Hatched: National Graduate Show 2025
Curated by Mia Palmer-VerevisPerth Institute of Contemporary Arts | 2 August - 5 October 2025
Each year, PICA’s Hatched: National Graduate Show presents artworks by outstanding graduates from across the country. Showcasing the next generation of Australia’s contemporary creative voices, this year Hatched is presented for the first time in an offsite venue in Perth’s CBD from 2 August to 5 October. Hatched 2025 features the works of 23 artists from 20 tertiary art schools who were nominated by their lecturers and selected by a curatorial panel.
Celebrating its 34th year, PICA has partnered with ISPT who has generously donated an expansive light-filled floor of Forrest Chase in the heart of Perth’s central business district for the exhibition. Perfectly positioned near Perth’s central train station, this vibrant new location is a dynamic and diverse hub of contemporary culture – a welcoming space and a beacon for students, artists and the broader public to discover Hatched.
In 2025, Hatched sees participants take part in some of the most important conversations of today – through use of mediums such as painting, ceramics, drawing, woodwork, printmaking, textiles, metalwork, photography, performance, video, sound and sculpture. Collectively, they address urgent contemporary issues the through innovative use of materials and fresh conceptual frameworks. This year’s Hatched cohort unpack issues that bridge the personal and universal, such as resistance and transformation, environmental impermanence, performative identities and data and surveillance.
Chloe Catto, University of Tasmania (TAS)
Germaine Chan, The University of Western Australia (WA)
Samuel Chan, National Art School (NSW)
Clara Chanisheff, Victorian College of the Arts (VIC)
Isabella Rose Cort, Queensland University of Technology (QLD)
Tom Duffy, University of Wollongong (NSW)
Mandana Eizadi, North Metropolitan TAFE (WA)
Nicole Goode, Victorian College of the Arts (VIC)
Gosha Heldtz, University of New South Wales (NSW)
Charlotte Rose Jeffrey-Bannister, Adelaide Central School of Art (SA)
Madi Jones, Southern Cross University (NSW)
Mim Kowner, Curtin University (WA)
Maelyse Xinh Leculier, University of Sydney (NSW)
Ebony Maurice-Wilmott, Monash University (VIC)
Elsa Mona, Edith Cowan University (WA)
Pippini Niamh, Flinders University (SA)
Marcus C. Payne, Monash University (VIC)
Jade Power, RMIT University (VIC)
Litia Roko, Australian National University (ACT)
Rosemary Tamas-Cao, Queensland College of Art and Design (QLD)
Silki Wong, University of South Australia (SA)
Grace Yong, Curtin University (WA)
Karen Zipkas, Federation University Australia (VIC)
Photographer Rebecca Mansell
This exhibition took place on Whadjuk Noongar boodjar. Always was, always will be Aboriginal land.