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The Annual 2024 is the largest showcase of graduate contemporary art and design in Australia.

Works from the next generation of artists, designers, and makers are on display at Australia's biggest graduate art and design showcase.

This year, 187 of the best emerging creative practitioners in the country will display new work across the UNSW Paddington campus and online, ranging interdisciplinary practices across 3D visualisation, animation, ceramics, drawing, experience design, furniture, graphics, installation, interaction design, jewellery, moving image, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, textiles, visual effects, and more.

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Congratulations to alum and academic Katy B Plummer, who won the major prize at the 2024 Fisher’s Ghost Art Awards.  

Katy received the $50,000 Open Award for Margaret and The Grey Mare. The work is described as “an opera, a fever dream about an opera and an immersive video installation, made in collaboration with a chatbot coded to act as a channel to an ancient Celtic land spirit”.

The winning work will be on display at Campbelltown Arts Centre until 6 December.

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It is with great sadness that we share the news of the passing of Liz Williamson, an extraordinary weaver, educator, and tireless advocate for excellence in textiles in Australia and beyond. Liz has been a loved member of the academic community at UNSW since 1997 when she first established the textiles department at UNSW College of Fine Arts (COFA). In 2012, Liz became an Associate Professor at UNSW Art & Design, where she remained until her retirement in 2020. She became an Honorary Associate Professor in 2021, working with postgraduate research candidates.

As an educator, Liz touched the lives and careers of countless young designers, makers and craftspeople. She was Head of School between 2008 and 2013, a role in which she had the great respect of her colleagues. She demanded high standards and rewarded all around her with generosity, knowledge, insight, and a love of design.

Liz organised a Cultural Textiles fieldwork course and tour to India for design students outside the studios and corridors of the Paddington campus. Liz generously shared her deep respect and knowledge of artisan handmade textiles in India, and these three-week trips have profoundly influenced the careers of over 100 students since 2012.

Liz maintained a preeminent weaving and research practice for more than 45 years, endlessly innovating and sharing her work through her teaching. While her awards, grants, exhibitions, publications, and acquisitions are too numerous to mention, she was acknowledged in 2008 as a Living Treasure, Master of Australian Craft by Object: Australian Design Centre, resulting in a significant monograph and extensive touring exhibition. As recently as 2023 she was highly commended in the inaugural MAKE Award: Biennial Prize for Innovation in Australian Craft and Design, testament to her endless work in and on her practice.

The newly completed F Block textiles workshops will become known as the Liz Williamson Textiles Studio to acknowledge Liz’s sustained contribution to the textiles specialisation at the School of Art & Design in the Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture. There could be no more fitting way to honour Liz’s work establishing textiles as an area of study for generations of students at UNSW.

Liz was lovingly supported by her husband, Tony Stirton, in their Stanmore home and studio until he died in 2021. In this , made by the Australian Design Centre in 2018, you can see Liz at work in her studio.

Our thoughts are with Liz’s family, friends, colleagues, and all in her extended creative community.