2022 ANU School of Art & Design Graduating Exhibition

2022 ANU School of Art & Design Graduating Exhibition

Bachelor of Visual Arts 2022

GRAD SHOW 2022 presents our 3rd year students together as one cohort. In the capstone BVA course, the cohort collectively identified themes pertinent to their own concerns in the wider context of contemporary art practice. Four broad thematic groups were established, and it was mainly in these groups that students continued to develop their independent projects.
Through this course structure, exciting cross-disciplinary and transdisciplinary conversations arose. For instance, Process, Form, Material, enabled certain image-makers to find common ground in their approach, be it using a mouse or paintbrush. In the thematic Care, Collaboration, Comfort students innovated their own collaborative methodologies, by bringing their discipline specific skills to socially- engaged art practice. The Body: Limits, Potential, Politics group considered how cultural and physical space can be occupied by marginalised bodies. And, in Memory, Place, Narrative questions of identity were explored through the ownership, agency and responsibility of cultural and familial narratives. These are just some examples of the rich exchange of ideas, skills and ambition.
Perhaps the most poignant for us as lecturers has been the repeated sense of celebration and an assertion of what it is to be alive: in connection, exclusion, action, stillness, hope, anger and creative ingenuity. Hopefully, you will make other connections between works and notice shared sensibilities of our emerging artists.

April Widdup You lived, and I will remember that

Jackson Taylor Three Braves

Gabriela Renee Balik Kampung, Going Home…

Tash Barber Mapping Before Erasure: The Outback Cameleers

Music: Art Electronica, Blackout Memories