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An era of sensorial bombardment is upon us.” — Nic Trifiletti.
Do the labyrinthine corridors of RMIT inspire a search for lost gods? Or perhaps it is our precarious times (once again) that are to blame for the crisis of devotion on show at the RMIT Honours graduate exhibition at the city campus in late November.” — Bianca Arthur-Hull.
The RMIT campus is bustling with the sounds of construction.” — Georgia Elizabeth Milford.
Identity is artifice.” — Karl Sagrabb.
Was the past as wonderful as we remember? Or are our memories shaped by our relation to the present? Do we make yesterday seem brighter and today gloomier? At the VCA honours exhibition, where cool ambiguous sculptures confronted me at every turn, I found myself drawn to art alluding to a quieter, simpler time.” — Eliza Baker.
Parallel to pandemic life, white cube gallery spaces avoid tactile interactions.” — Sarah Ponsford.
Artists Freda Drakopoulos, Amina Briggs and Elsie Preston evoke the magic of domestic routines and mundane rituals in their ambitious contributions to the Victorian College of the Arts graduate exhibition.” — Emily Winslade.
“To become invisible, one has to become smaller or equal to one pixel”, Hito Steyerl cautions with a robotic didacticism.” — Sueann Chen, Rory Maley.
Installed in well-lit galleries, video works often fail to capture audience attentions.” — Giles Fielke.
When Max Ernst transferred the texture of a grimy floor onto a paper substrate by rubbing back and forth with pigment, he borrowed the term “frottage” to describe it.” — Ella Howells.
The “shock doctrine”, as Naomi Klein argues, is the exploitation of national crises by governments in order to pass questionable policies.” — Angelica Nervegna-Reed.
A map can be a key that opens up to the warmth of connection between friends, family and lovers.” — Beatrix Brenneman.
The best art transforms and disrupts a gallery.” — Olivia Stephen.
Underneath the stands of the MCG, a concrete carpark is transformed to an illuminated runway.” — Jennifer Hunt.
There is an intruder in our midst.” — Camille Orel.
Mass MeMo crew all sit in a pub afterward and only I order a beer.” — Kevin Morgan Jones.
To grieve in the presence of others is an expression of love.” — Erin Hallyburton.
Twinks are having a bit of a moment lately.” — Ari Tampubolon.
Like most words, “home” connotes a multiplicity of meanings.” — Uswa Qureshi.
Is camp still a thing?.” — Julia Luby.
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Bachelor of Art (Fine Art) (Honours), RMIT by Uswa Qureshi
Bachelor of Fine Art, Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours), MADA by Nic Trifiletti
Painting, Victorian College of the Arts by Ella Howells
Photography, Painting, Honours, Victorian College of the Arts by Giles Fielke
Bachelor of Fine Art, RMIT by Georgia Elizabeth Milford
Honours, Victorian College of the Arts by Sueann Chen, Rory Maley
Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours), MADA by Beatrix Brenneman
Honours, Victorian College of the Arts by Eliza Baker
Bachelor of Fine Art, MADA by Erin Hallyburton
Sculpture, Victorian College of the Arts by Camille Orel
Bachelor of Fine Art, MADA by Sarah Ponsford
Bachelor of Art (Fine Art) (Honours), RMIT by Bianca Arthur-Hull
Bachelor of Art (Fine Art) (Honours), RMIT by Kevin Morgan Jones
Bachelor of Fine Art, MADA by Olivia Stephen
Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours), MADA by Angelica Nervegna-Reed
Performance, Victorian College of the Arts by Ari Tampubolon
Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours), MADA by Karl Sagrabb
Fashion, RMIT, Box Hill Institute, Holmesglen Institute, Kangan Institute, Whitehouse Institute of Design by Jennifer Hunt
Honours, Victorian College of the Arts by Emily Winslade
Bachelor of Art (Fine Art) (Honours), RMIT by Julia Luby
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Department
Bachelor of Art (Fine Art) (Honours)
Bachelor of Fine Art
Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours)
Fashion
Honours
Painting
Performance
Photography
Sculpture
Writers
Angelica Nervegna-Reed
Ari Tampubolon
Beatrix Brenneman
Bianca Arthur-Hull
Camille Orel
Eliza Baker
Ella Howells
Emily Winslade
Erin Hallyburton
Georgia Elizabeth Milford
Giles Fielke
Jennifer Hunt
Julia Luby
Karl Sagrabb
Kevin Morgan Jones
Nic Trifiletti
Olivia Stephen
Rory Maley
Sarah Ponsford
Sueann Chen
Uswa Qureshi
Artists
Aden Miller
Aimee Kingsland
Amber Šeštokas
Amelia Walker
Amina Briggs
Anaïs Lesage Baker
Anselma Forlano
Ariana Lim
Ashley Perry
Ben Raynor
Brigid Meredith
Caesar Florence-Howard
Camille Perry
Carmel Ben-David
Chelsea Young
Clara Joyce
Daniel Song
Douglas Maxted
Eleanor Newbound
Elsie Preston
Emily Thomas
Emma Nixon
Erin Hallyburton
Evangela Lines-Morison
Freda Drakopoulos
Grace Kim
Grace Spence
Holly Goodridge
Jake Preval
Jay Paul Harrison
Johanna van Der Linden
Johanna van der Linden
Jorja Timms
Josh Krum
Kathleen Formoso
Kevin Morgan
Lisa Waup
Liv Moriarty
Lottie van Wijck
Madeline Crockett
Meg F. Evans
Megan Kamei
Ned Shannon
Nic Trifiletti
Panayiotis Kasseris
Pang Jie Siah (Sunny)
Paris McBride
Rachel Bown-Mayo
Rory Maley
Rumer Guario
Ruth Hazel
Sam Kariotis
Shan Dante
Stacy Collee
Tatenda Serere
Yvette James
Zoe May Sutherland