Mason Family Trust Scholarship

For commencing Bachelor of Arts (Fine Arts) students who can demonstrate circumstances impacting their education; worth up to $30,000

The Bachelor of Arts (Fine Arts) degree supports innovative, creative and independent art practice. Our specialisations emerge from long art traditions in painting, drawing, print, gold and silversmithing, ceramics, sculpture and photography and moving image. As a contemporary art degree we are interested in how traditional practices and techniques are not something of the past but part of a living present and offer an explorative and expansive view of art across different cultural histories and traditions.

This scholarship supports traditional techniques in the creation of art. It is open to applicants who demonstrate innovative approaches to traditional materials or techniques.

To be eligible for this scholarship you must:

• be a resident of Victoria
• be commencing the Bachelor of Arts (Fine Arts) (BP201) at RMIT in semester 1 2023 and enrolling full-time
• be able to demonstrate circumstance/s which impact your ability to study such as:
• receiving a government tested low income benefit or having a Centrelink Health Care Card
• having a long-term medical condition or disability
• experiencing personal/family/social difficulties
• be from an interstate or rural/regional area and moving/moved to Melbourne to study at RMIT
• have previously/are currently living in foster/kinship care or are a ward of the state
• be from an under-represented background such as
• Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander
• were born overseas, are from a non-English background and recently migrated to Australia
• current or former refugee
• completed secondary school at a School Network Access Program school
• be able to demonstrate innovative approaches to traditional materials or techniques in the creation of your art