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Ken Yonetani
Candidate: Master of Arts (Visual Arts) Ceramics

"We are faced with an obligation to step on and walk across the Australian endangered butterfly tiles as long as we are living within this modernized society."

 

 

 

Ken Yonetani

 

Ivo Lovric
Candidate: PhD (Visual Arts) Video Art Studio

My studies consider the politics of war commemoration and the limits of representation in the Australian context. How does the state remember war through memorials, monuments and museums? What are the political, ethical and aesthetic limits influencing the representation of war memory?

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Ivo Lovric

 

Lucette Aubort
Candidate: Master of Arts (Visual Arts) Glass

My work is about seeing, seeing things like they haven't been seen before. It is about my love for detail and form. My vehicle along this journey of stillness
is nature, is life itself.

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Lucette Aubort

 

 

Frank R Thirion
Candidate: PhD (Visual Arts) Painting

"Salinity could be seen as a heritage of colonisation, the result of dispossessing the traditional owners of their land. As a metaphor, salt may become the next uncaring white invader".

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Frank R Thirion

 

 

 

Tracey Benson
Candidate: PhD (Visual Arts) Photomedia

My research project in the Photomedia workshop explores how alienation affects perceptions of identity. This is being undertaken in a number of seperate areas of investigation. Firstly, by analysing aspects of familial heritage that are lost through the process of migration, I seek to address issues of self identity and displacement. Secondly, by pursuing documented cases where sections of the community are outcast, I am tying issues related to the space of the personal to spaces of the public.

The theory section of my thesis addresses online activism and real world outcomes. My paper looks at various online communities, issues of individual and collective identity and how the Internet is used to create socila networks.


Bridget Nicholson
Candidate: Master of Arts (Visual Arts) Photomedia

Through my work I am exploring ways in which we make ourselves feel 'at home'. I am collecting materials and spending time employing domestic techniques to create metaphorical homes.






Nick Nicholson
Candidate: Graduate Diploma (Visual Arts) Photomedia

My project consists of creating a photographic representation of the 22 Major Arcana Tarot cards by photographing assemblages of unusual objects and props to capture the mysterious and archetypal nature of the cards.









Margot Sears
Candidate: Master of Arts (Visual Arts) Photomedia

The two absolute essentials to life as we know it are water and air and that is what I am ruminating on in my current series of lenticulars, featuring water, wind and waves.



Ruth Watson
Candidate: PhD (Visual Arts) Photomedia

For almost 20 years now I have investigated alternative ways of seeing and presenting 'the world', via maps. Using surprising materials I wish to affect viewer's perceptions of their image of the world.





 

David Wills
Candidate: PhD (Visual Arts) Photomedia







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Tracey Benson

 

 




Bridget Nicholson


Nick Nicholson

 

Margot Sears




Ruth Watson

 

David Wills

 

 

Danie Mellor
Candidate: PhD (Visual Arts) Printmedia

My research project in the Printmedia and Drawing workshop will focus on personal/collective identity and Australian Indigenous culture. Through written and practical work, aspects of family heritage, spirituality and belonging will be explored. Part of this research will involve travelling to Northern Queensland where my Ingigenous family came from, field trip such as this forming an integral part of the process of discovery and piecing together the various jigsaws of identity.

Stephanie Jones
Candidate: Master of Arts (Visual Arts) Printmedia

My research examines the themes of memory, longing and loss in the context of the domestic. My work explores the architectural/decorative surface of the house as well as the psychological space of the home.







Heather Burness

Candidate: Master of Arts (Visual Arts) Printmedia

Natural Phenomena as Metaphor for Being: The Calculability of the World.
My thesis, in print media, investigates how we document natural processes and systems and focuses particularly on the dynamic movement of particles in a passing ocean wave. The desire to tabulate, calculate, and predict our existence can lead to incoherence and uncertainty.

 

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Danie Mellor



Stephanie Jones


Heather Burness

 

 

 

 

Dorte Conroy
Candidate: Graduate Diploma (Visual Arts) Sculpture

A group of large scale geometric forms designed and placed to suggest simultaneously a sense of balance and tension. The scale encourages the viewer to actively participate in discovering elements of the work which are not immediately obvious.

 






Noelene Lucas
Candidate: PhD (Visual Arts) Sculpture

The Video installations speculate on core Buddhist concepts (dependant origination, impermanence and emptiness) and deal with the nature and manipulation of screens, space/place. Key to this is a phenomenological approach to the work in space.








Pamela Lofts
Candidate: Master of Arts (Visual Arts) Sculpture

My research project realised through the Sculpture and Photo media workshops, will draw on over twenty years of travelling and living in remote and Central Australia. I am interested in the significance of what I articulate as a ‘kind of nomadism’ as a way in which place is experienced and defined. What is the relationship between place and be/longing?

 

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Dorte Conroy

 

Noelene Lucas

 

Pamela Lofts

 

 

Sharon Boggan
Candidate: PhD (Visual Arts) Art Theory

My research examines personal sites, "Home pages" as a hybrid genre linked to traditions of autobiography and self portraiture. The construction and maintenance hold of such sites have implications for communities online and off.

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Sharon Boggan

 

 

 

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