Alannah Heslop
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
Aletta Mira
Working across drawing, painting and sculpture, I investigate spatial, material and hierarchical approaches to making and reconfiguring things to become artworks. An investigation of conditions ensues; conditions of the gallery, materials, sculpture, painting… And what happens when we fall between these
Amelie Stewart
FIRE-BORN MOODS (2025) applies instinctually creative practice to depict landscapes of personal significance. Over this three-year period of study, the landscapes of my backyard and the Dandenong Creek have taken over my creative subconscious. Townsend describes her similar experience as
Christina Rankin
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,
Elisha Mei Daniel
INTERTWINED: finding the sacred in the everyday Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the
Eliza Baker
Eliza Baker is a Melbourne-based artist (b. 2003) originally from rural New South Wales. Through her practice, Baker seeks to transform intimate emotional experiences into shared encounters, using art as a conduit for connection and resilience. Presented across gallery,
JENNIFER SZE NGA MOK
AN EXISTENTIAL ABSURDITY OF VASTNESS The city exists in an uncanny liminal state, where belonging feels impossible, pressed beneath national identity, political handovers and
Jennifer Wang
Tender is the Flesh (2025) engages with ideas of skin as both surface and material agency: a site where identity, memory, and trauma are inscribed, but also where discomfort, estrangement, and instability emerge. While I continue to explore the intimate relationship
Jesse Chabrier-Pope
OPEN EYES AND CLOSED DOORS explores the intimate connections between place, memory and acceptance. The diptych provides a glimpse into my internal and private experiences of chronic illness and trauma, through the most vulnerable physical spaces I occupy, and the
Melanie Sky
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
Rania Hisham
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
Ruby Fiedler
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
S. Raelle
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
Tulley Powell
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
Wallis Yuen Ying Chan
Fragment Of Affection Fragments of Affection is an ongoing series that traces the fragile relationship between melancholy, memory and tenderness through my recurring character SiSi ,a symbolic extension of my inner self. Across multiple panels and compositions. SiSi drifts through