Hear from the 2024 Dr Harold Schenberg Arts Award recipients – Vedika Rampal and Lily Trnovsky – as they speak about their works in the Hatched: National Graduate Show 2024 and share insights into their artistic challenges, triumphs and efforts to remain agile as emerging artists. Learn more about Rampal’s material installation Pilgrimage II, 2023 and Trnovsky’s ceramic works, Sweet and bitter in breath, 2023 and I loved the weight I had to bear, 2023. 

About the artists

Vedika Rampal is an Indian-born artist who primarily lives and practices on Darug and GuriNgai land in Sydney. Her post-disciplinary practice uses sculpture, textiles, photography and text to interrogate colonial perspectives in Western museums and the ways they shape our understanding of space and time.

Lily Trnovsky was born on Kaurna country (Adelaide). Trnovsky received a Bachelor of Visual Arts from the Adelaide Central School of Art and is currently undertaking a Masters of Ceramics in London at the Royal College of Art. Trnovsky’s practice predominantly consists of contemporary ceramics.

The Dr Harold Schenberg Arts Awards are made possible by funds bequeathed to The University of Western Australia by Dr Harold Schenberg. Our thanks to PICA’s Art 1000 Donors and our Major Exhibition Partner Minderoo Foundation for their generosity which makes Hatched a reality. Vedika Rampal’s travel is support by Create NSW.

Images:  Vedika Rampal, Pilgrimage II, 2023, Hatched: National Graduates Show 2024, installation view, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA), 2024. Photo: Dan McCabe; Lily Trnovsky, Hatched: National Graduate Show 2024, installation view, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA), 2024. Photo: Dan McCabe