Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art)
Awards
| Channel 31 Artist profile prize | Awarded to a graduate who has developed a unique creative process. Open to any medium. |
Recipients
Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) Studio: Ceramics
Awards
| Walker Ceramics Award | Awarded for academic excellence. |
| The Australian Ceramics Association Awards | Awarded for academic excellence. |
| RMIT Ceramic Student Association Award | Awarded for academic excellence. |
| ArtLink Writing Award | Awarded by the ArtLink editor for an outstanding essay about their practice. |
Recipients
| Lize Myburgh (first year) | Recipient of the The Australian Ceramics Association Award. |
| Mol Stamatellis (second year) | Recipient of the The Australian Ceramics Association Award. |
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Kerrin Samuel
Read more: Kerrin SamuelRecipient of the Walkers Ceramics Award. _________________________________ Kerrin Samuel is a multimedia ceramic artist who creates artworks that explore the human experience. She draws inspiration from observations of contemporary culture, politics, geopolitics and religion which she sees as powerful vehicles
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Lily Lindsay
Read more: Lily LindsayRecipient of the RMIT Ceramic Student Association Club Year 3 Award. _________________________________ Lily Lindsay is a ceramic artist who makes both functional and sculptural artworks. Her figurative work uses myth, symbolism, and motifs to express personal memories and lived experience.
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Koa Wamsteker
Read more: Koa WamstekerRecipient of the RMIT Ceramic Student Association Club Year 3 Award. _________________________________ Hello! I am an emerging Melbourne-based sculptural ceramicist. I have an expanded ceramic practice utilising hand building, modelling techniques and using emotive surface colouring and treatments. My work
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Jess Dybing
Read more: Jess DybingRecipient of the Northcote Pottery Award and the RMIT Ceramic Student Association Club Year 3 Award. _________________________________ CLAY, CONTROL AND I. Jess Dybing’s work explores the changing states between flow and matter on the pottery wheel. Whilst the process of
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Essay – Art for the Empowerment & Understanding of Rural Communities
Read more: Essay – Art for the Empowerment & Understanding of Rural CommunitiesRecipient 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
Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) Studio: Drawing
Awards
| Drawing Studio Award | Awarded for excellence in drawing-based practices. |
| The Moat Bar Award |
Recipients
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Annie Wallwork
Read more: Annie WallworkRecipient 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
Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) Studio: Gold and Silversmithing
Awards
| The Emily Hope Prize – Professor AD Hope Endowment | Awarded for a figurative work. |
| Koodak Award for the Highest Academic Achievement in First Year Gold & Silversmithing – Donor Mr Gabriel Ripka | Awarded for highest academic achievement. |
| Koodak Award for the Highest Academic Achievement in Second Year Gold & Silversmithing – Donor Mr Gabriel Ripka | Awarded for highest academic achievement. |
| Koodak Award for the Highest Academic Achievement in Third Year Gold & Silversmithing – Donor Mr Gabriel Ripka | Awarded for highest academic achievement. |
| Koodak Award for Enamelling Prize for Technical Excellence – Donor Mr Gabriel Ripka | Enamelling prize for technical excellence. |
| Wolf Wennrich Award for Craftmanship – Mr Michael Wennrich Endowment | Awarded for excellence in Gold and Silversmithing. |
Recipients
| Gail Hunt (first year) | Recipient of the Koodak Awards for the Highest Academic Achievement for first year Gold & Silversmithing students — Donor Mr Gabriel Ripke |
| Ciara Steggerda (second year) | Recipient of the Koodak Awards for the Highest Academic Achievement for second year and Gold & Silversmithing students — Donor Mr Gabriel Ripke |
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Beth Sanderson
Read more: Beth SandersonRecipient 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
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Saiqu Ma
Read more: Saiqu MaRecipient of the Koodak Award for Enamelling Prize for Technical Excellence— Donor Mr Gabriel Ripka. _________________________________ ACCOMPANYING IS NOT WAITING This project consists of a series of realistic, full-figure animal enamel portraiture forged using metal plates and enamels. The choice
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Sarah Lockey
Read more: Sarah LockeyKoodak Award for the Highest Academic Achievement in Third Year Gold & Silversmithing — Donor Mr Gabriel Ripka. _________________________________ AT WHAT COST By focusing on the use of materials possessed with an honest simplicity, together with a deep-seated respect for nature and the environment, my
Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) Studio: Painting
Awards
| Tolarno Hotel Painting Prize | For 20 years Tolarno Hotel in St. Kilda has supported Painting Students from the RMIT School of Art. The $ 1000 award has greatly benefitted our students and exposed the work of our graduates to a wide audience. Award winning works enter the Tolarno Hotel Fine Art Collection and paintings by graduates are displayed throughout the hotel. The School of Art acknowledges the generous support of Mr. Jim Fagan and Mr. Bernard Corser. |
| The Chapman and Bailey prize for excellence in contemporary painting. | This award is selected by Mark Chapman for excellence in contemporary painting BA Fine Art Painting studio year 3. |
| ACAE Gallery Emerging Artist Award | Awarded to a graduate making work of professional standard that addresses themes of cultural identity and migration. |
| The Wayne Conduit Memorial Prize | This prize, awarded annually for an outstanding work by a Drawing, Painting or Video student, is in the memory of our friend and School of Art colleague, Artist: Wayne Conduit – in celebration of his inspirational teaching and support offered to students for many years within the School of Art. |
Recipients
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Edie Duffy
Read more: Edie DuffyRecipient 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
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Prue Wilkinson
Read more: Prue WilkinsonRecipient of the Tolarno Hotel Award. _________________________________ VIOLENCE AND INNOCENCE My artistic practice is an exploration of my identity and place within my family’s history in post-WW2 Australia. It is a direct response to my relationship with my family’s photographic
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Caitlin Rigby
Read more: Caitlin RigbyRecipient 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
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Aisha Hara
Read more: Aisha HaraRecipient 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.
Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) Studio: Print
Awards
| Kayell Digital Print Award | Awarded for high academic achievement. |
| Australian Print Workshop RMIT Print Excellence Award | Awarded for high academic achievement. |
| Firestation Print Studio Access Prize | Awarded for high academic achievement. |
| 44 Frame Factory Graduate Award | Awarded for high academic achievement. |
| The Megalo Graduate Residency Program | Awarded for high academic achievement. |
| Open Bite Travel Award | Awarded for high academic achievement. |
| Troppo Print Studio Graduate Award | Awarded for high academic achievement. |
| RMIT Print Studio Book Award | Awarded for outstanding scholarship. |
| Sunshine Print Artspace | Awarded for high academic achievement. |
| Artbox Commission | Awarded for high academic achievement. |
Recipients
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Chiara Zeta
Read more: Chiara ZetaRecipient 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
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Drey Willows
Read more: Drey WillowsRecipient 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
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Vani Newby
Read more: Vani NewbyRecipient of the Kayell Digital Print Award. __________________________________ THE SPACE BETWEEN Propelled by an endless fascination with the natural world and our relationship to it, my work is often site-responsive, based on my own engagement with the urban and natural
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Sarah Karnis
Read more: Sarah KarnisRecipient of the Firestation Print Studio Graduate Print Access Prize.__________________________________ SETTING A PLACE I am an emerging, print-based artist living and working in Djilang/Geelong, Victoria. Having spent the last couple of decades raising my two daughters, I decided to return to
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Maria Flores
Read more: Maria FloresRecipient of the Sunshine Print Artspace & Open Bite Student Association Graduate Award. _________________________________ STRATA reflects on the relationship between place and identity as a means of reconciling my immigrant experience. Utilising stone lithography and installation, I explore the concept
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Jake Christian Brown
Read more: Jake Christian BrownRecipient 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
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Michael Lye
Read more: Michael LyeRecipient of the Australian Print Workshop Award. _________________________________ MIGRATIONAL DISPLACEMENT Ongoing complexities that surround the possibility of a posthuman period bares witness to generational migrational displacement and the breakdown of psychological and cultural identity. The aim of this project throughout
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Mya Cook
Read more: Mya CookRecipient of the Print Studio Experimental Print Award. __________________________________ REWILDING THE GALLERY SETTING: Nurturing connection with the natural world Rewilding, as a general term, refers to the reintroduction of flora into spaces from which it has become absent. Through print-informed
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Vivienne Adeney
Read more: Vivienne AdeneyRecipient of the Print Studio Experimental Print Award. __________________________________ This project is an investigation into how I can create a more sustainable printmaking practice by making a relief block that is infinitely recyclable. A lino block is a thick
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Kat Rae
Read more: Kat RaeRecipient of the Kayell Digital Print Award. __________________________________ MONUMENTS OF PAPER AND SHADOW I am an emerging print-informed artist who draws on my experience as a contemporary female Australian Army veteran and war widow to investigate a tense and problematic
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Lala Zarei
Read more: Lala ZareiRecipient of the Kayell Digital Print Award. __________________________________ HOLY MARYA (MARY) I was born in Iran, where, for the past four decades, a compulsory hijab has been a means used by religious authorities to suppress women. Since arriving in Australia
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Soile Paloheimo
Read more: Soile PaloheimoRecipient of the Megalo Graduate Residency Program and Open Bite Student Association Travel Award. _________________________________ WHERE THE OCEAN IS THE SKY I & II My practice for the last decade has been in graphic design. However, after moving to Melbourne from
Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) Studio: Sculpture
Awards
| BDS Sculpture Prize | Awarded for outstanding folio. |
| The Perry Summers Sculpture Book Prize | Awarded for excellence in the Sculpture studio. |
| Sculpture Workshop Prize | Awarded for excellence in the Sculpture Workshop. |
Recipients
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Read more: Alice Jordan
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
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Read more: Jade Feakes
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
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Read more: Jemma Prescott
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
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Read more: Jiefei Chen
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
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Read more: Muzi li Zhong
Muzi li Zhong
Recipient of the BDS Sculpture Prize. _________________________________ THE WASHING is an installation that documents a performance in a natural landscape. A daily act of washing and walking but in absurdity, and the tension of vitality. A nihilistic and Sisyphean portrait
Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) Studio: Video
Awards
| The Moat Bar Award |
Recipients
Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) (Honours)
Awards
| Wolf Wennrich Award for Craftmanship – Mr Michael Wennrich Endowment | Excellence in Gold and Silversmithing. | |
| Composite Moving Image Agency and Media Bank Award | Excellence in the field of screen-based work. | |
| School of Art Honours Travelling Grant | Awarded on the basis of the quality of the student’s proposal for international travel research, and their graduate exhibition work. | |
| Jack Willet 1301SW Honours Award | Awarded on the basis of the awardee’s graduate exhibition work. | |
| Tania Doropoulos Prize | Awarded by Tania Doropoulos to a student whose graduate work shows a willingness to take risks and experiment in contemporary art practice. | |
| Reflektor Prize | The Reflektor Prize consists of a feature profile on the graduating student’s practice in the international arts journal Reflektor. | |
| Liquid Architecture | Opportunity to present in the Liquid Architecture live program or publishing and $500 cash Judged by co-director of Liquid Architecture, Dr Lucretia Quintinella: artist, writer, DJ and educator. | |
| The Bold and the Beautiful Art Prize | Two $300 awards based on an experimentalist approach to practice. | |
| Alpha60 Prize | Opportunity to display work in the Alpha60 shop plus a $1,000 clothing voucher . |
Recipients
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Lora Adžić
Read more: Lora AdžićRecipient of the School of Art Honours Travelling Grant. _________________________________ NISAM SPAVALA ALI SAM LEŽALA (I WASN’T SLEEPING BUT I WAS LAYING) Looking, touching, being; my research-based practice is an investigation of these three elements in relation to my position
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Yolanda Scholz Vinall
Read more: Yolanda Scholz VinallRecipient of the Reflektor Prize. _________________________________ Originally from the traditional unceded lands of the Kaurna people on what is now known as the Adelaide Plains, I moved to Naarm/Melbourne, where my current creative work has generally developed into an expanded
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Mirjana Savic
Read more: Mirjana SavicRecipient of the Tania Doropoulos Prize. _________________________________ ATTENTION ON PERIPHERAL MOVEMENTS Attending to materials and material determination. Shifting, transforming, sliding. Contained and coming undone. Un-restricting materials and re-contextualising the everyday through transformative processes. Transforming material narratives. Taking the functionality of
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Indra Liusuari
Read more: Indra LiusuariRecipient 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
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Aaron Ashwood
Read more: Aaron AshwoodRecipient 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
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Deborah Fisher
Read more: Deborah FisherRecipient 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
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Lucy Keatch
Read more: Lucy KeatchRecipient of the School of Art Honours Travelling Grant. _________________________________ SOMETIMES I WRITE SO CONFIDENTLY I START TO BELIEVE MYSELF My practice-led research uses queer ecology as a framework to explore phenomenological spaces of encounter/occupancy. My practice constructs both metaphorical
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Ya Juan Long
Read more: Ya Juan LongRecipient of the The Bold and the Beautiful Art Prize. _________________________________ THE LANGUAGE OF MATERIALS In my project I have investigated how after immigrating to Australia in 1998, having been brought up in a traditional Chinese culture, I was exposed
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Kate Weeks
Read more: Kate WeeksRecipient of the Alpha60 Prize. _________________________________ NO ONE TOLD ME I WAS LIVING IN A BRUTALIST NIGHTMARE My installation No One Told Me I was Living in a Brutalist Nightmare seeks to question the impact of growing up in a
Master of Fine Art
Awards
| Lowenstein Arts Management Prize | An award to acknowledge the excellence of your creative work and for your significant contribution to the MFA program. Chosen by a panel of MFA staff. |
| NAVA Ignition Prize | Based on academic excellence. Best grade in Professional Creative Practice. |
| The ADFAS (Australian Decorative & Fine Arts Society), Yarra Branch | Young or emerging artist award for an outstanding MFA painting and drawing graduate. |
| The Mary Oliphant Best MFA Tutorial Presentation Prize | Prize for the most ambitious tutorial presentation. |
| Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence and contribution to the program, Master of Fine Art | Academic Excellence and contribution to the program. |
Recipients
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Mingzheng Liu
Read more: Mingzheng LiuRecipient 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.
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Stephanie Rachael Corthorne
Read more: Stephanie Rachael CorthorneRecipient 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
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Okhee Choi
Read more: Okhee ChoiRecipient 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
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Alex Kynaston
Read more: Alex KynastonRecipient 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
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Gomathi Suresh
Read more: Gomathi SureshRecipient 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
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Mairin Briody
Read more: Mairin BriodyRecipient 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
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Catherine Pickop
Read more: Catherine PickopRecipient 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
Master of Arts (Arts Management)
Awards
| Dean’s Award for Excellence, Master of Arts (Arts Management) | Award based on outstanding overall results, program staff recommendations and result in Arts Management project. |
Recipients
| Emilie Wilkie Jeffreys | Dean’s Award for Excellence, Master of Arts (Arts Management) |
| Abdulalim Kauthar Bint (mid year) | Dean’s Award for Excellence, Master of Arts (Arts Management) |
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Kit Scott
Read more: Kit ScottRecipient of the Dean’s Award for Excellence, Master of Arts (Arts Management). _________________________________ THROUGH PRACTICE (A RESEARCH PROJECT) This research project examines practice-based research as a topic within a contemporary arts context. In it, practice-based research is recognised as a
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