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Walking through the dazzling drawing and printmaking section of the 2020 VCA grad show, it occurred to me that many of the exhibited works conformed in one way or another to the logic of seriality.” — Yugong Shao.
It feels futile to mention the context of these works; 2020 brought us all the same secluded, detached and anxious experiences.” — Olivia Fechner.
Social Babel This year, I could not attend the VCA grad show in person.” — Sujin Jung.
The works in the Bachelor of Fine Art (Visual Arts) graduate exhibition show what is expected to be on the other side of a portal.” — Margarita Kontev.
Kissing has had a bad year.” — Giles Fielke.
Emma Kleeberg’s IT’S ABOUT YOU, bed as therapy (quilt), and bed as therapy (pillow) consists of a satin sheet hung from the ceiling, hovering in the centre of the room adjacent to a mattress set on the floor, adorned with one pillow and quilt.” — Rachel Pakula.
The hypnotherapy technique known as Ego State Therapy suggests that we are made up of multiple distinct personalities and, depending on what we are doing, certain aspects of ourselves will be dominant while others are hidden.” — Leonie Leivenzon.
“When things get tough, make good art”, Neil Gaiman once said.” — ZiXin (Jessie) Chen.
Is there such a thing as a house style? Walking through Monash’s graduating Honours class we couldn’t help wondering where it all came from.” — Stuart Maxted, Paris Lettau.
More intimate than sight, closer than sound, more enduring than taste, and more certain than smell, touch is a sense inseparable from our experience of the world.” — Grace Watson.
The Fibonacci sequence is a continuous fraction—a medieval discovery that describes how nature follows predictable ratios in spiral patterns.” — Jenna Grace.
Entering the Monash Bachelor of Visual Art Graduate show, I told myself I would leave behind all notions of Covid-19.” — Annie-Rose Morrison.
In normal circumstances, the VCA Grad Show opening has felt like a party.” — Sebastian Kainey.
When did the VCA become a certified grotty girl academy? You know the sensibility.” — Cameron Hurst.
Throughout this incubated period of Melbourne life, many local emerging artists turned their creative focus to the mundane details of the world around them, celebrating the ordinary and the everyday.” — Emma Walsh.
It’s always fascinating to see how people view themselves.” — David Paicu.
Art-making has always been an act of remembrance.” — Jasmine Penman.
Home is a contested site in the work of several artists at this year’s VCA Photography Department.” — Claire Osborn-Li.
A whirlwind tour of more than seven hundred works proved that the reshaping forces of COVID would not quash the creative output of the tenacious 2020 VCA graduating students.” — Ella Worth.
Is there a word for when a painting feels like a sound? Unfortunately, Google doesn’t have an answer.” — Victoria Loizides.
Walking round the Monash end-of-year show, four works caught my eye.” — Alice Mawhinney.
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Drawing and Printmaking, Victorian College of the Arts by Yugong Shao
Bachelor of Fine Art, MADA by Alice Mawhinney
Bachelor of Fine Art, MADA by Victoria Loizides
Drawing and Printmaking, Victorian College of the Arts by Rachel Pakula
Honours, Victorian College of the Arts by Sujin Jung
Bachelor of Fine Art, MADA by Olivia Fechner
Photography, Victorian College of the Arts by Claire Osborn-Li
Painting, Victorian College of the Arts by Jasmine Penman
Bachelor of Fine Art (Visual Arts), MADA by Grace Watson
Painting, Victorian College of the Arts by Jenna Grace
Honours, Victorian College of the Arts by ZiXin (Jessie) Chen
Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours), MADA by Stuart Maxted, Paris Lettau
Bachelor of Fine Art (Visual Arts), MADA by Annie-Rose Morrison
Painting, Victorian College of the Arts by Cameron Hurst
Sculpture, Victorian College of the Arts by Ella Worth
Honours, Victorian College of the Arts by Giles Fielke
Honours, Victorian College of the Arts by Sebastian Kainey
Bachelor of Fine Art (Visual Arts), MADA by Leonie Leivenzon
Drawing and Printmaking, Victorian College of the Arts by Emma Walsh
Bachelor of Fine Art (Visual Arts), MADA by Margarita Kontev
Bachelor of Fine Art, MADA by David Paicu
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Drawing and Printmaking
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Painting
Photography
Sculpture
Writers
Alice Mawhinney
Annie-Rose Morrison
Cameron Hurst
Claire Osborn-Li
David Paicu
Ella Worth
Emma Walsh
Giles Fielke
Grace Watson
Jasmine Penman
Jenna Grace
Leonie Leivenzon
Margarita Kontev
Olivia Fechner
Paris Lettau
Rachel Pakula
Sebastian Kainey
Stuart Maxted
Sujin Jung
Victoria Loizides
Yugong Shao
ZiXin (Jessie) Chen
Artists
Abella D’Adamo
Alex Smith
Alexis Kanatsios
Alice Watson
Andrea Hare
Angus Brown
Anna Jalanski
Anna McGirr
Benjamin Bannan
Blake Widdicombe
Brayden van Meurs
Britt d’Argaville
Caitlyn St. Onge
Camille Perry
Celeste Lloyd
Celeste de Clario Davis
Charles Harding
Chloe Selsick
Christina May Carey
Christopher Theofanous
Connor Bugelli
Daniel Kuang
Dione Yip
Edward Dean
Emily Keagan
Emily Keagen
Emma Kleeberg
Evelyn Pohl
Felix von Dallwitz
Grace Culley
Holly Watson
Hugo Blomley
Imogen Slater
Isabella Imperatore
Jacinta Leed
Jah Maskell
Jamie Lai
Jieun Ha
Jimmy Roche
Joanna Pham
John Lim
Josh V.E.
Julien Comer-Klein
Kana Li
Karen Luo
Lachlan McKee
Lana Kotro
Leonie Leivenzon
Lhotse Collins
Lily Beamish
Liz Pedersen
LuLu Smith
Luyuan Zhang
Madeleine Peters
Mi-Mi Fitzimmons
Michael Sandford
Nelle Rodis
Nina Rose Prendergast
Nina Sanadze
Nisha Hunter
Pang Jie Siah
Phuong (Stella) Duong
Pooja Gupta
Pui Ying Kwok
Rory Maley
Ruby Li
Samuel Nugent
Savanna Szelski
Seth Searle
Shannon Connelly
Sidney Robertson
Skye Malu Baker
Sofia Larkin
Sofie Larkin
Sonya Theys
Sophie Cochrane
Sophie Day
Sphinx Wrote
Teddy Griffith
Thandiwe Bethune
Thomas Minchinton
Thomas Solomon Kuiper
Tom Bourke
Veronica Fell
Xiaoyu Du
Yundi Wang
Zoe Jackson