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
Home as Qualia: Reflections on the miniature object. My practice-led research project Home as Qualia: Reflections on the miniature object is an ode to places of memory and devotion—the home. I hand-craft miniatures, boxes, and lockets to examine how home
MISOPHONIA. (installation, performance and sound) Misphonia explores performativity; social scripting/masking, the psyche, the central nervous system and the erotic (as power/life source), through lived experience of patriarchy, trauma and (inevitably) late diagnosed neurodiversity. [(Currently), most AFAB people aren’t diagnosed until
This practice-led research project investigates the interplay between the seen and unseen within textile art installation practice. Central to this research is the use of agave fibres and other natural materials, which reflect spiritual and ecological interconnections as they allow
YELLOW CORRIDOR My site-specific installation practice uses the colour yellow to translate a neurodiverse experience of architectural space. Using a yellow cube as a self-portrait, I explore liminal spaces in institutional buildings to challenge formalist ideas and portray my sensorial
Through intense and obsessive patterning, I have made pen drawings on paper that seek to depict the sublime. Conceptually engaged with the symbols that reverberate from within the Catholic Church, I have linked my matrilineal connection to the Church with
AMULETS FOR THE EARTH: This speculative research project imagines a post-Anthropocene world where food and plant production and growth rely on human care including conservation, modification and sustainability. The research utilises printing and bookbinding on handmade paper, metalsmithing and embroidery
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
ON EXIT WOUNDS: A WALKING TOUR OF THINGS LEFT BEHIND (For Dawn Kelly) My practice persistently engages with concepts of the archive, and archival objects, along with explorations of intimacy. This year my research was focused on creating art and
My practice uses performance, installation, sound, video, and digital technologies to examine the creation and perpetuation of national myths and how they lead to the formation of national identity. It explores the critical potential of failure as a tool to
THE SOFTEST PART THAT I CANNOT SHARE WITH YOU Transformative Journey of Home, Memory and Identity My project examines
Lucy Ramsay (she/her) is a contemporary mixed-media artist originally from Ngunnawal country (Canberra) and living and practicing in Narrm/Melbourne. Graduating at RMIT from her Bachelor of Fine Art, she majored in printmaking with a specific interest in etching and textiles.
MY QUEER BODY: SELF-ACCEPTANCE AND HEALING THROUGH AN INTERSECTIONAL LENS. This activist practice-led research project explores my Chinese-Australian, queer and non-binary positionality and the psychosocial impact of physical scrutinisation and the expectation to conform to beauty standards, heteronormativity, and the
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
Nocturnal Flux: Discovering Dimensions of Night. This project explores my changed way of looking and feeling at night through partially deconstructed, shifting, painted representations. My work explores my fascination with the experience of night spaces and the ranging aesthetic and
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;
Devices of Desire. This research project explores desire as a human experience through the context of arcade machines and vending machines. Inspired by the fascination and curiosity I experienced during my upbringing in Hong Kong, the project investigates the captivating
Artist Bio Sun Wai Wise Yeung Yeung was born in China, grew up in Hong Kong and is studying in Melbourne. Yeung is a contemporary artist who combines wheel-throwing, carving and the ceramic process to create sculpture and functional pottery.
MOTHER IN BRAILLE. My Honours project explores how sculpture, installation and personal symbolism can address intimate family bonds, strong feelings and things that are difficult to say with language alone. My project seeks to pay homage to my mother, and
THE FUTURE IS FICKLE: A FALSE PROMISE. Vittoria Cugno (b.2001) is an emerging Melbourne-based artist who specialises in oil figurative paintings. Her Honours research project formed as a dedication to the early passing of her father. She learned that our
