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 work sits at the intersection of minimalism and hard-edge painting; restrained, simple and subtle.

I use rudimentary materials and mediums to grapple and reify impossible concepts like detachment, absence, potential, vastness and nothingness.

My art alludes to nothingness with flat, delicate colours layered on top of each other to demonstrate the versatility of foundational shapes.

My art quietly asks you to look harder. Repetition of 'the plain' in my work magnifies its presence in the everyday, its presence in my art aims to deconstruct our understanding of what is meaningless and what is significant.

Jon Sheppard

Jon Sheppard, Installation View. Image Courtesy of University of Melbourne.