which provides a powerful driving force for the digital economy. There is no industry that is not affected by digital technology, and this certainly includes the art industry. Information and
Recipient of the Sculpture Workshop Prize. _________________________________ ✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿ ╭(′▽`)╯╭(′▽`)╯╭(′▽`)╯╭(′▽`)╯╭(′▽`)╯╭(′▽`)╯ My name is Jiefei Chen. I was born in Sichuan Province, China, and moved to Adelaide, Australia, with my family when I was fifteen, and live in
COMING HOME My art practice explores my deep relationships to people and places. I create artworks that raise questions and expand my perspective in understanding the complexity of an environment, as well as the fragility of life and memory. ‘Coming
ELEMENTS consists of a collection of images documenting rural landscapes, concentrating on capturing the landscape as it encounters a diverse range of elements, which occur as a consequence of the weather. The weather in which a certain photograph is captured, has
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QUEER IDENTITY: GROWING UP IN REGIONAL AUSTRALIA AND ITS INFLUENCE ON ONE’S EVERYDAY LIFESTYLE My creative research investigates the impact on queer people of an upbringing in rural Australia, examining their understanding of identity, community and connections between themselves and
MY BODY, MY POETRY The focus of My Body, My Poetry is the exploration of my Chinese culture with a focus on themes relating to loneliness and gender empowerment. The work employs photographing and capturing video footage of body movement
SAFE ZONE SAFE ZONE—an exploration of psychological healing through a performative multimedia installation—explores my everyday emotional struggles, dreams, and memories during the years spent in Covid lockdown. By using a methodology of documenting and sharing, I aim to create an
NARRATIVES OF THE SUBTLE BODY Based in Melbourne (Naarm), my current practice investigates the subtle body as a spiritual-physical system via the framework of Tantra and Hatha Yoga. Through the process of lost wax casting using non-precious and precious materials,
Recipient of the B2 Scan Photography Award. _________________________________ FEMALE MONOLOGUES: investigating gender fluidity with individuality through photography FEMALE MONOLOGUES is a practiced-led photographic research project that focuses on challenging gender stereotypes, rendering the concept of gender fluidity, and using psychoanalysis to analyse
ROSE is a diaristic piece looking at Alzheimer’s disease, memory, delusions and narrative, telling the story of my Nana, Rose, and her experience with Alzheimer’s disease from an outsider’s perspective. Detailing the visible disorientation, frustration, guilt, and the tender moments where
DYSTOPIA IN THE WORLD OF FLORA I’m Kasandra Hendy, and I’ve lived here in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia my whole life. I’m 22 years old (b. 3/8/2000), and I’m almost at the end of my study of Fine Arts at RMIT University
Recipient of the Kayell Digital Print Award. __________________________________ MONUMENTS OF PAPER AND SHADOW I am an emerging print-informed artist who draws on my experience as a contemporary female Australian Army veteran and war widow to investigate a tense and problematic
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
INVITATION TO A MICROCOSMOS is an experiment into the documentation of singular experiences, moments and people in my everyday life. Images are built from photographs of friends, family and environments. This form, a kind of self-portraiture, captures elements of celebration and
Recipient of the Alpha60 Prize. _________________________________ NO ONE TOLD ME I WAS LIVING IN A BRUTALIST NIGHTMARE My installation No One Told Me I was Living in a Brutalist Nightmare seeks to question the impact of growing up in a
BODY AS MACHINE THOUGHT: Human as mechanistic component in a network, human as network, networks within networks, within networks, within networks, within networks, within networks, within networks, within networks, within networks, within networks, within networks, within networks, within networks, within
This series of works explores the intersection of intimate quotidian moments and unworldly places through the language of paint. Focusing on figuration, my work investigates how an imagined scene speaks to the human condition and evokes a sense of memory.
FAULTS IN THE BREAKROOM I am Keisha Yan/ Fed, a narrative artist based in Melbourne and Singapore. Currently, my interest is in exploring the overlap between the natural world and the industrial one through absurdist and surrealist scenes. These explorations
Recipient of the Walkers Ceramics Award. _________________________________ Kerrin Samuel is a multimedia ceramic artist who creates artworks that explore the human experience. She draws inspiration from observations of contemporary culture, politics, geopolitics and religion which she sees as powerful vehicles
ABOUT THE ARTIST In the most recent last two years, I have been exploring several themes and ideas in my investigations. My projects from the last two years have been strongly focused on transitioning personal memories and inner feelings
Recipient of the Dean’s Award for Excellence, Master of Arts (Arts Management). _________________________________ THROUGH PRACTICE (A RESEARCH PROJECT) This research project examines practice-based research as a topic within a contemporary arts context. In it, practice-based research is recognised as a
Recipient of the RMIT Ceramic Student Association Club Year 3 Award. _________________________________ Hello! I am an emerging Melbourne-based sculptural ceramicist. I have an expanded ceramic practice utilising hand building, modelling techniques and using emotive surface colouring and treatments. My work
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,
Recipient of the Kayell Digital Print Award. __________________________________ HOLY MARYA (MARY) I was born in Iran, where, for the past four decades, a compulsory hijab has been a means used by religious authorities to suppress women. Since arriving in Australia
THE NATURAL PROGRESSION This is a body of work initiated with the intention of depicting the fish in the tanks at a Chinese Restaurant as a homage to my childhood memories of gazing up at the tanks filled with living
PUNKTURED explores ways in which a contemporary jewellery practice can translate the energy of punk music culture into the 3-dimensional, focusing on ways in which music can both inform and reflect one’s identity. Jewellery has an innate connection to identity
NOW I LAY ME DOWN TO SLEEP Drawn from ceramics-based processes, my creative practice forms via constituent and material relationships as an exploration of metamorphosis. Metamorphosis is the free space of transition outside of notions of containment, restraint, and inhibition.
S/MOTHERING, a photographic investigation of solitude and smothering, explores themes of identity, love, feminism, social constructs and depression felt within the paradigm of motherhood. The images were created to enhance the emotional elements of these themes by careful and considered use
SPECTRUM The aim of Spectrum was to increase awareness of the struggles and what it is like living on the spectrum and to portray us as normal people and in a positive light and as ‘normal’ as possible because often
Leon Zhan is an artist currently working across painting and sculpture. Born in Melbourne to Chinese immigrant parents, Zhan’s highly finished pictorial practice is heavily influenced by his own diasporic experience. Negotiating the orient and the occident, his work articulates
THE HUNT This body of work explores personal identity and societal structures through visual narratives and metaphors. Raised in rural Australia, I utilise the ceramic form to create artworks that subvert contemporary notions of value, creating silhouettes that reference working-class
I CAN’T STAND IT: A MULTI-MEDIA EXPLORATION OF MEMORY AND EMOTION My drawing practice focuses on themes around memory, sentimentality, and individual disposition, framed via a conceptual representation of personal experience. This is shown through soft gestural graphite and coloured
Everything casts a shadow, but you can’t always see it. Maybe the shadow is what is left behind. Cat hair on a jumper, bike grease on your shins, food stuck in your teeth. Or maybe the shadow of an object
Recipient of the RMIT Ceramic Student Association Club Year 3 Award. _________________________________ Lily Lindsay is a ceramic artist who makes both functional and sculptural artworks. Her figurative work uses myth, symbolism, and motifs to express personal memories and lived experience.
PIMP MY RIDE: DELUSIONS OF FOUR-WHEELED GRANDEUR Inspired by an upbringing surrounded by enthusiastic car modifiers, aberrant working-class hoons, and an absurdly exuberant TV program dedicated to ‘pimping’ out derelict dregs of cars, Pimp My Ride: Delusions of Four-Wheeled Grandeur
Recipient of the NAVA Ignition Award and the Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence, Master of Photography sponsored by B2Scan Highly Commended. _________________________________ MELTING ICESCAPES / BLACK LANDSCAPE Glaciers reflect sunlight and play a critical role in maintaining the temperature on Earth. When the
THE TWENTY-FOUR FORMS OF TAI-CHI Tai Chi Chuan is a physical practice which is rich in traditional movements and sequences. Tai Chi Chuan refers to movement that is derived from the philosophy of Tai Chi and utilises the concept of
MADAME BUTTERFLY—a highly distorted interpretation of Puccini’s opera by the same name—is a short film revolving around Madame Butterfly, who is living in self-imposed exile inside a magical cocoon on the top of a faraway mountain. The heroic knight who
Recipient of the School of Art Honours Travelling Grant. _________________________________ NISAM SPAVALA ALI SAM LEŽALA (I WASN’T SLEEPING BUT I WAS LAYING) Looking, touching, being; my research-based practice is an investigation of these three elements in relation to my position
AWAKENINGS ON HIGHLANDS I was born in China and immigrated to New Zealand with my parents at the age of 14. I then spent my university years in Australia. The multiple locations confused the formation of my sense of personal
USE/LESS I am an emerging sculptural artist located on Wurundjeri Land, Melbourne. In my practice, I typically explore childhood and comfort, often using glitter and iridescent materials to recreate the childlike excitement that fades in adulthood. Sewing is also an
Recipient of the School of Art Honours Travelling Grant. _________________________________ SOMETIMES I WRITE SO CONFIDENTLY I START TO BELIEVE MYSELF My practice-led research uses queer ecology as a framework to explore phenomenological spaces of encounter/occupancy. My practice constructs both metaphorical
UNSTILL LIFE My painting practice forms as a way of gently unpicking assumptions about the way we see and think about the world. In exploring the tenuous state of human disturbances during the Anthropocene, each work sits in a place
Recipient of the Mary Oliphant Best MFA Tutorial Presentation Prize. _________________________________ THE RESONANCE OF A TANGLE engages with bodily agency and constraint through an interdisciplinary practice of painting. By employing material experimentation and improvisation, this project seeks to record an
MAMA SAID (SERIES OF FORMS) Using a combination of textile processes and mixing materials, Maisie creates textural and fluid forms to discuss the body’s many-faceted existence. The artist combines materials such as fabrics, latex, plastics, inks, mirror, wire and the
GROWING UP This series shares my study journey as an international student in Australia and the first time that I was separated from my family and friends in Hong Kong. It documents my psychological status around expanding my comfort zone
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
Recipient of the Sunshine Print Artspace & Open Bite Student Association Graduate Award. _________________________________ STRATA reflects on the relationship between place and identity as a means of reconciling my immigrant experience. Utilising stone lithography and installation, I explore the concept
HER HOME ON CHICKEN LEGS: an interweaving of feminism, folklore, and sorcery My creative practice examines folklore and fairy tales via a contemporary, feminist lens. The working method that I employ involves researching fables to locate stories that may have
PEOPLE, PLACES AND PICTURES explores friends, family and environments, all of which have brought me joy and inspired my artistic practice. These positive connections have been investigated through vivid colour, familiar symbols and organic shapes. The vibrant symbols, created by
AN IMAGE OF: An Image That Looks Like Other Images General Significant Images draws on Vilém Flusser’s concept of the technical image, which he defined as ‘…an image produced by apparatuses. As apparatuses themselves are the products of applied scientific texts,
Mayah Eden Lasky, also known as ‘Melasko’, is a multidisciplinary artist based in Naarm. Primarily exhibiting photography, film, and video installation, her work deconstructs stereotypes and misconceptions by employing a socially-engaged documentary practice. Recently, she has delved into topics such
HOLD AND RELEASE An exploration of causality and trauma therapy through performance, kinetic energy and handmade sculptural elements. This work embodies the instance of trauma tethered to an individual until met with the tools to
SCUM ANGEL is an ode to the symbology of the bat. In a collaboration with artist and peer Anna Pearl, we created an installation which imitated a bats lair. Cages, poetry, paintings and objects in combination with screens
SURRENDER TO A DREAM Large scale installation, sound, sculpture, & video. I have reflected on my experience of a reoccurring fever dream experienced in my childhood. The dream entailed me as a child, in miniature scale, in my parents’ basin,
My work relates to aspects of Pop Art and incorporates elements of painting, drawing, photography and collage through the subject matter of portraiture. My practice approaches aspects of traditional portraiture, such as the materiality of oil painting and coloured pencil,
Recipient of the Australian Print Workshop Award. _________________________________ MIGRATIONAL DISPLACEMENT Ongoing complexities that surround the possibility of a posthuman period bares witness to generational migrational displacement and the breakdown of psychological and cultural identity. The aim of this project throughout
Recipient of the Client Centred Award: The Brownbill Effect Award. _________________________________ FAMILY FAVOURITES Welcome to Family Favourites. This project is a family cookbook that contains recipes from both my parents and food that I have grown up with throughout my
GOD’S FAVOURITE is an ongoing drawing-video project that explores concepts of the human body and its interface with technology. I developed my themes of futurist body modification, sickness and spirituality using my body as the ‘host subject’. My approach to this
TO THE SOUTH OF HOME is a video essay that depicts an imagined conversation between my father and I, as his sudden death left us no chance for a final conversation. Through this work, I attempt to confront my childhood
Recipient of the NAVA Ignition Prize and the Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence and contribution to the program, Master of Fine Art. _________________________________ HOW WILL I REMEMBER explores my Chinese-Australian bi-cultural identity by examining the concept of loss and grief.
FLOWER MONUMENT Grief and mourning are both deeply personal yet also universal experiences which are difficult to process and articulate. FLOWER MONUMENT is an attempt to create evocative visual images that communicate the vivid presence and feeling of loss and
Recipient of the Tania Doropoulos Prize. _________________________________ ATTENTION ON PERIPHERAL MOVEMENTS Attending to materials and material determination. Shifting, transforming, sliding. Contained and coming undone. Un-restricting materials and re-contextualising the everyday through transformative processes. Transforming material narratives. Taking the functionality of
AT THE LIMIT OF SIGNIFICANCE is a body of paintings developed through subtle collections from what Bernard Spolski calls the ‘public linguistic space’, where the advertisements, graffiti, and overlapping voices of strangers combine to form the public linguistic landscape of
COMEDIC MELANCHOLY (Urban Metamorphosis of the Animal Body and Landscape) The artworks I create consider the relationship between animals and humans, within the Anthropocene. Emphasis is placed on understanding the animal experience. My work further considers themes of urbanisation, symbiosis,
THROUGH THE AGES In this body of work, I aim to create photographs that encapsulate what an individual’s work area would look like in various eras and decades—whether it’s kitchen/wash area, study/den area–by perusing antique stores and op shops to
Recipient of the BDS Sculpture Prize. _________________________________ THE WASHING is an installation that documents a performance in a natural landscape. A daily act of washing and walking but in absurdity, and the tension of vitality. A nihilistic and Sisyphean portrait
Recipient of the Print Studio Experimental Print Award. __________________________________ REWILDING THE GALLERY SETTING: Nurturing connection with the natural world Rewilding, as a general term, refers to the reintroduction of flora into spaces from which it has become absent. Through print-informed
On a cold snowy night deep in the Canadian forest, a converted yellow school bus stood. Inside, a blow-up pool with my young New Zealander mother and Welsh father, as they watched me come into the world. This bus continued
THIS IS SO FUCKED UP My current work comes together through a combination of observing my everyday and my inner thoughts and then turning them into oil paintings. I do this by capturing my surroundings with photos taken on my
THE FILING CABINET IN THE BACK OF MY MIND I struggle to share my feelings, even with those close to me. The title of this body of work refers to the metaphorical filing cabinet in my mind that holds all
STOMPING GROUND is a documentation of the diverse and unpredictable electronic music scene of Naarm (Melbourne). It focuses on who considers themselves part of the scene, what they’re wearing, how they dance and what keeps the events running. The project
HIKIKOMORI (VR FILM) SHEAPPEAREDTOMEINMYBATHROOMDURINGANIGHTLYPERIODOFISOLATION. SHESENSEDSOMETHINGWASMISSINGFROMTHEHOUSEANDSHEWASRIGHT ITHASNTFELTTHESAMESINCE. SHETOLDMESHECOULDMAKEITALLBETTER. SHETOLDMETHATSHECOULDTAKEMESOMEWHEREELSE. ICOULDBEHAPPYALLTHETIME. SHETOLDMETHATIDIDNTNEEDTOBESOSADANYMORE. ANDILISTENEDTOHER. ILISTENEDANDIFOLLOWEDHERANDIWENTTOPLAYGROUND. YOUSHOULDJOINMEITSSOLOVELYHERE. IMNEVERGOINGTOLEAVE. ALLTHATSHITBACKHOMEISGONEANDIAMSOHAPPYANDICANBREATHEANDILOVEITHERE. WELCOME. TO. PLAYGROUND. You are a child again. Something is wrong in your home and you need to escape, you need to find somewhere safe,
Recipient of the The ADFAS (Australian Decorative & Fine Arts Society), Yarra Branch Award. _________________________________ This project seeks to explore life through painting. This project also seeks to explore painting through life. Through this project, I create abstract paintings based on
DRiPPY Oliver Brown (he/him, b.1997) is an experimental interdisciplinary artist who frequently works with sound, kinetic installation, and interactive media. He has a keen interest in (urban) ecologies and the interactions between humans, their technologies, and their natural environments. In
GENESIS An exploration of materiality and mythology through the use of organic mineral materials and Ukiyo-e presentations. Oliver’s work explores the relevance of traditional forms in Japanese Ukiyo-e and Asian mythology, by exploring traditional media such as gold leaf and
EYE DROPS: A collection of works taking reference and inspiration from personal photos of a moment of significance, using bold colour and abstraction to visually warp. The chosen images are distorted in a way to hide a clear visual representation
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
I make work that anthropomorphises animals—namely pigeons—to showcase common negative feelings of anxiety and mental health in general. Watching and being watched, we are all judging without knowing it all. I create works that pose questions and have multiple meanings
Recipient of the Journal of Public Space Prize. _________________________________ SPECULATIVE FUTURES: SIMULATION OF FUTURE CITIES CONSTRUCTED THROUGH SOUND Speculative Futures is a large-scale, multidisciplinary and interactive installation that encourages playfulness and self-guided inquiry through the activation of senses. Inspired by
Recipient of the Tolarno Hotel Award. _________________________________ VIOLENCE AND INNOCENCE My artistic practice is an exploration of my identity and place within my family’s history in post-WW2 Australia. It is a direct response to my relationship with my family’s photographic
RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS ON THE DEVELOPMENT PROSPECT OF THE ARTS MANAGEMENT INDUSTRY AND THE CAREER PLANNING OF PRACTITIONERS. With the development of society and the improvement of our living standards, more and more people have had the ability and time
BIG BAD WOLF: WHAT BIG EYES YOU HAVE Once upon a time, there was a pretty little girl who would always wear a red riding cloak, and everyone called her Little Red Riding Hood. One morning, Little Red Riding Hood
FUTURE RELICS I am aiming to make ‘future relics’: items that imagine a distant civilisation finding the detritus of our consumer society, combined with remnants of nature, and being intrigued by these symbols of past riches. My pieces often begin
Moustachioed Women and Rhinoplastic Girls This photography project is my experimental and cultural exploration of religious dogma, gender inequality and censorship in contemporary Iran. In this practice I use social media as a source to inspire the creation of staged
Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence, Bachelor of Arts (Photography) Sponsored by Sun Studios. WATER AND LIGHT My body of work explores light and water’s relationship with the sublime. Looking at various bodies of water, I capture how different lighting can manipulate
WALLS I am an abstract oil painter that lives and works in Melbourne. My paintings focus on colour perfection and fun shapes. I graduated high school dux in studio art, and am about to graduate with my Bachelor of Fine
Recipient of the Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence, Bachelor of Arts (Photography) Highly Commended. _________________________________ PURE INTENTIONS investigates the implications and complexities of purity culture and considers the intersection and contradictions of ideology and desire. Purity culture promotes conservative religious teachings
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
BODIES TUMBLED INTO BODIES: Exploring multispecies entanglements Welcome to the rhizome, you can erase a line in the web but little spores still blow towards you in the wind. ‘Ecology’ is derived from the Greek word ‘oikos’, which is defined
DANCE MUSIC: RHYTHMIC EXPRESSION IN PASTEL AND SOUND I am an emerging artist and practising musician based in Ocean Grove, Victoria. My bold and fluid style, both in drawing and music, has emerged from a quiet self-confidence that allows me
NOBODY PUTS BABY IN A CORNER My studio practice throughout this year has largely been an expression of internal dialogue and emotions translated onto canvas through a surrealist lens. My current project focuses primarily on the notion of infantilisation and
GOSSAMERY I am a Peruvian-born sculptural installation artist working in Naarm, Australia. My work explores how we experience embodied meaning through interconnection with our environment. I pick my materials based on their sensorial and somaesthetic qualities. As such I have
Recipient of the Firestation Print Studio Graduate Print Access Prize.__________________________________ SETTING A PLACE I am an emerging, print-based artist living and working in Djilang/Geelong, Victoria. Having spent the last couple of decades raising my two daughters, I decided to return to
Koodak Award for the Highest Academic Achievement in Third Year Gold & Silversmithing — Donor Mr Gabriel Ripka. _________________________________ AT WHAT COST By focusing on the use of materials possessed with an honest simplicity, together with a deep-seated respect for nature and the environment, my
CAVE LINES & TOUCHSTONES / LEY LINES & SHADOWLANDS This project references origins, cultural identity, and transference, based on an exploration of my Celtic European ancestry. It is designed as a contemplation of my colonist-settler heritage as an approach to
OVER AND OVER AGAIN Sienna Barton is a Naarm-based painter and textile artist. Her artistic practice is obsessive and time-consuming. Often serving as a means of soothing fidgety fingers, her work seeks to transform anxious energy into tangible works of
BOTANICAL CHIMAERA Sirui has a strong passion for exploring how aesthetic forms in nature have inspired the development of her jewellery project in creating its unique aura or atmosphere. She wants to evoke her unique feelings of the vitality in
Recipient of the Megalo Graduate Residency Program and Open Bite Student Association Travel Award. _________________________________ WHERE THE OCEAN IS THE SKY I & II My practice for the last decade has been in graphic design. However, after moving to Melbourne from
WET CAPSULES/SOFT-GORE My work employs the basic internal and external structures that mammals belonging to earth are made up of. Skin, muscle, organs and bone are the physical elements that highlight the simple yet interesting organisation of our bodily systems
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
In this work, histories of the Convent of the Good Shepherd (Abbotsford) are visualised. Experiences of the Convent are vast, complex and many of them painful. Each image is a speculative retelling, based on traces of conversations with women who
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,
PEACOCKING is a ceramic exploration into sexuality and the reproductive systems of animals and humans. This year I focused my investigation on the courtship displays shown by certain birds-of-paradise and the seductive body language shown by humans. My research has led
Elements of thought relating to the passage of time circulate with a focus gravitating towards human connection, relation and experience. In recognising the connection and collection of moments we share through solidarity and commonality, an exploration of mark-making, materiality and
Recipient of the Lowenstein Arts Management Prize. _________________________________ A BRIGHT FUTURE seeks to evoke new understandings of value, reuse, and material, centred around my utopian ideal of a sustainable future. Through methodologies of collection, frugality, and recontextualisation, my series of
PHOTOBOOK CAPTURING RMIT SCHOOL OF ART STUDENTS, FEATURING INDIVIDUAL PROFILES OF THEIR PRACTICE. instagram.com/steven.charles.photography
SWALLOW is a single-channel experimental short film created as an exploration of the cinematic psychological thriller and horror genre to engage with the discomfort of the self, exposing the deafening fear of being alone. The film blends the horror of
BENEATH THE SURFACE Tahlia Diaz’s artworks reference nature expressed through the experience of mourning and grief. She has devised a unique form of coil rolling that creates a deteriorated and heavily textured clay surface by carefully assembling the repeated stretched
A World We Left Behind Do you remember your dreams upon waking? What is the earliest memory you can recall? This project is intently concerned with memory, but doesn’t aim to depict any type of overt imagery related to existing memories.
MY MOTHER’S SILENCES COME TUMBLING OUT OF ME A documentation of moments and memories I never existed within or remained a part of, through exploring the significance of our finite existence and the unpredictability of memory. Engaging with the opportunity
Exploring the notion that materials are imbued with memory, my practice investigates the affective power of objects when included in figurative and still-life imagery. Collecting and preserving objects that once sat as quiet backdrops to our daily lives has become
Valentin Ostrom is a French-born jewellery artist whose Mediterranean countryside upbringing defines much of his identity. Valentin’s sensitivity to the natural world and previous science background play out his exploration of biology, botany and natural phenomena in an artistic context.
Recipient of the Kayell Digital Print Award. __________________________________ THE SPACE BETWEEN Propelled by an endless fascination with the natural world and our relationship to it, my work is often site-responsive, based on my own engagement with the urban and natural
URBAN TIME I have always been influenced by the world of both photography and advertising. Having completed two years of this course online during a global pandemic, I was intrigued by how companies were adapting to the new climate and
NO NAMES // IMPRESSIONS MADE The concept of immortalisation, of leaving an impact after death, a proof of existence, is something so specifically human. Like graveyards and museums, books or photography. ‘The bush’ exists outside of that, in a constant
ME is a series of fashion portraits exploring female identity. This initiative engages the cooperation of a professional photographer along with women who challenge the male-centric gaze discourse. Portraits have produced new concerns for women as developments in photography have given
MODERN DAY ROMANTICS – an exploration of hook-up culture and the modern dating scene. With online dating being at the forefront of the modern dating scene, this print-based research project investigates hook-up culture and the impact that the cyber
Recipient of the Print Studio Experimental Print Award. __________________________________ This project is an investigation into how I can create a more sustainable printmaking practice by making a relief block that is infinitely recyclable. A lino block is a thick
MY SOUVENIRS FROM MELBOURNE This project is based on observations of buildings in the City of Melbourne. I employ digital illustration and animation to create a series of sketches, combining my Asian background with further city exploration while on my
WooJai Lee’s practice is centered around materials. Through material experimentations, he searches for the hidden potential of ordinary material. By transforming the materials into unconventional applications of furniture, interior elements, and sculptures, WooJai challenges the stereotypical ways of working with
MIRROR AND ILLUSION Xiaoyou Fu is a contemporary artist. By exploring photography and mixed media, I looked at other ways to communicate emotion and depict ambience. I also exhibited certain ethereal aspects of Eastern culture in an abstract form. Through
ART IN PUBLIC SPACE DURING THE PERIOD OF COVID-19 Public art refers to works of art in any medium planned and executed outside the gallery environment, which are specifically used for exhibitions in public spaces. There are many ways to
ARTS EDUCATION IS AVAILABLE FOR ALL CHILDREN A business plan for a non-profit arts education platform. Inequality in educational resources is a problem in every country. In comparison, big cities will have more educational resources than small cities. Due
DREAMS THAT SWALLOW PEOPLE III presents China’s hot water culture to a perhaps unfamiliar audience. Although the history of Chinese drinking hot water is only seventy years old, it has had a profound impact on every Chinese person. Tracing the
Recipient of the The Bold and the Beautiful Art Prize. _________________________________ THE LANGUAGE OF MATERIALS In my project I have investigated how after immigrating to Australia in 1998, having been brought up in a traditional Chinese culture, I was exposed
BY THE POND is a series of works in response to the pond in Carlton Gardens. These paintings draw from my experiences of this place and the duck’s impressions on me. Over the past year, I have been visiting the
Recipient of the NAVA Ignition Prize. _________________________________ DIALOGUE WITH NATURE This research project uses temporary public artworks and multi-dimensional methods to foster embodied and symbiotic relationships between the human, the environment and nature. The research utilises different forms of public
Recipient of the Reflektor Prize. _________________________________ Originally from the traditional unceded lands of the Kaurna people on what is now known as the Adelaide Plains, I moved to Naarm/Melbourne, where my current creative work has generally developed into an expanded
PERSONA I have slowly slipped into the life of an immigrant since 2017 when I started studying in New Zealand—then attending university in Melbourne from 2020 to 2022, where I will be graduating at the end of the year, and
这个项目对探索家的数字化软件来寻找记忆和收藏之间的联系，的项目还包括我在重建过程中的使用过程。 我的作品为基础，制作项目的，并制作视频，以扩大与观众的创作范围和日常联系范围，以唤起与时俱进的场景。感觉离场感是席位实践创作的关键要素。出现的情绪，看似乡愁传达出一种个性化的情绪。 随着工作的推进，我的制作场景设置在一个更接近的时期，软件中的现在逐渐成为我物理世界的延伸。 李玉萌，数字家庭，2022 李玉萌，数字家庭，2022 李玉萌，数字家庭，2022 李玉萌，数字家庭，2022
DYING BUT ALIVE IN THE FALSE WORLD Reborn—Can The Cyber God release souls of Bionic Ghosts from purgatory? This project focuses on cyberculture and contemporary beliefs regarding spirits and ghosts, expressed through the medium of an immersive space.
LATENT HALIDE The core mechanisms of the photographic process involve a blank medium exposed to external phenomena in order to record an event. Traditionally, light alone is given the sole role in representation despite other phenomena playing an important role
UNSTILL My work engages with ideas relating to inspiration and influence. Our perspective on everything doesn’t come naturally, we learn how and what we see. Unstill is a series of non-narrative, still life oil paintings, made using multiple layers where
THE MAGICAL JOURNEY: CORAL AND PHOENIX is a fictional story about the magical adventure journeys of Princess Coral and Phoenix. The five metre long mixed media painting is divided into twelve storylines. The stories reference Western and Eastern myths, religious stories,
AN UN-COMING OF AGE The still-life object acts as a vessel in the exploration of the beauty of the everyday. Its accessibility and familiarity allow the bowl, the vase, the cup, to resonate universally. The stylisation of the vase becomes
