Gertie Hall

Gertie Hall is completing her Bachelor of Design (Photomedia) this year with a current focus on creating multimedia imagery, digital projection and accompanying branding for self directed exhibitions and installations. With an interest in human experience and personal/societal introspection, Gertie combines this with a passion for nature and environmental issues, exploring abstract perspectives of both natural and urban worlds.

Whilst studying in Melbourne and 6 months of study in Mainz, Germany, Gertie has developed a multi-faceted and well informed interest and skillset in both creating powerful and meaning imagery and developing meaningful branding direction and strategy alongside this.

Through extensive travel, Gertie has cultivated perspective and understanding beyond the familar, of diverse social and environmental settings. Additionally, through long-term, consistent, team and client/customer based working environments Gertie has practical knowledge of teamwork and leadership.

This final semester is coming to conclusion with wonderful exhibitions, particularly the Photomedia Capstone Exhibition "ARCHIPELAGO" which I am proudly working on the Art Direction alongside Charles Woolley, with an inspiring team of creatives we are creating an immersive virtual exhibition to showcase this years body of Photomedia work.

Solace Exhibition; Observing

Solace Exhibition; Beneath

ANIMA Projection Festival Posters

Digital Gaze

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Acknowledgement of Country

The School of Design and Architecture respectfully acknowledges the Wurundjeri peoples of the Kulin Nation as the Traditional Owners and knowledge-keepers of the lands, waters and sky that surround us, where we work, learn, create, communicate and make place. We recognise that sovereignty has never been ceded and this always was and will always be Wurundjeri Country. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who continue to make a better world through design.

We extend our acknowledgement to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff, students, alumni, real-life clients, and knowledge keepers, who have contributed to our own education diversity and growth. We will continue to ensure that staff and students respectfully honour ancestral connection to Country and Place in everything that they do.

We are dedicated to the notion of design to make a better world and we acknowledge that making tools, shaping place, sharing stories, making meaning, wayfinding and collaborating have long been and continue to be both central and integral to First Peoples' cultures. We recognize that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ cultural contributions have continued relevance to design practice and commit to: reconciling ancestries of design and contemporary practice as well as pursuing culturally and professionally appropriate ways to engage with a diverse population of colleagues, industries and clients. In a time of treaty-making and voice we understand that there are overlaps between caring for Country and the sustainable production of goods, services, experiences, products and buildings.

Guided by the principles of respect, reconciliation, and reciprocity we undertake to indigenising and decolonising design practice by dismantling colonial structures and challenging biases that have marginalised Indigenous voices and design.

As students of SoDA you will be given opportunities to both engage with and educate yourself in Indigenous creative practices and cultural protocols through a lens of inclusivity, diversity, respect, mutual understanding, inter-cultural dialogue in all aspects of design practice. Indigenous people have been telling stories, making tools, and connecting to Country through visual media, placemaking and place marking for more than 60,000 years and these practices are part of an ongoing, evolving and live tradition.