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Celeste de Clario Davis Celeste de Clario is Melbourne based photographer and artist.

https://www.celestedeclario.com

Levi Franco makes work that examines the roles of different professions in an endeavour to create scenes that question whether the work is a documentation or invention. Inspiration is drawn from the working roles of different people as well as his own memories and experiences from working different jobs over the years. These roles are explored by removing the subjects from their traditional context and then placing himself in their position. The scenes created extract the environment of the specific venue or workplace from its primary situation and place it inside the gallery space in a state of transposition.

Anna McGirr is a visual artist currently based in Melbourne. She will complete her BA of Fine Arts at the VCA in 2020. McGirr’s sculptural and video practice aims to link the visual image to the written word. Through memory tracing she writes personal narratives in poetry, prose and script that inform abstract video, collage and textile works. Instinct directs her delicately chosen colour palette as she finds beauty in the quiet appreciation of life, creating cosy, multimedia installations.

Camille Perry is a Melbourne based artist whose practice archives the material impact humanity is having on our climate and environment, while simultaneously grappling with my accumulative obsession with the botanic. Perry archives the multisensory renditions of suburban Melbourne's contemporary condition and come home to her hoard of 120 plants. The harsh chemicals intrinsic to the darkroom process grounds her in the hypocrisy of her own practice and the undeniable consumerism that art participates in. Ultimately, using photographic film allows her to step away from the immediate gratification that, as a society, we have become so reliant on. Consequently, I end up obsessively developing negatives late into the evening in my rundown Coburg shed.

Camille Perry graduated from VCA in 2020 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Photography).

Claudia Saballa Hobbs graduated from VCA in 2020 with a Bachlor of Fine Arts (Photography).

'My dad denied his heritage throughout my childhood and into my adult life. My work is a navigation of the generational tension that affects my understanding of his past; growing up in Pinochet's military dictatorship in Chile. This series is based on the arpilleras—scraps of fabric sewn together by Chilean women into depictions of the atrocities they were enduring, in order to communicate their shared suffering with each other and the outside world. I am interested in the dual nature of both storytelling and materiality, which has translated into a body of work that explores the retelling of stories and questions the physicality and materiality of image making.'

Zoe Vouzas graduated from a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Photography) from VCA in 2020.

'From photographing landscapes to still life flowers in a makeshift studio; my work is primarily made up of prints that have vivid colours and deep void blacks to channel the dream, like in classical photographic subjects.

Working with photographic film, which I hand print in the darkroom, I am continuously fascinated with mastering the techniques used within my practice to be able to have as much control over experimenting and manipulating my work as possible. I use the process of creating and controlling the work as an exploration to develop my understanding of why classical subject matters have captured my interest.'

Matthew Ware is an artist from Melbourne.

Celeste de Clario Davis Celeste de Clario is Melbourne based photographer and artist.

https://www.celestedeclario.com

Camille Perry is a Melbourne based artist whose practice archives the material impact humanity is having on our climate and environment, while simultaneously grappling with my accumulative obsession with the botanic. Perry archives the multisensory renditions of suburban Melbourne's contemporary condition and come home to her hoard of 120 plants. The harsh chemicals intrinsic to the darkroom process grounds her in the hypocrisy of her own practice and the undeniable consumerism that art participates in. Ultimately, using photographic film allows her to step away from the immediate gratification that, as a society, we have become so reliant on. Consequently, I end up obsessively developing negatives late into the evening in my rundown Coburg shed.

Camille Perry graduated from VCA in 2020 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Photography).