Female artists lead ‘Hatched’ 2016

The Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA) is proud to announce that 2016 will see 34 new graduates presenting work as a part of the ‘Hatched: National Graduate Show.’ PICA is especially proud that 25 of the 34 are women. This timely announcement follows International Women’s Day and the launch of The Countess Report, a benchmarking project and online resource on gender equality in the Australian contemporary art sector.

The Countess Report found that women make up only 34% of artists exhibited in Australia’s state museums so to have 74% of ‘Hatched’ made up of women artists is very exciting for PICA!

The selection process for ‘Hatched’, now in its 25^th year, is a rigorous one. Students are nominated by their art school with the final selection made by an industry panel. This year’s panel was made up of: Nadia Johnson (‘Hatched’ Curator), Minaxi May (Education Programs Curator, PICA), Alyce Neal (The Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne) and Andrew Varano (artist, curator, ‘Hatched’ alumni). PICA would like to congratulate all of the selected artists!

Hatched 2016 Artists:

ACT: The Australian National University  Cat Mueller Madisyn Zabel NSW: National Art School  Heath McCalmont-Parkinson Southern Cross University Rhiannon McAuliffe The University of Newcastle  Eloise Genner Louisa Magrics The University of New South Wales  Athena Thebus The University of Sydney  Eugene Choi Daisy Knight University of Wollongong  Anita Rose Holloway NT: Charles Darwin University Nadine Lee QLD: Griffith University Queensland College of Art Adam Anderson Warraba Weatherall Queensland University of Technology  Annie Macindoe Naomi Blacklock

SA: Adelaide Central School of Art Jane Skeer Kristen Coleman TAFE South Australia: Emmaline Zanelli Jane Palmer The University of South Australia Alex DeGaris TAS The University of Tasmania  Michelle Powell Selena de Carvalho VIC Deakin University Tiesha Ita Ulima Federation University Australia  Lynne Makings Monash University  Laetitia Olivier-Gargano Alice O’Connor RMIT University  Samantha Sommariva Sebastian Haeusler The University of Melbourne Victorian College of the Arts Aaron Hoffman WA: Central Institute of Technology Yi-Wen Liu Curtin University of Technology  Graham Mathwin Pascale Giorgi Edith Cowan University Rebecca Jensen The University of Western Australia Paul Boye

Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA)
From 13 May, 2016
Western Australia

 

Laetitia Olivier Gargano, The mushrooms between my toes, 2015
Photograph:Michael Lehtonen.