does a sticker make me good? i return to childhood memories where stickers functioned as a currency for achievement. a curated band-aid. a brightly adhesive sign that i had done something right. i can’t quite explain the fixation. i think
ORDER & CHAOS delves into transformation, spiritual healing, and the belief in a higher self through my unique perspective on spirituality and the search for purpose. Inspired by alchemy, spiritual philosophy, and fantastical themes, this project emphasizes my personal philosophy
A POSTCARD TO NATURE – AN APPRECIATION FOR THE NATURAL WORLD My work engages with nature, aiming to capture an appreciation for life and celebrate the beauty in the world around us. It explores my personal connection to the natural
SCAR TISSUE This body of work reimagines the car beyond its associations with function, speed and masculinity, framing it instead as a site of seduction, fragility, and care. Working with salvaged car panels, the approach treats them as sculptural surfaces
FOND MEMORIES IN MY HEAD Be loud, Be funny, Reach each catharsis, Release shame. I want to put intimate things on a wall. Talk about things people have shamed me for. Become shameless and be myself, and in turn help
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
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
Sacred Unfolding Sacred Unfolding employs intuitive ink painting, patterns, and fabric installation to explore spirituality, Buddhist philosophy, and phenomenology, drawing on my lived experience to reflect on our shared human condition. At its core, my work seeks to reveal inner
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. It hurts me, and
Uniform: An auto-theoretical reflection on agency and conformity within schooling institutions as an adolescent girl with ADHD Uniform employs a combination of representational and abstract painting techniques, drawing, and repurposed school uniform textiles to research the interplay between gendered expectations,
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
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 of a three act
When I was offered the opportunity to study Printmaking, I was unsure as I didn’t really know what it entailed. At first I struggled with the processes and translating my earlier practice into print. As much as I was
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
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
Roadkill Approximately 10 million animals die on our roads each year from vehicle related incidents. Alone, afraid and abandoned; they are left on the side of the road to die, sometimes slowly and in pain. They are splattered and maimed
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
A PLACE TO LEARN AND LIE 2025 @dirtybyharry Amidst a tumultuous world full of inspiration and tragedy, I wanted to create a space that offers refuge — a haven where you are not required to know, fix, or lead. You may
hush heresy heave (2025) Words are often clumsy in articulating the understanding of the body. This practice-led research project aims to explore how hysterical choreographies—across movement, language, and lens-based media—might critically engage with the bodily impacts of capitalist-driven terrains and
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
THEATRE OF ONE explores interiors and exteriors. When masks are worn, a tension is created through the inclusion, alteration and omission of information. The video works present ambiguous masked characters in equally ambiguous domestic locations. Paired with videos of text
Search for the elusive homely This project is a reflection on distance and unfamiliarity, more specifically nostalgia (distance from the past) and exile (distance from home), how in this distance, things can become unfamiliar and lost. In my work, I
A Perfect Failure An installation of multiple works, exploring the themes of Empathy, Empowerment, Family, Social Justice and Housing (especially the failures of the private sector and government.) Through creating a large painting / drawing using hessian and plaster, I
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
ENCHANTED BY THE FEELING Enchanted by the Feeling reimagines intimacy through soft sculpture, self-portrait photography, and immersive installation. Employing play, performance, and fluidity as queer methodologies, Kate seeks creative new perspectives on the experience. Through embodied practice, these strategies facilitate
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
PORTABLE STILLNESS: Handmade Miniatures as Traces of Home and Memory My master’s project explores how the making of miniature objects and floating altar-like displays can express memory, collection, and the domestic in transition. Motivated by the instability of diasporic living
FLUID AND UNFOLDING invites you to romanticise the mundane. Love between queer and trans, disabled and neurodiverse people, exists in a realm of its own. Small, sacred moments of care-giving are interwoven into the queer experience. To chosen family, friends,
Unfolding Impermanence: Collage, Myth, and the Metaphysical Dimensions of Contemporary Painting This project, featuring the 6m kinetic painting Public Dreams/Private Myths, begins with drawing and monochromatic analogue collage, where photographs and sketches are fragmented and reassembled into new forms as
I’LL JUST SAY THANK YA This project explores the experience of parting ways with someone who is important to me. Created during a time of major personal transition, it reflects the emotional weight of saying goodbye to someone who taught
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 human tears under a microscope, it gives form to what is often unseen — grief, memory,
I WANT TO GROW OLD WITH ALL OF YOU Lou Wheeler is a Narrm/Melbourne based emerging metalwork artist with a special interest in ancient and traditional craft practices. Lou’s practice prioritises fundamental yet demanding techniques such as hand engraving and
Between Two Worlds In this project, the tension between the fragility of rice paper and the resistance of linen installed in the gallery space visualises the silent, powerful current constituted of diaspora identity. It is a map of magnetic pulls
Crown your child self with gratitude . Maaike Schipper is a printmaker and interdisciplinary artist from rural New South Wales, currently based in Melbourne. Guided by feminist frameworks of care, her practice embraces the slow, imperfect, and attentive nature of
Sundowning—the term for increased confusion in the late afternoon and evening for people with Alzheimer’s. Sundowning reflects on the tensions between permanence and impermanence and intends to resist modernist ideals of monolithic permanence. As its title suggests, Sundowning is
IN MY ROOM.mp4 pays homage to the early 2000s aesthetics of the new age internet, encapsulating the mess, life, and joy held within my bedroom. The mixed installation, consisting of projections, short-form videos, and photographic prints, brings together the essence
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
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
MOSAIC This collection of works, created using various printmaking techniques, explores Syrian civilisation and culture through the metaphor of a treasured box. Throughout history, Syria has embraced dozens of civilisations, just as the box in this project embraces many of
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 functional implications yet remains
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
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
BETWEEN MOMENT AND MEMORY. I am intrigued by the space between experiencing a moment and holding it as memory. Why do we hold certain moments in our minds and not others? How does the energy of lived experience transform into
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 state of being between the two realms. Drawing inspiration from cultural symbolism and geographical landscapes,
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 time through moving images, collage,
GHOST NET – Capturing Narratives of Ghost Nets Through Soft Sculptural Installations This project manifests an underwater kelp forest. I construct densely beaded and embellished soft sculpture to create a cluster of pillar-like installations. These relate to the theme of
Ich verstehe nur Bahnhof (I only know the way to the train station) Ich verstehe nur Bahnhof (I only know the way to the train station) 2025, ink, pencil, digital print on Bible paper, 14.8×21cm (Single size, 28-piece
Nathan Man is a Hong Kong artist based in Naarm/Melbourne. Working across installation, printmaking, and object-based practice, their work examines the slippages between language, identity, and cultural translation within diasporic and queer experience. ACTS OF SERVICE is an installation combining
Shona McMahon is a Naarm based artist who has a print informed multi-disciplinary practice. Quintessentially, Shona explores her need for belonging, of finding place, in the natural or other world, and in doing so advocates nurturing of, and connection to,
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
A ROOM OF MY OWN This year I’ve had home of my own – an apartment with a courtyard garden – that has been transformative for both my life and my practice. To paraphrase Virginia Woolf, having a room (and
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
SECOND SKIN “As I stretch the hood over my face, I enter my second skin. Anonymity is my armour, self-expression is my tool, and with them I build my relationships and join a community of likeminded freaks.” Second Skin is
This video essay represents one of my most expansive works to date, weaving together personal narrative and socio-political analysis to examine body and gender identity. The piece focuses specifically on the lives of trans women across the western world and
Things That Cannot Be Remembered Things That Cannot Be Remembered is a photographic and installation-based project that explores the fragility and transformation of memory. Inspired by the artist’s experience of living with ADHD, it visualises how memories erode, fragment, and
THE LANGUAGE AFTER ME The Language After Me reconfigures the Five Constants of Confucian morality—ren, yi, li, zhi, xin—by reshaping their seal-script forms into grotesque, bodily structures. Using calligraphy ink on rice paper, the project explores how virtues that once
Sisyphean Circle: A paper-cut and shadow-puppet installation crafted through precision laser-cutting techniques, critiquing the cyclical fate of patriarchy This work employs paper-cutting, shadow play and collage. By combining traditional artistic methods with the spatial arrangement of contemporary art installations, the project
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 layered with temperature sensitive pigment,
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:
YOU COULD JUST NOT THINK ABOUT IT FOR FIVE YEARS I am interested in the melding of bodies, surgery, the sharing of fluids, and how printmaking practices can be used to explore this. Drawing upon past medical experiences, I want
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
