2025 MFA GRAD SHOW

Elaina Venn

Elaina Venn

Where Did You Go, Are You Here? The MFA project where did you go, are you here? Explores my childhood trauma through constructed sculptural forms and objects. The project aims to construct a world where everything is disruptive, dysfunctional, and

Lydia Lin

Lydia Lin

 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

Noah Bridger

Noah Bridger

PLASTICITIES, malaises, SURVIVALS PLASTICITIES, malaises, SURVIVALS is a practice led project that has emerged out of a personal experience of displacement. Working between Dight’s Falls, the foundry, and the gallery I cast beeswax sculptures, gather found materials, and record video

Patrick Fox

Patrick Fox (b.1988 Melbourne) This project takes my painting into something new. I started making things. They are sort of sculptures or assemblages. I never feel like I am a sculptor – painting is still my starting point – this

Vasi Devi

Vasi Devi

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

Yongping Ren

Yongping Ren

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