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 2023

Honours

My work embodies dichotomies such as the infinitesimal and the infinite, interior and exterior, chaos and order, however the aim is to occupy a space in and around and within these binaries. I am trying to translate the experience of the between. To me, what it feels like to be in the universe is overwhelming; of constantly being pushed and pulled between the microscopic and the macroscopic; of oscillating so fast between extremes that it becomes like a vibration. I am interested in ‘mapping’ this phenomenon through my art. I make drawings and immersive installations constituting a system of different marks and forms that both offer familiarity and imbue entropy. Enacting inexhaustible viewing points and potential associations, the works are designed to evoke the different interconnected layers of our reality.

Shannon Syme

 Image Courtesy: University of Melbourne.