Painting
Carms Rose Art
OKKA Paints hatched when I embarked on a painting pilgrimage, collected ochre, plants and found objects within 90km from my home. I experimented with natural mediums and proved to myself, I could produce paints from recycled materials and 99% from Mother Nature. Instead of buying toxic, costly paint tubes and supports from art shops, I fulfilled my own quest to paint lightly on our Sumptuous Earth.
I won Hanger's Prize at Gather Festival, St Ita’s School in 2018. I was elected Mentor for future QCA Students in early 2020. I really enjoyed working at the Griffith University Art Museum as an intern where I helped facilitate kids and adult Art workshops and perform various art administrative tasks.
Ella Senbruns
Ella Senbruns is an emerging Brisbane-based artist. Working mainly between painting and drawing, Senbruns’ biomorphic constructions teeter the line between figuration and abstraction. She unfurls and reconstructs the body through sinuous, whiplash linework, valuing the flow of forms and material qualities of line over representation. She is fascinated by the mechanics of human pattern recognition.
Ella took part in the QCA's 2019 Italian study tour, where she was exposed to an incredible volume of historic and contemporary art.
Emily Howard
Personalised Fragments of Culture (2020) is an interdisciplinary installation that utilises the cyclical process of transforming objects and reinserting them back into their found environment. My work has become a visual preservation of my own relationship with cultural identity and encourage visibility within Australia, about the importance of revitalising your own fragmented perspective.
Isabella Zammit
I am interested in exploring the abstract human body, with particular reference to the long history of female nudes painted by the male 'genius.' These paintings seek to explore an abstraction which lingers on the verge of biomorphism. They retain a performativity due to their size, and in this way, they become autobiographical remnants of my body, as well as formally referencing bodily shapes.
In 2019 I won the ‘People’s Choice Award’ after being shortlisted in the Marie Ellis OAM Prize for Drawing.
Isobelle Dwyer
Isobelle’s work connects internal and external decay of the body and mind. Her practice creates psychological landscapes of decay that connect natural decay cycles to personal decay of mental and physical health. The works visualise memories attached to environmental landscapes triggered by sense of touch. Visualisations of grief and loss create sedative paintings of regrowth in decaying states.
Isobelle participated in the QCA international study tour, traveling through Italy as part of her degree.
Jeremiah Neuendorf
My work acts as social commentary on illegal logging in Papua New Guinea. The works seek to protest the rampant corruption that enables illegal companies to rape and pillage Papua New Guinea’s virgin forests.
Kathleen O'Hagan
Psychoanalyst Roy Schafer defines modification as a feeling of internalised “shame so strong that one wants to disappear on the spot.” Specifically, mortification of the female body has pervaded experiences of womanhood throughout history. Through a series of blurred self-portraits, my work exploits the “liveliness of painting” to reembody feminine shame as a corporal, material presence.
In 2021, Kathleen O’Hagan completed her Bachelor of Fine Art at the QCA and is set to continue into Honours. She was awarded the Billy Hall Bursary in 2018, as the highest achieving student in her Fine Art first-year cohort. Subsequently, she received Academic Excellence Awards throughout her three years of study (2018, 2019 and 2020).
In 2019, she worked as a mural artist and assistant – installing the Eat Street Carpark murals with artist Adrian Smith and mentor Simon Degroot; and assisting Ms Saffaa in her Integrity 20 Fish Lane Mural. In 2020, her work was displayed in the invitational exhibition, “Undergrowth” at the Webb and Machinery Street Galleries, showcasing “some of the most innovative work” of QCA’s undergraduate students.
She was awarded and completed the Student Academy of Excellence’s Winter Research Bursary, alongside her supervisor Dr Bill Platz, in July 2020.
Kirsty Boddington
Painting and Jewellery and Small Objects majors
My practice explores Surrealism; exercising the Dream State of Mind to inspire psychological and physical healing. I value intimacy, complexity, the uncanny in bizarre dreamscapes that omit the figure in favour of the object. I paint hallucinations caused by my incurable disease. I encourage conversation on disease, illness and mental health; the desire to triumph over suffering.
My pendants depict my aesthetic interpretation of the Star of Life, globally recognised as the Emergency Medical Services trademark. My design illustrates a rod, snake, and wings, embodying medical alert codes to convey wellbeing. I re-purpose materials into intimate jewellery and employ Lost Wax Casting, an expressive and transformative process symbolising renewal, re-birth, and rejuvenation.
During the course of my Fine Art Degree at QCA, I participated in multiple activities, including an internship with Artisan installing the ‘Unleashed’ exhibition (2020); I volunteered for FOH at the Griffith University Art Museum; I gallery-minded for the ‘Expanding Jewellery’ Exhibition by Vivian Bedwell (2020) and for the end-of-year ‘Commune with Me’ student exhibition (2020); I exhibited my ‘Rings of Truth’ silver jewellery series (2019) in the ‘Commune with Me’ exhibition (15 - 23 December 2020); I exhibited paintings from ‘The Bizarre Rooms’ and ‘Home of the Unconscious Mind’ series; and a painting titled ‘Served on a Silver Platter’ from my ‘Utopia’ series at the Oasis Gallery, Gold Coast (28 December 2020 – 11 January 2021). I have also been a member of the Jewellery and Small Objects Collective.
Kit Syvret
These are nonsensical, random squiggles that I began playing with and squishing and stretching until the squiggle has become the recognizable, the pictorial. The physical trace of my body and interaction with the surface plane remains, my fingerprints and skin cells swirling together under undulating line and colour. This is an attempt to physicalise the process of internal visual reasoning.
Madi Dufficy
This project investigates the relationship between personal effects and their vessel of containment, thus examining the tension between the thoughtful procurement of these objects and the way they are used, hidden and discarded. Using key methodologies of painting and the readymade, I additionally observe a tension between reality and fiction within art objects.
Mara Vučak
Derived from a dream the series Earth and See reminds us that capitalism and consumption may affect environments in unseen places. By depicting all the continents on the face of the Earth simultaneously the viewer is able to connect to these places. It is my aim to encourage conversations about consumer behaviour and the flow on affects our choices are having on Earth as a whole living organism.
During 2019 I had the privilege of travelling to Italy with students and staff from QCA, we visited the Venice Biennale, Trento, Florence and Rome! This was one of the most memorable experiences of my life. I found this to be an amazing cultural learning extravaganza. My understanding of the role of art in society and the arts industry exploded. To view in person the works of the great, modern and contemporary masters was extraordinary, to share the experience with my fellow students and staff from QCA was exceptional. I feel blessed to have had this opportunity and to have been able to travel during the time, especially when I consider the way the world has changed due to COVID-19 restrictions and lockdowns we have experienced during the last year.
Marie Adams
The three works are part of a larger series of collage, watercolour and ink paintings, oil on canvas and board paintings and photographs telling the story of a person surviving stormy seas and arriving at an imaginary island. It is a celebration of being alive; of exploring nature; of encountering the banksia people and discovering a sense of belonging and kinship.
Sophia Cassidy
Sophia Cassidy is an artist based in Brisbane. Cassidy uses botanical printing, hand stitching and watercolour painting to create large-scale fantastical and surrealist narrative silk paintings. Her practice looks at how paint and textiles are forms of fiction. Her practice uses their visual and textural storytelling capabilities as a way to create a subversive and playful painterly language.
Sophia completed an international Graphic Design internship in London, United Kingdom, where she created and pitched her own sustainable homeware and party-ware collection.
Sunday Jemmott
Painting and Jewellery and Small Objects majors
Sunday Jemmott is a Brisbane based artist working across painting and contemporary jewellery. In her work, she uses craft materials and practices to investigate the interaction between colour, surface and emotion. Her colourful mixed media paintings and playful jewellery celebrate a naive aesthetic to bring attention to and disrupt the fast-paced nature of our realities.
While studying at QCA I have been an active member of the Student Academy of Excellence and undertaken 3 study abroad experiences. Through Student Academy of Excellence's ENACTUS, I spent time volunteering in Vietnam and Cambodia, engaging with local communities and learning about their cultural history. As well as this, I undertook an internship in Dehradun, India through New Columbo Plan, at the Purkal Youth Development Society where I volunteered as a Visual Art teacher and mural artist. This trip also offered a deep immersion into the country's culture and exposure to historical landmarks. These experiences were instrumental in influencing my final body of work as I moved through my degree at QCA.
Talisa Moss
Talisa Moss is a Brisbane based painter and drawing artist. Their practice navigates deskilling and child-like forms, with a preference for a bright palette and a sense of joy and kinesis. Their major studio project has surrounded the concept of childhood art journals, and creating art that is informed and inspired by the images produced by children.
Timothy Joseph
Through his practice, Timothy Joseph ponders upon both the inter-dependence and disparity between people and environment. It is this duality that drives the need to interrogate the world we inhabit and our own place within it.
Zani Cloete
My project, which I left untitled, consists of a series of mixed media paintings that explore the impact that natural forms have on our lives in a fast-paced society. This work relies on a meditative and gestural approach where I create my own biomorphic forms from an internal floral influence whilst listening to calming music and creating through the act of "slowing down".
