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
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
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
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
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 personal struggles, using an intuitive
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
PASS THE BUTTER. 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
REFRACTIONS OF REFLECTIONS is an exploration of the inner self channelled through the waves of water—an embodied experience of fluidity within my identity. The extensions of water, and the structure it holds is as transient as our flow with life
SCENERY FROM THE SUBCONSCIOUS A subconscious exploration of memory and place through the use of intuitive marks and abstraction. This multi-media project explores the artistic potential of the subconscious mind and its relationship to place. More specifically, the natural world
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
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
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
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 mark-making theories and abject
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
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
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
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
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
SQUISH Summary: Studying the nature of skin/flesh and its movement. Differing skin types, as in aged, blemished, scarred etc. and what those contexts translate to within the human structure. Skin in daily movement and light, stretched, pulled and squished in
STRUCTURED BODIES focuses on the never-ending relationship between memory, place and the body and explores these connections through drawing and painting. Driven by the impact of contextual surroundings on the self, the places we choose to inhabit, the places we
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
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 and dance, consume and deflate, gather and disintegrate. Focusing
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
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,
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.
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
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
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.
UN… DERR.. STANDING… COMMUNICATIVE DRAWING INSTALLATIONS This project looks at the busy mind as author—in the dialogue between the author and the viewer, between the internal and external. The work functions as a gateway between the two, as a means
WHAKAPAPA BLEEDS RED a material exploration of blood quantum discourse in a decolonial context Ko Ngongotaha te maunga (Ngongotaha is my mountain) Ko Rotorua te roto (Rotorua is my lake) Ko Te Arawa te waka (Te Arawa is my
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,
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 life a dream, too; there are
THE HEART THAT BLEEDS IS THE HEART THAT GROWS. A series of illustrative works exploring the essence of healing in solitude. The story-like depictions present a lonely and treacherous process of healing and understanding one’s inner conflict. The objective nature
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
Mejia Group Exhibition Award for excellence in drawing-based practices: ON MY WAY HOME Is our home irreplaceable? Could our ‘home’ be a specific color, language, people, scent, or a sense of nostalgia rooted in childhood memories? This project undertakes an
INVITATION TO A MICROCOSMOS is an experiment into the documentation of singular experiences, moments and people in my everyday life. Images are built from photographs of friends, family and environments. This form, a kind of self-portraiture, captures elements of celebration and
GOBLIN STUFF “A mild amount of tomfoolery” Inspired by the aesthetics of children’s picture books, and the playfulness of childhood itself, Goblin Stuff seeks to inject an element of life, joy and humour into the contemporary art space. Working partially in
LIE DOWN This project uses the concept of confessional art and play to aid my broad exploration of the feminine, medical inequality, the infantile, the hereditary, and ultimately the urge to grasp and dictate self through three-dimensional and two-dimensional mediums.
Redrafting Reality: Exploring Architectures through Memory and Fantasy In this project I explore the interplay of reality and Iimagination, combining the strict architectural norms with fanciful elements. Inspired by my family’s experience of migration, and their memories, I create works
A CONSTANT SHIFT is a collection of artworks that simulate movement. Each line is placed one after another in methodical motion – a method that comes to me in the moment, a method that compels me to fill the blank. These
ALLEGORICAL AND INNATE GESTURES OF THE HAND is engaged with intuitive modes of making and the symbolic possibility of images. I explore ideas with a multi-disciplinary approach. This encompasses drawing, painting, collage and fabric work, often using the mediums of
My work relates to aspects of Pop Art and incorporates elements of painting, drawing, photography and collage through the subject matter of portraiture. My practice approaches aspects of traditional portraiture, such as the materiality of oil painting and coloured pencil,
GOD’S FAVOURITE is an ongoing drawing-video project that explores concepts of the human body and its interface with technology. I developed my themes of futurist body modification, sickness and spirituality using my body as the ‘host subject’. My approach to this
Reframing perception. As a proud Italian Aboriginal from the Wiradjuri and Yorta Yorta people, I enforce change in the art world by reframing the perception of Aboriginal art. My acrylic paintings are my effort to challenge stereotypes that all First
AT THE LIMIT OF SIGNIFICANCE is a body of paintings developed through subtle collections from what Bernard Spolski calls the ‘public linguistic space’, where the advertisements, graffiti, and overlapping voices of strangers combine to form the public linguistic landscape of
THE DIARY: EXCERPTS OF MOMENTS AND REFLECTIONS My studio practice revolves around self-exploration and healing and, with this project particularly, engages in the field of confessional art. Through the mediums of drawing, painting and installation, I create this project from
I went to the Underworld and when I came back Someone else came back with me I heard the wind whispering in them Where dreams have no end My practice is involved with syntax, the unavoidable [fate,
Mejia Group Exhibition Award excellence in drawing-based practices. THE RECURRENCE OF ACTION – EVENT. My practice, my artworks, my studio, and myself all exist as registrations of time—the limitations of it, the flattening of the past and the constant
DANCE MUSIC: RHYTHMIC EXPRESSION IN PASTEL AND SOUND I am an emerging artist and practising musician based in Ocean Grove, Victoria. My bold and fluid style, both in drawing and music, has emerged from a quiet self-confidence that allows me
NOBODY PUTS BABY IN A CORNER My studio practice throughout this year has largely been an expression of internal dialogue and emotions translated onto canvas through a surrealist lens. My current project focuses primarily on the notion of infantilisation and
My project, (Un)filtered Acts, explores the paradoxical tension between smoking as both a symbol of rebellion and an abject, harmful reality. My feminist-oriented practice has long involved exploring the human body, now extending to a deep interest in smoking culture.
BLOCK HEAD MOVING FEET: Natural Solace or Escaping ‘I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees’ –Henry David Thoreau Embracing the traditional with a touch of modernity, I seek to delve into watercolour techniquesthat
YOU’VE STARTED SOMETHING IMPORTANT, AND NOW IT’S TIME TO COMPLETE IT encapsulates the art experience, and spans multiple mediums and projects. The conventions of structure and reason hold no ground on creativity. Agitation, as one can never truly be safe. Utilising
Drawing Studio Award for excellence in drawing-based practices. SPIKE THE CANON – This body of painting re-enacts hyper-masculine forms of ‘play violence’ drawn from niche hobbies such as 90s table top and video games. It investigates the vying solipsisms of
Suggestion. Records of emotion by Sean Leegel. .
MOMENTS CALLING ACROSS AN EMPTY ROOM. A teacher once told me in a drawing class, that people are obsessed with time: “You ask someone if they’d like a cup of Tea, and they check their watch first.” This project focuses
CAVE LINES & TOUCHSTONES / LEY LINES & SHADOWLANDS This project references origins, cultural identity, and transference, based on an exploration of my Celtic European ancestry. It is designed as a contemplation of my colonist-settler heritage as an approach to
WET CAPSULES/SOFT-GORE My work employs the basic internal and external structures that mammals belonging to earth are made up of. Skin, muscle, organs and bone are the physical elements that highlight the simple yet interesting organisation of our bodily systems
MY MOTHER’S SILENCES COME TUMBLING OUT OF ME A documentation of moments and memories I never existed within or remained a part of, through exploring the significance of our finite existence and the unpredictability of memory. Engaging with the opportunity
WHAT LURKS IN THE DARK Enforcing the innate fear of the dark and what hides within, Tyler’s painting depict various unappealing andunsettling entities alike. A collection of over thirty different artworks shrouded in darkness in a semi-interactive experience for the
TO GRANDMOTHER’S HOUSE A series of multimedia works exploring the tradition of storytelling With a deep passion and love for storytelling, my series of works are the result of my constant rumination on the topic as I ponder on the
I Squared Gallery Exhibition Award for excellence in drawing-based practices: ADORATION: DROWNING INTO THE PAST. This practice involves a process of a gradual transition from affection to an attachment, ultimately an obsession. The symbolic space, objects, and colour repeat and
TRANSMUTATION AND INTERTWINING HUMAN – ORGANIC STRUCTURES is an exploration into the themes of home, loss, and regrowth. This project investigates the profound connections that bind humanity’s subconscious thoughts with our intrinsic ties to the natural world. These works are
RMIT University Library Art Prize. Joseph Beuys Cafe Drawing Award for excellence in expanded approach to drawing. MY LAWYER THE BUS STOP: a discussion of the unseen, exploring contextualisation through spaces and realms. Currently, in my practice, I have been
CHAMBER: HEARING THROUGH SILENCE Musical scores document my rhythmic thought processes, with spheres and lines fulfilling the composition. This personal visual language is paired with figures which serve as emotive, or tempo markings. No visual hierarchy is given