Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence, Bachelor of Arts (Photography)(Honours) sponsored by Kayell Australia. UNSETTLED OPACITIES: REASSEMBLING THE UNKNOWN. This year my research focused on approaching my practice as a site of resistance to maintain my right to opacity. The works
Recipient of the Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence, Bachelor of Arts (Photography)(Honours) Highly Commended. _________________________________ UNTITLED This was the first place I went to with the aim of making new pictures. I wasn’t too sure why. There was something about
Recipient of the Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence, Bachelor of Arts (Photography)(Honours) sponsored by Kayell Australia. _________________________________ BREAKING BREAD Historical critique of power relationships in photography has focused on broad, categorical, systemic relationships, such as those of, and existing between,
This series of images explores how, through photomontage, I am able to reveal a new perspective on landscape while also creating a new kind of sublime. By layering and combining photographs I aim to construct images that capture the embodied
SCENES OF CASTRATIONS & GAZES UPON CONTROL seeks to represent the abject in material form by using fragmented parts of the body. I am concerned with the study of experiences from the perspective of the individual. More specifically, I intend to
Lightscapes Award for outstanding Folio. RETRO-FUTURISTIC ECHOES (Areas A-J) AI-infused artistry of the pulp Sci-Fi era My final art project for the Honours program Retrospective Echoes (Areas A-J) marries the aesthetics of retro sci-fi pulp movies from the 1950s through to
Ardmillan is the product of revisiting a site from my childhood and retracing the past from the vantage point of the present. The project explores the themes of nostalgia, memory, mystery and lineage around my late grandparent’s farm. My aims for
in honour of arachne and all those who came after her Georgina works predominately as a portrait photographer in Melbourne. She creates self-portraits exploring the metaphor of craft as woman, often incorporating multiple mediums including embroidery, sewing and collage. Georgina
‘Precarity’ is a familiar and visceral state which is accepted as a normal way of being. Pointing to a lack of stability, with no assurance of perseverance, precarity carries insecurity and anxiety into the experience of existence. It is a
Hugo Webster is an emerging multidisciplinary artist working primarily in photography, video, sound and installation. He currently maintains his practice in Naarm/Melbourne, the unceded land of the Boon Wurrung and Woi Wurrung language groups of the Eastern Kulin Nations. Hugo’s
ICONOCLAST. This practice-led research project uses reflexive and responsive modes of observation, borrowed from the documentary photography genre, to critique the way that dominant power structures use symbolism to enforce their imperatives. I have created a large volume of photographs
This series of works is inspired by my experience of living as a woman with breasts. I present breasts to counter the idealised patriarchal vision prevalent in the media and reveal the plump, perky fantasy promoted in the media. Breasts
THE SOFTENING Kat Stevens’ artistic practice focuses on death, dying and the taboo surrounding it. She uses her photography to provoke her audience and to provoke thought. Following her series What Remains (2021), exploring the inevitability of death (showcased in
Be/Longing: Documenting the ‘invisible’ through lens-based practices. Be/Longing uses lens-based practices to document the transition into adulthood and how ‘longing’ can accompany this change. The work reflects my own transition of moving from a rural/regional upbringing to Melbourne and the
Recipient of the Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence, Bachelor of Arts (Photography)(Honours) Highly Commended. _________________________________ CRUISING FOR A BRUISING 2022. Photobook, 210 x 297 mm How can a camp vision transform humdrum suburbia? Typically banal, inconsequential, and known for monotony,
Tastes good to me is the result of exploring my research question: “How can tastes reveal similarities between classes?” I have chosen to use food as my medium because it can portray more than what is physically in the image; food
Recipient of the RMIT Lightscapes Award. _________________________________ THE SECOND FLESH is an alternative approach to imaging the body, providing a means to avoid the commodifying gaze of patriarchy. The work intends to flip traditional viewing strategies—focusing on grotesque, internal-like imagery instead
The Conversations We Have is a collaboration with my mother that explores how the mother-daughter relationship is socially constructed. The work uses collaborative theatre as a way to destabilise patriarchal narratives related to mother-daughter intimacy, mother-blame, matrophobia (the fear of turning
My younger sister Lucy was born on 16 December 2011, and since then we have shared years of love, laughter and tears. The bond Lucy and I have is more than being blood related – we are also each other’s
Reading Backwards: My photographic style as a conceptual fine art photographer focuses on the juxtaposition of contrasting opinions within societal, political and personal themes and attitudes. My triptych series, titled Reading Backwards, seeks to present a personal experience of living life with
EVERY SOUL SHALL TASTE DEATH, THEN TO US WILL YOU BE RETURNED Loss, anxiety, and the desire for peace in the face of these emotions are common responses when contemplating one’s own mortality. Our philosophical or theological ideas, as well
UNTITLED This series of videos uses performance to subvert internalised patriarchal views on gender. Using the body and ‘play’, the subject questions common rituals and habits associated with femininity. instagram.com/liiv.mcgregor
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Vở ô ly (2024-ongoing) As filmmaker Bạch Đăng Tùng writes:‘’Việt Nam’, written in my mother tongue, is made up of two different words: ‘Nam’ and ‘Việt’. Separated—a chasm between them. Then came the English spelling: ‘Vietnam.’ Never mind the loss of
Recipient of the RMIT Lightscapes Award. _________________________________ UNTITLED This series responds to the commonly shared, pervasive sense of dread that characterises life in our era, evoking the ambient anxiety that permeates the contemporary consciousness. Taking elements from the society we live
IN A NEAT LITTLE BOX aims to highlight the importance of documenting personal experiences within transgender communities through examining the potential of photographic self-documentation to validate and bring attention to the diverse experiences with gender presentation and identities. The body
I Hold What is Mine is an act of solidarity and connection with women before me, women who guided me to learn and love the art of needlework. I turned to sewing following the passing of my mum in 2018, and
Lightscapes Award for outstanding Folio. DARK SIGNS OF A RED SUMMERS SHADOW is a photographic narrative that draws on the conventions of documentary practice, to reflect upon the interrelated experiences of young adults living through a time of heightened uncertainty. In
Mirror examines representations of the self and consciousness across temporal dimensions, questioning how a moving image installation can facilitate a dialogue between past and present versions of the self. The work employs a series of looping video sequences on multiple screens,
THE IDEAL AND ILLUSORY FEMININE My youth is dotted with memories. Sitting in the waiting rooms of beauty salons while my mum was being waxed, plucked or lasered, I would entertain myself by flicking through the glossy magazines fanned out
ROAD NOISE Spenser Paul’s Honours project, Road Noise, explores the symbiotic relationship between the culture and activity of motorcycling and the landscape that it inhabits. Motorcyclists exist as features within the landscape, with little insulation from the world around them,
Dressed investigates the intersection of fashion photography and youth desire, framing it within a Lacanian psychoanalytic context. It explores how fashion photography serves as a medium for expressing and shaping identities, driven by the concept of the ‘desire of the
Puno, puno, laku noć (lots and lots, goodnight). The story never starts at the beginning. We wake up and we realise that things have been written before us, around us, through us and after us. Our histories leave little traces
Dr Ray Cook ‘hang onto your dreams’ Award: folio that demonstrates potential for further exploration. OUT OF THE SHADOWS Forgotten History of the War Widows’ Guild of Australia It makes me sad to see how my neighbourhood is changing. The housing estate in
