Aaron Ashwood
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
Abi Corden
AND SO THE CYCLE CONTINUES explores the conversation between influence and identity. Experiencing life through memories and cultivating a persona based on superficial notions of nostalgia, identity can be defined in the 21st century as a reflection of the enmeshing
Addin Sugarda
Mary Oliphant Prize. Seventh Gallery Award. BESTOWED: EXPLORING TRAUMA AS A FORM OF INHERITANCE THROUGH CERAMIC SCULPTURES AND RITUALISED PERFORMANCE Reimagining heirlooms from the artist’s Javanese heritage to create ceramic sculptural work, Bestowed challenges the persistence of filial piety in
Adrienne Cameron
Project executive summary Name: Adrienne Cameron, s3996963 Title: So, you want to be a collector? Outcome: Pamphlet Collector pamphlet Abstract: This project explores the parameters of creating a valuable contemporary fine art collection over a lifetime. Extensive academic research has
Aidan Calabria
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.
Aiko Yuen
MY BODY, NOT MY RULES centres on creating a series of paintings that investigate themes of sexual violence and ‘The Gaze’ while seeking agency as well as explore the female body and reclaiming authority. My eagerness to confront women’s issues
Aiko Yuen
Born in 2002, Aiko is an Australian painter of Asian diaspora, currently maintaining her practice on Wurundjeri Land of the Kulin Nations in Naarm/Melbourne. Currently enrolled in the Honours Fine Art course at RMIT School of Art, she excels in
Aisha Hara
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.
Alanna Baxter
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
Alannah Borg
I acknowledge, pay respect, and pay the rent to the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands on which I live and work: the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nations.
Alba Goodey Artacho
Loss of my assumptive world refers to a significant part of my grieving process, the expectation for a person to continue to be in your life and needing to adjust this assumption after their passing. I explore the changes that
Alex Danay
PAST LIVING: Memory is a Monster/KUTIS I work fluidly in my studio, constantly experimenting and researching materials and methods to find the best ways in which to express two main ideas. The first being the exploration of mental
Alex Kynaston
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
Alexander ‘Pug’ Williams
instagram: @notawizard_yet www.alexanderpugwilliams.com GLYPH OF NON-ATTACHMENT My 2023 capstone project is the Glyph of Non-attachment (GON-A). GON-A is a non-static assemblage composed from sculptural objects I have created over the course of my degree. These sculptures are made from industrial
Alexandra Cairney
Drawing Studio Award for excellence in drawing-based practices. BETWEEN YARN AND A HARD PLACE is an ongoing exploration of mother-daughter relationships and, by extension, the complex interaction between the maker and the made. In my semi-autobiographical practice, I explore the
Alexandra Cairney
RMIT Creative Residency Award The female body is judged biologically, evolutionarily and culturally for its fertility, sexuality, and aesthetics. As a young Western woman, I am shaped by this judgement, battling to find acceptance within my skin. My practice-led research
Alexandra Calabria
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
Alexandra Nosova
SASHA’S A to Я COLLECTION: A REFLECTION ON NATIONAL IDENTITY THROUGH PRINTED IMAGES OF ICONIC SYMBOLS AND EMBLEMS. My work explores the interplay between consumerist culture and identity, examining how everyday objects detached from their practical use become moguls
Alexandra Pellegrino
ALPHA 60 AWARD WINNER VEILED REFLECTIONS – THE WARDROBE AS A LIMINAL STRUCTURE OF INTERSECTING IDENTITIES explores the healing potential of material manipulation and repetitive processes. My practice becomes a physical means of breaking down psychological barriers and confronting
Alice Gaywood
Sculpture Workshop Prize. THE RABBITS is an assemblage of found materials transformed and altered, arranged to echo an imagined agricultural or domestic garden exterior landscape and at the same time an interior domestic setting, similar to a sitting room. As the
Alice Jordan
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
Alice Qian
This thesis explores the potential of The Muse Mandarin (TMM), a Melbourne-based cultural tour business designed for Mandarin-speaking audiences. By leveraging the founder’s expertise in event management and arts management, TMM aims to offer immersive and educational experiences at Melbourne’s
Altsoy
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
Alyssa Henderson
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
Amelia Gill
WEATHER PAINTINGS These works are about the sensibilities of past upper classes, and the cyclical growth of vegetation. I am a painter and draughtsman based in Melbourne and was born on a farm in New Zealand. In my work, through
Amelia Spencer
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
Amelia Whiting
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
Amina Qasim Zada
Winner: The Fullstop Framing Company Award. https://www.fullstopframing.com/ Highly Commended: ACAE Gallery. https://acaearts.com.au/ My work emerges from a process that is both instinctual and uncertain, unfolding without a clear destination. I often don’t recognise what I’ve made until the end.
Amy Gagnon
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
Amy Grover
Firestation Print Studio Exhibition Prize for high academic achievement. Sunshine Print Artspace Graduate Award for high academic achievement in Third Year. MEDIEVAL AND THE MODERN Through a practice of print and illustration my work engages with the ways history and
Amy Wyborn
WUNDERKAMMER. Dissection of the mind and matters. Eclectic. Found objects. Curiosities. Undiscovered. Line. Boundary. Trashy. Tacky. Campy. Lace. Tulips. Bugs. Moon. Sun. Bears. Fish. Hearts. Stickers. Gems. Dolls. Teeth. Contemplation. Pearls. Apologies. Locket. Keys. Ribbon. Sequins. Ornate frames. Grudge. Pink.
Ana Sanchez
111 WAYS TO FORGET ̶Y̶O̶U̶ MYSELF This project emerges from Ana’s lived experiences and the dynamics of emotionality and shame. Ana creates pieces of participatory art and ritual performances using her body as a test subject to discover how
Anabelle Stonehouse
BEAUTY IN BODILY REALITIES: RECONTEXTUALISING THE FEMININE EXPERIENCE THROUGH EXPANDED CERAMIC PRACTICE is a studio based research project that employs an expanded ceramic practice and unconventional installation strategies to investigate an recontextualise the feminine experience. Aspects of the grotesque,
Angela Mezzatesta
Chapman & Bailey Award. A WALK AMONGST NATURE. My practice relates to New Materialism, a philosophy that allows me to open up to an intimate, reciprocal engagement with my materials and immediate surroundings. My current work sits between painting and
Angela Sexton
Yarra Sculpture Gallery Exhibition Award http://www.yarrasculpturegallery.com.au/ WHEN PUSH COMES TO SHOVE is an invitation to propel this object into motion. I ask you to feel my materials and to watch them turn over, in, and around, as I have. This
Angelica Zumpo
THE SYMPHONY OF JOCULARITY: UNVEILING THE JOURNEY FROM CHILDHOOD TO ADULTHOOD is a project that explores the harmonious interplay between craft and childhood by weaving together found objects and metals in an effort to explore connections between past and present
Angelica Zumpo
Home as Qualia: Reflections on the miniature object. My practice-led research project Home as Qualia: Reflections on the miniature object is an ode to places of memory and devotion—the home. I hand-craft miniatures, boxes, and lockets to examine how home
Angelina Innocent
The Moat Bar Awards for excellence in Video and Drawing. DRESS YOU UP IN YOUR LOVE explores the body, identity, and sexuality through a queer feminist lens. Viewers will enter a boudoir-like space to experience an immersive installation comprising
Angelina Innocent
MISOPHONIA. (installation, performance and sound) Misphonia explores performativity; social scripting/masking, the psyche, the central nervous system and the erotic (as power/life source), through lived experience of patriarchy, trauma and (inevitably) late diagnosed neurodiversity. [(Currently), most AFAB people aren’t diagnosed until
Angelique Fry
ETERNAL LOOP~REIMAGINING THE BUCKLE In this project I explored contemporary buckle making through the lens of intuitive making. This work seeks to create discussion on the functionality of different buckles by abstracting their form, scale and function. I’m interested
Angelique Jenkins
Stardust: Ascension and the Art I Never Made. My practice-based research investigates the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) within a queer photographic and video practice to explore and amplify themes of fantasy, identity, and healing. Grounded in Deleuzian theory, which
Angelique Rebillard
PASS THE BUTTER is a self-portrait that unfolds across various mediums and techniques. This piece delves into the emotions I can encounter in the creative process as well as everyday life. I aim to capture how relentless my thoughts and mindset
Angelo Ooi
COMMUNITY is an installation of eighty-eight wheel thrown vases. I view each vessel that I make as a person – individual and unique. In physical form a pot is like a person with a neck, shoulders, belly, hip and foot. When
Anh Truong
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
Anika Macela
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
Anita Kwong
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
Anjali Hunter
GOOD VS EVIL I am an artist with a practice that focuses on sculpture and installation. My practice is a constant exploration of history, religion and the vast realm of the human condition. As a sculpture student at RMIT, I am
Anna Kennedy
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
Anna Kouvelas
UNRAVELLING is a textile-based work that uses both handmade and found materials to delve into the themes of women’s work, girlhood and personal history. Through weaving and patchworking, the work explores how textiles can hold memory and identity, much like
Anna of Pearl
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
Anna Sanders
Based in Naarm/Melbourne, Sanders’ work addresses the body as material, meaning and muse. Her origins begin with self, yet through analogue manipulation the familiar becomes augmented and re-assembled. Her work spans a multitude of disciplines including, but not limited
Annie Wallwork
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
Anthea Cleary
CUT FROM THE SAME CLOTH. The Currawong bird call repeats as dusk approaches and a warm spring air is present. The sun sets over the top paddock as the kangaroos graze on the grass below. My fingernail beds are coated
Anthea Vayonitis
THE SENSATION OF CONNECTIVE CHROMATIC ENERGY: Lyrical abstraction and the metaphysical in painting. My Master’s project investigates lyrical abstraction through the medium of gestural, embodied and immersive painting. My inspiration is expressed through an intuitive process that explores spiritual
Ariene Lam
My art practice is closely connected to my life experiences, and this year, I focused on my relationship with my mother as a central theme. I explored the patterns of our communication and how our bond shifted due to the
Arkady Gollings
Reds, Greens, and White. They remind me of Christmas, an American one. A clown mask. The colours on a Liverpool Football Club scarf, a big bushel of Red poppies or a traffic light if White replaced the orange light. Red,
Ash Worthington
CHERCHEZ LA FEMME! My work is concerned with how women are viewed both in an art world setting and in other narrative forms. We see images of women covering the walls of galleries, so we assume they are present. We
Astrid Visser
UN-PACK EXPRESSION THROUGH MATERIALITY. My practice consists of expressing emotions through imagery and materiality, pent-up feelings using symbolism as such dog figures which have often seen as faithful, loyal animals. Use of facial imagery and materiality to convey depth within
Aurea Palmer
OUR REGRETTABLE PROPHECY A sculptural installation that calls into question our future under current social condition. It questions society’s cause of climate change and its radical effects on everything, reinforced through the showcase of mundane elements. A portrayal of a
Aurora Markel
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
Ayla Stewart
GIRLHOOD, WOMANHOOD AND THE SPACE BETWEEN This body of works investigates stages of girlhood through to womanhood, and what each of these moments of rebirth might look like from a personal perspective. Each of these moments are driven by periods
Bea Yu
Melbourne Art Supplies Award Winner Sanctuary Reimagined: Unveiling Spiritual rebirth and bicultural renewal through animism, eternalism, repetition, and layering. Sanctuary Reimagined intricately maps my transformative journey of spiritual rebirth and bi-cultural renewal through mixed-media installation. By employing a methodology of repetition,
Belinda Farinaccia
This practice-led research project investigates the interplay between the seen and unseen within textile art installation practice. Central to this research is the use of agave fibres and other natural materials, which reflect spiritual and ecological interconnections as they allow
Belinda Field
The Wayne Conduit Memorial Prize. My main area of interest is in contemporary still life painting. My works are observational, using traditional painting methods and working from life. The works often begin by moving, organising and arranging objects before building
Beth Kay
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
Beth Sanderson
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
Beth Sanderson
Koodak Award for Enamelling Prize for Technical Excellence. WHIMSY IN THE ORDINARY: AN EXPLORATION OF THE MUNDANE, ROUTINE AND PRECIOUSNESS THROUGH JEWELLERY. My practice explores the domestic space and the ordinary with a focus on processes and objects involved in
Betty Knibbs
THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL AWARD WINNER fragments of deterioration. Betty’s work explores echoes of human presence, navigating the blurred boundaries between life and death. Her creations, influenced by ritualistic and macabre inspirations, feel like personal offerings, through various mediums:
Billy Raffin
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.
Blanca Padros-Quintana
The Grand Tour, A Contemporary Take. Solo travelling and backpacking has been a transformative experience for me. Following the isolation we all felt during the Covid years, I went backpacking through Europe during the winter break 2024. I only took
Bo Pang
Bo Pang is a multidisciplinary artist who is currently using weaving, casting, engraving and other forms of handmade contemporary jewellery and installations to communicate with herself. In the process, she analyses and reflects on herself and brings the materials closer to her
Bo-dene Stieler
Dean’s Award for Excellence Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art). YELLOW CORRIDOR ‘Look into yellow, feel immersed in colour, anchored when close. The plane of the wall intersecting through my bodily matter to secure, tether me to site.’ My practice involves
Bo-dene Stieler
YELLOW CORRIDOR My site-specific installation practice uses the colour yellow to translate a neurodiverse experience of architectural space. Using a yellow cube as a self-portrait, I explore liminal spaces in institutional buildings to challenge formalist ideas and portray my sensorial
Bonnie-Jean Whitlock
Lowenstein Arts Management Prize. THE JUNK PILE draws upon Bonnie-Jean Whitlock’s relationship with material, image and process. “I call the accumulation of experience sustained within my own body my ‘junk pile’, it contaminates everything I say, do and make. I
Boyu Zhang
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
Bronwyn Calcutt
THE SOUND OF A PAINTING OF A SONG: EXPLORING HOW SOUND AND IMAGE MAY GENERATE AND ENHANCE EACH OTHER. Over the time of my Master’s study I have made a series of explorations to open creative connections between my concurrent
Brooklyn Rush
R.L.Foote Design Studio – Residency Award Unearthed looks at the hidden networks below the surface that create a complex, functioning ecosystem that is older than humanity. I derive my forms to represent the connections between mycelium and tree roots; these
Caitlin Kozman
PEER PRINCIPLES IN ARTS MANAGEMENT AND PRACTICE Artists are change agents, agitators, activators – of spaces, places and people. As change agents, today’s artists often work within other frameworks and systems, questioning power dynamics and often leading from
Caitlin Rigby
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
Carly Spiteri
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
Carly Spiteri
APHOTIC APOTHECA: OPENING SOON. Come one, come all and step inside, you never know what one might find. An immersive installation allowing visitors to travel through to an undisclosed time and discover the curiosities the little shop has to offer.
Catherine Magill
Catherine Magill is a Naarm /Melbourne-based dance artist with thirty years performance experience. Creating in the emerging moment, Catherine interweaves spontaneous, responsive movement and spoken word, with set choreography and scripted text. The work is political and poetic, addressing issues
Catherine Pickop
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 Smith
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,
Catherine Weng
THE MOAT AWARD WINNER CACHEXIA. A surreal exploration of the decaying body, born from the intersection of personal experience and the unsettling reality of transformation. This body of work reflects an intimate relationship with my own physical form, fusing surrealist
Celeste Perry
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
Celine Babet
Garland Award for Innovative Storied Object Celine Babet explores how a cultural lifestyle has influenced her sense of self by making works of multiple ceramic components. Through her conceptual research, she draws upon childhood memories and family relationships, which are
Celline Mercado
Lowensteins Arts Management Award Winner 2024 Dean’s Award for academic excellence Recipient for DEBUT XXI at Blindside ARI (April 2025) https://blindside.org.au/ Between the Lines (2022-24) explores diasporic identity linked to the psychological impacts of colonialism through sculptural installation. My artworks are
Chanoknan Khongkadae
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
Charlie Lochert
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
Charlie Patten
Megalo Print Studio Graduate Award MYCELIA – a venture into my past, honouring the previous versions of myself that allowed me to become the person I am today, as well as the people in my life who have shaped my
Charlotte Armstrong
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
Charlotte Hall
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
Charlotte Nheu
KIPPLE. Kipple pays homage to the object and its collector. This work’s nomenclature follows Philip K. Dick’s novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, where ‘kipple’ refers to the clutter of useless junk that reproduces itself when your back is
Cheng Peng Long
As an artist who loves nature and walking, nature is often the subject of my work. I am accustomed to observing the details of things and depicting them in my works, which is reflected in the sculptural paintings of various
Chiara Zeta
MAKING, BREAKING, MAKING: REFLECTING PERSONAL EXPERIENCES OF COMPLEX TRAUMA. This project investigates the multifaceted nature of traumatic memory through the making and breaking of handmade objects grounded in feminine roles. By creatively exploring the process of forming and fragmenting domestic
Chiara Zeta
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
Chispa Flaskas
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
Chloe Vella
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
Chris Bilby
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
Christina Rankin
Winner: Tolarno Hotel Award. UNIFORM: Autobiographical reflections on the interplay between conformity, gender and neurodiverse thinking. Uniform explores the intricate dynamics of identity, conformity, and neurodiverse thinking within the rigid structures of the schooling experience. The work examines the complexities
Christine Murray
LOSING IT: An exploration involving feelings of loss through Installations with ephemeral sculptures. Losing It consists of three works – Drop, Knocked, and a video work (with sound) titled Pearls in Rain. Each work captures hesitation and anticipation with the use
Christine Murray
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
Ciara Steggerda
Koodak Award for the Highest Academic Achievement in Third Year Gold & Silversmithing. CONTEMPORARY TALISMANS is a body of work exploring the involvement of jewellery and objects in everyday rituals. Ciara’s practice explores the idea of the talisman, informed by
Cien Su
Winner – Koodak Award for Enamelling – Technical Excellence (presented by Koodak Jewellery Supplies) Haeng-Bok (행복 Happiness & Luck). As a fan of the K-pop group The Boyz, I aim to share the joy and happiness I have experienced
claire olivia
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Claudia Cuthbert
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
Claudia Ridgway
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,
clouds
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
Coco Jones
BDS Sculpture Prize for outstanding portfolio. TETHERED By temporalities, I am always tethered, but forced to move forward despite it; these opposing internal conflicts causes loss of presentness, how am I to exist? Tethered is a multimedia artwork that investigates
Connotie Yu
[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
Cornelius Wong
Kings Artist-Run exhibition award https://www.kingsartistrun.org.au/ DUST PIECE. With everything packed into boxes, all that’s left is dust. instagram.com/ms.homunculus
Cristina. T. Ingbritsen (Tattooed Blonde Punk Art)
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
Curtis Costa
44 Frame Factory Graduate Award. AM I ENOUGH? is a personal expression of emotion, identity, and societal reflection. The portrayal of athletic body ideals as symbols of masculine health is often amplified by social media and Hollywood stars resorting to
Dai Shijie
The theme of my project is an imaginative exploration of unreal dragons: Dragon is Everywhere. The entire project reflects my ongoing exploration of materials and concepts. I focus on dragons, drawing inspiration from Chinese philosophy and the Five Elements (Wu
Daisy Giuffrida
UNTITLED captures the idea of abstract ceramic forms that combines two textures. One with a fluid, glossy surface that reflects light and another that portrays a rough, matte texture that’s raw and organic. This creates a dynamic tension between the
Damien Tune
CENOZOICA is a physical record of a conceptual self. A sculptural work dedicated to the changing and shifting idea of what makes us who we are, and the experiences that change us. Immortalised in 60-million-year-old igneous basalt mined in Victoria,
Dan Su
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
Daniel A’Vard
THE WAY FORWARD IS BACK The world, the universe, began in energy, in light. The first thing recorded, whether it is the Big Bang or Genesis, is light. Light is the finger marks of the creation of the universe. When we
Daniel Longo
Grotesque embodiments in a phenomenological probe of human desire through anatomical dismemberments and the antagonism of corporeal boundaries: A CARNAL DISSECTION
Daniel Song
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.
Darcy Lazarus
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
Daria Niall
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
David Bilusic
Perry Summers Sculpture Book Prize for excellent in Sculpture Studio: FORGED is a collection of narrative works that seamlessly intertwine two distinct stories. The first story narrates the tale of The Blacksmith and the Devil, while the second story follows The
Deanna Versace
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
Deb Lemcke
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
Debbie Ewington
FRAGMENTS AND THREADS. My art journey started in earnest five years ago. My daughter had just commenced her first year at RMIT studying a Bachelor of Art (Fine Art). Seeing how much she was learning and developing her skills in
Deborah Fisher
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
Deborah McHugh
SHEARED HAIR, SHAVED HEAD. I am a sculpture artist based on Wadawurrung Country with a background in textile art. My practice interprets a language that bears trace of family linage listening to the materials as a generative process. Sheared Head, Shaved
Debra Higgins
Garland Award for Innovative Storied Object. Highly commended: Chapman and Bailey. Searching for Light, The One Tree, and the Universe in a Piece of Quartz. Debra Higgins is a multi-disciplinary artist who lives, works, and studies in Naarm/Melbourne. Her recent
Debra Iris Batton
Recipient of the Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence and contribution to the program, Master of Arts (Art in Public Space). _________________________________ IN THE MIDDLE OF ZOË is a public performance experiment with arthouse circus and posthumanist philosophies. The work is
Declan Monaghan
EXILE, is a series of print-based works that explores my experiences and feelings towards masculinity. The works are framed from my own perspective, drawing attention to characteristics in our society that remain patriarchal, exclusionary and/or ‘toxic’.
Dee Robinson
FLOTILLA OF BOATS In my creative practice I have explored theories of flow, play, and the relationship between making with memory and place. I combine these concepts by fabricating a fleet of vessels, using traditional gold and silversmithing
Dee Robinson
RMIT Creative Residency Award Reconstructing the vessel depicted in paintings as novel metal work objects. The act of abstracting metal iterations of vessels from paintings blurs the lines between disciplines, positioning jewellery and objects as equal to traditional art forms
Dhishni de Silva
Winner: ACAE Gallery Award. In my practice, I weave together cultural influences, memories, emotions, and the subtleties of everyday existence. Observation is an inherent and fundamental way I interact with and perceive the world, exploring the hidden beauty of my surroundings.
Diya Mathur
Deans Award Winner ADFAS (Australian Decorative & Fine Arts Society), Yarra Branch – Young and Emerging Artists Fund Award Winner Diya Mathur’s practice explores the transgenerational impacts of the 1947 Partition of India on both collective and personal identities, investigating
Dominik Zarówny
COUTURE OF DESIRE, which takes the form of a discomforting installation, challenges the conventional notions of beauty and eroticism and explores depictions of the so-called ‘perverse’ in human fantasy. It is within this delicate tension that my sculptural garments find the
Dominique Viggiani
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
Doris XinZhi Li
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
Dougal Campion
LEARNING HOW TO BUILD THE ULTIMATE MECHANICAL ORGANISM Hello I’m Dougal. I came to uni, made some friends and built some more. \I’ve been learning how to build robots so they can speak for themselves. Being alive
Drey Willows
THE THEATRE OF VIOLENCE This project is an exploration of the intense focus on violence in media and popular culture. I am curious about a society that views violence as entertainment and how this is reflective of rape culture. Rape
Drey Willows
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
dylan marelić
Lowenstein Arts Management Prize. MACHINIC ECOLOGIES is a practice-led project exploring the interfaces between humans, technology and the environment through transmedia installation. The installation space stages a re-imagined landscape composed of screen-based works, 3D prints, robotic assemblages and generative sound. These
Eddie Corney
Firestation Print Studio Graduate Scholarship MICROCOSM. Microcosm is a body of work investigating the patterns, convergences and linkages between life on earth. I am interested in the linkages of life and matter through coexistence, and this project is formed on
Edie Duffy
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
Eilish Sherlock
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
Eilish Sherlock
SQUISH: RESEARCHING SKIN WITHIN PAINTING Studies of the human form, with a focus on flesh. Examining the body’s unique movements and malleability. An inquiry into how physical senses such as grabbing and squishing, can be depicted within painting. Finishing my
Elahje Kassis
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
Elaina Venn
AN UNCHARTED PATH To lay down a path, you begin by digging a hole. It can be challenging work. It involves risk. What if it collapses? What if you uncover something undesirable? What if it all leads to nothing, a
Ella Barker
Winner: Chapman and Bailey Award. In this series of paintings, I am thematically concerned with creating intriguing geometric compositions of figures and urban landscapes. I seek to cause the viewer’s gaze to travel across a pictorial plane, not rest in
Ella Simpson
RABBIT OUT OF A HAT: AN AMALGAMATION OF THE FEMININE UNCONSCIOUS. My unconscious. Canvas & paper & oil paint & ink. Archives. Feminist theory. Religious imagery. Obliteration. Bodies. Heart patterned underwear. Balancing Elephant. Targets and foxes and performers. instagram.com/ellasimpsonartist
Elle Goudis
Elle Goudis is a female artist who is based in Melbourne/Naarm. She is currently studying in her final year (2023) of a Bachelor of Fine Art at RMIT University with a specialisation in Painting. She explores the concept of portraiture
Ellen Vince-Moin
Through intense and obsessive patterning, I have made pen drawings on paper that seek to depict the sublime. Conceptually engaged with the symbols that reverberate from within the Catholic Church, I have linked my matrilineal connection to the Church with
Elli Bardas
Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence and contribution to the program, Master of Fine Art. WILD THINGS combines my love of portrait photography with sculpture to counter divisive narratives that arise primarily though bodily differences. Through playful materials, colour and absurdity,
Elli sheeran
Nothing happens in a vacuum. “I believe that neurobiology can contribute to an understanding of aesthetics, but it cannot do so in a vacuum.” This quote from Siri Hustvedt’s Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women encapsulates the essence of
Eloise Iona Hurn
Megalo Print Studio Graduate Award AKIN explores the merging of printmaking and collage, alongside my investigating of different copper-plate making techniques. Print-making is a rhythmic artform, and can form multiple images from one matrix. It is a very cyclical process,
Elouise McKinley
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
Elyse Pape
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
Emily Gaule
BUTCH FEMME NATAL I am not obsessed with weddings. Nor am I obsessed with men. My art practice is the opposite. I am interested in sexuality, performance and failure. I do this for myself and for other women in my
Emily Marker
Masking tape, paper, and other bits and pieces: material exploration and jumping between tasks. Over the last year, my practice has focused on investigating and recontextualising a variety of materials – paper, masking tape, nails, canvas off-cuts, found lolly wrappers,
Emily Song
JOSEPH BEUYS CAFE AWARD WINNER THE MOAT AWARD WINNER ENERGY IN MOTION AND A ‘MOVING DRAWING’ – transformations of individual drawings expand into animated projections, manifesting through spatial investigations and sculptural installations. Lines and forms seemingly grow and shrink, sway
Emma Lynes
I LOOK AT YOU, AND YOU LOOK AT ME: RECOGNISING THE SELF IN THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT. My work explores the inherent power of the natural environment and its ability to be used as a mirror with which to explore the
Emma Lynes
AFFINITY investigates how material expression through painting can be used to explore personal affect and relationality to the natural environment. This project contributes and sits alongside wider discussions of connection to the natural landscape and its relation to colonial extractive
Emma x Zhang
NAVA Ignition Prize. DIGITAL WONDERSCAPES Exploring the wonder and new ways of seeing natural phenomena through atmospheric colourful light projections I use the ephemeral nature of light to explore and interrogate new ways of seeing, by employing digital techniques and
Emmica Lore
I WANTED TO BE CLEVER BUT DECIDED TO JUST GO BIG is a large-scale sculpture engaging in witty institutional critique. Crafted from household materials, the work pokes friendly fun at the art world (whilst not being above it). [Note: The
Erica Fraser
遷移 (SEN – I) This project encapsulates multidisciplinary works that document and embrace transitory and oppositional forces through a combination of scale, medium and colour. This collection of works walks a fine line between abstraction and representation of the artist’s
Erin Bussell
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 – Possibilities Await in Synthesis: Dismantling Modes of Interpretation to Maximise Imaginative Potential within Sculpture
Essay by Jade Cargill for Contextualising Practice The topic of this essay and my art is imagination. Within a world that prescribes narratives and frameworks to understand ourselves that lack depth, openness and personal connection, how can we create art
Essay – The Knight of Malta: How the unconscious informs the creation of abstract painting
Essay by Ella Simpson for Contextualising Practice Every work of art is a child of its time, while often it is the parent of our emotions -Kandinsky (1911:9) Writing about the creative process of making art is difficult – specifically,
Essay – A Love Letter to the Liminal: recreating affective animal encounters in clay
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 – Abortion and Queerness: the politics of excavating the closet through confessional performance practice
Essay by Sylva Storm for Contextualising Practice Content Warning: this essay discusses abortion, reproductive rights and queer trauma and contains images of scarification RAW: Nobody who loved me saw it happen (2019 – 2024) (Figure1, 2) is a performance documented
Essay – Affect, Materialism & Skye
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 – Alchemic Thinking: psyche, self & matter in a grotesque practice
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.
Essay – All my love, Alex
Essay By Alex Cairney for Contextualising Practice The final product will never be as satisfying, as filled with power and potential, as the process of its making. (Grant 2017) Dear Mum, Thank you for clothing, feeding, and nurturing me into
Essay – Animality and Autism: Honouring Shared Experiences of Otherness
Essay by Grace Rokesky for Contextualising Practice ‘Appearance and Behavioral Observations: Throughout sessions, Grace presented tidy and well-groomed. She had short stature, appeared to have a healthy BMI, and mobilised independently. Grace was reliably polite, friendly and cooperative. Grace initially
Essay – Art for the Empowerment & Understanding of Rural Communities
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 – Automatic drawing and spontaneity in motion: an exercise in trusting the process
Essay by Emily Song for Contextualising Practice Introduction The tendency to overly control and calculate the result of an artwork during the process of making is something that I have relied heavily on in the past, and is a habit
Essay – Becoming Nomadic
Essay by Timothy Walters for Contextualising Practice Acknowledgement I would like to acknowledge that I live, work and study on the unceded lands of the Bunurong, Woi Wurrung/Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. I pay my respects to Elders past,
Essay – Burnt Out: unlearning perfection through meditative crafting
Essay by Anna Kouvelas for Contextualising Practice Acknowledgment I would like to begin by acknowledging the Traditional Custodians of the land on which I live and work, the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation, and pay my respects to Elders
Essay – Diary Making: exploring the workings of the domestic realm through installation art
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 – Ecological Obituaries: Mourning the More-than-Human
Essay By Holly Clark-Milligan for Contextualising Practice Acknowledgement I pay my respects to the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nations, Traditional Custodians of the land in Naarm (Melbourne) and wish to also acknowledge the palawa-pakana people, Traditional Custodians of lutruwita
Essay – Encountering Illness Narratives through Contemporary Practice
Essay by Eugenie Gullifer-Laurie for Contextualising Practice Pain To experience ineffable pain, when it has no identifiable source and no external mark or visible causality, is almost like having hallucinated it. Pain, Elaine Scarry argues, is a form of suffering
Essay – Ethical Considerations for Artists Depicting Subjects: Suggestions and Self-Reflection
Essay by Lucas Jennings for Contextualising Practice When artists depict other people in their work, there is an imbalanced power dynamic, and critical ethical considerations arise. As my practice demonstrates, the need for ethical consideration becomes imperative when the depicted
Essay – Fragmented Identities: critiquing societal pressures and conformity within the diasporic experience through creative practice
Essay by Sahla Safia Arundati for Contextualising Practice In a globalised world, art can powerfully critique societal pressures of conformity and the experience of diaspora. This essay examines how fragmented identities address these issues, using my art practice as an
Essay – Horse-Girl Feminism
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 – How a spider helped me to understand the world: Symbiosis, the Anthropocene and new materialism
Essay by Sophia Liddy for Contextualising Practice Acknowledgment I would like to begin by acknowledging the traditional owners of the land on which I make, the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. I pay my respects to Elders past,
Essay – How can practice create an asexually and aromantically queer space in an archive of allonormativity?
Essay by Alex Pretyman for Contextualising Practice Introduction Within western archives, be that art-historical, social, queer, other archives, there is a distinct – or to many, not-so-distinct – absence of the asexual and aromantic. Asexuality can be defined as experiencing
Essay – How can the ephemerality of bioplastic revive ecocentrism for the ecological world in the Anthropocene?
Essay by Stephie Ng for Contextualising Practice ‘So, we can’t save the world by playing by the rules, because the rules have to be changed. Everything needs to change and it has to start today’ – Greta Thunberg, 2018 In
Essay – How to Build a Person: Magical Realism in communicating medical trauma
Essay by Tallulah Ainsworth for Contextualising Practice Building a person is no easy task. There are many parts of a human being that all intersect with one another, and are incredibly delicate and prone to failure (Gray 1858). It is
Essay – In Defence of Fumbling: embracing improvisation in art-making
Essay by Yvonne Rambeau for Contextualising Practice Introduction The process of art-making can vary greatly from artist to artist. Though many feel the need to exert control over uncertainty through an ordered and planned process, American art educator Erica
Essay – In Memory of Glen: meaning-making & acknowledgement of post-traumatic grief through the printing process
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 – In Motion (Stone 61): a conversation between stone and body
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 – In Search of Sincerity
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 – Intersectional Identity: blood quantum strategies & reclamation through making
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 – Intuition and the Creative Act
Essay written by Alexander ‘Pug’ Williams for Contextualising Practice My mother is an artist and a natural dyer. My grandfather was a naturalist, and an engineer. Their passion and curiosity for the world flows through my blood and was
Essay – Liminal Spaces: how can a mixed-media practice play a role in disrupting binary oppositions?
Essay by Ivy Rose for Contextualising Practice So, don’t give me your tenets and your laws. Don’t give me your lukewarm gods. I want the freedom to carve and chisel my own face, to staunch the bleeding with
Essay – Memory, Phenomenology and Mono-Ha: Working with the Earth
Essay by Rose Whitlock-Whyte for Contextualising Practice I grew up in a part of semi-rural Victoria outside of a small town, where the bush was my playground. At the age of eight, my family experienced the Black Saturday (2009) bushfires,
Essay – My Art as Experience: embodied meaning within my practice
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 – Or However Many It’s Been Through: conceiving time and reality through the second-hand
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 – Phenomenology and the landscape of being
Essay by Odin Strbac Low for Contextualising Practice Acknowledgment I pay my respects to the Traditional Custodians of the land in Naarm (Melbourne), including the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation, as well as the Taungurung and Yorta Yorta
Essay – Pink Impressions: exploring the affective power of pink
Essay by Jade Armstrong for Contextualising Practice Introduction As Fingerhut and Prinz have articulated, the value of art traditionally depended on aesthetic beauty, though over the last decade, notions of value have shifted towards sensory engagement (2018). According to
Essay – Reconstruct the scene in fragments of memories: A manifesto for photographic collage
Essay by Sebastian Nuttney for Contextualising Practice This essay aims to detail my approach and methodology for photographic collages. This framework, presented as a manifesto, was developed alongside a body of photographic Collages completed in the early half of 2024.
Essay – The Modern Teenager: the impacts of film and television on the construction of identity
Essay by Ekaterina (Katya) Ryzhikh for Contextualising Practice The rise in the availability of technology and media as entertainment has had a profound impact on the experiences of growing up. While technology, in particular mobile phones and tablets, were
Essay – The River
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 – The Subtle Body: a jewellery practice informed by tantric yoga and Hindu mythology
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
Essay – Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana: the ethical non-monogamy of humour and surrealism
Essay by Emmica Lore for Contextualising Practice Introduction Welcome to my essay, where humour takes a tumble into the realm of the surreal. It’s hard to shake the feeling that analysing why something is funny is just, uncool. I find
Essay – Transforming Trauma: The Role of Immersive Installations as Transitional Objects in Exploring Personal History
Essay by Ka Yan So (Kelly) for Contextualising Practice The artist transforms the personal into the universal, creating an object that can be experienced and felt by others, that has the power to move and inspire. (Townsend 2019) Creating installation
Essay – Uncertain Identity
Essay by Luna Yang for Contextualising Practice According to Stets and Bourke, structured society imparts values that individuals identify themselves with, which form the basis of one’s identity (2000). As a young adult, when it come to the topic of
Essay – 你吃了吗? (Have you eaten yet?): recreating gustatory memories to process diasporic experience and identity
Essay by Jessica Guo (郭悦娜) for Contextualising Practice When I was in grade two, I was praised by my white teachers for my English proficiency. But at Saturday Chinese School, I was terrible. I hated learning my language. I found
Essay – Transformative textiles: How can the combination of textile and subtractive painting methods convey autobiographical narratives of trauma and memory?
Essay by Christina Rankin for Contextualising Practice This essay explores the connections between textile, memory, and trauma, focusing on how my artwork (pictured in Figure 1) Uniform incorporates these themes both individually and in conjunction. When utilised in art-making, textile
Esther White
The focus of this project continues themes I am continually drawn back to in my practice. Broadly, my practice comes from a curiosity for the human experience, and our attempts to explain it. My focus on the body as a
Ethan Lazaric
DREAM CATCHERS. Dreams are an essential part of the human condition, acting in the subconscious mind of every individual. Through sculpture, I aim to bring these subconscious thoughts to the forefront of one’s mind, forcing a confrontation between oneself and
Eugenie Gullifer-Laurie
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,
Eva Mikelin
FABRIC PANELS: YOU PAY FOR MY MEMORIES These fabric panels and installations are part of an ongoing series of work from 2021 addressing domestic crafts and labour in both concept and process. The arduous practices of hand stitching, darning, and
Evangeline Clark
‘GIRLY’ AND BODILY is a research project that aims to immerse the viewer in a bodily experience of painting installation that explores excessively bright colours and cute ‘girly’ bubbly forms to reclaim them as a symbol of powerful femininity. I
Evelyn Challinor
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
Faith Spencer
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
Felicia
44 Frame Factory Graduate Award GAME GIRLS. Game Girls is a project in response to the sexism seen in the video game industry. The portrayal of the feminine characters in video games is often hypersexual or helpless, diminishing their agency
Felix Abercrombie Wood
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.
Fiona Morgan
ADFAS (Australian Decorative & Fine Arts Society), Yarra Branch – Young and Emerging Artists Fund Award Winner Fiona Morgan is a multi-disciplinary artists based in Wudawurrung country, in regional Victoria. Morgan’s practice is focused on painting and installation, primarily concentrating
Fiona Soeding
TRANQUILO (A VISUAL ODE TO SERENITY) Since the beginning of 2023, my artistic journey has shifted its focus. I originally explored how external influences, such as The Seven Deadly Sins, shape our beliefs and behaviour. This exploration deepened my understanding
Fiorella Fabian
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
Francesca Bardell
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
Freda Drakopoulos
Care | Support | Understanding | Curate | Ethics. I, Freda Drakopoulos, live and work on the unceded sovereign land of the Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation, I acknowledge and pay my respects to Elders, past
Gab Lewis
Naarm /Melbourne-based arts worker, Gab Lewis applies her background in fine arts and experience in the creative industry to her emerging curatorial practice. With a focus on improving accessibility and approachability in arts and culture informing her rationale. Drawing on
Gabrielle Turco
My practice is greatly impacted by my experiences with undiagnosed neurodivergence, growing up queer, and grappling with mental illness. While these features of my life inflict themselves upon my work, I find myself experiencing the most joy when I focus
Gail Harradine
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
Gail Hunt
Winner – 2024 RMIT Gold & Silversmithing Studio Prize ALL HAIL THE GIANTS – a wooden love story for old growth forests My work is concerned with the deforestation of old growth forests in Tasmania, I am motivated by
Geena Pereira
FROM MY MOTHER examines the passing on of knowledge through the maternal line, together with celebrating the female body and their unpaid, unseen, and undervalued labour in the context of Indian culture. Through the framework of contemporary feminism, it seeks to
Gemma Seymour
Troppo Print Studio Graduate Award for high academic achievement in third year. RMIT MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX. RMIT partners with weapons companies.Elbit systems, BAE systems, Thales and Boeing Defence (the list goes on) fund research and scholarships, provide internships and work
Genevieve Mathews
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’
Georgia Clarke
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
Georgia Drummond
Here With Me is an immersive installation designed as a sanctuary for conversation and connection. Amid the overwhelming negativity and isolation we often feel, this piece invites visitors to step into a space of shared warmth and tranquility. Draped in
Georgia Lomax
I AM FEARLESS embarks on the rewriting of self-talk, reconfiguring the internal narrative as a method of post-traumatic recovery. It’s a journey of reclaiming the self through the process of making, reshaping the internal to manifest a better external. The
Georgina Owassapian (Georgina de Manning)
ALIAS & ARTIST delves into the murky waters of art in the age of the internet. Through layered installations, niche subcommunities are brought out from the ether into the corporeal realm. By merging the online with the offline, the complexities
Geraldine Richards
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
Glenda Chaplyn
AMULETS FOR THE EARTH: This speculative research project imagines a post-Anthropocene world where food and plant production and growth rely on human care including conservation, modification and sustainability. The research utilises printing and bookbinding on handmade paper, metalsmithing and embroidery
Gomathi Suresh
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
Grace Elizabeth Flinn
PURSUIT OF TRANSLATION An exploration of the many transformative processes of casting metal in relation to my automatic drawings. Drawing has always been the cornerstone of my practice. Drawn lines have a magical nature to them, a nature I have
Grace Elizabeth Flinn
Wolf Wennrich Award for Craftsmanship I Know You of Old: The Transmutation of Metal, Matter and Meaning. My practice-led research uses historical and contemporary metalsmithing techniques to find new and experimental methods to transmute copper and silver alloys into contemporary
Grace Mitchell
STEALING FOG is an exploration of concealment. I work in an expanded painting practice, with most of my works being concerned with the space between intelligibility and unintelligibility, working with themes of subtraction and obscurity. I often find myself following
Grace Rokesky
R.L.Foote Design Studio – Residency Award RMIT Ceramic Student Association Club Year 3 Award UNTITLED is a large-scale nest-like structure that aims to provide a sensory haven of comfort and respite. By touching, holding and even crawling inside of the
Grace Wright
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
Greta Ermacora
This project translates the narrative of a person’s intimate life, the moments they find precious by translating casual collections of ephemera and sentimental pictures into permanent formal paintings. Inspired by the seemingly universal way people present their individual collections like
Guaire McKenna
I SHOT MYSELF WITH A SILLY LITTLE GUN, IT WAS VERY EASY TO TALK ABOUT. My art aims to be ‘ultra accessible’ discussing otherwise serious themes with a silly and childish look to it. The use of common material allows
Guancong Shen (CHONG)
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.
GyuIn Hanh
THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL AWARD WINNER At last, You Become Me. At last, I Become You (2024) Through this project, I aim to visually reflect the process of exploring personal uniqueness while encompassing both tradition and modernity. Minhwa, as
Halle Mickle
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
Hanieh Khamisi
WOMAN, LIFE, FREEDOM The ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ movement started as a result of the death of a young Iranian girl named Mahsa Amini who was sentenced to death by the morality police because of not following the dress codes. The
Hannah Caprice
Honours Fine Art Travelling Award. INTIMUS BOUND is a playful exploration of the search for emotional intimacy through imagined, metamorphic and metaphorical narratives. This body of work encompasses a year-long project contained in a single artist’s book. In what often
Hannah Hall
SLACK, refers to the looseness between taut stitches, alternating between moments of tension and relief. This is a project where fields of expanded painting and craft practices collide, to create works that occupy a hybrid space between painting and textile.
Hannah Hall
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
Hannah Morel
This Master’s project investigates themes of labour, care and environment through public pedagogy and institutional critique. This work consists of questions and reflections that have accumulated over two years, contributing to ongoing dialogues of countless activists, artists and academics before
HAOZHE WANG
REALITY IN THE FANTASY How to convey and present a world in ten seconds? There may be different physical laws, different creatures, different geography in this world – the point is, it’s not the world you’re familiar with.
Harry Bayston
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
Harry Burmeister
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
Harry McCumiskey
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
Hatice Fikircier
AI in Museums. I have written a research essay on the current impacts and future potentials of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on the museum space. As AI has been quite widespread in museums in the last couple of years. It has
Hattie Pervan
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
Hee Lee
The Bold and the Beautiful Award. DRIFTING STARS: The sense of alienation seeing through self, objects, place, and community. My work captures and expresses the isolation and the anxiety of self-identity experienced between life in Korea and Australia while
Heejoo
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
Heidi Hess
sixteen years away. My digital painting series sixteen years away, draws from my experiences being an expat until adulthood and the sense of distance in growing up. Each of my paintings, focuses on the coming-of-age journey, highlighting moments of self-discovery,
Heidi Kwong
Stockroom Kyneton – Exhibition Award R.L.Foote Design Studio – Residency Award Walkers Ceramic Award – Accademic Excellence RMIT Ceramic Student Association Club – Year 3 Award Heidi Kwong is an emerging ceramic artist currently completing her Bachelor of Arts in
Holden Osbourne-Snell
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
Holly Clark-Milligan
Garland Membership Award. UNSETTLED LIVING. My grandparents said to never buy a house near a willow tree. They said its roots weep as the branches do. Tendrils seek the pipes, entangle themselves in the foundations. Fighting blindly for life,
Honey Lili Bella Garrett
Traversing Girly ✩ Through the act of painting, I traverse the thematics of ‘girly’, a murky term unto itself, and cultivate a dream-like world that subtly reclaims and elevates traditionally trivialised, overtly feminine symbols. My practice is a playful
Hongyu Chen
RESEARCH PAPER: The Value of Inheriting Chinese Traditional Landscape Painting in Shaping an Individual’s Identity. Abstract This paper’s discussion is built upon the significance of identity conveyed by traditional Chinese landscape painting. By applying Stuart Hall’s thesis on cultural recognition,
Huihua Gu
Huihua Gu (b.2003) is an emerging multi-disciplinary artist who focuses on painting and sculpturing. He also explores tremendous areas and ideas, always maintains curiosity, and contemplates with everything and processes. Fascinated by history and events, he shares and discusses them
Idgie Kagan
CONTENT NOTE: reference to gender-based violence. This work was created on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung peoples of the Kulin Nation. I’m not the first, nor am I the last. In my lineage— I’m
Ieesha Wild
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
Imke Breayley
WHAT A PRETTY YOUNG GIRL My artwork in the 2023 Graduate Exhibition is about feelings of anger and conflict about being a woman and wanting to embrace femininity but knowing how tightly that is linked to a capitalist and misogynistic
Imogen Mathews
LANDSCAPES AND TREPIDATION. Utilising a combination of oil paint on wood and paper, my works explore the complexities of human fear through a feminist lens. My practice, through alternative mediums and eerie subject matter, explores the anxieties associated with fear
Indianah (Smith-Johns)
JACK WILLET STUDIO VISIT AWARD WINNER A SLEEPWALK FROM ME TO YOU. When sleep becomes me, I dream of walking from me to you; how the sun kisses my eyes before I can kiss your cheek; I find my waking
Indigo Krule (they/them)
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,
Indra Liusuari
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
Ingrid Mascoll
Born in 2002, I am a multidisciplinary artist growing into a woman during the age of social media. I am inspired by the ‘trash’ aesthetic of blogging culture and how unrestricted internet access as a child has affected my growth
Iona Julian-Walters
Spiralling outward from the central practice of drawing, my work covers a number of mediums and practices from drawing to photography, performance and installation. Drawing is often overlooked within the artistic cannon as an approach that is preparatory, or incomplete,
Ivry Elisabeth Barker
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
Ivy Rose
KITTEN HEEL FANTASY Ivy Rose is a multidisciplinary artist working between drawing, print, photography, sculpture and costuming, revolving around themes of queer expression and gender performance. Obsessing over camp, kitsch and the excessively extravagant through their diverse practice, and always
J. Findlay
Welcome to my suburban backyard, where I invite you to immerse yourself in the sensory experience of my nature-inspired art installations, collectively titled Garden. These works reflect my deep connection to the environment, capturing the feelings and sensations I experience
Jack Ioannou
Print Council of Australia Graduate Award My practice explores the intersections of identity, culture, and landscape through the print medium. Inspired by the aesthetics of zines, pop culture, and historical art, my works aims to reflect the cultural narrative around
Jade Armstrong
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
Jade Cargill
WINNER of the Sculpture Workshop Prize 2024 “Obscenity begins when there is no more stage […] A good illusion is a bad illusion, and a bad illusion is a good illusion” —Jean Baudrillard, Art and Artefact. My practice often
Jade Feakes
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
Jade Power
Fiona & Sidney Myer Ceramic Art Award Stockroom Kyneton – Exhibition Award I make art to better understand myself and my place in the world. Belonging in the expanded field of ceramics, my practice aims to push material and
Jahan Xanlü
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
Jake Christian Brown
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
Jake Clover
This practice-led research project unites my digital and non-digital artworks to build digital worlds that invite exploration and create a sense of disorientation and wonder. My digital artworks, such as my computer games, often explore ideas of narrative and sense
Jakub Stadnik
IMAGINATIVE EXPLORATION OF CREATIVITY is an interactive video installation that explores the potential of our imagination and the human ability to think. Through the use of video projection, sculptural objects and audience participation, I invite my viewer to join the
Jale Sezai
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
Jale Sezai
Dean’s Award for Excellence in Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) (Honours). The Emily Hope Prize- Professor AD Hope Endowment Award. SOMETIMES I CAN’T EVEN SLEEP BECAUSE I LOVE SOMEONE SO MUCH: AN EXPLORATION OF DEVOTION, LOVE, AND CRAFT THROUGH FANDOM
James Horrocks
Troppo Print Studio Graduate Award FOR YOUR PLEASURE. Throughout my creative practice, I aim to challenge the traditional conventions of art and identity, often working with unconventional materials and imagery I intend to redefine the measures of fine art.
Jamison Zmood
ON EXIT WOUNDS: A WALKING TOUR OF THINGS LEFT BEHIND (For Dawn Kelly) My practice persistently engages with concepts of the archive, and archival objects, along with explorations of intimacy. This year my research was focused on creating art and
Jana Papantoniou
Kings ARI Award. BLINDNESS: A MODE OF ABSTRACTION My practice harnesses my lived experience as a legally blind artist to explore and develop a pictorial language around perception itself. Conceptually, this project is concerned with destabilising the notion of blindness
Jane Cocks
Northcote Pottery Supplies Award: “LISTEN TO THE WILD BEASTS OF THE ISLAND, NIGHT BIRDS AND WITCHES.” These are all terms that have been applied to women who did not conform to a male dominated society. There is a present and historical
Janet Drury
WHAT’S THEIR STORY? The whole thing started with a dusty dilapidated cardboard box at the back of the cupboard under the stairs. It almost went straight into the skip, but B had had dementia and we’d already found a roll
Jasmin Seale
RMIT Culture Residency Award Winner Sticky stuff: exploring human-object relationships through found materials. This install-based project uses accumulating, arranging and documenting an excess of found everyday materials to consider human-object relationships. Through humorous and absurd gestures, I reconsider objects and
Jasmine Duong
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
Jasmine Kiyomi Roe-Bose
CNIDAGARIDEX [Mushroom Jellyfish]. This project brings into being an encyclopedic database of imagined ecology that introduces new, unusual lifeforms known as mushroom jellyfish. Inspired in part by the Pokémon game series’ creature directory, the Pokédex, and the blending together of
Jasmine Tiger Babayan
RMIT Ceramic Student Association Award: My practice revolves around material interaction, with a focus on ceramic-based processes. Driven by experimentation, my work is a continuous exploration into the interplay between material, process and space through mutual exchange. Jasmine Tiger
Jason Lehane
Nearly-Mary Oliphant Award Winner Jason is an established multi-disciplinary, award-winning artist with a 40-year arts practice. He is a stage designer who also creates immersive installation art. He is experienced in: Visual arts: Installation construction design and construction. Theatre &
Jaweria Shoaib
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Jazz Duncan
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
Jeffrey Chieu
Beyond the Uncertainty is a mixed-medium animation project that explores the concept of uncertainty and the experience of having those feelings, while also searching how one gets out of it. This artwork is an autobiography that centres around my personal
Jemima Longworth
Jemima is a graduate of Master of Arts (Arts Management) and has hopes of running an art space called Worth Projects for emerging artists and community. Their personal practice is inspired by women and non binary folk’s experiences with how
Jemma Prescott
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
Jennifer Pattinson
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
Jennifer Wu
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
Jermaine Ibarra
WILD COMBINATION focuses on the act of ‘authoring’ and ready-made simulacra. Wild Combination reflects on the immateriality of memory, the arduous effort of capturing them and the difficulty and romance of remembering. Part installation, part sculpture, part confessional, part ‘screenplay’
Jess Dybing
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
Jesse Mahoney
TRUSTWORTHY WEBSITE is an online interactive installation. It responds to the user’s actions by presenting satirical content through retro graphics, images, and rhetorical texts. These features contain misinformation to arouse suspicion and existential questions on the nature of internet navigation
Jessica Elizabeth Beach
NOT SO JELLY This project explores the the existence of jellyfish, specifically Peach Blossoms and their current endangerment, through the form of intaglio prints from copper in order to investigate their form and also processes of preservation. It delves into the
Jessica Guo
ACAE Gallery Emerging Artist Award. TOTAL RECALL: IN UNDERSTANDING THE SELF FROM ONEIRIC FRAGMENTS I used to have this recurring dream when I was younger. I would be lying on a conveyor belt in a warehouse by myself, in
Jessica Miranda
YOUR BODY IS NOTHING is an exploration of the abject female body. It is a personal project that began as a way to process my own bodily trauma. I wanted my work to focus on the experience of living
Jessica Phillips
Liquid Architecture Award. ECHO is an immersive installation of reflection and revealing. Named for the Oread, one’s reflection is infinitely duplicated and fractured upon entering the work, as they are simultaneously aware of invisible onlookers who can see clearly through
Jessica Phippen
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Jiajing Ouyang
NAVA Ignition Prize. 75% MORE FLAVOURFUL: Exploring Thing-power and Trauma through multidisciplinary practice. This Master’s project uses installation, text-based works and image prints to negotiate trauma, self-hatred and shame through accessing the aesthetic possibility of material agency. Through the techniques of collage and
Jianing Wang
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
Jiefei Chen
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
Jihee Kim
Dean’s Award for Excellence, Master of Arts (Arts Management). ARTS EDUCATION PLATFORM: BEYOND THE BOUNDARIES In commemoration of the 60th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Australia and Korea, a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership (CSP) agreement has been forged.
Jing Liang
BETWEEN PERSONAL AND THE GENDER POLITICS: THE SYMPHONY OF MATERIAL SUBSTANCES, ACTIONS, AND BODY MOVEMENTS Through creative practices informed by ceramic processes, this practice-led research project explores gender identity within the context of contemporary Chinese society, delving into narrations, experiences,
Jing Liang
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
Jo Dyer
PLANTS & PLAY DATES Through this series of temporary installations, I utilise intuitive, experiential art making to explore themes of agency and communion. By engaging with living plants and multimedia, I inhabit new and unfamiliar spaces in an open and
Joanna Richard
THE FOUNDATIONAL MYTHS OF NATIONHOOD The Foundational Myths of Nationhood is an exploration of the myths and practices involved in nation-building. It investigates the commonplace narratives of national identity and it is constructed and directed through the specific design of
Joanna Richard
My practice uses performance, installation, sound, video, and digital technologies to examine the creation and perpetuation of national myths and how they lead to the formation of national identity. It explores the critical potential of failure as a tool to
Jodie Grillmeier
Looking for Mollie uses photography to examine the legacy of taxidermied zoo animals, focusing on Mollie, a Bornean orangutan from Melbourne Zoo (1901–1923). As part of my MFA capstone, Looking for Mollie critiques the relationship between taxidermy, objectification, and cultural
Joe McIntyre
DUBBININ is an abstract video work that explores the cyclical, interdependent relationship that video has to sound. The piece employs abstraction and psychedelic imagery to capture the spirit of the similarly spacey soundtrack. This inseparable combination culminates in unfamiliar, interplanetary
Josephine Purtill
EAT YOUR HEART OUT This body of work focuses on the often contradictory and complex nature of the human psyche that manifests in surreal depictions of the human form and anatomy. I view my practice as a means of exploring
Joshua Starick
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
Joyce Lee Yue Ling
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
Judy Hiu Lam Kong
ACAE Gallery Emerging Artist Award. FLOATING I am obsessed with excavating my inner self. My art practice and my life experiences cannot be separated. I am experiencing the ongoing reposition of my cultural identity and collective unconsciousness between my home
Judy Kong
In You is my Honours creative project. I journey through unseen sentiment, memory, and perception, tracing vulnerability and self-preservation woven into familial and cultural memory. This perceptual exploration unfolds within a series of artworks, engaging with quiet yet unconscious emotional
Juli Nyeste
Velling Award. My multidisciplinary practice deals with the surreality of the everyday and endeavours to celebrate the beauty of the mundane through my personal lens as a Hungarian-Australian artist living in Naarm/Melbourne. My paintings and objects eschew the making of
Juliette Claire
Melbourne Artist Supplies – Professional Practice Award The Koodak Award for Academic Excellence in Gold and Silversmithing Glimpsing mourning: an encounter of loss, mourning & ecological grief. This project has grown out of the urgency I feel to address personal
Junke Zhang
SUGAR RESTRICTION This object is made of 9 x 9cm plastic board, interspersed with red and white thread as decoration, capsules containing red and white cotton thread are collaged on the bottom plate. This work is intended to express the
Juqi Wang
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