A Big Weekend Celebrating Art

This weekend is a weekend of fab achievements for Fine Art students at Nepean Arts and Design Centre.

Friday night is the first event for the 'no boundaries ' project, the exciting free public art and multimedia event that has involved so many of our students. Come along to 'The Mondo', between the Joan and Westfield at Penrith to see the fabulous work our students have been involved with. You can find all the details on the 'no boundaries' website. 
There are more performances on Saturday night too.

image from the 'no boundaries' website

Don't forget the opening of 'Framed' at the Penrith Regional Gallery & The Lewers Bequest this Saturday from 5pm. 'Framed' is the end result of a professional practice and site-specific art project undertaken by our Advanced Diploma of Visual Arts students at the Gallery. More than twenty large scale photographs will fill Lewers House, the result of a project that gives our students professional exhibition experience, and the opportunity to work with a site specific brief. This year the students were also given the extended responsibility of curating 'The Pick', the changing exhibition drawn form the Gallery's permanent collection.

Shannon Ring from the Advanced Diploma of Visual Arts, works on her image for 'Framed'.

You can see images of the students working on the project here.

Latest Exhibition news

 Hot on the heels of the  Diploma One students show  will be 'Trihibition' an exhibition of works  by students of Certificate IV in Visual Arts.  The exhibition will open  on  September the 12th at noon in the Trapezium gallery. Feel free to come and have a look and  perhaps  purchase  some fabulous  works  - all welcome.

 

3d Miniworks

3D Miniworks

3d Miniworks is our annual competition for sculptural work, less the 150 mm in any dimension.

Diana Robson – Curator of the Hawkesbury Regional Gallery was this years judge and announced her selection for the finalists and prize winners.

The 20 works will have their work exhibited at the Hawkesbury Regional Gallery in December. Details of this show to follow later.

The 20 finalists are: Caitlin Chapman "Planets"; Jeffrey Alexander "Sepik Dreaming" and "Bow Wow"; Cath Randall "Green Power"; Lisa MacKay "Fox and Wolf"; Alison Shore "Any Advice Dr Pat?"; Carolyn Eadie "Black and White (I need a Place To Read)", Ruma Hort "Sempervium 1" and Sempervium11". Kim Cooke "Rockmelon", Sheryl Anderson "Seed Pod Series" and "Open Seed Pod"; Sophie Abbott "Dear Deer"; Calen Starling "Jurassic Park" and "Hell Boy" and "E=mc2" Bron Newman "The White Rider (after SH)"; Paul Gould "Toxic Planet Dog"; Robert Linigen "Head"

And the winners are...
1 Calen Starling, "Hellboy" $200 prize from Western Sydney Institute
2 Sheryl Anderson "Open Seed Pod" $100 prize from Artsup
3 Bron Newman "The White Rider (After SH)" $100 prize from Hawkesbury Regional Gallery

Have a look at images of the finalists at our Flickr site

"Hellboy" Calen Starling 

Congratulations to the winners, finalists and all the entrants. Thanks to Diana Robson from Hawkesbury Regional Gallery and everyone involved in organising th eshow, particularly Susan Jorgensen and Paul Gould.

Diploma Year 1 exhibition

Our first year Fine Arts Diploma  students  will be showcasing   the  spoils of their hard  work so far this year at our  annual exhibition.

Works will include  selections from  photography, painting, printmaking, ceramics and drawing.

The exhibition will kindly be opened by Zona Wilkenson Curator of Indigenous Programs at Penrith Regional gallery.


It opens this Thursday evening at 6.30pm in the Trapezium Gallery, P Block , O'Connell Street,  Kingswood - all welcome !  

Amazing public art project involving our students

Eighteen NADC students are thrilled to be involved in a multi-media art and inclusive community event in Penrith in September called No Boundaries. For at least 12 of these volunteers, their participation in the project will turn into a paid traineeship, which will make them eligible in the future to work operating the multimedia equipment in use during the project, which is planned to remain in the community for use in future events.

No Boundaries will involve:
"Large scale architectural projection… interactive and playful displays… and a gathering of people from Penrith, Blue Mountains and Sydney… An unforgettable show bringing together creative and talented people from all walks of life to see something very new in Penrith!"  
 - from the 'no boundaries' website

The project aims to involve members of the community from all walks of life, and is being overseen by a creative industries company called Illuminart. This company specializes in the design and creation of world class projection art, cross-disciplinary arts and audiovisual storytelling of lasting significance to communities. Illuminart's avant-garde media art projects incorporate illumination, interactive projection art and performance, developed in creative partnerships and collaborations among a variety of disciplines. 
 - from the illuminart website http://www.illuminart.com.au/
Have a look at the gorgeous example of illuminart's work inthe clip below. In this video, the kinetic ship sculpture is also the source of the projections on the building. This is the kind of cool stuff our students are going to be working with, so keep your eye on this project !

 In another wonderful collaborative opportunity, NADC photoimaging students will document the performance events in September.

Studio Space at Parramatta Artists Studios

Here's a great opportunity from Parramtta Artists Studios for artists who are not enrolled in study, or will have graduated by the start of 2013.

Parramatta Artists Studios is at the fore of contemporary artistic production.
 Located in the centre of Parramatta’s CBD, the Studios offer affordable non-residential and residential studio space to contemporary artists.

Artists are invited to apply for non-residential studios with tenures ranging from 6-24 months. A residential studio is also available to regional NSW, interstate and international artists for up to 3 months.

Please note, Artists who are in the midst of tertiary studies for which a studio is allocated are not eligible for a studio here. The current round covers studio access from 1 October 2012 and throughout 2013. So if a student is gradating this year, then they should apply now and stipulate that they would take up a studio upon completion of their course (at the end of this year or start of next year).

Applications close 4:30pm Thursday 30 August 2012.

http://www.parracity.nsw.gov.au/play/facilities/arts/artists_studios for further information and to download an application form.

Enquiries on 02 9687 6090 or studios@parracity.nsw.gov.au

Miniworks on now!

MINIWORKS  2012 is our much loved annual 3D exhibition and competition. This exhibition comprises of sculptural and 3 dimensional work by NADC students and staff, with the only restriction being the work must be no larger than 15cm in any direction. The opening is at 12pm - 13pm at C Block

You are welcome to come and join us as Diana Robson – Curator of the Hawkesbury Regional gallery announces her selection for the finalists and first prize winner.