Working across drawing, painting and sculpture, I investigate spatial, material and hierarchical approaches to making and reconfiguring things to become artworks. An investigation of conditions ensues; conditions of the gallery, materials, sculpture, painting… And what happens when we fall between these
Of Figure, Feather, and the Pursuit of a Fable | Encapsulating the Invisible Illness Experience through the Intersection of Painting and Allegory My area of artistic inquiry explores how material, the natural world, and figurative manipulation can intersect to
FIRE-BORN MOODS (2025) applies instinctually creative practice to depict landscapes of personal significance. Over this three-year period of study, the landscapes of my backyard and the Dandenong Creek have taken over my creative subconscious. Townsend describes her similar experience as
MIND, BODY AND VEHICLE My research engages with ideas relating to internet culture and all of the strange dark absurdities of being online. I am fascinated by the stark polarities and extremes of the online experience, the way in which
Some beginnings are not chosen but given — and once given, we begin to see, and begin to choose. My practice centres on the notion of Place — a geography that also carries memory, emotion, and identity. It holds the
The Work of Quiet Hands considers the importance of prioritising care. While certain individuals like Beggs may place an emphasis on care, in general it is not highly valued. In contemporary society, women, immigrants, people of colour and other oppressed
THE DELICACY OF LIFE Chelsea Parkinson’s practice investigates interconnection between species, exploring how the structures and gestures of the natural world can mirror human emotion, behaviour, and vulnerability. Working across painting, drawing, sculpture, and textile-based installation, her work often draws
‘SOMETIMES ITS DIFFICULT EVEN FOR ME TO UNDERSTAND WHAT I’VE BECOME. AND HARDER STILL TO REMEMBER WHAT I ONCE WAS.’ Painting to me exists not just as a language of self-expression but also as a means of self-understanding. Personal experience
Fragmented Identities as Hybridity. Searching for belonging in a cultural “third space”. Eliza Byrne’s practice examines the cultural “third space,” where identity is shaped not within a single culture but through the interplay of multiple cultural worldviews. This space emerges
THE WAY HOME is a series of mixed media paintings that explore the idea of home as both a place and a feeling. Each work captures a friend, family member or significant place, painted on fabrics that I have naturally
THINGS presents new ceramic works from artist Elspeth Rowell, challenging the confines of Western classification systems through an installation of objects that defy taxonomical boundaries. The concept for this project emerged from my interest in the human act of collection,
”THE PROLIFERATION OF GROWING PAINS” Tracking the emotional expansion of girlhood through fragile ceramic forms . . . In The Proliferation of Growing Pains, I examine the tender yet uneasy process of emotional growth. Through the ceramic sculptures of broken bunnies,
NO THROUGH ROAD: THE DEAD ENDS OF MEMORY LANE explores themes of memory, place, and the complex evolving relationship between physical environments and emotional attachment. Using cropped imagery of Australian scenes, specifically from Adelaide and Melbourne neighbourhoods, the miniature landscapes
DECONSTRUCTION TODAY: OF COURSE I EAT THE APPLE AFTERWARDS – Hartley’s paintings explore multi-layered compositions and the study of form through traditional oil painting on canvas. His practice involves a process of visual experimentation grounded in painterly technique, resulting in
THE PLACES WE CANNOT RETURN TO Paintings of Memories Reignited, Exploring the Absence of Him. This project explores the relationship between memory, emotion, and personal loss. Anchored in my own lived experience, it reflects on the fragmented nature of memories
PATTERN OVERLOAD Frequently inspired by optical, fractal, modular, and psychedelic art, I create colourful pattern-based works that merge organic and geometric formations. I primarily work with mirror panels and coloured vinyl to create an array of modular and rhythmic formations
IN MY IMAGE In My Image explores painting as a space where memory stirs rather than settles; where the past flickers in fragments, half-remembered and half-imagined. Working with found and family photographs, I use paint to blur the edges between
A ROOM OF HER OWN presents a collection of oil paintings that investigate themes of femininity, identity, and self-presentation within contemporary youth culture and queer spaces. Drawing from her own staged photographic imagery, Ivy depicts intimate scenes such as portraits,
GO WITH THE FLOW MAN is an oil and acrylic painting on canvas that explores the notion of the awareness of thought. The painting is about how our thoughts are similar to jellyfish in that they float about our head and
AN EXISTENTIAL ABSURDITY OF VASTNESS The city exists in an uncanny liminal state, where belonging feels impossible, pressed beneath national identity, political handovers and
OPEN EYES AND CLOSED DOORS explores the intimate connections between place, memory and acceptance. The diptych provides a glimpse into my internal and private experiences of chronic illness and trauma, through the most vulnerable physical spaces I occupy, and the
My approach to being creative, particularly painting, has always been a self-soothing act. Without it I would simply be incomplete. Work in Progress is a reflection of the tumultuous relationship I have had with my mental health and internal dialogue
ENERGISING THE SPIRIT: MOMENTUM AND MINDFULNESS IN THE ART OF EXERCISE AND MOVEMENT EXPLORED THROUGH PAINTING Jocelyn is an emerging artist specialising in mixed media painting, focusing on themes of energy, movement, and emotional expression. With a solid background in
CATHARSIS Humans have entered the epoch of self-surveillance and datafication through the use of everyday objects. This practice-led research project seeks to critique surveillance and data capitalism, and its apparatuses of control, including its impact on selfhood. The research
UNPLAYED MEMORIES focuses on empty playgrounds and tiled passageways in ordinary daylight. In these paintings, I use both vivid and pastel colours to shift familiar environments into something slightly dream-like. Slides and corridors appear paused in time, holding traces of
This project begins with refusal and spite – the refusal to confess, to perform, to be legible. In Filipino Disneyland, a confessional booth becomes an inverted theatre of devotion. The viewer is drawn into dialogue with a digital presence, unsure
PRIVILEGE We are overwhelmed by endless streams of information, often forgetting to pause and reflect. Late-stage capitalism, nationalist ideologies and global conflicts place our anxieties above our gratitude. Amidst this chaos, we must remember to reconnect with the sublime. Looking
When folding chairs In production, installation or storage, materials behave as provisional alignments with their given materiality. Instability becomes a generative force; a condition through which form emerges in negotiation rather than imposition. What if sculpture is not something made,
PILLARS OF THE MIND explores how intuition and intentionality informs ones decision making throughout the painting process. My practice is inspired by my passion for experimentation, movement and curiosity of materiality and colour. My work is created through an instinctive
STEEL KARKADE- Analysing the strength and brutality of diasporic Black women’s experiences through afrosurrealism The primary purpose of Steel Karkade is to showcase, through Afro-surrealism and the Black Horror genre, the multifaceted experiences of Black women in the diaspora,
ECHOES BETWEEN WORLDS: Reflections, Ephemerality, and the Presence of Kami Marina Yamazaki is an artist who lives, works, and studies in Naarm/Melbourne. She explores the connection between the spiritual and physical. She interacts with the world of kami and spirits
BUFFER: WRESTLING DIGITAL HYPERABUNDANCE AND THE PROJECTED CORPOREAL, OR: HELP!! THERE’S PLASTIC IN MY F*CKING BRAIN 😱😱😱 My entire living memory has been in the proximity of screens; conception beyond is unimaginable. Corporeality has been subsumed, rendered indivisible from the
IT NEVER RAINS ON GOOGLE MAPS is a project exploring the act of digitally “dropping a pin” on Google Maps. Google Maps being an application built for navigation that I repurpose as a tool for artistic exploration. Street View also
I MADE IT COZY SO YOU’D FEEL THE TENSION This installation transforms a domestic scene into the site of protest and reclamation. Born from a conversation in the first year of my degree that exhibited patriarchal bias, the installation asks
ECHOES ACROSS THE AEGEAN My work explores the connection between my two homes, Crete Greece and Melbourne Australia. While backpacking in 2024, I fell in love with a potter from a village on the island of Crete. We are now
Hannah Yost (MOXIE) is based in Melbourne, Australia. She completed a diploma of visual arts (2022) Bachelor of Fine Arts at RMIT University in 2025, and has run multiple creative workshops, hosted creative art events and collaborated with local Melbourne
I LOVE MY SISTER investigates the fragile boundaries between childhood memory, safety, imagination, and grief. Through a studio practice rooted in play and collection, deconstructed recollections are transformed into paintings that blur realism with dreamlike reconstruction. This project reinterprets a
“KINDS OF CONNECTIONS” I’m Poppy Clarke and I’m a multidisciplinary figurative painter. This project is an exhibition about kinds of connections. It is a series of portraits on panels and canvas to remind and inspire a renewed sense of excitement
WE PART FOREVER IN TOMORROW’S SUNSHINE（我们在阳光灿烂的明天永别）is a large-scale oil painting with gold leaf, focusing on water and reflections to explore themes of farewell and memory. The work was created as the artist prepared to leave Melbourne, reflecting on the emotions
THERE YOU ARE (2025) brings together individually titled works across various mediums, including an installation, a short documentary film and paintings. This research explores alternative ways of incorporating archival and found objects that once belonged to my late grandparents, while
BODIES HOLD This body of work explores ideas of containment and boundaries. I am interested in how painting acts as a kind of vessel to hold and carry my inner life. These mysteries that I carry within me, how open
PSYCHOLOGICAL LANDSCAPES: TRANSLATING INNER STATES INTO PAINTED FORM Rufus Punton is a painter and printmaker. His work reflects his rural country upbringing drawing inspiration from vintage photographs from his grandparent’s collection, depicting people and rural landscapes in Victoria from the
PAINTING THE DARK ECOLOGY engages with ecological crisis not only as an environmental issue but as a cultural one, confronting life and death, the aftermath of Colonialism, extinction and post-humanism. It manifests as Vanitas symbolism, distressed palimpsest surfaces, hybrid and
PAINTING THE DARK ECOLOGY engages with the ecological crisis not only as an environmental issue but as a cultural one, confronting life and death, the aftermath of Colonialism, extinction and the degradation of habitats. It manifests as Vanitas symbolism, distressed
A Kind of Quiet Heat Terracotta, slip, oxides and glaze, 2025 Sophie Gemmill is a Melbourne based potter creating work that lives somewhere between the ancient and the imagined. Working primarily with terracotta, she embraces its warmth and imperfections –
WHERE HEARTS ONCE SLEPT is a deeply personal exploration of memory, longing, and childhood. Through these paintings, I invite viewers into the emotional landscapes of my own recollections; places where light, colour, and feeling intertwine. My work acts as a
Thani Fee is a multi disciplinary artist based in Naarm (Melbourne), originally from the north west coast of Tasmania. Working within the expanded field her process driven practice is instinct-led and materially engaged. Drawing from abstract expressionism, she works through
THE INTRA-ACTION OF PAINTING: SURFACE, COLOUR, AND GESTURE AS EMBODIED KNOWLEDGE The Intra-Action of Painting presents a series of works that explore how abstraction, as a physical and material process, generates form through embodied experience. Painting here is approached as
RUIN “The truth is, cathedrals don’t mean anything special to me. Nothing. They’re something to look at on late-night TV. That’s all they are.” Raymond Carver
Wombs Enter my body and bear all it bears. Gaze upon me and meet the eyes that gaze This project, inspired by readings on surrogacy and feminist ethics, explores femininity through the lens of the Other. Curvilinear forms intertwine traces
Fragment Of Affection Fragments of Affection is an ongoing series that traces the fragile relationship between melancholy, memory and tenderness through my recurring character SiSi ,a symbolic extension of my inner self. Across multiple panels and compositions. SiSi drifts through
“When the Earth Remembers” is a gestural act of salvation, a primal ritual that confronts personal trauma by dissolving the self into a liminal, elemental landscape. The title signifies a profound connection between the body and the earth, suggesting that
MY HANDS EXIST AND WITH THEM I CREATE PROBLEMS AND ART. To grasp something is to care for it, to hold space for its weight, and to insist on its relevance.The dual meaning of the word grasp speaks to this intersection: it
PAINTING THOSE I KNOW AND LOVE explores transformation, intimacy, and identity through painting. Drawing on Ovid’s Metamorphoses, the work reflects on how relationships and selfhood continually evolve. After moving from Sunshine Coast to Melbourne, I have grown comfortable in my
