SOMATAESTHESIA// RMIT BFA HONOURS 2025
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Honours studio photo taken by Stav Lampropoulou, 2025
Bodies mostly function automatically in the background (metabolise/regulate/repair) or perform according to instruction (draw/speak/chew). Mine performs an array of involuntary but noticeable activities (pool blood, sublux joints, exhaust quickly, bad bad pain) that leak through the barrier between the parts of the body that we should be conscious of, and those which are better left unexperienced. 

As much a self-administered treatment plan as an artistic and academic project, this creative body of work is the result of tuning in to my actual body, allowing its needs to guide the contents and the methods of my artmaking process, and bringing its hidden processes and indescribable sensations out to be seen. These works reflect my body as I experienced it at the time of making, while their materiality—mainly ephemeral gelatine bioplastic and textiles—reflects the body in general: complex, gooey, and temporary.



SEMESTER 1

Trial presentation of works in Surreally? group exhibition, Site 8 Gallery RMIT






End of semster presentation, RMIT drawing studios

‘The Waiting Room’ ,  installation of archived works




SEMESTER 2

Trial presentation of works in group exhibition, Site 8 Gallery RMIT






Trial presentation of works in studio at RMIT





Graduate Exhibition, RMIT

I would like to acknowledge the traditional custodians of the unceded lands on which I live, the peoples of the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung, Bunurong/Boon Wurrung, and Dja Dja Wurrung language groups of the Kulin Nation, and pay my respects to their Elders past and present.