The Hatched: National Graduate Show acknowledges and celebrates outstanding graduates from across the country. Now in its 33rd year, Hatched 2024 features the works of 22 artists from 21 tertiary art schools who were nominated by their lecturers and selected by a panel comprising Dennis Golding (artist, curator and Hatched alumni 2019, Sydney); Sebastian Henry-Jones (curator, West Space, Melbourne); and Sarah Wall (curator, PICA).
Hatched represents the diverse and compelling practices of the next generation of artistic voices. This year’s exhibiting artists push boundaries across all contemporary media, including installation, video, painting, textiles, sculpture, photography and various experimental forms. They draw on their uniquely personal experiences and pressing recurring themes, including the effects of climate change and the ongoing impact of colonisation.
In addition to the exhibition, PICA offers tailored professional development programs, equipping the artists with knowledge about funding opportunities, applying for exhibitions and residencies, and ways of making their practices more accessible. PICA also provides month-long residencies to one interstate and one Perth-based Hatched artist every year. In 2024 Frances Malcomson from the University of Tasmania (TAS) and Kasia Kolikow from North Metroplitan TAFE (WA) undertook residencies at PICA.
2024 marks the fifteenth anniversary of the Dr Harold Schenberg Arts Awards, the largest prize pool for emerging artists in Australia – totaling $50,000. In 2024, Kate McGuinness from Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney (NSW); Vedika Rampal from UNSW Sydney (NSW); and Lily Trnovsky from Adelaide Central School of Art (SA) received the $15,000 awards, with the inaugural $5,000 People’s Choice Award also going to Kate McGuinness. The Dr Harold Schenberg Arts Awards are made possible by funds bequeathed to The University of Western Australia by Dr Harold Schenberg.
Hatched: National Graduate Show 2024 artists:
Sophie Dumaresq (ACT)
André de Vanny (NSW)
Jamee Barker (NSW)
Kate McGuinness (NSW)
Thomas Hannah (NSW)
Vedika Rampal (NSW)
Melissa Stannard (QLD)
Ruby Stevens (QLD)
Alanah Kent (SA)
Katey Smoker (SA)
Lily Trnovsky (SA)
Tiarnie Edwards (SA)
Frances Malcomson (TAS)
Edie Duffy (VIC)
Ka Yan SO (Kelly) (VIC)
Michelle Prezioso (VIC)
Michelle Yuan Fitz-Gerald (VIC)
Steven Christou (VIC)
Emily J. Palmer (WA)
Esther Forest (WA)
Kasia Kolikow (WA)
Laura Ward (WA)
