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