5 standout graduate artists to watch from 2024 VCA Art Grad Show

Graduate artists presenting fascinating sculptures and installation works captured the interest of ArtsHub this year.
2024 VCA Grad Show, installation view, featuring graduate artists. On the right is a hovering sculpture with plastic pearls and jewels, vaguely representing a human figure. In the background to the left is a video work.

Graduate artists of the 2024 Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), University of Melbourne cohort are presenting an impressive selection of over 160 artworks at the Art Grad Show this year.

ArtsHub picks out five outstanding graduate artists with thoughtful pieces that reflect the zeitgeist and display great potential.

The pieces follow a similar aesthetic and exploration from her works in the 2023 VCA Bachelor Grad Show, with more complex assemblage and conceptual depth. The Return of Spontaneous Circulation presented this year involves a motor that allows the hanging sculpture to pulse like a biological heart, while Wei’s video work, showing a horror-esque scene of semi-autonomous characters inside a plastic pearl factory, rounds out the strong display.

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Celina Lei is ArtsHub's former Content Manager. She has previously worked across global art hubs in Beijing, Hong Kong and New York in both the commercial art sector and art criticism. She took part in drafting NAVA’s revised Code of Practice - Art Fairs, and was the project manager of ArtsHub’s diverse writers initiative, Amplify Collective. Celina is based in Naarm/Melbourne. Instagram: @lleizy_