We acknowledge and pay respect to the Traditional Owners of the lands upon which our campus is situated, the people of the Boon Wurrung and Woi Wurrung, who have created art, made music and told their stories here for thousands of generations. We also acknowledge and extend our respect to the Traditional Owners of all lands on which our work is viewed, shared and enjoyed, and to all Elders, past, present and emerging.

VCA Art 2024

Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting)

My practice explores spaces drawn from my immediate environments, through the lens of my own life experiences. I source my reference material through spontaneous photography, on daily outings, in moments of stillness. These images are often of banal places that elicit feelings of familiarity as well as an eerie nothingness. The resulting paintings depict inescapable feelings of loneliness that are triggered by the emptiness of my surroundings. A mix of the mundane and the surreal is bound together with tight compositions to create a perfect strangeness in each piece. These works explore the simultaneous beauty and existential dread that accompanies every day life.

Ellen Jury 

Ellen Jury, Installation View. Image Courtesy of University of Melbourne.