Awarded the 2025 Sunshine Print Artspace, OBSA Award IN METRO is a varied edition stone lithograph with LEDs and LCD screens, that uses the site of the city to explore the diversity of coexisting human experiences. The high concentration of
WINNER – DRAWING STUDIO Jack Willet Industry Engagement Award, 2025 Memory Transplants is a collection of paintings based on my grandparents’ photographic slides that explores identity, cultural memory, and the knowledge passed down and lost through generations of migration. Through
WINNER – DRAWING STUDIO Alpha 60 Prize, 2025 THE AVIARY The Aviary is an investigation of memory as a simulacrum: the notion that memory is reconstructive, simulatory, and slippery. The concept of the performance arrived to the artist in the
AWARD WINNER – BDS Sculpture Prize for outstanding folio, 2025 HOLD ON TO YOURSELF unfolds as a space of tension between protection and exposure, vulnerability and strength. The work invites a process of returning to one’s authentic self —
WINNER – DRAWING STUDIO Adele Wilkes Industry Engagement Award, 2025 I HAVE DETAINED YOUR ATTENTION My practice begins where systems break. In the noise of the glitch, in the unfinished code, in the loops that never resolve, I find a
BA Fine Art Gold & Silversmithing Awards Recover and Rework Silver Prize Supported by Hendrik Forster, Designer Maker A Ogierman, ‘Cascading’, 2025, sterling silver, 2.1 x 17.8 x 2.2cm. UNTITLED/UNRAVELLING Untitled/Unravelling uses a collection of jewellery objects to reflect and
Dean’s Award Winner for Academic Excellence (Sponsored by Kayell) TENDING THE INVASION Tending the invasion forms a connection with blackberry (Rubus fruticosus) as a site of intertwined ecological, colonial, and personal entanglements. Introduced to this continent by imperial botanists, blackberry
AWARD WINNER – Breaking the Mold Sculpture Prize for experimentation in the Sculpture Studio, 2025 I work across mediums to create intriguing and playful encounters that puncture the common sense of capitalism. I interpret economic analysis through intuitive associations
Sub 27 Exhibition Award Winner CIGARETTES, SLUGS, SHAREHOUSES, PREACH INCLUSION, STAY SKINNY, SEEM POOR, HAVE THINGS. Maybe your t-shirt wants to be a part of a flag. Would the bricks in your house rather be a painting? I think
WINNER – DRAWING STUDIO Bold and the Beautiful prize, 2025
Highly commended: ACAE Gallery Award 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
WINNER – RMIT Creative Award Do You Think I’m Spooky? This facsimile of a being I created for myself is crumbling in my hands. But “they” weren’t created for me, were they? This “me” was constructed from offcuts, From years
RMIT Culture Residency Award Helimlich: My Dear Little Grotto Hide me. Don’t look at me. Just let me lie here. Let me curl away under the comfort of my own security. I don’t want to leave here, and I can’t.
WINNER – KOODAK AWARDS FOR THE HIGHEST ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT FOR HONOURS GOLD & SILVERSMITHING STUDENT — SUPPORTED BY KOODAK JEWELLERY SUPPLIES WINNER – KOODAK AWARD FOR ENAMELLING PRIZE FOR TECHNICAL EXCELLENCE — SUPPORTED BY KOODAK JEWELLERY SUPPLIES This practice-led research originates from childhood
AWARD WINNER – Sculpture Workshop Prize for excellence in the Sculpture workshop, 2025 I crawl with the bugs in the dirt nothing I love would require work https://www.instagram.com/bilibear_/
AWARD WINNER – Sculpture Workshop Prize for excellence in the Sculpture workshop, 2025 TO/FROM SMITHEREENS – Some time ago, I watched as a small cataclysm occurred. While walking down by the creek, something impossibly bright fell from the sky,
WINNER – Award for Experimental Practice SENSING THE WORLD: Guided by a cultural and spiritual perspective rooted in my Sri Lankan and Buddhist background, this practice-led research explores how mindfulness and presence can foster new ways of seeing. It aims
Awarded the 2025 Baldessin Studio, OBSA Graduate Award feeling/feeling is a site-responsive series of work exploring the sensory and emotive dimensions of landscape through photography, material, sonic and textural inquiry. The works form a unified portrait of three areas of remnant
Brunswick Print Lab Prize Winner and NAVA Ignition Prize Winner THE VOICE OF THE MARIBYRNONG Located on the land of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and Bunurong Peoples of the Kulin Nation, the Maribyrnong River has been impacted by the violent
WINNER – DRAWING STUDIO Bold and the Beautiful prize, 2025 @namestevibes Namaste, welcome beautiful lightbeings! Are You ready to Ascend? Liberate Your mind and open up your Heart. Embrace Me. Accept Me as your Leader and I will guide
WINNER – DRAWING STUDIO Peter Westwood Legendary T’shirt Award, 2025 GRIDS One day, I noticed it. I cannot remember where or when, or even in what form, but suddenly, grids were everywhere. I have since been aiming to understand grids
Mary Oliphant Award Winner Rendered Other and Cast Out: Staging a multi-disciplinary cautionary tale about global warming and Antarctica (2025) My project warns of our uncertain future due to human-caused global warming. Staged as a multi-disciplinary cautionary tale, it consists
Award: Fiona Myer Ceramic Award Award: Stockroom Kyneton Exhibition Award: Walker Ceramics Award for Academic Excellence THINGS presents new ceramic works from artist Elspeth Rowell, challenging the confines of Western classification systems through an installation of objects
WINNER – Travel Scholarship The tacit, the implied and the felt: relinquishing control to ambiguous, intuitive and experiential ways of knowing. Excessive control over outcome-driven processes and high standards of perfectionism can often feel oppressive, limiting, and restrictive, trapping the
Awarded the 2025 Firestation Print Studio / Arts National Melbourne Annual Young Printmakers Graduate Scholarship My arts practice draws creative inspiration from Australia’s natural environment with a particular interest in the Merri creek, the Victorian Coastline and natural spaces in
Awarded the 2025 Megalo Print Studio Graduate Residency Prize, and the 2025 RMIT Technician Award
AWARD WINNER – BDS Sculpture Prize for outstanding folio, 2025 GRID GAME (2025) is a playable board game for viewers to engage and interact with. The objective of this game is to design the best city within the provided
2025 BA Fine Art Gold & Silversmithing Awards -Wolf Wennrich Award for Craftmanship -RMIT Gold & Silversmithing Technology Prize (AJS) BEYOND THE SURFACE is a series of objects that aim to translate my ongoing inquiry into how we perceive. It
WINNER – DRAWING STUDIO 621 Artist Space Ehibition Award, 2025 @621artistspace RETURN ELSEWHERE explores the rural Australian landscape through investigation into simultaneously known and unknown environments. The works depict eerie distorted landscapes with recurring subjects of roads and trees, places
WINNER – DRAWING STUDIO Isquared Gallery Exhibition Award, 2025 A Woman’s Work is Never Done A Woman’s Work is Never Done (2025) employs needlework as a tool to examine the historical and social reality of women’s labour. It also speaks
WINNER – Deans Award for Academic Excellence Home,swim home/游泳回家 This practice-led research project uses photography to explore the connections and tensions between home, distance, and memory. The project originates from my personal experience as a Chinese international student and an
Awarded the 2025 Richard Harding RMIT Graduate Residency Award YOU ARE A WOMAN WITH A MAN INSIDE HER HEAD WATCHING THAT WOMAN, WATCHING A WOMAN AWARE OF THE MAN INSIDE WATCHING HER. Halle (They/She) is a multidisciplinary artist who creates
WINNER – Exegesis Award for Exceptional Art Writing RESPONSE-ABILITY This research project aims to explore how an interdisciplinary practice—creating with and in response to Earthworms—can contribute to a growing awareness of human and nature relationships. Donna Haraway’s sympoiesis (creating-with) and
2025 Gold & Sillversmithing Club Award for Innovation of Technique/Material Hannah Luk-Finucane is a Cantonese/ ‘Australian’ artist based in Naarm (Melbourne). Working reflexively, their practice explores layered diasporic experiences, studies of the body and memory. Through their practice, they are
Lowensteins Arts Management Award Why I Knit My practice explores neurodivergent experience through wearable textiles, participatory performance, and large-scale crochet installation. Rooted in hand-knitting, embroidery, and tactile making, my work transforms personal strategies of survival and regulation into shared encounters,
WINNER – Deans Award for Academic Excellence WINNER – Associate Dean Award for Innovation WINNER – Travel Scholarship WINNER – Art for Social Change My art practice employs performance-based video art to investigate the psychological tensions within Chinese-Australian immigrant subjectivity.
WINNER – Professional Practice Award – Awarded by the Technical Team In Brine I was an egg, an egg developed in my mom while she was growing in her mom’s womb. The understanding that I’ve been brewing for that long
WINNER – RMIT Creative Award Jade Power is a Naarm/Melbourne based emerging artist practicing primarily in the expanded field of ceramics. Power’s practice is grounded in a deep engagement with material and the quiet, yet rigorous labour of
Highly Commended: Fagan and Corser Award for Figurative Painting (previously the Tolarno Award) 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
Awarded the 2025 Print Council of Australia RMIT Graduate Award EGG AND SHELLS is a large-scale copperplate etching that captures an impression of the southern hemisphere night sky as seen from my suburb, densely populated with stars. I believe copperplate etching
The ADFAS (Australian Decorative & Fine Arts Society), Yarra Branch Award Winner Acne on Memory employs expanded painting and collage practices to engage with anxieties surrounding everyday emotions, memory, and femininity. Methodologies of playfulness and uncanniness are
AWARD WINNER – Artists for Kid’s Culture (AKC) Gallery Exhibition Prize, 2025 THE MOTHER OF ALL MESSES My work explores transformation, materiality, and memory. The process is intuitive, led by touch, chance, and the conversations between materials. I’m drawn
WINNER – DRAWING STUDIO Peter Westwood Legendary T’shirt Award, 2025 No Love Labours An exploration of familial tension and the burden of care through the use of drawing and writing. This project reflects the period of coming-of-age that results in
Highly commended: ACAE Gallery Award 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
BA Fine Art Gold & Silversmithing Awards 2025 Gold & Silversmithing Club Conceptual Design Outcomes Award THE TRACE OF THE TEAR is a sculptural neckpiece born from Lilian Fung’s own healing journey. Rooted in research on the crystallisation of dried
WINNER – DRAWING STUDIO Bold and the Beautiful prize, 2025 We Gather, We Rise, We Fall. This large-scale robotic fabric installation reflects on the cycles of nature, their duration, rhythm, and caring reliability. Its scale intentionally includes the human body
Awarded the 2025 44 Frame Factory Award My work explores climate change, the environment, and the spiritual elements of Earth, Fire, Water, and Air. I am majoring in printmaking and explore a wide range of styles through screen printing. My
2025 BA Fine Art Gold & Silversmithing Awards -Emily Hope Prize for a figurative work -Koodak Award for the Highest Academic Achievement third year Gold & Silversmithing I WANT TO GROW OLD WITH ALL OF YOU Lou Wheeler is a
WINNER – Compelling and Original Work HIT ME AS HARD AS YOU CAN: The Carnivalesque Against Australian Nationalism. Australia has a long history of phobic nationalism which utilises any instance of global economic insecurity to scapegoat whichever individual strays
Robin Kingston Award for Contemporary Abstraction 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
WINNER – R.L. Foote Design Residency Award Madelyn McKenzie is an emerging artist based in Naarm/Melbourne, working primarily across ceramics, sculpture and installation. She has just completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) at RMIT University whilst also participating in
Highly commended: All the Very Best Award Chapman and Bailey Award for Excellence in Contemporary Painting The Garland Award STEEL KARKADE- Analysing the strength and brutality of diasporic Black women’s experiences through afrosurrealism The primary purpose of Steel Karkade is
All the Very Best Award 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
Red Gallery Exhibition Award The Angel in The House: an exploration of complexities and contradictions within contemporary femininity. Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother
Award: Garland Award for Innovative Storied Object 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
NAVA Ignition Prize Winner Room for Nowhere My master’s project explores the embodied expression of uncertainty within states of anxiety through painting-based sculpture and its constituent spatial installations. Using cardboard as a primary material, I create a space that carries
ACAE Gallery Award: winner THERE YOU ARE (2025) brings together individually titled works across various mediums, including an installation, a short film documentary and paintings. This research explores themes of memory and belonging, while engaging with the act of cultural preservation through
WINNER – DRAWING STUDIO Bold and the Beautiful prize, 2025 BODY PIECE is an installation combining abstract sculptural forms with figurative video projection. Positioned as a refusal of the commodified female body, the work distorts and fragments the feminine form into
Sub 27 Exhibition Award Winner 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
Wayne Conduit Award Sub 27 Exhibition Award Winner 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 grandparents’ collection, depicting
WINNER – DRAWING STUDIO Bold and the Beautiful prize, 2025 REALM REALM is an immersive digital mural exploring how diasporic memory fragments and reforms across generations. This expansive landscape, created in Procreate and Endless Paper, features interconnected scenes floating in
The ADFAS (Australian Decorative & Fine Arts Society), Yarra Branch and the NAVA Ignition Prize Garment of the Soul Rooted in my migration and separation from my motherland Iran to Australia, I seek to depict the emotional dissonance and suspended
WINNER – DRAWING STUDIO Block Projects Drawing Prize, 2025 MOUTHFUL – Post dinner languor washes over me. My belly replete, eyes droopy, the lingering taste of brie in my mouth. Days of preparation consumed in mouth-fulls. Everything’s packed up. Finally.
WINNER – RMIT Creative Award INDEED THERE WILL BE TIME: AN INVESTIGATION INTO TEMPORALITY, PLACE AND BEING IN EXPANDED INSTALLATION PRACTICE Working in response to a disruptive, short-form media-centric contemporary culture, my honours project examines notions of being, place and
Award: Ceramic Club Award 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
WINNER – THE MOAT Video award, 2025 Su Shar Latt is a video-based performance artist who explores the relationship between her body and her past. Drawing on concepts relating to seeking refuge and its lasting effects, she investigates how the past is never
Awarded the 2025 Print Council of Australia RMIT Graduate Award Insight investigates the grounding qualities of the Australian atmosphere and landscape, focusing on the interconnectedness of land, sea, and sky within the Dandenong Ranges and along the Victorian coastline. Through
Award: Fiona Myer Ceramic Award EGG AND JELLY FOUR, 2025 (b. Melbourne, Australia) Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art), RMIT University, 2025 Tahni Bouhadana investigates how memory, play, and material synthesis create a sense of reverence and wonder. In her sculptural
Award: Ceramic Student Club Error 1240 Glitch art can be traced back to the late 1960’s when artists such as Nam June Paik and Steina Vulska started experimenting with video signal disruptions and distortions. As a ceramic artist I am
WINNER – DRAWING STUDIO Joseph Beuys Cafe Drawing Award, 2025 Tate Maxwell is an artist working in the expanded field of drawing. In a recent departure from representational charcoal drawings, Maxwell has begun to explore spatial potentiality, quality, and
AWARD WINNER – BDS Sculpture Prize for outstanding folio, 2025 Teagan is a sculpture-based artist with a vested interest in repurposing and reimagining overlooked and discarded objects from her immediate environments. Her practice is characterised by an intuitive and
NAVA Ignition Prize Winner I, Me, Myself This body of work is an exploration of the self, guided by a simple but profound principle: “I am not just taking pictures, I am taking myself in.” Through a practice that
Awarded the 2025 Gold Street Studios & OBSA Award TRACING MEMORIES, for our daughters, is a project that reflects on the journey of immigrant Vietnamese women and their untold stories of hybridity and migration into Australia. The importance of highlighting
Chapman and Bailey Award for Excellence in Contemporary Painting 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,
Highly commended: All the Very Best Award 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
Sub 27 Exhibition Award Winner I love exploring and creating jewelry and objects inspired by nature. Nature offers a diverse range of feelings, emotions, and thoughts. In early 2019, the Victorian bushfires caused devastating losses. Many people lost their
WINNER – DRAWING STUDIO Prize Full Stop Framing Prize, 2025 ABSOLUTE CARE specimens of attention ‘Absolute Care (specimens of attention)’, is realised through a series of A5 sized drawings. The works meditate on the inability to truly feel constant within
WINNER – THE LIBRARY Expanded Excellence Prize, 2025 My Body Flows with Natural Red Paint and Contraceptive and Aphrodisiac are a performative, experimental film installation exploring female embodied experience through blood, which is often tied to taboos, trauma, shame and
Nearly-Mary Oliphant Award Lotus and Mud: Embracing messiness through wu-wei and expanded ceramics My masters project investigates the Daoist concept of wu-wei (non-action) through expanded ceramics that embrace clay’s inherent messiness and instability, challenging conventional methods that prioritize permanence and
Associate Dean’s Innovation Award Winner THINGS THAT REFUSE TO SETTLE working with black-and-white photographs created through chemical interventions, solarisation, and Instax film, this body of work studies the residue of emotion and the slow sedimentation of memory. Images emerge through
WINNER – Compelling and Original Work This practice-led research investigates how painting can stage a spiritual encounter by embodying the principles of non-duality, self-dissolution, and meditative awareness drawn from Zhuangzi’s Daoist philosophy and Mahāyāna Buddhist thought. Rather than illustrating doctrine,
BA Fine Art Gold & Silversmithing Awards 2025 Gold & Silversmithing Club Craft Award Fragments of Earthly Memory My work embodies a quiet alchemy of transformation, where natural elements become vessels of memory and protection. In Ritual Memory, four ritual
Five Walls Exhibition Award Winner City Skin: Placing Traces City Skin: Placing Traces is a photographic installation that reimagines the invisible residues of human life within the rapidly urbanisation landscapes of city spaces. Through a series of black-and-white photographs
WINNER – DRAWING STUDIO Bold and the Beautiful prize, 2025 the violent feminine : a ventilation of clothed trauma Tax Return [Iteration Three] and Subtotal Tax my resolved works as part of the 2025 gradshow, operate as mediations between material
Award: Fagan and Corser Award for Figurative Painting (previously the Tolarno Award) 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
