Studio Art and Expanded Practice
Acacia Yiu
Bachelor of Fine Art - Studio Art
Exploring the multiplicity of identity these images explore changes in emotion and identity using a multiple self-portrait technique. Using timed exposures, I capture my image across different locations and situations. The final suite of composite photographs reveals the constructed nature of self.
Adam J Southgate
Bachelor of Fine Art - Studio Art
Individual frames from iconic films are dissected and rearranged using collage. These appropriated fragments are recontexualised as vehicles for storytelling where I can recreate my own meanings. Using compositional techniques such as divine symmetry, mise-en-scène and monochromatic colour palettes, I also create a distance in this work, an ambiguity which allows for other meanings to be created.
Achievements: Art in Bark Scholarship, Widening Participation Scholarship, Undergrowth Exhibition, WALi Leader.
Adrian Charles Smith
Bachelor of Fine Art - Studio Art
Drawing from the history of 19th Century Realism and its direct observation of the modern world, these paintings reflect on the complexities of human behaviour and our relationship with technology. At a time when technology saturates our lives, these paintings provide an opportunity to pause and reflect on our lived experiences with the technologies that influence the way humans act today.
Achievements:
- Finalist in the Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship, Brisbane Portrait Prize and Clayton Utz Art Award while studying at QCA.
- Participated in the QCA Italy Study Tour in 2019.
- Recipient of the Award for Academic Excellence in the Bachelor Of Fine Art multiple times.
Alannah Quinn
Bachelor of Fine Art - Studio Art
Alannah Quinn is a conceptual artist based in Meanjin (Brisbane). For Quinn, the thoughts and theories behind her artworks are more important than the material outcome. Experimentation across media is evident in her works as she uses whatever materials or methods best suit her ideas. Quinn’s art is a mix of primal terror and surrealism that seeks to understand and heal personal and global fears.
Alannah has won Griffith Academic Awards.
Alexandra Baxter
Bachelor of Fine Art - Studio Art
‘Sex Tape with the Pastor’s Son’ presents a photo sculptural reunion with Imaginary Evil, vested by the unbinding ways of hindsight. Critical of the former self, this work rewrites Alex’s oversights and allows them Grace; the abject, embarrassed, pitiful, tragicomic empathy we feel when watching human error occur from a distance. This work revisits an adolescent rendezvous with non-consensual surveillance, the nature of which may be gleaned by title. The viewer looks into the peephole with uncomfortable proximity to the voyeur, made twice tender by kneeling unto the repurposed church pew installation.
Kneel with good humour, ample jest, and a curious verve that only a sex tape could rouse. Rise disappointed, with a bone to pick about maladaptive guilt.
Angelique Jenkins
Bachelor of Fine Art - Expanded Practice
Space, place, and nostalgia become remnants. She has no set plans or rules but her own messy commentary on societal norms. She becomes the formless narrative, in some alienated concept of herself, and others. This project I explore personas that are historical, fictional, individual and social constructs, in search of what ‘things’ finally ‘become’ us?
Courtney Flynn
Bachelor of Fine Art - Studio Art
These works bring together a collection of personal images and individual motifs. Through drawing and painting the incidental image, I can use overlap to represent excess and show that the self is more than its individual component parts. Each image competes for attention in this celebration of self-indulgence and self-reliance.
Crystal O'Kane
Bachelor of Fine Art - Studio Art
Working in the realm of geometric abstraction and the legacy of Pop Art, my painting project is informed by the website “ThisPersonDoesNotExist” which generates an infinite number of fake portraits. The portraits exist as simulacras – their sole purpose to mimic, having no origin or identity. In a social context, we can imagine artificial intelligence’s effect on our perception of what is real.
Darci Macmillan
Bachelor of Fine Art - Studio Art
Influenced by childhood dreams and memories, The Dream House, uses repetition to bring to life overlapping memories from childhood. The piece stems from a childhood nightmare and other formative memories about caterpillars. Created with the intention to immortalise childhood fears and wonder, the work physically brings to life these nightmares and challenges their form of untouchable remembrance.
Edwina McLennan
Bachelor of Fine Art Expanded Practice
Borrowing principles from Surrealism and its study of dreams, psychology and everyday life, McLennan’s practice responds to our transient, hyper-saturated and consumerist world. Through material exploration these works examine how images are constructed and manipulated. Her work explores the liminal space between the digital world and the ‘real’ world; and language and perception.
Elizabeth Akenson
Bachelor of Fine Art - Studio Art
These drawings dive deep into the power of water and our subconscious desire for it. The work reflects on a psychological tendency to hide one's past and avoid current reality in favour of an imaginary life where our full selves can be realised. The subject aims on blocking out life’s distractions and unavoidable misfortune while exploring a watery world that remains silent yet entirely content.
Elizabeth Grearson
Bachelor of Fine Art - Studio Art
‘The Doors Between’ is a triptych exploring identity and self-discovery of my past, present, and future spirituality. Painted in an illustrative style echoing images of divination used in Tarot, they capture my experience of moving away from organised religion into an embrace of alternative beliefs and practices.
Eve Gladys Jørgensen
Bachelor of Fine Art - Studio Art
Handmade ceramics capture my experience of the Australian environment as an immigrant from Denmark. Interrogating histories of the souvenir and its function, this suite of plates is a memento of a harsh but fragile environment. In particular, this work highlights the way we embody places and carry individual experiences with us.
Joshua Blanch
Bachelor of Fine Art - Studio Art
It is important to be open and honest about one’s life experiences, especially the harder times, as this helps us develop as individuals. It is through one’s own experiences I believe the strongest art is born. My ambition is to not just draw a representation of myself, but to convey an emotional intensity and therefore share my experiences of stress and anxiety.
Julie Saltissi
Bachelor of Fine Art - Studio Art
Julie Saltissi’s series of paintings are based on the beauty of dance. As a former dancer herself she is deeply aware of the joy, yet psychological dark side of this discipline. Disruptive compositional methods in her paintings unsettle an otherwise happy and optimistic scene. Julie regards the simultaneous thrill and endurance of the dancer as analogous to anyone try to achieve their goals.
“I was very fortunate to have had the wonderful experience of visiting the Venice Biennale 2019 as part of the QCA International Study Tour. It was a fantastic experience and great to be with a group of like-minded people. We achieved so much, travelling to several cities throughout Italy, visiting many fabulous galleries, each with diverse and famous artworks ranging from past epochs to the contemporary.”
Kirsty Bowthorpe
Bachelor of Fine Art - Studio Art
Bowthorpe’s projects consist of a series of animations and modified guitars, exploring the experience of Synesthesia and music. Drawing from a history of Pop Art and meme culture, she reflects on the unique and personal experience of perception. The audience is invited to explore perception and experience music in the visual form as she does; allowing them to reflect on their own senses.
Kitten Xaos
Bachelor of Fine Art - Expanded Practice
Kitten Xaos works in modes of practice pioneered by women artists of the late twentieth century. They draw on the nature of materials to create a meaningful synergy of material and concept. Xaos works with themes of disconnection, ritual and the body, engaging with theories of post-humanism.
Lorissa Toweel
Bachelor of Fine Art - Studio Art
Interdisciplinary and medium diverse landscapes interrogate our relationship with identity formation, the everyday, and digital manipulation. Through tactile experiences these works explore the way identity is formed by engaging with different mediums and how this can become confused as we navigate natural and synthetic forces, which often culminates in an unease of identity.
Luca Feher
Bachelor of Fine Art - Studio Art
Through a cathartic act of drawing, this work traces the fluid nature of identity and records patterns of time. Completing a small drawing everyday capturing a detail that collectively creates my self-portrait, this is an iterative process, which provides consistency and stability during an unstable time. Similarly, I can use this process to also reflect on my own identity and autobiography.
Maddy Draheim
Bachelor of Fine Art - Studio Art
My work attempts to understand visual language of abstract and internet imagery in relation to my own psychological index. This series of paintings expands upon the ideas of Abstract Expressionism through a post-internet lens using abstract colour, form and graphic imagery collected from cartoons, video games and movies.
Mark du Potiers
Bachelor of Fine Art - Studio Art
Mark du Potiers navigates cultural identity, anxiety, and queerness through sculpture and installation. Key concerns include negotiating Australian, Hongkonger, and Chinese ancestries; the competing desires of resistance and conformity; and reckonings with physical and psychological suffering.
“Studying at QCA has helped me find the courage and confidence to seek a whole range of opportunities while developing my practice. Throughout my studies, I've had the privilege of making many wonderful friends, connections, and networks; completed a student exchange to Hong Kong; participated in a European study tour; exhibited and curated shows nationally and internationally; collaborated and worked with numerous major institutions; and also finished an elective course in Mandarin!”
Matthew Hurdle
Bachelor of Fine Art - Studio Art
Matthew Hurdle works with the biblical materials of “Sackcloth and Ashes” to create large paper-based abstractions, resulting in symbolic representations of the Abrahamic themes of guilt and humility that has existed for over 3400 years. This is a cathartic and transformative process for both the artist and the historical materials he engages.
In 2019 Matthew Hurdle was awarded the Billie Hall Bursary as the highest achieving student in his first-year cohort. Matthew has also received Academic Excellence Awards in 2019 and 2020.
Michaella Clarke
Bachelor of Fine Art - Studio Art
Michaella works with visual imagery in a variety of styles, with an emphasis on tattooing. Focusing on portraiture in various styles, her work represents a heavy fantasy influence and a bold colour palette to elicit an escapism and feeling of magic in the viewer. Her works display exploration of various styles of illustration and a variety of different mediums.
Natalie Keeble
Bachelor of Fine Art - Studio Art
Natalie Keeble focuses on representing lived experiences of anxiety, combining ‘innocent’ cartoon aesthetics with brutal representations of acute anxiety experiences. These works, follow the tradition of cartoons such as Rick and Morty or Bo-Jack Horseman that to use the playful visual language of animation to encourage audiences to think about matters of deep social concern.
Neil Moorhead
Bachelor of Fine Art - Studio Art
Meet for Meat is a visual comment on the transience of gay/bi/trans male hookup culture that objectifies and elevates brief sexual encounters. In a series of digitally altered sexual images with painted sculptural pieces that mimic raw meat, I ask ‚’how do we value or devalue ourselves and others with these hookup apps?’ Chat extracts from hookup apps make explicit the nature of those interactions.
Niamh Flynn
Bachelor of Fine Art - Studio Art
Expanding from the historical practice of still life Niamh Flynn’s drawings explore themes of the mundane and the everyday to bring attention to things in our lives that are often overlooked. During a time when we are restricted in our ability to travel we need to find new ways to enjoy the life around us. This series uses a mixture of painting and drawing to highlight the beauty in the mundane.
Rosanna Hawes
Bachelor of Fine Art - Studio Art
Rosanna Hawes makes the invisible visible. In our community older people are either stereotyped or diminished through popular culture. Therefore, these twelve oil portraits of mature Australians–contemporaries of Hawes in her local community–are a celebration of human life, experience and diversity. As we all age it is important to think about how older people are treated in the community.
Ryan Picaro
Bachelor of Fine Art - Studio Art
Ryan’s work revolves around online personas and the discrepancies that appear between our real and digital selves. In our present social climate where people’s online transgressions are being punished with real-world consequences, Ryan’s work seeks to raise awareness for the importance of being self-aware of how we conduct ourselves online.
Sallie Page
Bachelor of Fine Art - Studio Art
The relationship between painting and photography interests me. My work combines visual and interpretive relationships with old family photographs, developing paintings through drawing, copying, layering and removing paint. That process enlivens the memories from my past, inviting viewers to reflect on their own memories, prompting recognition and curiosity within their own generational narratives.
Satya Lawless
Bachelor of Fine Art - Studio Art
Painted still life images bring together Western and Eastern spirituality. These works combine objects chosen for their connection to Vedic philosophy, which are arranged and painted according to techniques borrowed from Memento Mori. Using painted reflection as a key device, these works complicate a traditional understanding of self, bringing together different modes of understanding.
Siobhan Vertullo
Bachelor of Fine Art - Studio Art
Centred in the genre of the painted portrait, the artworks endeavour to paint a visual narrative to create an imagining by the observer of the emotional connection between the artist and her painted subjects. By painting the artist’s three sons the artworks investigate the relationship between the painter and the portrayed, and the viewers’ ‘sense’ of this connection.
Souliphone Phothilath
Bachelor of Fine Art - Studio Art
The persistence of the photographed selfie on social media is a direct challenge to the reflected image. Between the Mirrors explores this relationship using mirrors to create a myse en abyme filled with reflections, inviting the audience to consider their relationship with their own image and explore a gap between what is real and what is reflected.
Tabitha Gibson
Bachelor of Fine Art - Studio Art
Drawing on feminist histories, specifically the slogan ‚”the personal is political‚” the work confronts the viewers with the pressing issue of rape and sexual assault, with women most at risk. Increasing statistics reveal one in six women have experienced it since the age of fifteen. Tabitha uses a variety of printmaking techniques and materials, symbolizing the feminine discourse.
All 3 prints are part of a larger suite of prints, 36 in total.
Yamnaa Shujaa Qureshi
Bachelor of Fine Art - Studio Art
This project consists of partially and completely painted glass panels that collectively depict the concept of memories. A dream-like scape has been constructed through the layering of carefully selected memories. The fragility of glass highlights the transparency of memories; one fall and the glass shatters; each pane of glass is a reminder of the vulnerability of time and space we live in.
Zoe Stuart
Bachelor of Fine Art - Studio Art
Zoe Stuart uses painting to question social constructions of linear biographical time. Through intimate small-scale acrylic paintings, her work uses composite narrative imagery from domestic Brisbane houses and party scenes to evoke a sense of non-linear time, one formative human experience is stacked upon another, generation after generation co-existing all at once.
Photography
Amanda Fairhall
Bachelor of Photography - Advertising Photography
In a society saturated with images, mature women are absent. As women age, an act of concealment occurs, out of sight and invisible. Agequake is 7 digital photographs of mature women together with an artefact of meaning. Drawing on the foundational work of August Sanders and conceptual ideas from photographers such as Annie Leibovitz, the women have been photographed, bold and bright, not hiding.
In 2018, I had the opportunity to be part of 3847QCA Global Infield Project 1 and travelled to New York, where we undertook several sessions with successful artists and met several curators who gave some valuable pointers. The course culminated with our participation in a small exhibition. It was a wonderful experience and extremely informative.
Amy McDonald
Bachelor of Photography - Advertising Photography
Informed by ecofeminism and it’s advocation for women’s connection to the earth, this project explores the relieving and concealing essence of the sanctuary and its delicate temporality. As people become more dependent on civilisation and more disconnected from the environment, this video work provides a space to reflect on the importance of the sanctuary experience.
Amy was awarded a Griffith Award for Academic Excellence in 2019 and in 2020.
Angela Lewis
Bachelor of Photography - Advertising Photography
'The Beautiful Mess Effect' is a series of photographic portraits which explores the exposures and unveilings of young women through black and white portraiture. Throughout this series, the female participants are portrayed through a classic framework of traditional formal portraiture that reappropriates how female photographs are seen in society.
Caitlin Boag
Bachelor of Photography - Advertising Photography
The Other Side of Dance is a constructed photographic series illustrating the varied realities of the dance industry. While to some dance is perceived as glamourous, it can also be a strenuous and demanding industry, with mental and physical injury a regular part of a dancer’s life. The series is designed to evoke compassion for dancers, who strain their bodies in search of beautiful form.
Colin Lo
Bachelor of Photography - Advertising Photography
Lo's work ranges from the photographic to the sculptural and revolves around the exploration of emotive themes and non-conforming narratives that aim to counteract conservative societal values. Through an exploration of material sensibilities and techniques such as fragmenting, Lo aims to highlight and encourage acceptance of mental health issues.
Debora Kammann
Bachelor of Photography - Advertising Photography
“Housebroken” examines the domestic expectations placed on those assigned female at birth. It can be seen within a broad aspect of current culture that domestic roles remain rigid and unfair simply based on gender assigned at birth. Through deadpan expression and colourful, duo-chromatic spaces this series examines unwanted domestic expectations and the emotional reality they create.
Margot Stewart
Bachelor of Photography - Advertising Photography
Anthrop(ob)scene alludes to the insidious liquid body and the unknowable, ungovernable place it haunts, seeking to undo and reject dominant ways of viewing. Offering warm, painterly features that allude to the sexual body, Anthrop(ob)scene constructs a recognisable yet partial, ambiguous and almost liquid body which refuses to give the gaze fully identifiable, sexual flesh to objectify.
Achievements: Griffith Academic Award 2018, 2019, 2020 and Golden Key Honours Society.
Nicolas Ariel Ciner
Bachelor of Photography - Advertising Photography
Using double exposures to travel across international borders, these photographs bring together the everyday experiences of two people who continue to be separated during the global pandemic. Analogue film collapses this distance into a single, unedited frame, creating connection and visual closeness, underscoring our loss of control and technology’s failure as a substitute for true intimacy.
Webe Cao
Bachelor of Photography - Advertising Photography
Utilizing digital art that seeks to stretch the barriers of what we know, w h o a r e y o u reflects on the authenticity of identity in the era of technology. Webe uses 3D digital design, motion graphics and visual effects to explore how human identity can be analysed, transformed and represented in a digital world where technology has been revolutionizing human existence.
Caitlin Carey
Bachelor of Photography - Documentary Photography
“In the face of the fire” explores the effects of the 2019/20 New South Wales bushfires. The 2019-20 bushfires blazed through 5.3 million hectares (6.7%of the state) destroyed 2,439 home in NSW, including my grandparent’s property in Glenreagh, Coffs Harbour. The exhibition explores the story of the fire through the eyes of the family, engaging with feelings of grief and loss.
George Bowden
Bachelor of Photography - Documentary Photography
During the global pandemic of Covid-19, the world grieved life’s greatest milestones as lockdowns took its place. This series was inspired by the disenfranchised grief that came with every wedding postponement I witnessed as a wedding photographer over the past 18 months. A deep necessity was engrained within me to capture the instant snapshot of the weddings that didn’t turn out as they expected.
In July 2021, George was invited to become a recommended wedding photographer vendor for Hello May Magazine, Australia and New Zealand's #1 leading wedding magazine.
Isabella Porras
Bachelor of Photography - Documentary Photography
This Twilight Garden conflates documentary, realism and the sublime. It is a narrative retelling of depression and burnout. Self-portraits combine with natural spaces, presenting an intimate visual diary of reflection. Displayed through fleeting slide projection, the work is cyclical, allowing the images to exist in their own space-time, drawing the viewer into my gradual return to the camera.
Kuntkokan
Bachelor of Photography - Documentary Photography
‘To Be There’ attempts to find wisdom in my formative experiences of joy, love, loss and violence. In the ensuing intellectualisation, the series shows spheres of becoming, experiences and processes which ensure the flow of our being. Through objective documentation and subjective synthesis, ‚’To Be There’ presents a personal Hupomnƒìmata through a subjective view of the objective world around me.
Kyle Ian Park
Bachelor of Photography - Documentary Photography
Paradoxical Invisibility of Identity in the Nude, a series of nude self-portraits that explore performativity and complicity, using long exposures to hide the artists identity. The complex journey faced with cultural displacement is represented through verses of poetry, handwritten onto the images in Sanskrit, as an ode to his cultural heritage.
Pinkie
Bachelor of Photography - Documentary Photography
Havana Prisoner Project is a participatory project, connecting prisoners from across the globe via letters and artworks. The project seeks to tell the unique story of the prisoners and to provide an overview of how the prison system seeks to dehumanise those who are seeking connection. Havana Prisoner Project showcases individuals' self-expressive incarcerated artworks on everyday objects.
Sinead Ward
Bachelor of Photography - Documentary Photography
After Dark is a visual investigation of children’s playgrounds during the night. These public and playful structures are illuminated by artificial lights and transformed into unsettling and strange landscapes that become ominous and unfamiliar. Presented as a typographical archive, these images reveal something uncanny present in our otherwise welcoming and friendly places.
Bianca Aniceto
Bachelor of Photography/Bachelor of Business
“Postcards from A Stranger/s” is a visual investigation into the lives of strangers through a series of postcards purchased online. Blurring past, present and future, this project merges a variety of visual languages to generate a fictional narrative and relationship between image, audience and subject.
Ashlee Willis
Bachelor of Photography - Photographic Art Practice
In(Organic) examines the materiality of the disabled body using fragmentation to redefine perfection. The digital age has fuelled our continuous need for perfection, therefore, people with disabilities often go unnoticed. This project utilises a historical study of human anatomy and the environment through an exploration of the disabled body.
Giselle Devine
Bachelor of Photography - Photographic Art Practice
“Divine Ophelie”,derived from notions of feminine deities such as Aphrodite, and Shakespeare’s Ophelia, counters the normative narrative of the hysterical woman who meets her demise by water. By layering both film and digital images, “Divine Ophelie” uses form to de-masculinise the landscape. The series playfully twists tropes of the “feminine” woman, entangling masculine spaces with the natural.
Jordan Nasmyth
Bachelor of Photography - Photographic Art Practice
Waiting Game utilises the everyday and portraiture photography to document my relationship with my ill grandmother. Assimilating the use of absence and presence to communicate my grandmother’s fragmentary health battles. Using the everyday to provide a richer insight to the monotonous reality of her home life, by incorporating a sterile colour palette to mimic a hospital aesthetic.
Kayley Beaman
Bachelor of Photography - Photographic Art Practice
Borrowing from the histories of the abject and its close relationship with the body, the focus of this work is to recognise the duality of the body as both human and divine, profane and sacred. By reimagining the Church’s idealisation of the body and blood of Christ, and how that manifests on the human form, this series serves to challenge and disrupt ideas and beliefs of institutional religion.
Liam Johnston
Bachelor of Photography - Photographic Art Practice
A View From Halfway focuses on a vernacular snapshot aesthetic to explore the normalities of the everyday. The intimate, documentative, format, links with meticulous framing to create an environment without location. The contextless images invite the viewer into a personal narrative and encourages self-reflection through diaristic text, photographs and autographic processes.
Swade Ferguson
Bachelor of Photography - Photographic Art Practice
“Desolate Tension” is a project that explores the restraints a partner can impose and the loneliness associated with its loss. With the themes of the everyday and voyeurism “Desolate Tension” seeks to share what is personal and private knowledge between spouses. This project uses chance, self portraiture and historical photographic processes to provide a deeper and intimate account of an experience.
Victoria Manton-Williams
Bachelor of Photography - Photographic Art Practice
Through a documentary approach, these photographs explore the use of accessories and fashion as signifiers within the Lesbian community. Using scale to highlight specific clothing and other fashion accessories, these images highlight the important role that fashion, clothing and other specific accessories play in establishing visual identities and recognition of within the LGBTQ+ community.
Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art
Dylan Sarra
Bachelor of Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art
Dylan Sarra is a Taribelang artist from the Bundaberg region currently living in Brisbane. With a main focus on exploring identity and place, Sarra uses a range of disciplines such as print, digital and sculptural works to gently humanise the Indigenous experience prior to colonisation for the viewer. He is involved in research and development of cultural knowledge and practice that can be shared with the wider community from where these stories take place. It is his aim that all people can not only can be intrigued by Indigenous culture, but they can also start to question the real history around the events of colonisation and its continuing impact.
A the 2021 graduate exhibitions, Dylan was awarded the award for Best in Show and an award for excellence. He was a Telstra NATSIAA finalist in 2020 and 2021.
Visual Arts Honours
Duncan Macarthur
Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours)
Reframing the Closet explores the psychological effect on gay men of concealing their sexual orientation and its representation in the field of painting. Clinical descriptions of depression, double personality and a ruptured ego are registered via a language of frozen drips, ruptures, and pooling. Spray-painted portraits assert that a painting’s surface can be a signifier of ideas and emotions.
Ella Senbruns
Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours)
The term ‘grotesque’ has two distinct meanings: a generic repulsive subject and a specific decorative motif. Senbruns’ work is fascinated with this contradiction. Her obsessive mark-making techniques decontextualise the lines of her body, creating unnerving and fantastical scenes. The works explore turbulent psychological health and manifest simultaneously horrific and seductive qualities.
Senbruns participated in the 2020 Save Our Studios protest in response to funding cuts by Griffith University to the QCA's studio disciplines. These cuts led to numerous valuable and beloved staff members losing their teaching positions at the university, and new generations of students losing access to specialised medium-based skills and knowledge. The university continues to advertise the QCA studios as a selling point in promotional material intended for prospective students, despite staff with the knowledge required to man these spaces dwindling.
Isabella Zammit
Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours)
These paintings contribute to the knowledge and practice of women’s body art — interrogating culturally ascribed notions of women’s bodies by synthesising my body and erotic performing objects. A method that combines painting, performance and documentation exposes disparities and tensions inherent when performing objects intersect with my own eroticised body.
"In 2019 I was awarded a People's Choice Award for 'The Marie Ellis OAM Prize for Drawing', I was in my second year of my Bachelor of Fine Art. This year, 2021, I was a finalist for the Lethbridge Gallery 'Small Scale Art Award.' This year I have been in two group exhibitions: 'Of The Flesh' in February 2021, and 'Spectral Vessels' in June 2021, both were exhibited through QCA Galleries."
Isobelle Teljega
Bachelor of Photography (Honours)
Isobelle Teljega’s practice engages with how a moving image based practice, situated in post-humanities, challenges prescriptive roles of normative femininity. Teljega creates transmuting bodily forms through digital interfaces, forming a dialogue between bodily and bodiless. The series explores alternative experiences of being human, and how bodily integrates in the natural world and technology.
Isobelle aims to continue higher research study exploring ways her moving image and installation based practice can transform every day spaces and highlight areas of research in psychoanalysis, post-humanities and intersectional feminism.
Kathleen Mary O'Hagan
Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours)
Kathleen O'Hagan's reflective self-portraits reembody gendered shame as a material presence. The paintings veil and unveil their subjects by depicting warped, blurred, and fragmented glimpses in everyday mirrored surfaces. Using coarse and broken brushstrokes, her work portrays shame’s “bodily awareness”, visualising the complex relationship between one’s embodied and external reality.
My co-authored paper, “The Veil in Art School” was presented alongside my mentor Dr William Platz at the Sixteenth International Conference on The Arts in Society, University of Western Australia in June 16 – 18, 2021. I was awarded funding to support this research by the Griffith Honours College Research Bursary. My upcoming solo exhibition, “I am there only when I appear” will be displayed in the Grey Street Gallery, QCA in January 2022.
Kirk Radunz
Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours)
Kirk Radunz is an artist working on Kabi Kabi, Jaggera and Turrbul country. Their practice employs painting, digital and conceptual techniques to explore the capacities of ornamentation in the built environment. Opposing modernist dogma which strips architecture of anything not justified by 'function', their work frames ornamentation as an engagement with the many contexts of the human subject.
Madi Dufficy
Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours)
To disrupt the power structures that have historically devalued feminine art practices these works engage with the masculine aesthetics of abstract painting and minimalist sculpture but adopt feminised art practices of fabric drapery, pastel colours, soft sculpture, sewing, craft, and decoration. This brings feminine associations upon the work to challenge the systems which assign artistic value.
Nellie Crescent
Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours)
This body of work creates awareness of MKULTRA Project Monarch cult practice where programming begins in the womb. I work in a space between abstraction and representation to transform trauma out of the body using metaphorical visual language and mark-making within installation practice. The concept of the pre-verbal matrixial womb space becomes the transformative and conceptual sine qua non.
Perrin Millard
Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours)
Inherent or Inherited Values: Towards a History of Painting, explores a genealogy of skyscapes that form part of a Western tradition of landscape painting. Often created to access the metaphysical, artists have used paintings of skies to consider a shared humanity, spirituality, spatiality, and concepts of time. My practice investigates these histories to recover lost traditions and techniques.
My project builds on the experiences gained from the international undergraduate tour of the Venice Biennale and Documenta 14 in 2017. My work has been selected for The South Australian Museum Waterhouse Prize 2018 and the Mandorla Art Awards 2021
Sunday Jemmott
Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours)
This project mobilises playful aesthetics to reframe the trivialisation of play in art history and contemporary culture. Sweeping pastel textiles, fluorescent craft objects, and expanded paintings mediate the intersection between the low-brow and the legacy of modern abstraction. Using feminist materiality to manifest a positive affect, the power of joy and play is re-introduced to the audience.
