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Promising graduates set the zeitgeist

Want to know why woven dresses and a record player encapsulate the spirit of our times? PICA’s national graduate exhibition showcase artists that are forefronting the future.

9 Mar 2022

Celina Lei

Visual Arts

Installations and hand crafted works headline Hatched 2022. Image: Ilona McGuire, The Australian Standard, 2021. Photo: Bo Wong.

Graduate exhibitions present some of the most exciting showcases of emerging artistic talent across the country, including the Helpmann Academy 2022 Graduate Exhibition in SA and VCA’s Paul Selzer Exhibition currently on view.

In Western Australia, the 31st edition of Hatched: National Graduate Show at Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA) will offer a glimpse into some of the most exciting emerging artists the nation has to offer.

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Celina Lei

Celina Lei is an arts writer and editor at ArtsHub. She acquired her M.A in Art, Law and Business in New York with a B.A. in Art History and Philosophy from the University of Melbourne. 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.