Victorian College of the Arts
Alumni News 2006
  • Mikala Dwyer, Kate Just, Kate Rohde and Kate Stones (Art) had work shown in Beckon at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, WA.
  • Prudence Flint (Art) was a finalist in the 2006 Archibald Portrait Prize exhibition.
  • Bill Henson (Art) held a solo exhibition at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Paddington, and exhibited a major body of work in Twilight: Photography in the Magic Hour at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Two major monographs on his work, Mnemosyne (2005) and Lux et Nox (2002) have been published by Scalo, Switzerland.
  • Philip Hunter (Art) exhibited etchings and lithographs at Christine Abrahams Gallery, Richmond.
  • Louise Paramour (Art) held a solo exhibition, A Bunch of Flowers, at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, WA, and was runner up for the Helen Lempriere Sculpture Award.
  • Rosalynd Piggott (Art) had work shown in Selected Works from the Vizard Foundation Art Collection of the 1990s at the Ian Potter Museum of Art, Parkville.
  • Sangeeta Sandrasegar (Art) participated in Light & Shade at the NT Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin.
  • Ricky Swallow (Art) held a solo exhibition, The past sure is tense, at the Art Gallery of Western Australia.
  • Sara Black (Dance) performed in Gideon Obarzanek’s new work Glow.
  • Four Acts of Violence Leading Up to Now, a collaborative work by Simon Ellis (Dance), was performed by Paea Leach in the Spring Dance season at Dancehouse.
  • Brooke Stamp (Dance) featured on the front cover of the October/November issue of Dance Australia.
  • Alison Bell and Anna Tregloan (Drama) both won Helpmann Awards.
  • Martin Blum (Drama) is performing in Barrie Kosky’s The Lost Echo as part of the Sydney Theatre Ensemble for the Sydney Theatre Company.
  • Andre Jewson (Drama) performed as Felix in Hannie Rayson’s Inheritance, directed by Chris Bendall.
  • Chris Kohn (Drama) collaborated with writer Lally Katz on his latest work, Lally Katz and the Terrible Mysteries of the Volcano, and directed and performed the music. Christopher Brown, Tony Johnson and Luke Mullins performed in this work.
  • Luke Mullins (Drama) won the 2006 George Fairfax Award, and performed in a one-man show, Autobiography of Red, based on the novel by Anne Carsons and adapted and performed by Luke at the Malthouse Theatre.
  • Stephen Philips (Drama) performed as Fernando in The Tempest for the Bell Shakespeare Company.
  • Simon Stone (Drama) appeared in the Ray Lawrence film Jindabyne.
  • Simon Stone and Grant Cartwright (Drama) performed in Jet of Blood at Theatreworks, directed by Olivia Allen.
  • Alice Parkinson (Drama) was cast in a lead role in a major feature film, Where the Wild Things Are, being shot in Melbourne.
  • Adam Elliot (Film and Television) has been offered funding from the Film Finance Corporation for the feature animation Mary & Max, as has Fin Edquist for the feature The Kingdom.
  • Sarah Kriegler and Jacob Williams, animateurs (Drama), presented their work Apples and Ladders at the Malthouse as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival.
  • Juliet Porter, director, and Kylie Bryant, producer (Film and Television) won the Best Student Live Action Under 15 Minutes category at the 2006 Palm Springs International Festival for Breathe.
  • Ann Turner (Film and Television) directed Irresistible, a psychological thriller starring Academy Award winner Susan Sarandon, Sam Neill, Emily Blunt and William McInnes.
  • Matthew Kam (Music) studied at the Royal Northern College of Music (UK), and was a semi-finalist in the Birmingham International Piano Competition and a prize-winner in the Silverstone-Blamk Piano Duo Competition.
  • Jennifer Kerr (Music) was appointed OzOpera’s new Manager. Jennifer won NSW’s Young Businesswoman of the Year Award in 2004.
  • Kaiyi Ma and Rochelle Bryson (Music) performed new work by Toru Takemitsu in Dreaming In Your Landscape, presented as part of the Japan-Australia Year of Exchange, which also featured the world premier of compositions by Kanako Okamoto and Mark Pollard.
  • Adam Gardnir (Production) was the designer for the Lally Katz film Ingrid Sits Holding a Knife which premiered at ACMI, Melbourne.
  • Jared Lewis (Production) worked on the sound design and operation for Men of Steel by Meat with Beef and performed by puppeteers Tamara Rewse, Sam Routledge and Hamish Fletcher at the International Puppetry Festival.
  • Wesley Portelli (Production) worked as Deputy Stage Manager at the Opening and Closing ceremonies for the Doha 2006 Asia Games with David Atkins Enterprises.
  • Julie Renton (Production) won her second Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Costume Design for Canadian Pacific Scandal.

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