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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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,
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
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
NOT NOTHING/IT’S SOMETHING explores an embodied approach to materiality to investigate the loss of self and gender politics in relation to creative freedom through a series of metaphorical artworks. Materiality and humour are used to interrogate gender oppression while seeking
Recipient of the Lowenstein Arts Management Prize and the NAVA Ignition Prize. _________________________________ THE SECOND LANGUAGE Navigating Marginalised Ecologies Using a Multi-Disciplinary Practice. This multi-disciplinary project combines ceramic objects, paper, video, and the recorded voice to examine issues of ecological degradation
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
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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
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
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
Nearly Mary Oliphant Prize. M(O)THERED MEAT Inez’s work interrogates the monstrous feminine within Malaysian folklore to challenge the oppressive patriarchal systems held together by tradition and culture. This rebellion against the systemic misogyny that plagues the Malayan society manifests as
Recipient of the Mary Oliphant Best MFA Tutorial Presentation Prize. _________________________________ THE RESONANCE OF A TANGLE engages with bodily agency and constraint through an interdisciplinary practice of painting. By employing material experimentation and improvisation, this project seeks to record an
TO THE SOUTH OF HOME is a video essay that depicts an imagined conversation between my father and I, as his sudden death left us no chance for a final conversation. Through this work, I attempt to confront my childhood
Recipient of the NAVA Ignition Prize and the Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence and contribution to the program, Master of Fine Art. _________________________________ HOW WILL I REMEMBER explores my Chinese-Australian bi-cultural identity by examining the concept of loss and grief.
The ADFAS (Australian Decorative & Fine Arts Society), Yarra Branch award. FROM THIS ANCIENT LAND TO THE RIVER DELTA is an experimental interdisciplinary project that combines five mixed-medium banner paintings ranging in size between 70cm x 170cm to 200cm x 210cm and five
Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence and contribution to the program, Master of Fine Art. RESTITCH THE FAMILY TIE. My practice uses contemporary enamel jewellery to explore emotional states related to childhood trauma, self-protection and family reconciliation. It alludes, in particular,
THE BODY MALLEABLE questions fixity and conventions of form through investigating the malleability, materiality and opportunity of the body. Through a process of self-reflexivity I navigate the sensate physicality of embodiment and create modes of extension through material, replication and
Recipient of the The ADFAS (Australian Decorative & Fine Arts Society), Yarra Branch Award. _________________________________ This project seeks to explore life through painting. This project also seeks to explore painting through life. Through this project, I create abstract paintings based on
UNFILTERED: EXPLORING MY PSYCHE THROUGH THE ACT OF PAINTING. My Master’s project embraces an explorative painting process tethered to memory and imagination. I unleash embodied raw expression to manifest large symbolic compositions of self, enabling me the agency to reconstruct
Moustachioed Women and Rhinoplastic Girls This photography project is my experimental and cultural exploration of religious dogma, gender inequality and censorship in contemporary Iran. In this practice I use social media as a source to inspire the creation of staged
The ADFAS (Australian Decorative & Fine Arts Society), Yarra Branch award. HARMONIOUS COSMOS explores lyrical narratives by combining Daoist philosophy with magic realist paintings. Drawing upon Daoist philosophy, my fundamental concept is embracing the flow of life and nature. I depict
UNTITLED This multidisciplinary project incorporating textiles, printmaking, and installation, explores the effect of negative thought patterns on everyday life. Focusing on repetitive and obsessive making, I investigate how the creative process can imitate ruminations and reveal a new way of
OVER AND OVER AGAIN Sienna Barton is a Naarm-based painter and textile artist. Her artistic practice is obsessive and time-consuming. Often serving as a means of soothing fidgety fingers, her work seeks to transform anxious energy into tangible works of
Recipient of the Lowenstein Arts Management Prize. _________________________________ A BRIGHT FUTURE seeks to evoke new understandings of value, reuse, and material, centred around my utopian ideal of a sustainable future. Through methodologies of collection, frugality, and recontextualisation, my series of
WooJai Lee’s practice is centered around materials. Through material experimentations, he searches for the hidden potential of ordinary material. By transforming the materials into unconventional applications of furniture, interior elements, and sculptures, WooJai challenges the stereotypical ways of working with
DUAL IDENTITY The Language of Materials: Memory and Identity in Contemporary Art examines the interplay between identity and cultural heritage by exploring different materials and cultural collective experiences. Ya Juan’s experience incorporating contemporary techniques through her creation of large-scale oil
KNOCK ON VOID employs a multidisciplinary approach, utilising culturally specific objects to manifest the concept of emptiness within Taoism. By creating a series of discrete objects within the context of traditional Go game, scroll paintings, and bamboo slips, the project
THE TACTILITY OF NOSTALGIA: Exploring the healing power of maternal energy by using the narrative expression of contemporary jewellery. My MFA project explores the intimacy that exists between my mother and I, and the healing that comes from maternal energy
这个项目对探索家的数字化软件来寻找记忆和收藏之间的联系，的项目还包括我在重建过程中的使用过程。 我的作品为基础，制作项目的，并制作视频，以扩大与观众的创作范围和日常联系范围，以唤起与时俱进的场景。感觉离场感是席位实践创作的关键要素。出现的情绪，看似乡愁传达出一种个性化的情绪。 随着工作的推进，我的制作场景设置在一个更接近的时期，软件中的现在逐渐成为我物理世界的延伸。 李玉萌，数字家庭，2022 李玉萌，数字家庭，2022 李玉萌，数字家庭，2022 李玉萌，数字家庭，2022
FLOW: Embodying aesthetic experience through process-based analogue photography This heuristic investigation uses process-based analogue photography to embody my aesthetic responses to life experiences. Informed by theoretical readings in cognitive neuroscience, philosophy, psychology and art, the research aims to harness the merging of
