WINNER – Sally Brownbill Effect Award, 2025 Sunnies for Funnies is about a fun photo book of people expressing themselves through a pair of sunglasses. Sunglasses have become a symbol of coolness, mystery and highlights someone’s individuality, especially their personal
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
Echoes of Elsewhere: Navigating Belonging in Distant Lands How do diasporic identities become visible within a nation still shaped by colonial ways of seeing? How might photography, once a tool of classification and erasure, be recontextualised as a language of
CONFINE DELL’INFERNO: PAINTING AS AN EXPULSION This practice-led research project grew out of a need to navigate my obsessive-compulsive (OCD) thoughts and actions related to the fear of disease and illness. My painting practice enables me to confront my
Talk to Me – A Dialogue with Self-Portraiture My series explores self-portraiture as a fluid and mutable study of self. Turning up to sit repeatedly, I observe changes in mood, appearance and aesthetics. The portraits are designed to be viewed
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 – Kallman Feitel Endowment and Brunswick Darkroom Award, 2025 I’M STILL HERE I’m Still Here, is an archival photographic installation that honours the continuing presence of loved ones who have passed away by bringing archival portraits into the present.
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
身体健康//Shen Ti Jian Kang//Wishing you Good Health: an autoethnographic exploration of identity, culture, and family My relationship with my Chinese heritage has always been complex. In my younger years, I found myself pushing that part of my identity away,
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IT’S NO LONGER ABOUT YOU, I NO LONGER REMEMBER YOUR VOICE. As an 18-year-old, I was in a sexually abusive relationship. It has forever changed how I view myself and sexuality. This work is a visual dive into my ever-changing
UNSTABLE POWER This exhibition represents my introduction as an exhibiting artist. It presents a collection of works that explore the affective and embodied experience of political confrontation. Although I have been working within the realm of documentary and academic photography,
Ma. Klarissa Camagong (Isa) is a photographer and video artist based in Naarm/Melbourne. Her practice explores the relationship between nature, emotion, and impermanence through still and moving imagery. Drawing inspiration from the forces of wind and light, her works often
WINNER – Perimeter Books Award, 2025 RỒI MỘT NGÀY CON SẼ MẤT (SOMEDAY I WILL LOSE YOU) In 2017, at the age of 15, I began studying abroad in Australia. With my immature thoughts at the time, I never imagined
WORKING FACES: PORTRAITS IN PLACE Working Faces: Portraits in Place explores the connection between people and their working environments through a series of environmental portraits. Each image captures individuals in their authentic settings, from bustling city streets to quiet studios,
WINNER – Center for Contemporary Photography Award, 2025 we/they (always been there) For as long as people have been we have looked to the past to divine the future, we are cognisant dominoes that regard those who toppled before us
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
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
Shape of Pain This project continues my exploration of domestic violence through symbolic studio photography. Building upon my previous series, I focus on the enduring tension between beauty and pain. By photographing body parts or objects squeezed or bound, I
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
“Who Are You / Who Am I” “Who Are You / Who I Am” is inspired by the 16-personality test, which is widely shared on social media among young people today. This project explores how individuals express their unique traits
