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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

Andrew Hruszowski

St Bernard's College, Essendon

Barracks 2008 (detail)
inkjet print
75.5 x 47.0 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

Kara Kim

St Catherine's School, Toorak

Emotion 2008 (detail)
oil on canvas
121.5 x 91.0 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)

Kimberley McGowan

Yea High School, Yea

Recollections 2008 (detail)
oil on canvas
152.2 x 101.3 cm

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

Kimberley Munro

The Knox School, Wantirna South

Windows 2008 (detail)
inkjet print
50.0 x 50.0 cm

James Nelson

Upwey High School, Upwey

Surreal 2008 (detail)
inkjet print
40.0 x 28.0 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

Jake Strasser

Melbourne High School, South Yarra

Untitled 2008 (detail)
inkjet print
29.0 x 42.0 cm

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

Zeke White

Mowbray College, Melton

Romsey 2008 (detail)
pastel
46.0 x 66.0 cm

Shortlist

These students were shortlisted but were not selected for the exhibition.

Meltem Acik Marian Girls’ College, West Sunshine Bonnie Adams St Catherine’s School, Toorak Lauren Ainscow Toorak College, Mount Eliza Ruby Aitken St Michael’s Grammar School, St Kilda Calum Alexander Melbourne Grammar School, South Yarra Miranda Anzarut Firbank Grammar School, Brighton Charlotte Attwood St Helena Secondary College, Eltham North Ashleigh Bingham Tintern Girls’ Grammar School, Ringwood East Belinda Burt Wodonga Senior Secondary College, Wodonga Jessica Calvert Loreto Mandeville Hall, Toorak Georgia Cavanagh SacrÉ Coeur, Glen Iris Patricia Rubianti Chaniago St Catherine’s School, Toorak Heather Chapman Goulburn Valley Grammar School, Shepparton Mattia Cicoli McKinnon Secondary College, McKinnon Elizabeth Cook Loreto College, Ballarat Michelle Coppolino Loreto Mandeville Hall, Toorak Deeahn Costin Catholic College, Sale Stephanie Crevatin Ave Maria College, Aberfeldie Charles Daniel Camberwell Grammar School, Canterbury Alison Dickey Waverley Christian College, Wantirna South Xanthe Douglas-Garden Geelong College, Geelong Krystelle Dumesny Catholic College, Bendigo Antonia Ellis Canterbury Girls’ Secondary College, Canterbury Holly Fairhurst Oxley College, Chirnside Park Simona Falvo Ivanhoe Girls’ Grammar School, Ivanhoe Emily Flint Presbyterian Ladies’ College, Burwood Jack Fowler Caulfield Grammar School, St Kilda East Greta Frederick Bendigo Senior Secondary College, Bendigo Cara Gallina Santa Maria College, Northcote Leah Garnett Geelong Grammar School, Corio Minna Gilligan Catholic Ladies’ College, Eltham Shannyn Gray Portland Secondary College, Portland Hannah Grey Sacred Heart Girls’ College, Oakleigh Loren Gribble Ave Maria College, Aberfeldie Alix Griffeth SacrÉ Coeur, Glen Iris Jenna Guffogg Ashwood Secondary College, Ashwood Gen Hagiwara Hawthorn Secondary College, East Hawthorn Madeline Hall Luther College, Croydon Hills Tamara Havloujian King David School, Armadale Zoe Hickmott Caulfield Grammar School, St Kilda East AndrÉ Hillas Westbourne Grammar School, Truganina Eugene Howard Rudolph Steiner School, Warranwood Alexandra Inman Methodist Ladies’ College, Kew Claire Jungwirth Beaconhills College, Pakenham Sophia Kavanagh-Ryan Academy of Mary Immaculate, Fitzroy Tara Klein-Boonschate Wodonga Senior Secondary College, Wodonga Camille Klose Sacred Heart Girls’ College, Oakleigh Lucy Knol Flinders Christian Community College, Tyabb Angello Konidaris Alphington Grammar School, Alphington Antonia Koratzopoulos Williamstown High School, Williamstown Robert Little Ballarat Grammar, Wendouree Maxine Ellen Lockie Luther College, Croydon Hills Lucy Mactier St Catherine’s School, Toorak Beatrice magalotti Kew High School, Kew Thomas Mansfield Ringwood Secondary College, Ringwood Ruby Mathers Melbourne Girls’ College, Richmond Samantha Matthews Melton Secondary College, Melton Teagen May Tallangatta Secondary College, Tallangatta Dejana McColl Melton Secondary College, Melton Sarah McConnell Firbank Grammar School, Brighton Kathryn McKenzie Kew High School, East Kew Hayden Miller Wesley College, Melbourne Emma Mitchell Shelford Grammar School, Caulfield East Prudence Molloy Loreto College, Ballarat Hannah Morgan Ballarat Grammar, Wendouree Theresa Moso Westbourne Grammar School, Truganina Nina Mulhall Swinburne Senior Secondary College, Hawthorn Jack Musgrove Camberwell Grammar School, Canterbury Laura Nicholls Canterbury Girls’ Secondary College, Canterbury Alex Orton Westbourne Grammar School, Truganina Bonnie Packer Box Hill Senior Secondary College, Mont Albert North Marissa Panagenas Essendon Keilor College, Essendon Noah Pascuzzi Leongatha Secondary College, Leongatha Alison Paton Firbank Grammar School, Brighton Kate Pattison Loreto Mandeville Hall, Toorak Grace Petrou Canterbury Girls’ Secondary College, Canterbury Violetta Delconte Race Swinburne Senior Secondary College, Hawthorn Esther Raworth Wesley College, Melbourne Rebecca Readhead Lorne-Airey P–12 College, Apollo Bay Elouise Robinson Beaconhills College, Pakenham Nicholas Robinson Strathmore Secondary College, Strathmore Domenico De Rosa Warrandyte High School, Warrandyte Octavia Rogers Geelong Grammar School, Corio Shadt Sabet Beaconhills College, Pakenham Georgia Sampson Ballarat Grammar, Wendouree Veronique Schocroft Ballarat & Clarendon College, Newington Kate Sears Toorak College, Mount Eliza Lauren Simpson Horsham College, Horsham Lucy Simpson Ballarat & Clarendon College, Newington Wilba Simson Geelong Grammar School, Corio Lucy Sinco Catholic College, Bendigo Madeleine Sinco Catholic College, Bendigo Lucinda Sleep Christian College, Geelong Hamish Smillie Westbourne Grammar School, Truganina Fulori Smith Star of the Sea College, Gardenvale Dana Stockton Karingal Park Secondary College, Frankston Jessica Sullivan Distance Education Centre Victoria, Thornbury Andrew Sum Camberwell Grammar School, Canterbury Stella Thomas Portland Secondary College, Portland Paul Van Der Toorren Yarra Valley Grammar School, Ringwood Amanda Valmorbida St Catherine’s School, Toorak Madeline Wagg Geelong Grammar School, Corio Rachel Walters Ivanhoe Girls’ Grammar School, Ivanhoe Brittany Wilkins Fintona Girls’ School, Balwyn Koki Yamashita Caulfield Grammar School, St Kilda East Yan Zhou St Margaret’s School, Berwick

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