Visual Art Staff Show - you are invited to the floor talk!

The 2016 Visual Arts Staff Show is currently on display in the Trapezium Gallery. This elegant exhibition showcases the arts practice of staff currently teaching on our visual arts courses. 

This week, on Wednesday March 23rd, the weekly NADC Arts Forum will be held in the Gallery, with many of the artists present to speak about their work, and answer questions from the audience.

Join us in the Gallery at 12 noon on March 23 for drinks and nibbles. At 12.30, NADC painting and drawing teacher Tim Allen will M.C. the floor talks, introducing the artists who will speak about the motivation and techniques behind their works. The talks will last for approximately half an hour, and from 1pm to 1.30 pm you can mingle with the artists and continue to enjoy the exhibition.

The exhibition includes work by David White, Tim Allen, Catherine O'Donnell, Jo Newton, Samara Kendall, Anthony Cahill, Cath Barcan, Jacqueline Spedding, Linda Seiffert, Cameron Ferguson, Matthew Ablitt, Di Holdsworth, Stephen Hall and Shirley Daborn.

The exhibition continues until March 31. Gallery hours are 9am-4pm, Monday to Friday.

Artwork by Anthony Cahill(iphone snap by Peter Helm)

Artwork by Linda Seiffert (iphone snap by Peter Helm)

QSRT 2016 opportunity for NADC students!

 Join Adnan Begic and Angela Stretch in the T Block auditorium on Wednesday May 2 for the first Arts Forum of the year. Angela is the lead artist in this year's Queen Street Riches and Textures project, and Adnan s the project co-ordinator. If you are not familiar with this amazing project and the professional opportunity could  provide for NADC students, make sure you come along and find out! This year's project is suitable for students in  all course areas in NADC. The Forum takes place from 12.30pm-1.30pm on Wedneday in the T Block auditorium.

Read below for a bit of background infoto the project courtesy of St Mary's Corner- but best to come to the Forum and hear for yourself!

Queen Street Riches and Textures is a cultural initiative developed by St Marys Corner Community and Cultural Precinct in 2012. The initiative engages local residents in creative conversations about Queen Street, the main street of St Marys through re-discovering, documenting, creatively expressing and interpreting the street’s past, present and future.

Engagement: Queen Street Riches and Textures is informed by three principles – engagement, mentorship and partnerships. The engagement is one of creative collaborations, social interaction and conversations, between artists and community and people and places.

Mentorship: Each year Queen Street Riches and Textures works with contemporary artists and through a specific artistic medium explores people and place. In each annual project a professional

artist also mentors local emerging artists while creatively engaging with the community.

Partnerships: Queen Street Riches and Textures is constantly extending partnerships with civic,

community, cultural, art and educational agencies, organisations and institutions.

Achievements: Since 2012 the project has achieved great community endorsement and participation of more than 300 local residents, 40 local and metropolitan art students and emerging artists and a number of partners and associates through a building sustainable relationships with regional educational institutions and community organisations.