CELEBRATING ITS 15TH YEAR AT THE NGV
25 March to 14 June 2009
Exhibiting Students 2008
Top Arts showcases works by 61 students who studied VCE Art and Studio Arts during the 2008 school year. Below is a full list of all exhibiting students, with the entire shortlist provided at the bottom of the page.
Special profiles are available on selected students:
Tegan Bell
Box Hill Senior Secondary College, Mont Albert North
Clinton James 2008 (detail)
pencil
42.0 x 27.0 cm
Photography: Jeremy Dillon
Charlotte Booth
Billanook College, Mooroolbark
Sleep collapse 2008 (detail)
artist's books: photocopies, tissue paper, 15 pages, stitched binding, cotton and polyester thread on cardboard cover, edition of 12
21.0 x 16.0 cm (closed)
Miles de Carteret
Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School, Southbank
Frames 2008 (detail)
black and white DVD, silent
1 min
Ashleigh Chaffers
St Helena Secondary College, Eltham North
Fear of the unknown 2008 (detail)
digital type C photograph
58.5 x 41.0 cm
Photography: Jeremy Dillon
Yvonne Chan
Lowther Hall Anglican Grammar School, Essendon
Untitled 1 2008 (detail)
oil, gesso and watercolour on canvas
(a–c) 60.5 x 273.0 cm (overall)
Ally Charles
Bendigo Senior Secondary College, Bendigo
Rainbow snake 2008 (detail)
synthetic polymer paint
centre panel: 59.5 x 49.5 cm, side panels: 59.5 x 20.0 cm (each), (a–c) 59.5 x 89.5 cm (overall)
Kate Conlan
Loreto Mandeville Hall, Toorak
Phobia alphabet book 2008 (detail)
artist's book: inkjet prints on cotton, 26 pages, cotton cover, stitched binding
31.0 x 31.0 cm (closed)
Rebecca Cooper
Pakenham Secondary College, Pakenham
Untitled 2008 (detail)
inkjet print
32.0 x 47.3 cm
Cassandra Coshan
Ave Maria College, Aberfeldie
The invisible enemy 2008 (detail)
photocopy on yellow paper, coloured pencil, shoe polish, bitumen and shellac
49.0 x 124.0 cm
Jesse Dolman
Portland Secondary College, Portland
Oil rig tree 2008 (detail)
woodcut, transfer print, watercolour
35.0 x 26.0 cm
Gene Drendel
Princes Hill Secondary College, Carlton North
Untitled 2008 (detail)
inkjet print
30.0 x 45.0 cm
Thomas Eccles
Broadford Secondary College, Broadford
Wanted 2008 (detail)
colour DVD, sound
1 min 16 sec
Jason Edwards
Camberwell Grammar School, Canterbury
Pure white iPod video 2008 (detail)
earthenware
10.0 x 30.0 x 30.0 cm
Rhys Griffiths
St Leonard's College, Brighton East
A thousand years of darkness 2008 (detail)
inkjet print
53.0 x 92.0 cm
Jim Gurr
University High School, Parkville
Kunst film 2008 (detail)
black and white DVD, sound
14 min
Cassie Hardy
Princes Hill Secondary College, Carlton North
Starlet 2008 (detail)
gelatin silver photograph
25.0 x 25.0 cm
Andy Hopkins
Lilydale Adventist Academy, Lilydale
Red vase 2008 (detail)
stoneware
43.0 x 37.5 cm diameter
Tim Hopkins
Lilydale Adventist Academy, Lilydale
Crystal-blue vase 2008 (detail)
stoneware
76.0 x 33.0 cm diameter
Anna Howkins
St Leonard's College, Brighton East
Distortion 2008 (detail)
oil on canvas
152.5 x 183.0 cm
Eldwin Huynh
Wantirna College, Wantirna
What these hands have wrought 2008 (detail)
pencil
45.0 x 42.0 cm
Belinda Jenkin
St Leonard's College, Brighton East
Suppression 2008 (detail)
oil on canvas
122.0 x 92.0 cm
Kaila Jenkin
Upwey High School, Upwey
Movement 2008 (detail)
inkjet prints
(1–2) 40.5 x 28.0 cm (each)
Photography: Jeremy Dillon
Katie Kelso
Toorak College, Mount Eliza
Harriet 2008 (detail)
oil on composition board
90.0 x 58.5 cm
Maddison Kitching
St Michael's Grammar School, St Kilda
Noah 2008 (detail)
oil and enamel paint on canvas
183.0 x 91.0 cm
Gavin Kroon
Mount Evelyn Christian School, Mount Evelyn
Industrial decay 2008 (detail)
ink and gouache on wood
(1) 20.0 x 20.4 cm, (2) 25.0 x 25.0 cm
Ashleigh Kubiak
Loreto Mandeville Hall, Toorak
All that jazz 2008 (detail)
synthetic polymer paint on canvas
152.0 x 152.0 cm
Chantel de Latour
Sacré Coeur, Glen Iris
Korowa Anglican Girls' School, Glen Iris
Salamander 2008 (detail)
oil on canvas
(a-f) 25.0 x 37.5 cm (overall), 12.5 x 12.5 (each)
Thomas Lewis
St Leonard's College, Brighton East
Containers in red and yellow 2008 (detail)
inkjet print
49.5 x 80.0 cm
Woody Maddison
St Leonard's College, Brighton East
Grossi 2008 (detail)
oil on canvas
198.0 x 137.5 cm
Anna Margin
Star of the Sea College, Brighton
Breaking point 2008 (detail)
synthetic polymer paint on canvas
(a–c) 40.6 x 121.8 cm (overall)
Jessica McGuire
Wodonga Senior Secondary College, Wodonga
A midnight grotesque:
Midnight grotesque
Synthetic heart foundation
Exhale the vile sewer acid
The deformation age Construction constriction 2008 (detail)
gouache, shellac, bitumen, modelling compound, wire, paper, watercolour, pencil, and pen and ink on paper on composition board
134.0 x 171.0 cm
Jenni Medland
Methodist Ladies' College, Kew
Out my backdoor 2008 (detail)
inkjet print
48.5 x 34.0 cm
Michelle Molinari
St Peter's College, Cranbourne
Self-portrait as a geisha 2008 (detail)
pencil
67.0 x 48.0 cm
Fred Mora
Melbourne Grammar School, Melbourne
Not so funny 2008 (detail)
plaster, inkjet print
(a-zz) 57.5 x 160.0 x 165.0 cm (variable) (installation)
Camilla Morgan
Portland Secondary College, Portland
Together, yet alone 2008 (detail)
inkjet print
119.0 x 179.0 cm
Eugénie Muggleton
Ruyton Girls' School, Kew
Dominoes 2 2008 (detail)
earthenware
4.0 x 50.4 x 50.8 cm
Blanka Nemeth
Melbourne Rudolf Steiner School, Warranwood
Untitled 2008 (detail)
charcoal
73.0 x 55.0 cm
Robert Novak
Wodonga Senior Secondary College, Wodonga
Untitled 2008 (detail)
inkjet print
21.5 x 38.1 cm
Ruth O'Leary
Presentation College, Windsor
Look right through me 2008 (detail)
drypoint on silk, transparent synthetic polymer resin
38.0 x 47.0 x 30.0 cm
Rhys Parkinson
Catholic Regional College, Sydenham
Kevin 2008 (detail)
coloured pencil
76.0 x 56.5 cm
Andrew Pearce
Wodonga Senior Secondary College, Wodonga
The line 2008 (detail)
inkjet print
49.5 x 82.0 cm
Photography: Jeremy Dillon
Samantha Poole
St Catherine's School, Toorak
Untitled 1 2008 (detail)
oil on canvas
122.0 x 122.0 cm (detail)
Jacob Raupach
Wodonga Senior Secondary College, Wodonga
The library/museum series 2008 (detail)
inkjet print
26.5 x 17.5 cm
Paddy Schiller
McKinnon Secondary College, McKinnon
An examination of our crushed world 2008 (detail)
inkjet print
(a–e) 31.6 x 231.0 cm (overall)
John Sharp
Diamond Valley College, Diamond Valley
The eternal watcher 2008 (detail)
linocut
46.0 x 30.5 cm (block and sheet)
Jack Shelton
St Leonard's College, Brighton East
Untitled 2008 (detail)
inkjet print
56.0 x 185.0 cm
Emily Simek
Monbulk College, Monbulk
(noun) a native or inhabitant of Australia 2008 (detail)
oil on canvas
101.5 x 75.5 cm
Meg Spencer
Ballarat Grammar School, Ballarat
Bone fairies 2008 (detail)
artist's book: inkjet prints, 8 pages, cardboard cover, stitched binding
29.5 x 21.5 x 1.5 cm (closed)
Chantelle Spiller-Ball
Camberwell High School, Canterbury
Urban legend I 2008 (detail)
inkjet print
24.5 x 37.0 cm
William Storr
Sandringham College, Sandringham
La Maison de la vie 2008 (detail)
colour DVD, sound
3 min 15 sec
Rania Tabet
Loreto Mandeville Hall, Toorak
Orange juice ... in the making 2008 (detail)
synthetic polymer paint and oil on canvas
121.0 x 152.0 cm
Madeleine Tostevin
Loreto Mandeville Hall, Toorak
Untitled 2008 (detail)
inkjet print
45.0 x 36.0 cm
Photography: Jeremy Dillon
Lucinda Vrzovski
Ave Maria College, Aberfeldie
LRV series 1 & 2 2008 (detail)
paper and fibre-tipped pen on cardboard
(1–2) 30.0 x 30.0 cm (each)
Elise Webster
Warrnambool College, Warrnambool
Self-portrait 2008 2008 (detail)
oil on canvas
51.0 x 40.5 cm































































