Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Arts)
Graduate Exhibition 2019
The Queensland University of Technology acknowledges the Turrbal and Yugara, as the First Nations owners of the lands where QUT now stands. We pay respect to their Elders, lores, customs and creation spirits. We recognise that these lands have always been places of teaching, wisdom and learning.
On behalf of the teaching staff in Visual Arts I would like to congratulate the 2019 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Arts) graduates for Epoch. This exhibition not only displays artwork produced during the final year of study, but also represents the culmination of years of hard work and dedication.
During the course of their degree, the graduates have honed their artmaking skills to become well- equipped for professional practices in contemporary art. They have offered support to each other as a ‘creative community’ as they have learned and grown together as artists.
The exhibition title Epoch is particularly apt in this regard. More than just a period of time, an epoch can also describe the beginning of a new period of history. Certainly, while these artists are ending one period of their lives as undergraduate students, they are also embarking on a new journey, as creative practitioners moving forward in a larger community in clear need of new ways to understand and see the world. Poised at the start of this new beginning, in this exhibition these artists have demonstrated the range of creative perspectives, and considerable effort, that they have achieved during their visual arts degree.
These accomplishments have been earned from QUT’s Open Studio art teaching program that foregrounds art thinking related to speculative inquiry, conceptual rigour, self-directed practice, cultural responsiveness and a transmedia approach to creative practice. Studio critiques,
discussions, and an engagement with art history and theory have all supported students’ skills as artists and professionals in preparation for a career in the arts. During their studies, students have met and overcome constant challenges while striving to always improve ways of achieving creative outcomes. They have reached a level of expertise that gives them the confidence to apply their talents in the arts industry and across a broad range of contemporary art settings.
I wish to particularly thank the Visual Arts’ teaching staff for their efforts and can add that we all feel a great sense of accomplishment seeing how much these students have gained during the course of their studies. We see Epoch as a demonstration of their talents as artists, as well as a showcase that displays their potential for achieving even more in the next stage of their creative lives.
DR LEAH KING-SMITH Lecturer and Study Area Coordinator Visual Arts, School of Creative Practice
Madison Agnew Ella Callander Emma Cameron
Tori Carroll Brooke Dunlop
Taina Flatz Joaquin Gonzales Bayley Hegerhorst
Georgia Hillas Hannah Jeffery
Jester Ian Leung Amelia McLeish Georgia Means
Jordan Neal Kellie Parsons
AJ Reaño Colby Rinaldis Phoebe Roulston
Abigail Rutter Kimberly Stokes
Alice Thacker Claire Wallace Keemon Williams
Molly Wilson
MADISON AGNEW
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Flower Species #7, 2019, digital print, 20 x 20 cm.
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Petal Mandala, 2019, dried flower stems and paper petals, dimensions variable.
If we were both home at the right time and the sky looked nice, then mum and I would take a drive to see the sunset, 2019, acrylic on MDF, 30 x 130 x 0.3 cm.
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An image in a catalogue, 2019, ink on paper, 21 x 21 cm.
ELLA CALLANDER
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Santaman #5 (detail), 2019, paper, acrylic, MDF, installation dimensions variable.
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Santaman #3 (detail), 2019, digital image.
EMMA CAMERON
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Space Junk, 2019, video projection and garbage bag, dimensions variable.
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0.005% of Junk on the Moon, 2019, plastic and garbage bags, dimensions variable.
TORI CARROLL
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BROOKE DUNLOP
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Rock Bottom, 2019, acrylic on canvas, 51 x 40.5 cm.
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Strangled (detail), 2019, mixed media, installation dimensions variable.
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Corymbia, 2019, gum nuts and glue, installation dimensions variable.
TAINA FLATZ
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Omnipresence (detail), 2019, apple, steel, 7 fake surveillance cameras, dimensions variable.
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Doubter, 2019, acrylic, window film, MDF, LED, 79 x 39 x 4 cm.
JOAQUIN GONZALES
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Deer in the tail lights, 2019, electroluminescent wire, installation dimensions variable.
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Forever and never at all, 2019, video installation with mixed media, 6:52 mins.
BAYLEY HEGERHORST
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GEORGIA HILLAS
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Where Are All The Great Female Athletes, 2019, acrylic, oil and pencil on canvas, 182.8 x 121.8 cm.
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Charites (detail), 2019, oil and image transfer on canvas, 121.8 x 91.4 cm.
Reminiscence, 2019, mixed media, 20 x 13 cm.
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Studio documentation, 2019, mixed media, installation dimensions variable.
HANNAH JEFFERY
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Grenade Candle, 2019, candle wax, string, gold ink, 9 x 3.5 x 3.5 cm.
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Art Motto, 2019, digital image.
JESTER
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Development of Dim Sum Culture (video still), 2019, single channel video, 1:09 mins.
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Pizza-star, 2019, mixed media, 30 x 30 x 5 cm.
IAN LEUNG
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AMELIA MCLEISH
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Certificate of Ownership, 2019, participatory installation, inkjet print on parchment, 40 pieces, 21 x 29.7 cm each.
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Neutrality (installation view), 2019, acrylic paint on plasterboard, curry powder, 280 x 120 x 10 cm.
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Habitual Touch (video stills), 2019, multi-channel video, 0:30 mins.
GEORGIA MEANS
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Clean or Dirty (video still), 2019, single channel video, 5:37 mins.
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Infrared, 2019, digital print, 100 x 70.7 cm.
JORDAN NEAL
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War for Peace, 2019, acrylic on canvas, 172 x 210 cm.
KELLIE PARSONS
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AJ REAÑO
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Above and opposite:A void, a void (Las Meninas), 2019, canvas frame and mirror film, 152.5 x 96.5 cm.
Influenced (video still), 2019, single channel video, 0:02 mins.
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It’s my house (video still), 2019, single channel video, 1:38 mins.
COLBY RINALDIS
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English Domestic, 2019, acrylic on canvas, 8 parts, 10 x 10 cm each.
PHOEBE ROULSTON
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Capsules (details), 2019, collected objects and plastic, 34 x 23 x 3 cm.
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Memorial to the Unknown (detail), 2019, soil, fabric, photographs, 236 x 63 x 13 cm.
ABIGAIL RUTTER
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ALL THE LOVE I HAVE EVER RECEIVED, 2019, cardboard, 20 x 20 x 5 cm.
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Me and My Friends (detail), 2019, performance documentation.
KIMBERLY STOKES
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IT’S MY CHOICE, 2019, embroidery thread on pillowcase, 45.1 x 60.9 cm.
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Stop Asking (detail), 2019, embroidery thread on underwear, 20 x 25 cm.
ALICE THACKER
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Home Sweet Home (detail), 2019, fabric, stuffing, thread, cardboard, gyprock, grey paint, 80 x 226 cm.
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Retrocede/Recede (detail), 2019, fabric, stuffing and thread, 125 x 90 cm.
CLAIRE WALLACE
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Futureproof, 2019, MDF, paint, dirt, 40 x 90 x 38 cm.
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Terratory (detail), 2019, plaster, crushed rocks, installation dimensions variable.
KEEMON WILLIAMS
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To Grumble, 2019, glass bottles, living plants, string, gel light covers, spotlights, fans, sound, installation dimensions variable.
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Raw (detail), 2019, stockings, pillow stuffing, potted plant, dimensions variable.
