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Congratulations RMIT Bachelor of Arts (Photography) (Honours) graduate Lê Nguyên Phương on being awarded the Ballarat International Foto Biennale GradFoto 2024 prize for his series Vở ô ly.
The 2024 RMIT University Library Art Prize has been awarded to Bachelor of Arts (Photography) Graduate Zhongxin Guo (aka Slend3r_).
Zhongxin Guo’s work caught the attention of the prize selection panel with an exquisite photobook of elegant black and white images titled ‘thousands of me’.
Recipient of the Composite Moving Image Agency and Media Bank Award and the Jack Willet 1301SW Honours Award. _________________________________ HERE/THERE (AND ME IN-BETWEEN) Just like walking in an alley, looking to see what will happen, then walking into another alley
Mary Oliphant Prize. Seventh Gallery Award. BESTOWED: EXPLORING TRAUMA AS A FORM OF INHERITANCE THROUGH CERAMIC SCULPTURES AND RITUALISED PERFORMANCE Reimagining heirlooms from the artist’s Javanese heritage to create ceramic sculptural work, Bestowed challenges the persistence of filial piety in
Recipient of the Kallman Feitel Endowment and the World Centred Award: The Perimeter Books Award. _________________________________ WHISPERING A SECRET INTO A SEALED BAG explores what Édouard Glissant describes as the ‘right to opacity’. The book presents itself, both in form
Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence, Bachelor of Arts (Photography)(Honours) sponsored by Kayell Australia. UNSETTLED OPACITIES: REASSEMBLING THE UNKNOWN. This year my research focused on approaching my practice as a site of resistance to maintain my right to opacity. The works
Recipient of the ACAE Gallery Award. _________________________________ PAINTING AS AN ACT OF TRANSLATION Through painting, I aim to echo musical forms into the visual. The resultant body of work explores the kinetic symbology of music, linguistics, hybridity, and inner worlds.
Recipient of the The ADFAS (Australian Decorative & Fine Arts Society), Yarra Branch Award _________________________________ ISOLATED FACES metaphorically explores anxieties of isolation and belonging. This project is a self-reflexive study that utilises non-traditional portraiture by shadowing the faces of loved ones to
Kallman Feitel Endowment award. Encoded Ecosystems examines the relationship between generative AI, native ecosystems, and the influence of technology on our perception of place within the natural world. In this series, lumen prints made from native plant specimens are processed
Recipient of the Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence, Bachelor of Arts (Photography)(Honours) Highly Commended. _________________________________ UNTITLED This was the first place I went to with the aim of making new pictures. I wasn’t too sure why. There was something about
Drawing Studio Award for excellence in drawing-based practices. BETWEEN YARN AND A HARD PLACE is an ongoing exploration of mother-daughter relationships and, by extension, the complex interaction between the maker and the made. In my semi-autobiographical practice, I explore the
RMIT Creative Residency Award The female body is judged biologically, evolutionarily and culturally for its fertility, sexuality, and aesthetics. As a young Western woman, I am shaped by this judgement, battling to find acceptance within my skin. My practice-led research
ALPHA 60 AWARD WINNER VEILED REFLECTIONS – THE WARDROBE AS A LIMINAL STRUCTURE OF INTERSECTING IDENTITIES explores the healing potential of material manipulation and repetitive processes. My practice becomes a physical means of breaking down psychological barriers and confronting
Recipient of the Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence, Bachelor of Arts (Photography)(Honours) sponsored by Kayell Australia. _________________________________ BREAKING BREAD Historical critique of power relationships in photography has focused on broad, categorical, systemic relationships, such as those of, and existing between,
Sculpture Workshop Prize. THE RABBITS is an assemblage of found materials transformed and altered, arranged to echo an imagined agricultural or domestic garden exterior landscape and at the same time an interior domestic setting, similar to a sitting room. As the
Recipient of the BDS Sculpture Prize. _________________________________ BENEATH DAPHNE I am an aspiring sculptural and installation-based artist located in Kulin country, Melbourne Australia. I will soon be graduating with my Bachelor of Fine Art, specialising in Sculpture at RMIT. I
Firestation Print Studio Exhibition Prize for high academic achievement. Sunshine Print Artspace Graduate Award for high academic achievement in Third Year. MEDIEVAL AND THE MODERN Through a practice of print and illustration my work engages with the ways history and
BEAUTY IN BODILY REALITIES: RECONTEXTUALISING THE FEMININE EXPERIENCE THROUGH EXPANDED CERAMIC PRACTICE is a studio based research project that employs an expanded ceramic practice and unconventional installation strategies to investigate an recontextualise the feminine experience. Aspects of the grotesque,
Chapman & Bailey Award. A WALK AMONGST NATURE. My practice relates to New Materialism, a philosophy that allows me to open up to an intimate, reciprocal engagement with my materials and immediate surroundings. My current work sits between painting and
The Moat Bar Awards for excellence in Video and Drawing. DRESS YOU UP IN YOUR LOVE explores the body, identity, and sexuality through a queer feminist lens. Viewers will enter a boudoir-like space to experience an immersive installation comprising
This series explores neuroqueer (autistic/queer) (dis)embodiment and alienation. Through a queer, posthuman and xenofeminist framework, the work brings into focus the inherently queer interbodily experiences of the neuroqueer bodymind. The work offers a narrative imagining for the neuroqueer networked self; a self joyfully enmeshed with the technological and the non-human.
Inside the installation space, scripted spaces unfold, interact and nest with and inside each other. The body transforms into data; the data flow from our fingertip, through the camera, into the central processing unit. At this moment, we are all cyborgs.
Recipient of the Drawing Studio Award. _________________________________ THE NATURE OF LOVE ‘Trauma and shit going down in childhood is [not] inherently interesting…it’s chronic, commonplace, sometimes dramatic and often tedious in its stranglehold of repetitions, daily struggles, and predictable and
Recipient of the Client Centred Award: Sun Studios Award and the Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence, Bachelor of Arts (Photography) sponsored by Arten Framing. _________________________________ THE JOURNEY OF CHOCOLATE is made up of seven handmade chocolate slides, each designed to create
Melbourne Art Supplies Award Winner Sanctuary Reimagined: Unveiling Spiritual rebirth and bicultural renewal through animism, eternalism, repetition, and layering. Sanctuary Reimagined intricately maps my transformative journey of spiritual rebirth and bi-cultural renewal through mixed-media installation. By employing a methodology of repetition,
The Wayne Conduit Memorial Prize. My main area of interest is in contemporary still life painting. My works are observational, using traditional painting methods and working from life. The works often begin by moving, organising and arranging objects before building
Recipient of the Emily Hope Award for a figurative work— Donor Professor AD Hope Endowment. _________________________________ DOMESTIC RITUAL My practice explores the domestic space and the mundane with a focus on the processes and objects involved in food preparation. The
Koodak Award for Enamelling Prize for Technical Excellence. WHIMSY IN THE ORDINARY: AN EXPLORATION OF THE MUNDANE, ROUTINE AND PRECIOUSNESS THROUGH JEWELLERY. My practice explores the domestic space and the ordinary with a focus on processes and objects involved in
THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL AWARD WINNER fragments of deterioration. Betty’s work explores echoes of human presence, navigating the blurred boundaries between life and death. Her creations, influenced by ritualistic and macabre inspirations, feel like personal offerings, through various mediums:
Recipient of the Experimenta Internship Award. _________________________________ EXPLORING COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS THROUGH MOVING IMAGE AND MUSIC PROJECTS SITUATED IN PUBLIC SPACE In my Master’s research, I have been using the moving image and music to explore collective consciousness, dreams, and time.
Dean’s Award for Excellence Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art). YELLOW CORRIDOR ‘Look into yellow, feel immersed in colour, anchored when close. The plane of the wall intersecting through my bodily matter to secure, tether me to site.’ My practice involves
Lowenstein Arts Management Prize. THE JUNK PILE draws upon Bonnie-Jean Whitlock’s relationship with material, image and process. “I call the accumulation of experience sustained within my own body my ‘junk pile’, it contaminates everything I say, do and make. I
Recipient of the Kallman Feitel Endowment and the Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence, Bachelor of Arts (Photography) Highly Commended. _________________________________ BLUE is a visual and written exploration of the self, following an adult ADHD and ASD diagnosis and coming to an
Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence, Master of Photography sponsored by Kayell Australia. NAVA Ignition Prize. Ballarat International Foto Biennale GradFoto 2024 finalist. Photographic art. Seeking to subvert established systems, to challenge expectations and to confront ideologies. A collection of images
R.L.Foote Design Studio – Residency Award Unearthed looks at the hidden networks below the surface that create a complex, functioning ecosystem that is older than humanity. I derive my forms to represent the connections between mycelium and tree roots; these
Recipient of the Chapman & Bailey Award for Excellence in Contemporary Painting. _________________________________ LANDSCAPE / ESCAPE ‘As an artist I’m trying to reflect something back to myself. A feeling, understanding, sense of the world…’ —Kiki Smith Exploring the silent language
Recipient of the Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence and contribution to the program, Master of Fine Art. _________________________________ TOWARDS REPOSE An exploration of materiality and ephemerality through the use of organic matter and geometric patterns. This multidisciplinary research project frames
THE MOAT AWARD WINNER CACHEXIA. A surreal exploration of the decaying body, born from the intersection of personal experience and the unsettling reality of transformation. This body of work reflects an intimate relationship with my own physical form, fusing surrealist
Garland Award for Innovative Storied Object Celine Babet explores how a cultural lifestyle has influenced her sense of self by making works of multiple ceramic components. Through her conceptual research, she draws upon childhood memories and family relationships, which are
Lowensteins Arts Management Award Winner 2024 Dean’s Award for academic excellence Between the Lines (2022-24) explores diasporic identity linked to the psychological impacts of colonialism through sculptural installation. My artworks are informed by my lived experience as a Filipino migrant struggling
Megalo Print Studio Graduate Award MYCELIA – a venture into my past, honouring the previous versions of myself that allowed me to become the person I am today, as well as the people in my life who have shaped my
Recipient of the 44 Frame Factory Graduate Award. ___________________________________ IN/VISIBLE: FEMIN-INE/IST RESPONSES TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE This project uses hand-made textiles and print-informed media to explore women’s responses to domestic violence. It is informed by my developing understanding of trauma theory
Recipient of the Journal of Public Space Prize. _________________________________ APOCALYPTIC THERAPEUTIC A speculative journey into the future of our climate vulnerable ecologies through virtual reality and participation Apocalyptic therapeutic is a laboratory of drawings, writing, virtual renders, and participatory
Koodak Award for the Highest Academic Achievement in Third Year Gold & Silversmithing. CONTEMPORARY TALISMANS is a body of work exploring the involvement of jewellery and objects in everyday rituals. Ciara’s practice explores the idea of the talisman, informed by
Winner – Koodak Award for Enamelling – Technical Excellence (presented by Koodak Jewellery Supplies) Haeng-Bok (행복 Happiness & Luck). As a fan of the K-pop group The Boyz, I aim to share the joy and happiness I have experienced
BDS Sculpture Prize for outstanding portfolio. TETHERED By temporalities, I am always tethered, but forced to move forward despite it; these opposing internal conflicts causes loss of presentness, how am I to exist? Tethered is a multimedia artwork that investigates
Kallman Feitel Endowment Award for portfolio which demonstrates the greatest potential (client-centred). ATMOS is the first instalment of an ongoing series, comprised of both architectural and interior photography. Positioned as a rebuttal to persistent criticisms of minimalist design, which is often
44 Frame Factory Graduate Award. AM I ENOUGH? is a personal expression of emotion, identity, and societal reflection. The portrayal of athletic body ideals as symbols of masculine health is often amplified by social media and Hollywood stars resorting to
Perry Summers Sculpture Book Prize for excellent in Sculpture Studio: FORGED is a collection of narrative works that seamlessly intertwine two distinct stories. The first story narrates the tale of The Blacksmith and the Devil, while the second story follows The
Recipient of the NAVA Ignition Prize. _________________________________ WHISPER WAVES This research project grew out of an interest in how our brains work and the different ways that we can influence them by engaging with creativity and the natural world. The
Recipient of the Bold and Beautiful Art Prize and the Wolf Wennrich Award for Craftmanship – Mr Michael Wennrich Endowment. _________________________________ In my creative practice, I have explored the inter-dependency of species using the symbiotic relationships between coral and people
EXILE, is a series of print-based works that explores my experiences and feelings towards masculinity. The works are framed from my own perspective, drawing attention to characteristics in our society that remain patriarchal, exclusionary and/or ‘toxic’.
RMIT Creative Residency Award Reconstructing the vessel depicted in paintings as novel metal work objects. The act of abstracting metal iterations of vessels from paintings blurs the lines between disciplines, positioning jewellery and objects as equal to traditional art forms
Deans Award Winner ADFAS (Australian Decorative & Fine Arts Society), Yarra Branch – Young and Emerging Artists Fund Award Winner Diya Mathur’s practice explores the transgenerational impacts of the 1947 Partition of India on both collective and personal identities, investigating
Lightscapes Award for outstanding Folio. RETRO-FUTURISTIC ECHOES (Areas A-J) AI-infused artistry of the pulp Sci-Fi era My final art project for the Honours program Retrospective Echoes (Areas A-J) marries the aesthetics of retro sci-fi pulp movies from the 1950s through to
Recipient of the Troppo Print Studio Graduate Award. __________________________________ RHYTHMIC DISTURBANCE is a creative project that explores the lived experience of traumatic grief under intense media scrutiny and public opinion. The project uses experimental print-informed techniques to reflect how the
Lowenstein Arts Management Prize. MACHINIC ECOLOGIES is a practice-led project exploring the interfaces between humans, technology and the environment through transmedia installation. The installation space stages a re-imagined landscape composed of screen-based works, 3D prints, robotic assemblages and generative sound. These
Robyn Beeche Award. My project focused on the Latrobe Valley area from which I am from. Living in a rural community your identity is tied with who you are so what happens when your community is forgotten about? The Latrobe
Firestation Print Studio Graduate Scholarship MICROCOSM. Microcosm is a body of work investigating the patterns, convergences and linkages between life on earth. I am interested in the linkages of life and matter through coexistence, and this project is formed on
Recipient of the Wayne Conduit Memorial Award. _________________________________ When people ask, I say I paint pictures of vases. These paintings have been drawn from particularly endearing eBay listings of ‘fat lava’ pottery. Digital images have become so ubiquitous that we
Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence and contribution to the program, Master of Fine Art. WILD THINGS combines my love of portrait photography with sculpture to counter divisive narratives that arise primarily though bodily differences. Through playful materials, colour and absurdity,
Megalo Print Studio Graduate Award AKIN explores the merging of printmaking and collage, alongside my investigating of different copper-plate making techniques. Print-making is a rhythmic artform, and can form multiple images from one matrix. It is a very cyclical process,
JOSEPH BEUYS CAFE AWARD WINNER THE MOAT AWARD WINNER ENERGY IN MOTION AND A ‘MOVING DRAWING’ – transformations of individual drawings expand into animated projections, manifesting through spatial investigations and sculptural installations. Lines and forms seemingly grow and shrink, sway
NAVA Ignition Prize. DIGITAL WONDERSCAPES Exploring the wonder and new ways of seeing natural phenomena through atmospheric colourful light projections I use the ephemeral nature of light to explore and interrogate new ways of seeing, by employing digital techniques and
Recipient of the ArtLink Writing Award Year 3. _________________________________ Essay by Lexi Appleby as part of Contextualising Practice course. In this essay, I will explore the growing disparity in cultural capital between rural and urban Australia. I endeavour to
44 Frame Factory Graduate Award GAME GIRLS. Game Girls is a project in response to the sexism seen in the video game industry. The portrayal of the feminine characters in video games is often hypersexual or helpless, diminishing their agency
Kindred Cameras Photographic Workspace Award. ATROPHIA (THE CANDLE AT BOTH ENDS) is a work that gives a voice to the lived experience of invisible disability and chronic pain. A series in which the artist is the subject, and the body
ADFAS (Australian Decorative & Fine Arts Society), Yarra Branch – Young and Emerging Artists Fund Award Winner Fiona Morgan is a multi-disciplinary artists based in Wudawurrung country, in regional Victoria. Morgan’s practice is focused on painting and installation, primarily concentrating
Winner – 2024 RMIT Gold & Silversmithing Studio Prize ALL HAIL THE GIANTS – a wooden love story for old growth forests My work is concerned with the deforestation of old growth forests in Tasmania, I am motivated by
Troppo Print Studio Graduate Award for high academic achievement in third year. RMIT MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX. RMIT partners with weapons companies.Elbit systems, BAE systems, Thales and Boeing Defence (the list goes on) fund research and scholarships, provide internships and work
Recipient of the Lowenstein Arts Management Prize and the NAVA Ignition Prize. _________________________________ THE SECOND LANGUAGE Navigating Marginalised Ecologies Using a Multi-Disciplinary Practice. This multi-disciplinary project combines ceramic objects, paper, video, and the recorded voice to examine issues of ecological degradation
Recipient of the Baillot & Balfour Endowment. _________________________________ HEAVENLY CREATURES is a photographic project exploring alternative methods of representing the female body in fashion photography. The commercially-inspired photographs accentuate rather than hide aspects of the female body that society deems
Wolf Wennrich Award for Craftsmanship I Know You of Old: The Transmutation of Metal, Matter and Meaning. My practice-led research uses historical and contemporary metalsmithing techniques to find new and experimental methods to transmute copper and silver alloys into contemporary
R.L.Foote Design Studio – Residency Award RMIT Ceramic Student Association Club Year 3 Award UNTITLED is a large-scale nest-like structure that aims to provide a sensory haven of comfort and respite. By touching, holding and even crawling inside of the
RMIT Lightscapes Award. Something flickers on and Off, something is pierced through/有物一闪一灭，有物被击穿 The water in the clouds, the clouds on the wall. Silently recite the mistakes been made in the past, lost all memories when thoughts wandered. There is no
Honours Fine Art Travelling Award. INTIMUS BOUND is a playful exploration of the search for emotional intimacy through imagined, metamorphic and metaphorical narratives. This body of work encompasses a year-long project contained in a single artist’s book. In what often
Recipient of the Robyn Beeche Award. _________________________________ OF STRANGE WEATHER Born of the 1924 Manifesto of Surrealism, ‘Breton demanded that a work of surrealist art should be a window through which the viewer could look upon some inner landscape of
The Bold and the Beautiful Award. DRIFTING STARS: The sense of alienation seeing through self, objects, place, and community. My work captures and expresses the isolation and the anxiety of self-identity experienced between life in Korea and Australia while
Stockroom Kyneton – Exhibition Award R.L.Foote Design Studio – Residency Award Walkers Ceramic Award – Accademic Excellence RMIT Ceramic Student Association Club – Year 3 Award Heidi Kwong is an emerging ceramic artist currently completing her Bachelor of Arts in
JACK WILLET STUDIO VISIT AWARD WINNER A SLEEPWALK FROM ME TO YOU. When sleep becomes me, I dream of walking from me to you; how the sun kisses my eyes before I can kiss your cheek; I find my waking
Recipient of the Liquid Architecture Prize. _________________________________ MISCEGENASIAN My practice is interdisciplinary and includes audio-visual media, performance, installation, and publication. Conceptually, my creative work is focused on critical discourses around white supremacy in gay culture, which forms via exaggeration and
Print Council of Australia Graduate Award My practice explores the intersections of identity, culture, and landscape through the print medium. Inspired by the aesthetics of zines, pop culture, and historical art, my works aims to reflect the cultural narrative around
Recipient of the Perry Summers Sculpture Book Prize. _________________________________ RELOADED LANDS I am a sculptural installation artist located in Wathaurong Country, Ocean Grove, Victoria. Throughout my practice, I explore environmental themes and eco-activist art. I am influenced by my intrinsic
Fiona & Sidney Myer Ceramic Art Award Stockroom Kyneton – Exhibition Award I make art to better understand myself and my place in the world. Belonging in the expanded field of ceramics, my practice aims to push material and
Recipient of the Artbox Commission Graduate Award. _________________________________ PAPER DETECTIVE is an exploration of non-destructive collage, digital reproduction, and the symbiotic nature of culture and media. Clippings from 90s comic books and fine art books are recontextualised to create modern stories
Dean’s Award for Excellence in Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) (Honours). The Emily Hope Prize- Professor AD Hope Endowment Award. SOMETIMES I CAN’T EVEN SLEEP BECAUSE I LOVE SOMEONE SO MUCH: AN EXPLORATION OF DEVOTION, LOVE, AND CRAFT THROUGH FANDOM
Troppo Print Studio Graduate Award FOR YOUR PLEASURE. Throughout my creative practice, I aim to challenge the traditional conventions of art and identity, often working with unconventional materials and imagery I intend to redefine the measures of fine art.
Recipient of the Art Centred Award: The Centre for Contemporary Photography Award. _________________________________ IT WILL BE BEAUTIFUL is a series that probes the female experience, as informed by our subconscious mind. Recurring themes of surrealism and the human body in disarray are
Kings ARI Award. BLINDNESS: A MODE OF ABSTRACTION My practice harnesses my lived experience as a legally blind artist to explore and develop a pictorial language around perception itself. Conceptually, this project is concerned with destabilising the notion of blindness
Northcote Pottery Supplies Award: “LISTEN TO THE WILD BEASTS OF THE ISLAND, NIGHT BIRDS AND WITCHES.” These are all terms that have been applied to women who did not conform to a male dominated society. There is a present and historical
RMIT Culture Residency Award Winner Sticky stuff: exploring human-object relationships through found materials. This install-based project uses accumulating, arranging and documenting an excess of found everyday materials to consider human-object relationships. Through humorous and absurd gestures, I reconsider objects and
RMIT Ceramic Student Association Award: My practice revolves around material interaction, with a focus on ceramic-based processes. Driven by experimentation, my work is a continuous exploration into the interplay between material, process and space through mutual exchange. Jasmine Tiger
Nearly-Mary Oliphant Award Winner Jason is an established multi-disciplinary, award-winning artist with a 40-year arts practice. He is a stage designer who also creates immersive installation art. He is experienced in: Visual arts: Installation construction design and construction. Theatre &
Recipient of the BDS Sculpture Prize. _________________________________ COMFORT IN THE FEAR is a work exploring the relationship we, as humans, have with our childhood, and how as we grow into adults we change to see what was once a familiar
Kallman Feitel Endowment Award for a portfolio which demonstrates the greatest potential (Art-centred practice) THE BEAUTIFUL MISUNDERSTANDING As we go through life, we are influenced by everything around us. It’s almost impossible for aperson to live in complete isolation from
Recipient of the Northcote Pottery Award and the RMIT Ceramic Student Association Club Year 3 Award. _________________________________ CLAY, CONTROL AND I. Jess Dybing’s work explores the changing states between flow and matter on the pottery wheel. Whilst the process of
APAX Photography Studio Prize. In this work called The Beta, I use photographic prints in a contemporary line hang to explore the subject of climbing and the secrets it holds. Through this work, I aim to reveal the hidden aspects
Ballarat International Foto Biennale GradFoto 2024 – Highly Commended. ICONOCLAST. This practice-led research project uses reflexive and responsive modes of observation, borrowed from the documentary photography genre, to critique the way that dominant power structures use symbolism to enforce their
ACAE Gallery Emerging Artist Award. TOTAL RECALL: IN UNDERSTANDING THE SELF FROM ONEIRIC FRAGMENTS I used to have this recurring dream when I was younger. I would be lying on a conveyor belt in a warehouse by myself, in
Liquid Architecture Award. ECHO is an immersive installation of reflection and revealing. Named for the Oread, one’s reflection is infinitely duplicated and fractured upon entering the work, as they are simultaneously aware of invisible onlookers who can see clearly through
NAVA Ignition Prize. 75% MORE FLAVOURFUL: Exploring Thing-power and Trauma through multidisciplinary practice. This Master’s project uses installation, text-based works and image prints to negotiate trauma, self-hatred and shame through accessing the aesthetic possibility of material agency. Through the techniques of collage and
The Perimeter Books Award World-Centred Photography Award. A HAZY WHISPER. A Hazy Whisper is a photo book about daily life, deeply recording the details of my study and life abroad. During this journey, I was alone, facing the hustle and
Recipient of the Sculpture Workshop Prize. _________________________________ ✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿ ╭(′▽`)╯╭(′▽`)╯╭(′▽`)╯╭(′▽`)╯╭(′▽`)╯╭(′▽`)╯ My name is Jiefei Chen. I was born in Sichuan Province, China, and moved to Adelaide, Australia, with my family when I was fifteen, and live in
Dean’s Award for Excellence, Master of Arts (Arts Management). ARTS EDUCATION PLATFORM: BEYOND THE BOUNDARIES In commemoration of the 60th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Australia and Korea, a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership (CSP) agreement has been forged.
There’s wolves in the house. In his photobook, ‘There’s wolves in the house’, Jonah navigates his journey with trauma as a means of finding peace with these events and their effects. Through a fragmented and non-linear narrative, mirroring the fluid
ACAE Gallery Emerging Artist Award. FLOATING I am obsessed with excavating my inner self. My art practice and my life experiences cannot be separated. I am experiencing the ongoing reposition of my cultural identity and collective unconsciousness between my home
Velling Award. My multidisciplinary practice deals with the surreality of the everyday and endeavours to celebrate the beauty of the mundane through my personal lens as a Hungarian-Australian artist living in Naarm/Melbourne. My paintings and objects eschew the making of
Melbourne Artist Supplies – Professional Practice Award The Koodak Award for Academic Excellence in Gold and Silversmithing Glimpsing mourning: an encounter of loss, mourning & ecological grief. This project has grown out of the urgency I feel to address personal
The Bold and The Beautiful Award. INTO THE CAPITALOCENE “Shower him with all earthly blessings, plunge him so deep into happiness that nothing is visible but the bubbles rising to the surface of his happiness, as if it were water;
Mejia Group Exhibition Award for excellence in drawing-based practices: ON MY WAY HOME Is our home irreplaceable? Could our ‘home’ be a specific color, language, people, scent, or a sense of nostalgia rooted in childhood memories? This project undertakes an
Nearly Mary Oliphant Prize. M(O)THERED MEAT Inez’s work interrogates the monstrous feminine within Malaysian folklore to challenge the oppressive patriarchal systems held together by tradition and culture. This rebellion against the systemic misogyny that plagues the Malayan society manifests as
Recipient of the B2 Scan Photography Award. _________________________________ FEMALE MONOLOGUES: investigating gender fluidity with individuality through photography FEMALE MONOLOGUES is a practiced-led photographic research project that focuses on challenging gender stereotypes, rendering the concept of gender fluidity, and using psychoanalysis to analyse
Recipient of the Kayell Digital Print Award. __________________________________ MONUMENTS OF PAPER AND SHADOW I am an emerging print-informed artist who draws on my experience as a contemporary female Australian Army veteran and war widow to investigate a tense and problematic
Recipient of the Alpha60 Prize. _________________________________ NO ONE TOLD ME I WAS LIVING IN A BRUTALIST NIGHTMARE My installation No One Told Me I was Living in a Brutalist Nightmare seeks to question the impact of growing up in a
Composite Award. CYBERROT: CORPOREAL DECAY INSIDE LIMINAL TECHNOLOGIES CYBERROT CYBERROT CYBERROT CYBERROT CYBERROT ROT ROT ROT ROT ROT IT’S ROTTING DECAYING SPREADING DISTORTING GLITCHING ENDLESS
Recipient of the Walkers Ceramics Award. _________________________________ Kerrin Samuel is a multimedia ceramic artist who creates artworks that explore the human experience. She draws inspiration from observations of contemporary culture, politics, geopolitics and religion which she sees as powerful vehicles
Ballarat International Foto Biennale GradFoto 2024 finalist. Hold A Flower in the Palm of Your Hand Hold A Flower in the Palm of Your Hand blossomed out of a Buddhist phrase, “One Flower, One World” and fractal geometry, indicating the structural
Ballarat International Foto Biennale GradFoto 2024 finalist. Kirra Jeram (Pronouns: She/They) is a digital photographer from Naarm/Melbourne, Australia who specialises in portraiture with a kitsch, nostalgic and colourful aesthetic that sometimes tackles more darker concepts surrounding mental and physical illness.
Recipient of the Dean’s Award for Excellence, Master of Arts (Arts Management). _________________________________ THROUGH PRACTICE (A RESEARCH PROJECT) This research project examines practice-based research as a topic within a contemporary arts context. In it, practice-based research is recognised as a
Recipient of the RMIT Ceramic Student Association Club Year 3 Award. _________________________________ Hello! I am an emerging Melbourne-based sculptural ceramicist. I have an expanded ceramic practice utilising hand building, modelling techniques and using emotive surface colouring and treatments. My work
Recipient of the Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence, Bachelor of Arts (Photography)(Honours) Highly Commended. _________________________________ CRUISING FOR A BRUISING 2022. Photobook, 210 x 297 mm How can a camp vision transform humdrum suburbia? Typically banal, inconsequential, and known for monotony,
Winner – 2024 RMIT Gold & Silversmithing Technology Prize (presented by Australian Jewellers Supplies) Lachlan Vasic is a Naarm/Melbourne-based artist, forming sculptures and objects through his practice of gold and silversmithing. He is inspired by day-to-day urban landscapes and
Recipient of the Kayell Digital Print Award. __________________________________ HOLY MARYA (MARY) I was born in Iran, where, for the past four decades, a compulsory hijab has been a means used by religious authorities to suppress women. Since arriving in Australia
ACAE Gallery Emerging Artist Award. TO LOITERING TO ARRIVE explores the role of vitality in the realm of art and human life. I intend to use animal figures as vehicles, and incorporate my feelings and thoughts about vitality into them. By
Winner – 2024 RMIT Gold & Silversmithing Studio Prize Laura de Carteret is a French-Australian artist based in Melbourne, Australia. They started glass blowing in 2021 through the Ruth Allen Glass traineeship program and since then have incorporated glass
RMIT Ceramic Student Association Award: Working predominately in ceramics, Lauren uses ideas and experiences around trauma, beauty, and men in her ceramic forms to explore and challenge ideas about these topics within society. Using wheel thrown, sculpting, and glaze techniques,
Technician’s / Studio Karma Graduate Award My practice is informed by research and concept and is constantly evolving as I lean into different modes of making, depending on my project. Currently, I am working with sculpture, installation, and print media
Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence, Bachelor of Arts (Photography) Sponsored by Sun Studios. Ballarat International Foto Biennale GradFoto 2024 finalist. SONG OF SOULS is a photography and audio-visual project that proposes hope for our collective souls to overcome despair over our
The Moat Bar Awards for excellence in Video and Drawing. THE BEAUTY & THE TERROR My practice marries cinematic and illustrative elements in the pursuit of elevating both, as I explore communication, storytelling and an interrogation of modern romanticism. I
Winner – 2024 RMIT Gold & Silversmithing Studio Prize Since 2020, Letitia has shown abroad, with her work exhibited in group shows at OCAD University in Canada, Dunedin School of Art in New Zealand, and another group show curated
Dean’s Award for creative accomplishment Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art). EMBRACING YOUR VANISHED SHADE is an exploration of memory, nostalgia, and the intricate interplay of emotions through an interdisciplinary lens. My project blends photographic prints on fabric, poetry, sound, and
Recipient of the RMIT Ceramic Student Association Club Year 3 Award. _________________________________ Lily Lindsay is a ceramic artist who makes both functional and sculptural artworks. Her figurative work uses myth, symbolism, and motifs to express personal memories and lived experience.
Recipient of the NAVA Ignition Award and the Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence, Master of Photography sponsored by B2Scan Highly Commended. _________________________________ MELTING ICESCAPES / BLACK LANDSCAPE Glaciers reflect sunlight and play a critical role in maintaining the temperature on Earth. When the
Recipient of the School of Art Honours Travelling Grant. _________________________________ NISAM SPAVALA ALI SAM LEŽALA (I WASN’T SLEEPING BUT I WAS LAYING) Looking, touching, being; my research-based practice is an investigation of these three elements in relation to my position
Firestation Print Studio Access Prize. AUTOCRYOSTHESIA From the Greek: auto (referring to the self), kryos (frost, cold, ice), esthesia (sensation, the capacity for feeling). My project, Autocryosthesia, began as an exploration of FOMO (the fear of missing out, as exacerbated
Recipient of the School of Art Honours Travelling Grant. _________________________________ SOMETIMES I WRITE SO CONFIDENTLY I START TO BELIEVE MYSELF My practice-led research uses queer ecology as a framework to explore phenomenological spaces of encounter/occupancy. My practice constructs both metaphorical
ISQUARED GALLERY EXHIBITION AWARD WINNER ALLEGORICAL AND INNATE GESTURES OF THE HAND is engaged with intuitive modes of making and the symbolic possibility of images. I explore ideas with a multi-disciplinary approach. This encompasses drawing, painting, collage and fabric
Kallman Feitel Endowment Award for portfolio which demonstrates the greatest potential (World-centred). THOMAS explores the concepts of masculinity and identity, as experienced through my friendship with three individuals named Thomas. Through the medium of photography, I explore the dynamics of identity
Recipient of the Mary Oliphant Best MFA Tutorial Presentation Prize. _________________________________ THE RESONANCE OF A TANGLE engages with bodily agency and constraint through an interdisciplinary practice of painting. By employing material experimentation and improvisation, this project seeks to record an
Recipient of the RMIT Lightscapes Award. _________________________________ THE SECOND FLESH is an alternative approach to imaging the body, providing a means to avoid the commodifying gaze of patriarchy. The work intends to flip traditional viewing strategies—focusing on grotesque, internal-like imagery instead
Recipient of the Sunshine Print Artspace & Open Bite Student Association Graduate Award. _________________________________ STRATA reflects on the relationship between place and identity as a means of reconciling my immigrant experience. Utilising stone lithography and installation, I explore the concept
Ballarat International Foto Biennale GradFoto 2024 finalist. The border official scrutinises your passport photo, comparing it with precision to your face. The thumping stamp signifies validation, a moment where image and reality converge. Governments around the world use images to
Kallman Feitel Endowment Award. Ballarat International Foto Biennale GradFoto 2024 finalist. LOST LANDS FOUND. Lost Lands Found is a long-form documentary project aimed at deepening my understanding of the Stonnington Council’s initiatives regarding these vital landscapes. My journey began last
Print Residency award for high academic achievement in Third Year. WOMAN, WAR AND BEYOND is based on the Japanese military’s forced sexual enslavement of adolescent females during World War II, known as ‘Comfort Women’. This term refers to the Imperial
Dean’s Award for Excellence in Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) (Honours). Travel Scholarship Award. Ballarat International Foto Biennale GradFoto 2024 finalist. ____________________________________________________ Substantial and Significant is a multimedia installation, involving a combination of performance, projection and sculpture made from found
Recipient of the Australian Print Workshop Award. _________________________________ MIGRATIONAL DISPLACEMENT Ongoing complexities that surround the possibility of a posthuman period bares witness to generational migrational displacement and the breakdown of psychological and cultural identity. The aim of this project throughout
Recipient of the Client Centred Award: The Brownbill Effect Award. _________________________________ FAMILY FAVOURITES Welcome to Family Favourites. This project is a family cookbook that contains recipes from both my parents and food that I have grown up with throughout my
Print Council of Australia Graduate Award Michelle is a Melbourne based artist, specialising in printmaking, photography and alternative practices.Her work is deeply influenced by her experiences of traumatic memory. Michelle’s work is a profound exploration of her life experiences,
NAVA Ignition Award for highest performing in Profession Practice. CELESTIAL TRACE is a photographic exploration that documents solar and lunar phenomena. The research project uses handmade pinhole and mirrorless cameras to capture various durations that span across hours, days, weeks and
THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL AWARD WINNER Reframing perception. As a proud Italian Aboriginal from the Wiradjuri and Yorta Yorta people, I enforce change in the art world by reframing the perception of Aboriginal art. My acrylic paintings are my
Robyn Beeche Award. BON APPETITE – An expression of the personal experience of suffering resulting from eating disorder behaviours. An eating disorder is a combination of physical problems and mental issues. The reason behind it is beyond complex. Instead of
Recipient of the NAVA Ignition Prize and the Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence and contribution to the program, Master of Fine Art. _________________________________ HOW WILL I REMEMBER explores my Chinese-Australian bi-cultural identity by examining the concept of loss and grief.
Recipient of the Tania Doropoulos Prize. _________________________________ ATTENTION ON PERIPHERAL MOVEMENTS Attending to materials and material determination. Shifting, transforming, sliding. Contained and coming undone. Un-restricting materials and re-contextualising the everyday through transformative processes. Transforming material narratives. Taking the functionality of
The ADFAS (Australian Decorative & Fine Arts Society), Yarra Branch award. FROM THIS ANCIENT LAND TO THE RIVER DELTA is an experimental interdisciplinary project that combines five mixed-medium banner paintings ranging in size between 70cm x 170cm to 200cm x 210cm and five
Highly commended – Wayne Conduit Prize. NOCTURNAL FLUX – A DIARY OF THE NIGHT My work explores the vitality of the space of night through the influence its atmosphere has upon perception. The work is a dive into the complexity
Highly commended for Chapman & Bailey Award. Through painting I aim to capture the essence of consciousness by exploring the delicate balance between mind, body, thoughts and feelings. By utilising the juxtaposition of haptic and meticulous paint and drawing techniques,
Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence and contribution to the program, Master of Fine Art. RESTITCH THE FAMILY TIE. My practice uses contemporary enamel jewellery to explore emotional states related to childhood trauma, self-protection and family reconciliation. It alludes, in particular,
Recipient of the BDS Sculpture Prize. _________________________________ THE WASHING is an installation that documents a performance in a natural landscape. A daily act of washing and walking but in absurdity, and the tension of vitality. A nihilistic and Sisyphean portrait
Recipient of the Print Studio Experimental Print Award. __________________________________ REWILDING THE GALLERY SETTING: Nurturing connection with the natural world Rewilding, as a general term, refers to the reintroduction of flora into spaces from which it has become absent. Through print-informed
Community of Practice Award THE INK GROWS LESS, THE SEA INCREASES. This practice-led research project engages with longing, magical realism, sensation poetry, and word-to-image translation to explore how the alchemy of word and image has the capacity to generate worlds;
Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence, Bachelor of Arts (Photography) Highly Commended. In his recent keynote presentation at the Ballarat International Foto Biennale, Platon said “as a portrait photographer, my job is to tell the truth and to capture someone’s spirit
Australian Print Workshop Award. CORRODED PERCEPTIONS is a response to pressing ecological concerns. Embracing corrosion as an artistic motif and a symbol of change, the series addresses a glaring void within traditional and contemporary landscape photography, where the harsh realities
Recipient of the The ADFAS (Australian Decorative & Fine Arts Society), Yarra Branch Award. _________________________________ This project seeks to explore life through painting. This project also seeks to explore painting through life. Through this project, I create abstract paintings based on
Recipient of the Journal of Public Space Prize. _________________________________ SPECULATIVE FUTURES: SIMULATION OF FUTURE CITIES CONSTRUCTED THROUGH SOUND Speculative Futures is a large-scale, multidisciplinary and interactive installation that encourages playfulness and self-guided inquiry through the activation of senses. Inspired by
Baillot & Balfour Endowment Award for most outstanding final year student in photography. Perimeter Books Award (portfolio review): most potential for publication. Blindside Award. SUNSHINE On January 15th 2022, I moved to Sunshine, an inner-western suburb of Melbourne, where I rented out a bedroom
Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence, Bachelor of Arts (Photography)(Honours) sponsored by Kayell Australia. Honours Fine Art Travelling Award. Ballarat International Foto Biennale GradFoto 2024 award winner. Vở ô ly (2024-ongoing) As filmmaker Bạch Đăng Tùng writes:‘’Việt Nam’, written in my mother
Recipient of the Tolarno Hotel Award. _________________________________ VIOLENCE AND INNOCENCE My artistic practice is an exploration of my identity and place within my family’s history in post-WW2 Australia. It is a direct response to my relationship with my family’s photographic
Winner – Koodak Award for Highest Academic Achievement (presented by Koodak Jewellery Supplies) The Whispers of Nature. When we feel saddened or troubled by the breath of life, we can open our eyes to discover the healing beauty around
Mejia Group Exhibition Award excellence in drawing-based practices. THE RECURRENCE OF ACTION – EVENT. My practice, my artworks, my studio, and myself all exist as registrations of time—the limitations of it, the flattening of the past and the constant
Alpha 60 Award. Wolf Wennrich Award for Craftmanship – Mr Michael Wennrich Endowment. THE DIAGRAMMATIC IMPULSE: WAYS OF KNOWING Diagrams are abstractions, taming messy reality through their orderly summaries of information and relationships. In my practice I explore the formal
RMIT Ceramic Student Association Club Year 3 Award AN INBETWEENNESS OF TIME reflects that great feeling of loss, where time seemingly slips through our fingers. These ceramic sculptures reflect on the things we lose to time, and that grasping
Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence, Master of Photography sponsored by Kayell Australia. NAVA Ignition Award for highest performing in Profession Practice. Seventh Gallery Award. ALL THAT REMAINED ARE MEMORIES: a photographic exploration of Home, Family and Material memory to reclaim
Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence, Bachelor of Arts (Photography) Sponsored by Sun Studios. WATER AND LIGHT My body of work explores light and water’s relationship with the sublime. Looking at various bodies of water, I capture how different lighting can manipulate
Recipient of the Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence, Bachelor of Arts (Photography) Highly Commended. _________________________________ PURE INTENTIONS investigates the implications and complexities of purity culture and considers the intersection and contradictions of ideology and desire. Purity culture promotes conservative religious teachings
Recipient of the RMIT Lightscapes Award. _________________________________ UNTITLED This series responds to the commonly shared, pervasive sense of dread that characterises life in our era, evoking the ambient anxiety that permeates the contemporary consciousness. Taking elements from the society we live
Winner – Emily Hope Award for Figurative Work (donor Professor AD Hope Endowment) Growing up on the Mornington Peninsula, I have always had a close relationship with nature; the ocean has long instilled a sense of wonder and contemplation.
Highly commended – Wayne Conduit Prize: Narrative is what drives my art practice. My most recent body of work explores the notion of visual storytelling and has been inspired by a personal mythology I have been writing. My paintings tend
Artbox Commission Graduate Award The Assembly Line is a series of figurative monotype prints on fabric, wrapped around handmade frames. The figures within are Australians and Afghans, farmers, soldiers, mothers and ravers. Through its diverse portraits, The Assembly Line depicts the
Lightscapes Award for outstanding Folio. DARK SIGNS OF A RED SUMMERS SHADOW is a photographic narrative that draws on the conventions of documentary practice, to reflect upon the interrelated experiences of young adults living through a time of heightened uncertainty. In
Recipient of the Koodak Award for Enamelling Prize for Technical Excellence— Donor Mr Gabriel Ripka. _________________________________ ACCOMPANYING IS NOT WAITING This project consists of a series of realistic, full-figure animal enamel portraiture forged using metal plates and enamels. The choice
Drawing Studio Award for excellence in drawing-based practices. SPIKE THE CANON – This body of painting re-enacts hyper-masculine forms of ‘play violence’ drawn from niche hobbies such as 90s table top and video games. It investigates the vying solipsisms of
The ADFAS (Australian Decorative & Fine Arts Society), Yarra Branch award. HARMONIOUS COSMOS explores lyrical narratives by combining Daoist philosophy with magic realist paintings. Drawing upon Daoist philosophy, my fundamental concept is embracing the flow of life and nature. I depict
Australian Print Workshop Residency Award WHAT A RELIEF. The phrase ‘chook scratches’ sometimes refers to ‘untidy, organic marks’. What a Relief is a humorous response to three years of printmaking studies. I have created layered photographic etchings using images from
Recipient of the Firestation Print Studio Graduate Print Access Prize.__________________________________ SETTING A PLACE I am an emerging, print-based artist living and working in Djilang/Geelong, Victoria. Having spent the last couple of decades raising my two daughters, I decided to return to
Koodak Award for the Highest Academic Achievement in Third Year Gold & Silversmithing — Donor Mr Gabriel Ripka. _________________________________ AT WHAT COST By focusing on the use of materials possessed with an honest simplicity, together with a deep-seated respect for nature and the environment, my
Highest Academic Achievement in Honours Year Gold & Silversmithing. IN THE GARDEN: AN EXPLORATION OF MEANING, MATERIAL AND CONNECTION Whilst acknowledging that all our actions impact others, both human and non-human, and that all beings are connected, I explore
621 ARTSPACE EXHIBITION AWARD WINNER Suggestion. Records of emotion by Sean Leegel.
ACAE Gallery Emerging Artist Award. SAFETY WITHIN DIVERSE BODIES Sharon Xin Xu (b.2000), 徐欣, is an emerging Cantonese-Australian artist working on unceded lands of the Eastern Kulin nation, Naarm (Melbourne), and the Eora nation, Warrane (Sydney). Her work predominantly examines
Sunshine Print Artspace Graduate Award Reflections of Light in Time is formed through the combination of traditional copper plate etching and experimental photographic techniques. This work stemmed from viewing reflections of car brake lights on a wet road; this fleeting
Recipient of the Megalo Graduate Residency Program and Open Bite Student Association Travel Award. _________________________________ WHERE THE OCEAN IS THE SKY I & II My practice for the last decade has been in graphic design. However, after moving to Melbourne from
Recipient of the Lowenstein Arts Management Prize. _________________________________ A BRIGHT FUTURE seeks to evoke new understandings of value, reuse, and material, centred around my utopian ideal of a sustainable future. Through methodologies of collection, frugality, and recontextualisation, my series of
The Bold and the Beautiful Award. DESIRING THE SELF: Embracing Autonomy & Rethinking The Gaze I am a young, queer, multi-disciplinary artist based in Melbourne/Naarm working across mediums of painting, drawing, sculpture and video performance. My artistic practice explores how
B2 Scan Photography Award: analogue merit. SURREAL OF MIRROR is a combined photography project that takes on a personal explorational journey to resolve my sense of loneliness and depression by revealing inner insecurities and self-consciousness. It discusses existentialism through superimposition
Kayell Australia – Professional Practice Award. Dressed was developed in collaboration with five fashion designers, resulting in a digital platform that showcased their designs through photo spreads and interviews. Layla Bengoa’s clothing line, Faeble, draws inspiration from dark fairytales and
Mary Oliphant Award Winner Tanya Cubric (b.1991 Montréal) is a multidisciplinary artist from the Balkan-Diaspora currently working and living in Melbourne. As someone who has lived in a number of different countries, her practice is very much entangled around her
RMIT Ceramic Student Association Award, Stockroom Ceramic Award, & R.L Foote Design Studio Award: VITAL MATERIALITY Tatt’s interest in New Materialist theories informs the technique of assembling multiple porcelain tesserae or cut and refined ceramic tiles. The physicality of individual
The Brownbill Effect Award: pushing the boundaries of commercial photography. This body of work utilises the photographic medium to investigate and capture the local beverage maker industry in the Mornington Peninsula region. Inspiration is derived from the annually published Eat. Drink. magazine.
Wolf Wennrich Award for Craftmanship – Mr Michael Wennrich Endowment. I SPOKE TO AN ECHO: THE JEWELLERY STUDIO AS AN ARCHIVE OF HUMAN INTERACTION WITH MATERIAL The bench peg (or bench pin) is a timber object affixed to the jewellers
Baillot & Balfour Endowment Award the most outstanding final year student in photography. Art-Centred Photography – Centre for Contemporary Photography Award. Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence, Bachelor of Arts (Photography) Highly Commended. Ballarat International Foto Biennale GradFoto 2024 finalist. MY MUM
Recipient of the Kayell Digital Print Award. __________________________________ THE SPACE BETWEEN Propelled by an endless fascination with the natural world and our relationship to it, my work is often site-responsive, based on my own engagement with the urban and natural
The Brownbill Effect Award for Client-Centred Photography. Becoming Her is a fashion photography series that captures the nuanced journey of growing up as a girl in a culture with expectations and contradictions. Through three distinct themes of body image, societal labeling,
Walkers Ceramic Award & Stockroom Ceramic Award: FACETS OF A CHANGING LANDSCAPE This body of work reflects the different facets of the changing Australian landscape. Drawing inspiration from controlled burns and wildfires, I blend and contrast the devastation they cause
Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence and contribution to the program, Master of Arts (Art in Public Space). My practice is inconsistent, uncomfortable, awkward, and dematerialised. It is activist and challenges notions of authorship and capitalism through an approach to art
Tolarno Hotel Painting Prize. CANDID: AN APPRECIATION OF MOMENTS THAT ARE OFTEN OVERLOOKED Vittoria Cugno (b.2001) is an emerging Melbourne based artist who specialises in oil portrait paintings. In the past year, Vittoria has focused on capturing candid moments in
Recipient of the Print Studio Experimental Print Award. __________________________________ This project is an investigation into how I can create a more sustainable printmaking practice by making a relief block that is infinitely recyclable. A lino block is a thick
I Squared Gallery Exhibition Award for excellence in drawing-based practices: ADORATION: DROWNING INTO THE PAST. This practice involves a process of a gradual transition from affection to an attachment, ultimately an obsession. The symbolic space, objects, and colour repeat and
Recipient of the The Bold and the Beautiful Art Prize. _________________________________ THE LANGUAGE OF MATERIALS In my project I have investigated how after immigrating to Australia in 1998, having been brought up in a traditional Chinese culture, I was exposed
Recipient of the NAVA Ignition Prize. _________________________________ DIALOGUE WITH NATURE This research project uses temporary public artworks and multi-dimensional methods to foster embodied and symbiotic relationships between the human, the environment and nature. The research utilises different forms of public
Recipient of the Reflektor Prize. _________________________________ Originally from the traditional unceded lands of the Kaurna people on what is now known as the Adelaide Plains, I moved to Naarm/Melbourne, where my current creative work has generally developed into an expanded
RMIT University Library Art Prize. Joseph Beuys Cafe Drawing Award for excellence in expanded approach to drawing. MY LAWYER THE BUS STOP: a discussion of the unseen, exploring contextualisation through spaces and realms. Currently, in my practice, I have been
RMIT University Library Art Prize. I have been constantly running away, fearing the gaze of others. So, I became anyone, and anyone became me. My work explores themes of escape and anonymity, reflecting a journey shaped by the fear of
Centre for Contemporary Photography Award for outstanding folio. Reviewed in MASS MEMO | Photography, RMIT by Leah Shyra (memoreview.net) “[…] Zhuoyu (Bǫbbi) Gan brings me out onto the balcony of an apartment, her photographic installation Boundaries Theatre (2023) exploring a desire to
Dr Ray Cook ‘hang onto your dreams’ Award: folio that demonstrates potential for further exploration. OUT OF THE SHADOWS Forgotten History of the War Widows’ Guild of Australia It makes me sad to see how my neighbourhood is changing. The housing estate in
NAVA Award GLITCH ART AS A PROTEST: Zina Sofer’s multifaceted approach to art and storytelling highlights the importance of representing marginalised voices and preserving forgotten narratives. By using a diverse array of mediums—including analogue photography, traditional darkroom techniques, weaving, photo-books,
Kindred Cameras Award. In this portfolio, I present a series of photographs, each embodying a distinct theme and narrative. Inspired by cinematic aesthetics and fashion nuances, these images are more than visual representations – they aim to communicate truths, evoke
