Four Australian Art School Grads Show Off Their Summer Projects

While their fellow graduates took a break, these four young women artists got to work.

February 14, 2017, 12:07pm

Lauren Dunn, The State of Things (who cares?), c type photographic print with custom blackwood frame, edition of 5, 122x102cm

While their peers beached and boozed, four Australian art school graduates spent their summer break painting, drawing, sculpting, collaging and photographing. These four young artists—Ariana Luca, Lauren Dunn, Marlee McMahon and Tessa Lancashire—feature in Boom Gallery’s Summer Projects IV, alongside the show’s two, more established artists, Skye Jefferys and Tarli Glover.

Boom’s all-female production brings together diverse media, from the neon glow of Dunn’s The State of Things (starving) sculpture—part of her series of the same name—to Luca’s pastel-hued collages. The artists also engage with a range of themes, though many tie back to the inexhaustible issues of religion, culture and consumerism.

Lancashire, for instance, literally translates western and yogic philosophies into pointillist grids of colour. Meanwhile, McMahon reflects on the urban Australian dream by envisioning a city of digital landscapes, anachronistically crafted with oil and acrylic on canvas.

Below, find the work of these four young artists, as well as pieces by Jefferys and Glover.