MASS MEMO | 2024

Carys Norwood, Laura Heron, Georgia Brookes, Oliver Layton, DOLL Runway, 2024.” — Ethan Langholcs.

I am, in fact, lost at all times.” — Jacinta Little-Woodcroft.

What have you left behind in your past? The sculptural works in this year’s Queensland College of Art and Design graduate exhibition explore what remains, or the “Remainder,” in both tangible and nostalgic ways.” — Louise Truan.

Bodies, bodies, bodies.” — Rose Gertsakis.

Jade Cargill, shapes of the wind, 2024, MDF, Fresnel lights, leaves, sticks, bronze, tarp, hay, shellac, fabric, plastic crow, acrylic sheet, light drying clay.” — Ebony Maurice-Wilmott.

“Let’s say there’s a plastic toy car or a little figurine.” — Jennifer Alvin.

I’m on the hunt for something feral.” — Thomas Stoddard.

It’s late November, Trump has been re-elected, and everyone’s hay fever seems to be worsening each year.” — Indigo Meara.

I’m at the Sydney College of the Arts grad show opening and it’s a melée of nostalgia.” — Victoria Gillespie.

If a university is a place to take risks, experiment, and learn from failure, then one gets the sense that the Melbourne School of Design exhibition might be missing the crucial safety net that ensures these risks can be taken.” — Felix Pollock Tie.

On level one, a large air vent is poorly hidden by a partitioned white cube.” — Leon Rice-Whetton.

Lily Hogan, North, 2024, C-type print on dibond, and Untitled (Echo), 2024, ply, acrylic, and stainless steel.” — Ella Peck.

Some of the most exciting work at this year’s VCA Grad Show treats the exhibition space itself as a key medium, investing it with an aura that influences how visitors experience the artworks within and communicates something of its own.” — Nadhila Iffa Zakira.

To get a closer look at Georgia Naughton’s paintings, I’m required to traverse a floor of large, loosely secured white tiles, vaguely worried that they will break under my feet.” — Pepa Neralic McPherson.

I stare at the rabbit and the rabbit stares back.” — Ned Dwyer.

Slow looking is no easy feat when you’re engulfed in a sea of artworks.” — Rachel Liu.

Flesh writhes and wrestles to exceed the limits of the canvas at the NAS grad show.” — Callum Gallagher.

I’m weaving my way through The Annual, and I’m fraying around the edges.” — Elle Monera.

Honours students at the 2024 Annual are as expressive and loud as ever, even as UNSW’s Paddington campus is enveloped by grey concrete.” — Ava Lacoon.

One of my favourite kinds of art is art that doesn’t even seem to be art.” — Rosario Aguirre.

Artists have become as slick and sophisticated as the finance bros.” — Josie Witherdin.

Through their sculptural works, Aliza Nickle and Mia Bell show us how minimalist aesthetics can sublimate maximalist quantities.” — Jessica Wedding.

I think I’m turning into a tradcath.” — Hugh Magnus.

Three canvas panels are cinched in their top corners by rough metal hooks, strung up to the ceiling with rope and hanging like pieces of meat.” — Pru Anderson.

Tanya Cubric, Alina, Olena, Lana and Jana, 2023, single-channel video and installation.” — Lucy Gordon.

In a year that has seen relentless discourse and interference surrounding the bodily autonomy of women, Tia Keam and Scarlet Lili Thomas take striking ownership of the yonic.” — Leah Edwards.

Why do we keep so much of ourselves hidden from the world? Whether it be inner demons or memories, it seems as if we obscure so much of our self-identity within ourselves.” — Cassius Owczarek.

It felt as if I saw the sculptural component of this year’s NAS grad show twice, as a series of double takes.” — Lachlan Thompson.

The SCA show is really holding space this week.” — Siobhan Seeneevassen.

Creativity with Purpose is the MADA Now 2024 theme, signified by a sculptural structure at the entrance of Building G.” — Lily Di Sciascio.

Memory, light and time: three intangible concepts that San Nhi Chung, Georgia Braam and Vikki Chung render tangible in the MADA grad show.” — Charlotte Renfrey.

Tara Gouttman is an emerging arts worker and writer in Meanjin/Brisbane.” — Tara Gouttman.

From draped bedsheets and peeling wallpaper to found photographs, video, and textile installations, Somatic Trace (2024) is testament to the power of materiality and memory in contemporary art.” — Robyn Wood.

Painting has always been seen as the pinnacle of art and every year the Sydney College of the Arts graduate exhibition, ‘New Contemporaries’, seems to overflow with the panic of turpentine soaked walls adorned with what students aim to be the next it-painting.” — Solomiya Sywak.

“Fuck it’s hard to get here,” I think to myself as the glass doors to UNSW’s The Annual swing open.” — Claudia Blane.

The floor sensor—Trigger (2024)—sets off a doorbell that heralds my arrival in the room.” — Neil Twist.

The end-of-year rush has us all in its chokehold.” — Siri Wingrove.

Whenever I see anything involving sheep, I immediately think of the Shearing the Rams (1890) by Tom Roberts.” — Juliet Day.

I am weaving through the dense opening night crowd at the NAS grad show when I swear a portrait starts blinking at me.” — Uma Rogers.

Architecture relies on effective communication—how clearly a concept, form or spatial strategy conveys its purpose and potential impact.” — Ruby Caruana.

Confession: I got overwhelmed on opening night and looked at artworks on https://gradshow24.” — Joshua Di Mattina-Beven.

How do you (re)write cultural and intellectual identity when external forces seek to suppress and erase it? This question emerged at the 2024 CAIA Graduation Show, Australia’s only arts programme exclusively for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, boasting alumni including Vernon Ah Kee and Tony Albert.” — Andrew Ruffle.

Photomedia, Sculpture, Bachelor of Fine Art, National Art School by Joshua Di Mattina-Beven

Masters, Victorian College of the Arts by Nadhila Iffa Zakira

Bachelor of Fine Art, Monash Art, Design and Architecture by Leah Edwards

Painting, Bachelor of Fine Art, National Art School by Callum Gallagher

Painting, Victorian College of the Arts by Rachel Liu

Painting, Sydney College of the Arts by Solomiya Sywak

Bachelor of Fine Art, Monash Art, Design and Architecture by Jessica Wedding

Photography, Victorian College of the Arts by Ella Peck

Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours), Monash Art, Design and Architecture by Juliet Day

Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours), UNSW Art & Design by Claudia Blane

Fashion, RMIT by Ethan Langholcs

Fine Art, RMIT by Jacinta Little-Woodcroft

Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours), Monash Art, Design and Architecture by Neil Twist

Painting, Victorian College of the Arts by Hugh Magnus

Sculpture, National Art School by Lachlan Thompson

Bachelor of Fine Art, Master of Fine Art, RMIT by Ebony Maurice-Wilmott

Bachelor of Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art, Queensland College of Art by Andrew Ruffle

Master of Architecture Design Studios, Melbourne School of Design by Felix Pollock Tie

Honours, Victorian College of the Arts by Rose Gertsakis

Drawing, Print, Queensland College of Art by Robyn Wood

Masters of Art, Bachelor of Art (Fine Art) (Honours), RMIT by Lucy Gordon

Photomedia, Sydney College of the Arts by Siobhan Seeneevassen

Bachelor of Fine Art, Monash Art, Design and Architecture by Jennifer Alvin

Honours, Victorian College of the Arts by Pepa Neralic McPherson

Jewellery and Glass, Sydney College of the Arts by Victoria Gillespie

Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours), UNSW Art & Design by Ava Lacoon

Painting, Queensland College of Art by Tara Gouttman

Bachelor of Visual Arts, Sydney College of the Arts by Josie Witherdin

Master of Architecture, RMIT by Ruby Caruana

Bachelor of Fine Art, Monash Art, Design and Architecture by Leon Rice-Whetton

Sculpture, National Art School by Rosario Aguirre

Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours), Monash Art, Design and Architecture by Indigo Meara

Master of Architecture Design Studios, Monash Art, Design and Architecture by Lily Di Sciascio

Sculpture, Installation, Queensland College of Art by Louise Truan

Honours, Victorian College of the Arts by Thomas Stoddard

Photography, Queensland College of Art by Cassius Owczarek

Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours), Monash Art, Design and Architecture by Ned Dwyer

Bachelor of Fine Art, Monash Art, Design and Architecture by Charlotte Renfrey

Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours), UNSW Art & Design by Siri Wingrove

Bachelor of Fine Art, UNSW Art & Design by Elle Monera

Painting, Victorian College of the Arts by Pru Anderson

Printmaking, Bachelor of Fine Art, National Art School by Uma Rogers

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