Celebrating our alumni

Celebrating alumni success

We are incredibly proud of our St Mary's alumni and love to showcase and celebrate their success with the College community.

If you have an interesting story to share, or if you know of inspiring alumni who may like to feature in the yearly Alma Mater magazine, please get in touch by emailing  communications@smc.tas.edu.au.

From personal and professional triumphs, exciting career opportunities or highlights since graduating from the College, including the completion of university studies—we want to hear from you! 

Sneak peek...

Here's a taste of one of the alumni profiles featured in the upcoming Alma Mater. For the full story and other alumni profiles, be sure to pick up a copy of the magazine, which will be landing in letterboxes in July. 

Emerging Tasmanian artist and St Mary’s College alumni, Zoe Lovell studies the human form and how, through movement and body language, it is used as a tool to communicate.

Zoe, who graduated from St Mary's in 2013, is now a multidisciplinary artist and graphic designer based in Hobart. Zoe’s primary interest is in form and body language through portraiture, whilst her design practice mainly consists of, however isn’t limited to, identity and publication design.

Tell us about your first solo exhibition?

In October 2019 I presented my first solo exhibition, Conversations with the Human Form, at the Top Gallery in the Salamanca Arts Centre, whilst also working on a number of freelance design projects for local and interstate clients in drawings, paintings and ceramics. It was an exciting experience, having an exhibition of my own. My favourite piece from the exhibition is a sequence of hand gestures on one large drawings, which are floating in space.

What are you currently studying and at which university? 

Following a Bachelor of Visual Communication in 2016 from the University of Tasmania, I completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts with First Class Honours in 2017. As part of this, I created five publications that observed the experiences of women in everyday life.

In 2018, I was an artist in residence at the University of Tasmania, where I spent my time assisting the Head of Studio in the third year Visual Communications Class. In early 2019, I undertook my second residency at the Cradle Mountain Wilderness Gallery, focusing on the change in my environment during the week-long stay.