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,
Essay by Jade Cargill for Contextualising Practice The topic of this essay and my art is imagination. Within a world that prescribes narratives and frameworks to understand ourselves that lack depth, openness and personal connection, how can we create art
Essay by Ella Simpson for Contextualising Practice Every work of art is a child of its time, while often it is the parent of our emotions -Kandinsky (1911:9) Writing about the creative process of making art is difficult – specifically,
Essay by Sylva Storm for Contextualising Practice Content Warning: this essay discusses abortion, reproductive rights and queer trauma and contains images of scarification RAW: Nobody who loved me saw it happen (2019 – 2024) (Figure1, 2) is a performance documented
Essay by Grace Rokesky for Contextualising Practice ‘Appearance and Behavioral Observations: Throughout sessions, Grace presented tidy and well-groomed. She had short stature, appeared to have a healthy BMI, and mobilised independently. Grace was reliably polite, friendly and cooperative. Grace initially
Essay by Emily Song for Contextualising Practice Introduction The tendency to overly control and calculate the result of an artwork during the process of making is something that I have relied heavily on in the past, and is a habit
Essay by Timothy Walters for Contextualising Practice Acknowledgement I would like to acknowledge that I live, work and study on the unceded lands of the Bunurong, Woi Wurrung/Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. I pay my respects to Elders past,
Essay by Sahla Safia Arundati for Contextualising Practice In a globalised world, art can powerfully critique societal pressures of conformity and the experience of diaspora. This essay examines how fragmented identities address these issues, using my art practice as an
Essay by Stephie Ng for Contextualising Practice ‘So, we can’t save the world by playing by the rules, because the rules have to be changed. Everything needs to change and it has to start today’ – Greta Thunberg, 2018 In
Essay by Tallulah Ainsworth for Contextualising Practice Building a person is no easy task. There are many parts of a human being that all intersect with one another, and are incredibly delicate and prone to failure (Gray 1858). It is
Essay by Sebastian Nuttney for Contextualising Practice This essay aims to detail my approach and methodology for photographic collages. This framework, presented as a manifesto, was developed alongside a body of photographic Collages completed in the early half of 2024.
Essay by Christina Rankin for Contextualising Practice This essay explores the connections between textile, memory, and trauma, focusing on how my artwork (pictured in Figure 1) Uniform incorporates these themes both individually and in conjunction. When utilised in art-making, textile
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
PRIVILEGE We are overwhelmed by endless streams of information, often forgetting to pause and reflect. Late-stage capitalism, nationalist ideologies and global conflicts place our anxieties above our gratitude. Amidst this chaos, we must remember to reconnect with the sublime. Looking
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
