Melbourne Modern
Alumni Event
RMIT Gallery
Photo: Mark Anton Basmadji

Professor Kit Wise
Dean, School of Art
Melbourne Modern
Alumni Event
RMIT Gallery
Photo: Mark Anton Basmadji

Melbourne Modern
Alumni Event
RMIT Gallery
Photo: Mark Anton Basmadji

Mirrnong Minnie
Bush Animals Weaving with Aunty Bronwyn Razem and Katja Nedoluha
Photo: Jerry Galea

Acknowledgement of Country sign
RMIT University

CAST: Ways of Shifting: Cultural and Linguistic Diversity in the Arts

CAST: Ways of Shifting: Cultural and Linguistic Diversity in the Arts Workshop

Bauhaus Now! Lantern Parade
Photo: Mark Anton Basmadji

Installation view, Bauhaus Now!, lanterns made by students from the VCA and RMIT, Buxton Contemporary, The University of Melbourne, 26 July – 20 October 2019
mixed-media installation
© the artists
Photo: Christian Capurro

Installation view, Mondspiel (Moon play) 2019 (detail), Mikala Dwyer and Justene Williams, Buxton Contemporary, The University of Melbourne, 26 July – 20 October 2019
mixed-media installation
Courtesy of the artist, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne; Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney; Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney
© the artists
Photo: Christian Capurro

MasterMakers (curated by Mark Edgoose)
and
Insistent Gestures (curated by Yu Fang Chi)
RMIT Gallery

Installation view, Between Appearances: the art of Louise Weaver, with Taking a chance on love, 2003, Buxton Contemporary, The University of Melbourne 2019, The University of Melbourne Art Collection, Michael Buxton Collection Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Michael and Janet Buxton, 2018
Photo: Christian Capurro

Fleur Summers
Making Sense
Sculpture Commission for Jewell Station Redevelopment

Dr Simon Perry's iconic The Public Purse makes the list of Time Out Melbourne's favourite public artworks in Melbourne.

Alumnus Jahnne Pasco-White named winner of Bendigo Art Gallery's 2019 Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize.

Alumnus Vincent Fantauzzo profiled on Australian Story.

Alumni Rushdi Anwar and Sanné Mestrom selected for inclusion in 100 Sculptors of Tomorrow.

MFA (Coursework) graduate Prue Stevenson featured in the SBS documentary series Perspective Shift.

Dr Laresa Kosloff was awarded the $20,000 Guirguis New Art Prize (GNAP) for her video work titled La Perruque.

BA (Fine Art) Mali Taylor joint winner of the Melbourne on Collins Prize at Craft Fresh!

BA (Fine Art) Gold and Silversmithing graduate Mali Taylor winner of the Future Leaders Award at Craft Fresh!

MEATSPACE, a new VR work by Ian Haig with sound design by Darrin Verhagen funded by The City of Melbourne was launched at The Capitol Theatre on 10th Dec and being exhibited at The Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor Art centre, Michigan, in March 2020.

Dr Bin Dixon-Ward recently spent two weeks in Shanghai, presenting lectures at several jewellery programs including Tongji University and AIVA visual arts academy. The main focus of the trip was as a guest lecturer at East China Normal University (ECNU), School of Design teaching a group of 3rd year design students an intensive in 3D printed contemporary jewellery.

Techxpo, an exhibition of artwork by School of Art Technical Staff
SITE EIGHT Gallery
Artists: Anj Odessa, Anna Vincent. Ceri Hann, Chris Taylor, Duncan Freedman, Faiza Rezai, Gabriel Nilsen, James Maher, Jason Wade, Jessica Curry, Kenneth Suico, Lilly Kaiser, Michael Quinlan, Neale Kenny, Olivia Tran, Raphael Buttonshaw, Rob Dott, Robert Harding, Samuel Mertens, Tim Catlin and Wayne Conduit.

Higher Degrees by Research

Mary Hackett, Installation image of Quench study (Drop), 2017, and Fountain: Dance of the water droplet, 2017, within the PhD examination exhibition, Forge, Fire, Quench
Photo: Keelan O’Hehir

Higher Degrees by Research

Mohsen Meysami
Nearness and Distance: Exploring the Notion of Indifference Through the Lens of Middle Eastern Traditional Arts
SITE EIGHT Gallery

Japan Study Tour

New York Study Tour

Berlin–Paris–Arles Study Tour

Graduate Exhibitions
BDM Sculpture Awards
Left to right: Fiz Eustance, David Thomson, Anna Schwartz and David Fonti

Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) Graduate Exhibition opening at Pao Gallery, Hong Kong Art Centre.

BA (Fine Art) graduate Madeleine Parsons awarded the Tolarno Hotel Award.

BA (Fine Art) graduate Kerri Mazzocco awarded the Wayne Conduit Memorial Prize.

Mulalo Molaudzi recipient of Moat Bar Art Award.

Rebecca Sanchez recipient of Moat Bar Art Award.

Work by MFA graduate Gemma Davis
Photo: Keelan O’Hehir

Work by BA (Fine Art) (Honours) graduate Eilish Hazell
Photo: Keelan O’Hehir

The Baillot & Balfour Endowment Award was presented to outstanding final year student in photography: Jahkarli Romanis.

Scott Williams was awarded a Kallman Feitel Prize for final Bachelor of Arts (Photography) student whose folio demonstrates great potential for success in the field of commercial photography.

Work by Vijay Thillaimuthu BA (Fine Art) Honours
Recipient of Joel Elenberg Prize
Photo: Keelan O’Hehir

Work by Shanon Reidy BA (Fine Art) (Honours) recipient of Joel Elenberg Prize.
Photo: Keelan O’Hehir

BA (Fine Art) (Honours) class of 2019

Work by Master of Photography graduate Shang Yang

Work by Master of Photography graduate Alice Duncan

Opening of Pleasure at RMIT Gallery

RMIT Graduation at Marvel Stadium

In January, Robert Baines delivered a lecture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC in their Sunday at the Met programme.

His solo exhibition Fake News and True Love at the Museum for Arts and Design (MAD) was featured at the New York City Jewellery Week in NYC closed.

In March, Robert Baines showed seven selected artworks at the annual international survey Schmuck 2019 at the International Handwerksmesse in Munich.

In June, he commenced an artist residency at National Tsing Hua University at Taiwan with an idea development workshop and lecture series.

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Richard Harding’s Pinkwashing installation Spin me Out at Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Read: Pinkwashing interview with Richard Harding, Print Council of Australia
Photo: Jorge de Araujo for Bundoora Homestead Art Centre