It’s a real coming of age for Hatched. In 2012, the landmark exhibition that has launched the careers of many Australian artists – turned 21! Every year for the past two decades Hatched has tracked the changing trends and developments in emerging contemporary art by providing an annual snapshot of the country’s aesthetic mood. The Hatched artists of 2012 continued to ask the difficult questions and find ever-new ways to manifest and give shape to the quandaries of our time.
The 36 artists from 22 art schools across Australia were carefully selected from over 100 applicants by a panel made up of: Michelle Ho, curator at the Singapore Art Museum; independent curator Andrew Gaynor from Melbourne; Brisbane based-artist and lecturer Chris Bennie; and PICA curator Leigh Robb. Their bold and eclectic works were presented throughout the vast PICA building. For many, this was be their first opportunity to exhibit in a major public gallery and be seen and heard alongside their cross-country peers.
Hatched 2012 featured the most recent work by Australia’s next generation of rising talents – as they mash up animation with performance, karaoke with poetry, HD video with glass sculptures, organic growths with scaffolding, and forays into geometry and printmaking with neon landscape painting.
They looked back with inventiveness – the overhead projector makes a welcome return, and clashes with collage and stencils abound, and they look forward with experimentation – augmenting reality and building furniture for the future. These artists want to look again at masculinity, mythology, mapping and materiality in the 21st century. Prepare to be tested and toyed with by these young provocateurs.
Artists
Claire Marsh – Adelaide Central School of Art (SA)
Hardy Lohse – The Australian National University (ACT)
Amina McConvell – Charles Darwin University (NT)
Nathan Brooker – Central Institute of Technology (WA)
Ian Williams – Central Institute of Technology (WA)
David Attwood – Central Institute of Technology (WA)
Michelle Williamson – Central Institute of Technology (WA)
Louisa Hansal – Edith Cowan University (WA)
Shanna Muston – Griffith University (QLD)
Dominic Reidy – Griffith University (QLD)
Raphaela Rosella – Griffith University (QLD)
Ysabelle Dauguet – Monash University (VIC)
Lachlan Petras – Monash University (VIC)
Jacqui Shelton – Monash University (VIC)
Anastasia Booth – Queensland University of Technology (QLD)
Brianne MacKinnon – Queensland University of Technology (QLD)
Skye Kelly – RMIT University (VIC)
Wendy Korol – RMIT University (VIC)
Johann Rashid – RMIT University (VIC)
Karen Stone – Southern Cross University (NSW)
Jesse Price – Adelaide College of the Arts, TAFE SA (SA)
Liam Power – The University of Newcastle (NSW)
George Nagle – The University of New South Wales (NSW)
Ramesh Nithivendran – The University of New South Wales (NSW)
Kelly Brett – University of Ballarat (VIC)
Minna Gilligan – Victorian College of the Arts, The University of Melbourne (VIC)
Jethro Harcourt – Victorian College of the Arts, The University of Melbourne (VIC)
Sarah Jane Haywood – Victorian College of the Arts, The University of Melbourne (VIC)
Spike Deane – The University of Sydney (NSW)
Amanda-Jane Newing – The University of Sydney (NSW)
Lydia Evangelou-Oost – University of Tasmania (TAS)
Pip Stafford – University of Tasmania (TAS)
Kimberley Canon-Wilson – University of Wollongong (NSW)
CJ Taylor – University of South Australia (SA)
Zoe Woods – University of South Australia (SA)
Rob Davies – The University of Western Australia (WA)
Dr Harold Schenberg Arts Award Winner
Laxlan Petras (Monash University) – $35,000 Schenberg Art Fellowship
