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 2025

Honours

My painting practice is sometimes fixed on looking, and looking again differently: an ongoing whirrrrrr. The relation(s) between literature and poetry, music and ritual, are a point of rapid departure that guide my work. Fragmented connections collide in textured touch. In search of historical pathways, I study and examine their common and/or outlying threads together. I am looking for other possibilities—not reduction—toward something else, another way.

Lara Oluklu

Lara Oluklu, windy melody, oil paint with linseed oil on unprimed and unstretched cotton canvas, 2025.

Lara Oluklu, notes, stacked cassette tapes, 2025.

Lara Oluklu, Installation view, 2025. Image courtesy of the University of Melbourne. Photography by Astrid Mulder.