We are proud to announce that 2017 will see 35 new graduates presenting work as a part of the Hatched: National Graduate Show.
The Hatched: National Graduate Show features work by recent arts graduates of the highest calibre from art schools all over the country. With work by 35 graduates carefully selected from 23 tertiary institutions in each of Australia’s states and territories, Hatched 2017 will once again test the pulse of the nation’s emerging arts practices while acting as an important platform for artistic careers.
The selection process for Hatched, now in its 26th year, is a rigorous one. Students are nominated by their art school with the final selection made by an industry panel. This year’s panel was made up of: Madeleine King (Senior Manager, IMA), Georgie Meagher (Artistic Director, Next Wave), Nadia Johnson (Exhibitions Manager, PICA), and Eugenio Viola (Senior Curator, PICA).
“This year’s show represents not only the top tier of artists leaving universities, but also a fascinating diversity of approaches, ideas and practices in contemporary art today.” Madeleine King, Senior Manager at IMA.
For the eighth consecutive year the Schenberg Art Fellowship of $40,000, will be awarded to one exceptional artist as a major investment in their burgeoning career. PICA is pleased to be working with the University of Western Australia and the trustees of the Dr Harold Schenberg bequest on this significant award for emerging artists. The winner will be announced at the opening night celebration.
Congratulations to all selected artists! Hatched opens at 6pm on Friday 5 May 2017.
HATCHED 2017 ARTISTS
SA
Adelaide Central School of Art
Christopher Houghton
Maxwell Callaghan
TAFE South Australia and Flinders University
Tracy Lymn
University of South Australia
Min Wong
ACT
Australian National University
Susannah Bourke
NT
Charles Darwin University
Christine Barzaga
WA
Curtin University
Carly Lynch
Dionne Hooyberg
Ellen Norrish
North Metropolitan TAFE
Lukas Mack
Edith Cowan University
Nikki Lundy
Reija Lee Thomas
The University of Western Australia
Kate Alida Mullen
VIC
Deakin University
Anindita Banerjee
Jane Bartier
Federation University Australia
Stacey Wilson
Monash University
Emily Dang
RMIT University
Aoife Coleman-Clarke
Eva Collins
Victorian College of the Arts
Hannah Gartside
NSW
National Art School
Drew Connor Holland
Mechelle Bounpraseuth
Southern Cross University
Skye Baker
The University of Newcastle
Kassandra Caramanico-Walker
The University of New South Wales
Eva Nolan
Sang Dong & Takuya Ito
The University of Sydney
Kai Wasikowski
Lottie Sebes
University of Wollongong
Greer Harris
TAS
University of Tasmania
Ben Fisher
QLD
Queensland College of Art
Kim Brolga Williams
Laura Burstow
Queensland University of Technology
Callum McGrath
Gwan Tung Dorothy Lau
Jordan Azcune
PANELIST BIOS
Nadia Johnson is an emerging curator and exhibition designer; she currently works as the Exhibitions Coordinator at Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts. In 2013 Nadia started a one year curatorial fellowship at PICA, where she curated two major exhibitions Hatched 2014: National Graduate Show and the PICA Salon. Prior to taking up the curatorial fellowship at PICA, Nadia completed an internship at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, Italy. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland, and a Master of Design from Edith Cowan University, Perth. Nadia has worked on multiple projects including being the publication coordinator and tour manager of Hijacked III: Contemporary Photography from Australia and the UK and co-curating BYOB Perth (Bring Your Own Beamer) in 2011, a group show of Perth-based sound and video artists at Galleria, Perth. In 2012 she undertook a six month curatorial internship at PICA.
Madeleine King is Senior Manager of the Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane, where she has worked since 2015. King is also Co-Director of research and curatorial outfit, The Fashion Archives, and co-author of Remotely Fashionable: A Story of Subtropical Style (2015), which was shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Awards in 2016. She recently completed a research fellowship at the John Oxley Library, Brisbane. King has a Master of Arts at the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, and she previously worked for Media Art Asia Pacific (MAAP) as Research and Program Development Manager.
Georgie Meagher is currently Director & CEO of Next Wave, Australia’s leading organisation supporting emerging artists. Alongside independent curatorial projects, she was previously Public Engagement Manager at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, where she led a team expanding the institution’s public programs and community engagement. She has also held roles at Performance Space and was a Co-Director of Firstdraft in 2010-11. She was the recipient of a Cultural Leadership grant from Australia Council for the Arts in 2012, and holds a MCA in Performance from the University of Wollongong, NSW (2008).
Eugenio Viola, PhD is an Italian Curator and Art Critic. Since 2009 he has held curatorial positions at Madre, the Contemporary Art Museum of Naples. From 2013, as Curator at Large, he has been responsible for the research and development of the museum’s collection and co-curated the first Italian large-scale exhibitions of Boris Mikhailov and Francis Alys; a complex Daniel Buren project, conceived in two parts and across two years; and the largest exhibitions ever devoted to the Italian artists Vettor Pisani and Giulia Piscitelli.
From 2009 to 2012, he was the Curator of the museum’s Project Room. During this time he was responsible for presenting “Transit” Project (2009 – 2011), a series of exhibitions and residencies in partnership with institutions from the Middle East as well as an annual performance festival named Corpus. Art in Action (2009-2012).
Eugenio has also worked as a guest curator for several Italian and International institutions, curating amongst others solo exhibitions devoted to: Regina José Galindo (Frankfurter Kunstverein, Germany, 2016); Karol Radziszewski (CoCA – Centre of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu, Torun, Poland, 2014); Mark Raidpere (EKKM – The Contemporary Art Museum of Tallinn, Estonia, 2013); Marina Abramović (PAC – Contemporary Art Pavilion, Milan, Italy, 2012); Francesco Jodice (MSU – The Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia, 2011); and ORLAN (MAMC – Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Saint Etienne, France, 2007). In 2015 he curated the Estonian Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale.
He is a scholar in theories and practices related to performance and Body Art and has published and lectured extensively on these subjects. Apollo art magazine has described Eugenio as “one of the most talented and inspirational young people who are driving forward the art world today”.
Image by: Gwen Tung Dorothy Lau, Para Selves, 2016.
