Carole Fitzgerald selected for the Swan Hill Print and Drawing Award 2012

Congratulations are in order  for Carole, our  advanced Diploma  Printmaking student who  has been selected for the biennial   Swan Hill Print and Drawing Aquisitive Award ( 2012).
The  award  promotes excellence in Australian printmaking and drawing through  an  exhibition  that builds upon the  Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery collection. Selected works must  have been created after January 2010
Caroles' work has had  extraordinary success  having already been selected for - the Blacktown Art Prize (2010), The Fishers Ghost (2010), The Silkcut Lino Award (2010) .

“Anthony” - 4 colour linoprint, 82 x 62 cm (2010)

2012 Staff Show

Our annual staff show is now open for viewing!  This exhibition showcases recent work  by our  fine arts staff  members illustrating a variety of disciplines, approaches and practices.  Peruse the show at  your leisure  then join us for the official launch on Wednesday the 28th  of March at  lunchtime - all welcome!

Jo Ernsten in 'Beyond Language' an overseas printmedia exhibition

The works of one of our printmaking teachers - Jo Ernsten is now showing in 'Beyond Language'  at AshvilleBookworks - North Carolina  USA.
This is an exhibition of printed works  made using the ' building blocks of communication, all of them structured deliberately not to be read as text, but rather understood as compositions. A few pieces in the show take a path toward literally making illustrations with letters that have been whimsically liberated from their usual work of making words, while other works arrive to use more abstactly and with a strange beauty that is ironically bound to them by their illegibility'

Catherine O'Donnell's three exhibitions

Catherine O'Donnell, 'inclosed land', 2011, charcoal on paper, 42 cm x 210 cm

NADC Fine Arts teacher Catherine O'Donnell is currently showing in three exhibitions.

 'Still Life' is an exhibition at the Parramatta Artist Studios (Feb 27- March 23, 2012), which is curated by Sophia Kouyoumdjian. This exhibition challenges the common perceptions of the still life genre, from the kitchen table to the streets of Western Sydney, and darts around the tradition of motionless composition.

 The exhibition features contemporary works by Catherine O’Donnell, Sarah Goffman, Helena Leslie and Naomi Oliver, that utilise emotive stillness, clustered objects and arrangements of light and shadow to inject currency into convention. This exhibition was opened by Anne Loxley, C3West Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art.

Catherine is also showing in the 2012 Adelaide Perry Prize for drawing. This annual exhibition is an acquisitive drawing prize judged by art critic John McDonald, who shortlisted 48 artworks for exhibition from more than 420 entries from across Australia. Alongside Catherine in this exhibition is fellow NADC Fine Arts teacher Tim Allen.
The exhibited drawings reflect the broad range of contemporary Australian artists’ approaches to drawing.

 Catherine O' Donnell, Shared Zone, 2011 charcoal on paper

In addition to these two achievements, Catherine's solo exhibition,'Venetian Visions' is a touring the east coast of Australia, and currently showing at the Grafton Regional Gallery.

The Student Acquisitive Prize in the Penrith Press

Check out our great 2-page spread!
http://digitaledition.penrithpress.com.au/#folio=21

Toni Warburton at Articulate Project Space

NADC Fine Arts teacher has been working on an experimental project called eye of Horus lost and found  at Articulate Project Space in Leichardt. There will be an open day this Saturday March 10, and an opportunity to see the artist at work.
For more details visit the articlate blog: http://articulate497.blogspot.com.au/

Janet Reinhardt's group show

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Diploma of Fine Arts 2011 graduate is in a group show that opens on Saturday. All welcome!

Two exhibitions at Blacktown Arts centre

Past student Linda Wilken  is a participating artist in the  On Paper exhibition  (10 February - 21 April)  at  Blacktown Arts Centre. The exhibition showcases 'challenging and surprising works by local and Western Sydney based contemporary artists, whose work engages with the medium of paper.'

Linda Wilken makes collages  from images appropriated from children's books, magazines and cartoons  to explore and critique issues on  gender stereotyping and child exploitation.

Swept off her feet collage 20cm x 20cm

Also showing is  'Idea of water'(10 Feb - 21st April)  which 'presents creative meditations from five Western Sydney artists who each explore their personal and conceptual connections with water.'

This exhibition  includes the work of  two of our  past  students : Jennifer Gabbay whose painted  works celebrate  colour through water distortion and Lauren Gock  who mixes media  to investigate memory and  Fijian ancestry.

NADC Fine Art Graduate Jennifer Gabbay's upcoming exhibition at the Blackheath Art Society

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