Hatched: National Graduate Show is Australia’s most significant survey of emerging artists. Heading into its 19th year, this landmark exhibition continued to provide an unparalleled opportunity for talented art school graduates to present their work in a professional gallery context alongside that of their national peers. It offered an all-important stepping-stone from the realm of education to the beginnings of a professional career as an artist. 

In 2010, Hatched presented 39 artists from 20 art schools across the country were selected to grace the vast galleries of PICA. Bear witness to these contemporary pioneers as they head into new artistic territory with their extreme mix of expanded drawing and painting practices, soft architecture and aural environments – amongst other eye, mind and ear-bending aesthetic experiments! 

Hatched expanded further in 2010 with the launch of the Doctor Harold Schenberg Art Prize, an annual award of $20,000 that will be presented to one Hatched artist each year. The Prize has been set up to allow an outstanding art school graduate to invest in the development of their practice through travel, research or production support. 

Artists

Jemima Aitchison – University of Western Sydney (NSW) 
Danielle Bluff – The University of Sydney (NSW) 
Melanie Boreham – The University of New South Wales (NSW) 
Alexandra Byrne – The University of New South Wales (NSW) 
Ludwig El Haddad – The University of New South Wales (NSW) 
Maggie Brown – The University of Melbourne (VIC) 
Christo Crocker – The University of Melbourne (VIC) 
Katie Collins – RMIT University (VIC) 
Claire Cutler – TAFE SA (SA) 
Daniel Edwards – Australian National University (ACT) 
Shellaine Godbold – Australian National University (ACT) 
Heike Qualitz – Australian National University (ACT) 
Netty Gibson – University of Tasmania (TAS) 
Julia Gove – University of Wollongong (NSW) 
Jenny Tubby – University of Wollongong (NSW) 
Joanne Green – Charles Darwin University (NT) 
Amber Harries – Central Institute of Technolgy (WA) 
Kiki Hunwick – Central Institute of Technolgy (WA) 
Marton Koblo – Central Institute of Technolgy (WA) 
Kathryn Haug – Central Institute of Technolgy (WA) 
Tom Penney – Curtin University of Technology (WA) 
Andrew Varano – Curtin University of Technology (WA) 
Dermod Kavanaugh – University of Newcastle (NSW) 
Darius Kowal – Edith Cowan University (WA) 
Robyn Laycock – Edith Cowan University (WA) 
Caris Lockhart – The University of Western Australia (WA) 
Elizabeth Pedler – The University of Western Australia (WA) 
Jessie Lumb – University of South Australia (SA) 
Lauren Playfair – University of South Australia (SA) 
Jessica Mackney – The University of Sydney (NSW) 
Susan Nelson – The University of Sydney (NSW) 
Liam O’Brien – Griffith University (QLD) 
Kat Sawyer – Griffith University (QLD) 
Astra Parker – TAFE SA (SA) 
Mark Richards – Southern Cross University (NSW) 
Jessica Schroeter – University of Ballarat (VIC) 
Lalanya Smith – RMIT University (VIC) 
Layla Vardo – RMIT University (VIC) 
Lyn Wood – Adelaide Central School of Art (SA) 

Dr Harold Schenberg Arts Award Winner

Andrew Varano (Curtin University) – $20,000 Schenberg Art Fellowship