Charlie Patten
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
Christina Antonia Nazim
THE PRIMAL FRISSON OF SENSES Sometimes I catch a scent and my body remembers before my mind does. The air seems to shift; my body shivers and trickles, and I’m pulled into a feeling I can’t quite name. These moments
Connor Dooley
My journey with photography started because of my obsession with Eggeleston’s after his exhibition at the NGV. Looking back on his Guide book, fascinated by how he intertwines ambiguity with family narratives. Much like his work, Hoo-Roo is predominantly social
Darcy Wiblin
WINNER – Deans Award supported by Kindred Cameras, 2025 You Can Kiss My Elbow follows the beginnings of a new chapter in my life. A chapter in which I am learning countless new things abouts love, identity and desire, so much
Doris Wei
BETWEEN SELVES Between Selves explores the shifting relationship between past and present selves, and the tension between imagined identity and lived experience. The work employs high-contrast black-and-white treatment, allowing the figure to become visually abstracted. This reduces specific identifying features
Eden Muster
WINNER – Kallman Feitel Endowment Award – Art Centred, 2025 PARTY PARASITE is a viral infection that can only be cured through song, dance and unorthodox medical procedures. The operations you must undergo Frankenstein the perfect vessel for your existence
Elijah Cristiano
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
Elle Goudis
HOLDING THE MOMENT This practice-led research examines how the act of painting can transform ordinary, private moments into heightened visual experiences. Painting allows me to slow down what the camera captures instantly. The digital image is reinterpreted over time through
Emma Cunard-Naramos
HAPTIC is collaborative exploration of skin and body through photography and realised in fabric. Having skin and a body is one of the few experiences that every person has and will have, despite this we tend to feel so isolated in
Jade Power
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
Kanghao Yuan (Kasper)
Regardless 《无 證 綻 放》 https://www.instagram.com/kanahoyooo?igsh=MWI1cmkxejQ3cDgzaQ%3D%3D&utm_source=qr tudouslife@qq.com
Leigh Woodburgess
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
Leila Simpson
BACK TO PLAYA SAN BLAS Navigating grief, love, and liminality, this practice-led research project is informed by my mixed-race identity as a Salvadoran woman born in Australia. Privileging the knowledge generated from intuition, I use autoethnographic research such as
Ludomyr Kemp-Mykyta
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
MARLENA LONCARIC
WINNER – Associate Deans Innovation Award, 2025 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,
MINGYU KANG
Ahn-nyoung, Ms. Myoung-ja Ahn-Nyoung, Grandma. How have you been? It’s been a long time since I’ve been writing to you like this. Lol. Five, maybe seven years? I thought I was a good grandson in my own right, but I
Shengsheng(Jonathan) Jiang
WINNER – Kallman Feitel Endowment Award – Client Centred, 2025 The Beginning of My Lens The Beginning of My Lens is a cross-media photographic project that traces my journey of
Thái Hoàng “Nguyên” Lê
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
Xinyu Yao
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
Yuqing (Anna) Xiang
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,
Yutong Chen
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