Me and my mentor: Marion Harper and Vera Möller

Visual artists Marion Harper and Vera Möller were paired as part of the VCA Masters Mentoring program. Here they talk about each other's work and the two-way generative process of mentorship.

Some of Australia’s most successful artists are alumni of the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) and, each year, up to five of them are paired with high-performing final year Masters of Fine Art students, to mentor them and provide connections with galleries.

The five 2023 recipients of the Mentoring Masters, VCA Art Award, and their mentors and galleries are:

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Rochelle Siemienowicz is a Melbourne writer and editor. Her first book Fallen, a memoir was published in 2014 and her second, Double Happiness, a novel, in 2024. She has a PhD in Australian cinema and was previously a journalist at ScreenHub and ArtsHub. ou can find her on Instagram: @Rochelle_Rochelle or at Substack where she writes a fortnightly newsletter, The Fool and the Queen.