Selected works from RMIT Culture collections and International Collections

Sam Jinks, Unsettled Dogs, 2012

While I was browsing through the sculpture section of RMIT University Art Collection, this artwork caught my eyes immediately. I had an instant connection to it and I felt my mental state at that moment was reflected by the creature on the right so accurately - the constant unsettling worries and vulnerability. In addition, how awesome would it be if we could all have animal heads attached to human bodies?

Sam Jinks

Unsettled Dogs, 2012

Silicone, pigment, resin, hair and fur

23 x 63.5 x 63.5 cm

Purchased through the RMIT Art Fund, 2012 RMIT University Art Collection

Works by Jia Yi Liu

When you kiss me

Kissing triggers our brains to release a cocktail of chemicals include oxytocin, dopamine and serotonin, makes us feel euphoric and bonded. It also lowers cortisol which is known as the stress hormone. Hence, everyone should kiss their loved ones more during this COVID-19 pandemic as connections are so important for us human beings.

Motherhood

Inspired by how mother is protecting her child in this dangerous period of time, providing and also receiving physical and mental nourishment from her baby.

Best friends

An imagined trip with friends at an orange farm with imagined joys while my physical body is trapped in a small apartment in Melbourne CBD.

‘Best Friends’

(2020)

Acrylic colour on watercolour paper

13 x 13 cm

Lucy Maddox

Lucy Maddox is a student in the Advanced Diploma of Visual Arts whose practice relates to humanism and the human body – if only in parts.

Working primarily in painting and printmaking, she explores the emotional power of the human form. In particular, with a background in linguistics, she investigates the communicative potential of hands and gesture.