Congratulations to all 2014 Queensland College of Art (QCA) graduates including the following students awarded across the 2014 QCA graduate exhibitions at the Queensland College of Art, QCA Gold Coast and the Griffith Film School.
The GAS: Graduate Art Show and The Survey Co. Art Award 2014 was announced at the Griffith University Art Gallery during the QCA Showcase.
MAJOR AWARDS
Andrea Higgins, Claire 2013, digital print on rag paper.
The GAS & The Survey Co Art Award – Winner
Recipient: Andrea Higgins
The GAS & The Survey Co Art Award – Highly commended
Recipient: Corrie Furner
The GAS & The Survey Co Art Award – Highly commended
Recipient: Sancintya Simpson
Tony Albert Encouragement Award
Recipient: Soulla Porfyriou
QCA Showcase 2014 – Winners
Recipients: The creators of the game Mage Rage OSX; Nathan Jensen; Tylah Heil; Tim Horvat
QCA Showcase 2014 – Highly commended
Recipients: Ashleigh Barrett, Michael Rimando, Rosie Gardner, Megan Rowe, Felicity Walsh
DIGITAL MEDIA (QCA Gold Coast)
Sebastien McNamara — Best Graphic Design portfolio
“With all the current and emerging graphic designers it is forever important to build a personal brand identity. There should be a visual brand image attached to your personality, individual and design style that communicates and sells yourself to people and future employers.” Sebastien McNamara is a developing multidisciplinary individual that focuses on graphic, web and apparel design with a bright future.
$2,000 ADFAS Scholarship for outstanding performance by a student continuing on to study Honours
Recipient: Monique Montfroy
3 Dimensional Design Academic Achievement Award
Recipient: Shari Lyon
Best 3 Dimensional Design Portfolio
Recipient: Shari Lyon
3 Dimensional Design Student Culture Award
Recipient: Cassie Tapper
Digital Design Academic Achievement Award
Recipient: Tomoko Suzuki
Best Digital Design Portfolio
Recipient: Tomoko Suzuki
Digital Design Student Culture Award
Recipient: Mitchell Hickey
Photo Media Academic Achievement Award
Recipient: James Darlington
Best Photo Media Portfolio
Recipient: Monique Montfroy
Photo Media Student Culture Award
Recipient: James Darlington
Studio Art Academic Achievement Award
Recipient: Melissa Spratt
Best Studio Art Portfolio
Recipient: Christopher McKenzie
Studio Art Student Culture Award
Recipient: Christopher McKenzie
Graphic Design Academic Achievement Award
Recipient: Libbi Reed
Best Graphic Design Portfolio
Recipient: Sebastien McNamara
Graphic Design Student Culture Award
Recipient: Natasha Smith
Typism Encouragement Award
Recipient: Jacinda Baird
Honours Excellence in Research Award
Recipient: James Novak
Best Honours Research Project
Recipient: James Novak
Honours Student Culture Award
Recipient: Junichi Harada
QCA Gold Coast Overall Student Culture Award
Recipient: Jens Granmorken & Soren Hornum
DESIGN
Aquaponics Kitchen Bench, Food Security: addressing the issues of food mileage, Callum Burgess, 2013.
After years of designing in his parent’s garage and stealing tools from his father, Callum Burgess decided to turn his childhood passion into a career. Callum’s desire for product design has led to a passion to re-develop the world we live in. He is actively trying to connect and explore different facets of design; this is evident through his activation of internships with local and international businesses.
Liveworm Award for excellence in Design
Recipient: Joshua Kenzie
Design Excellence Award (Visual Communication)
Recipient: Joel Matheson
Design Excellence Award (Product Design)
Recipient: Callum Burgess
Design Excellence Award (Interior Design)
Recipient: Emma Williams
Design Institute of Australia Encouragement Award (Visual Communication)
Recipient: Tamati Currie
Design Institute of Australia Encouragement Award (Product Design)
Recipient: Megan Rowe
Design Institute of Australia Encouragement Award (Interior Design)
Recipient: Ashlee Barker
FINE ART
Lucy Tyler – Trevor Lyons Award for commitment and passion in printmaking:
Vernacular, Silkscreen print on paper, 16cm x 20cm each, total dimensions variable, 2014
“Pattern, and the human compulsion to recognise it, has been essential to our survival and our humanity. When life becomes chaotic, a common response is to order things in an attempt to reassert control. In the words of Umberto Eco, ‘We make lists because we are afraid to die’. My work explores the sense of satisfaction obtained through the recognition and creation of patterns. The final work will include a total of 224 images.” — Lucy Tyler
Iain Turnbull Memorial Award presented to the fine art student at QCA judged to have displayed the most outstanding progress and potential for future development in printmaking
Recipient: Tim Mosely
St Andrew’s War Memorial Hospital Award recognising artistic merit
Recipient: Pippin Blackwell
The Trevor Lyons Award: an annual award in memory of Trevor Lyons for presentation to a print media student of the QCA who has displayed commitment and passion in printmaking during their studies and is likely to continue working in this field.
Recipient: Lucy Tyler
Bonnie English Memorial Award presented to the fine art student with the highest academic achievement in 3rd year Art Theory courses
Recipient: Michelle Gunther
QAGOMA Bookstore Book Prize for Best Presentation in Graduate Show
Recipient: Penelope Grills
Painting Faculty Book Prize for best average grade across painting 3 and 4 courses
Recipient: Trevor Tierney
ADFAS Brisbane Young Arts Award 1st Prize – Painting
Recipient: Anya Swan
ADFAS Brisbane Young Arts Award 2nd Prize – Painting
Recipient: Todd Whisson
ADFAS Brisbane Young Arts Award 1st Prize – Print
Recipient: Tess Mehonoshen
ADFAS Brisbane Young Arts Award 2nd Prize – Print
Recipient: Christine Scott
ADFAS Brisbane Young Arts Award 1st Prize – Sculpture
Recipient: Alrey Batol
ADFAS Brisbane Young Arts Award 2nd Prize – Sculpture
Recipient: Aishla Manning
ADFAS Brisbane Young Arts Award 1st Prize – Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art
Recipient: Dianne Hall
ADFAS Brisbane Young Arts Award 2nd Prize – Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art
Recipient: Bridget Broderick
Oxlades Art Essentials Undergraduate Painting Award
Recipient: James Barth
Oxlades Art Essentials Undergraduate Print Media Award
Recipient: Fred Gooch (Kyle Gooch)
Oxlades Art Essentials Undergraduate Sculpture Award
Recipient: Sally Molloy
Oxlades Art Essentials Undergraduate Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art Award
Recipient: Bridget Broderick
Art Shed MAVA Graduation Achievement Award of Accomplishment
Recipient: Maryrose Moxham
JEWELLERY AND SMALL OBJECTS
Congratulations to the recipients of 2014 J&SO Graduate Awards. Thank you to the sponsors: Australian Jewellers Supplies, Peter W Beck, Morris and Watson, A&E Metal Merchants, Emmanual and Cox and thank you to our guest judge, Pia Robinson, Public Programs Curator, QUT.
Rachel Mathews-Fredrick – A+E Metal Merchants Outstanding Series of Work award: Two Dreams of Death, Bronze, 5cm x 5.5cm x 17.7cm, 2014
“Within my practice I explore the ability of objects to act as both the subject of a story and as forms for telling. Generated during a process of intuitive making, the forms are symbolically charged and address notions of mortality, existence, and transience. They are records of memory and experience, melancholic works that are metaphysical mythologies given physicality.” — Rachel Matthews-Frederick
Oxlades Art Essentials Undergraduate Jewellery and Small Objects Award
Recipient: Monique Tregenza
ADFAS Brisbane Young Arts Award 1st Prize – Jewellery and Small Objects
Recipient: Rebecca White
ADFAS Brisbane Young Arts Award 2nd Prize – Jewellery and Small Objects
Recipient: Jen Eales
Australian Jewellers Supplies Award
Recipient: Veronica Silva
Australian Jewellers Supplies Award
Recipient: Laura Burstow
Australian Jewellers Supplies Award
Recipient: Tegan Rynne
Pallion Group Award for outstanding individual piece
Recipient: Helen Bird
Peter W Beck Award for outstanding individual piece
Recipient: Angela Fok
A+E Metal Merchants Award for outstanding series of work
Recipient: Rachel Mathews-Fredrick
A+E Metal Merchants Award for outstanding body of work
Recipient:Ari Fuller
Morris and Watson Award for outstanding body of work
Recipient: Monique Tregenza
Aspirational Award for the greatest improvement
Recipient: Sarah Gillow
Emmanual and Cox Award
Recipient: Veronica Silva
PHOTOGRAPHY
Joseph Byford — Allchromes Award for Most Creative Folio: Analogue Camera, Digital Image, 22.5 x 22.5, 2014
“There is something melancholic about the obsolete – a physical reference to times that cannot be revisited, despite our constant endeavours to do so. An obsolete object reminds us of our own progress just as much as it does our own mortality. This work is from a series that celebrates the obsolete. I have manipulated the objects, using paint, fabrics and various lighting techniques, to underscore the inevitable demise of these outdated items.” — Joseph Byford
The St Aiden’s Anglican Girls School Award recognising artistic merit from a photography student
Recipient: Cory Wright
St Margaret’s Anglican Girls School Award recognising artistic merit from a photography student
Recipient: Victoria Nikolova
The Sun Studios Award presented to the student whose work best demonstrates, technical excellence and conceptual depth within any of the three photography majors
Recipient: Dominique Mills
Kayell QLD Award for excellence in Creative Advertising in still and moving image
Recipient: Breanna Sheather
AIPP Photography Business Mentoring Award presented to a student with the highest standard of visual and lighting ability
Recipient: Dominique Mills
Anna Smith Prize for innovation and excellence in portraiture
Recipient: Simon Hardy
Allchromes Award for most creative folio
Recipient: Joe Byford
TEDS Camera Stores Photography Award presented to a graduating photography student in recognition of excellence in portraiture
Recipient: Andy Willis
CameraPro Award presented to a graduating photography student in recognition of excellence in an advertising body of work with a strong conceptual framework in still and moving image
Recipient: Adam Green
John McKay Memorial Scholarship presented to the photography student with the highest GPA continuing into Honours.
Recipient: Cory Wright
Street’s Imaging Award for the student with the best overall series from any major, presented to a graduating student going into Honours
Recipient: Victoria Nikolova
DES Beyond Creation Award in recognition of print mastery within a conceptual framework
Recipient: Adam Green
RGB Digital Prolab Award in recognition of excellence in Creative Advertising
Recipient: Alex Coppo
The Queensland Centre for Photography Award for experimentation and innovation within Photographic Art Practice
Recipient: Laura Seeds
Jacky Owens Photography Staff Award presented to a student for significantly adding to the culture of the Photography department
Recipient: Cherie Blyth
APJ Award presented to a continuing or graduating student for the best example of social documentary photography
Recipient: Chelsea Miller
ADFAS Youth Arts Photography Prize – Winner (for artistic merit)
Recipient: Jaala Alex Lee-Emery
ADFAS Youth Arts Photography Prize – Runner-up (for artistic merit)
Recipient: Katelyn-Jane Dunn
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