Advanced Diploma of Visual arts students at the On Islands festival

Some of our Advanced Diploma of Visual Arts students have yet another exhibition of their work on show, this time at Eramboo Artist Environment at Terrey Hills. Sandra Carter, Sophie Temmhoff, Lauren Grabara, Jon Brew, Martin Horan,... Gloria Obbens, Raelene Wright, Ray Atkins, Karl Hellman, Barbara Hellman, Wai Cheung Lam, and Beverley Kirby are showing as part of the 'On Islands' festival. The students have collaborated with multimedia artist Peta Kahn and Penrith City Council to develop a video piece in response to the urban island heat effect. The resulting work is being screened at the festival along with many other collaborative works by local and international artists. You can read an excerpt from the website below, or follow the link for more info. Congratulations to all the students involved, and their tireless professional practice teacher Jo Newton.

"On Islands is a groundbreaking creative arts project being undertaken on the Northern Beaches of Sydney this November at Eramboo, Terrey Hills. ‘On Islands’ Eramboo will be a 3 week curated arts festival including an exhibition of site specific collaborative art works and installations, artist and curator talks, workshops and performances. It involves 68 local, regional, national and internationally established creatives, producing 27 collaborative works. Artists, designers, musicians, performers, photographers, architects, writers, poets and filmmakers will be responding to the theme 'On Islands’ extending their practice and the viewers’ imagination." - From the Erambo website. Follow the link for more:

http://www.eramboo.com/

 

Nepean Arts and Design Centre Open Day: September 17, 10am-3pm

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Join us for Open Day at Nepean Arts and Design Centre as part of the Nepean College Open Day on Wednesday September 17 from 10am-3pm. We really hope you can join us for lots of exciting activities including bands, BBQ, talks, demos, course information and more!

Our Diploma of Visual Arts exhibition: All welcome

Coming up at Lewers

 

Cath Barcan (un)draped II, colour photograph on aluminum, 60cm x 40cm, 2014

The new suite of exhibitions at Penrith Regional Gallery & The Lewers Bequest opens on Saturday 30th of August from 4pm-6pm. NADC Head Teacher Cath Barcan is exhibiting in
 'Green -Environmental explorations' in Lewers House. She is also featured in the Artist Board.

Wiradjuri artist Bev Coe and Sydney-based artist Bronwyn Berman celebrate the Lachlan and the Nepean Rivers in the large gallery, with the exhibition 'River to River'.

It promises to be another great suite of exhibitions, and as always, a fun opening. We'll see you there!

Blue Mountains Cultural Centre fundraising auction

Our friends at the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre are holding a fundraising exhibition, 'Collectors Edition #1', which is being launched on Friday, August 29 at 6pm. The exhibition will be officially opened by Anthony Bond OAM, and is being held to raise money for the Cultural Centre's acquisition fund. Sixty prominent artists have donated work for the exhibition, and works will be for sale through silent auction. Sounds like a fun way to start your collection! NADC staff Di Holdsworth and Cath Barcan are amongst the exhibitors. For full details visit the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre website.

Di Holdsworth, Love Makes the World Go 'Round #2,  music-box assemblage, 2010.

Cath Barcan, Still Life (miniature), photograph on aluminum, 21cm x 15cm, 2014.

Lumen print workshop

Photography teacher Jo Newton ran a small workshop at Penrith Regional Gallery and the Lewers Bequest over the school holidays. Participants made Lumen prints, a process related to the photogram which uses photographic paper but requires no darkroom. After an hour and a half in the sun black and white photography papers reveal some beautiful colouration.



Two lumen prints produced by students at the workshop

As part of the Colour and Light exhibition at the Lewers Learning Centre, Jo has installed 12 pinhole cameras around the gardens. The exposure started at the opening of the show and will conclude 3 months later when the photos will be printed. The images these cameras will produce are called solargraphs, as they document the path of the sun across the sky over weeks/months, and students at the workshop also made their own cameras loaded them with photo paper to install in their gardens at home.

More information about Lumen printing can be found here, and some fabulous examples are here. There are some wonderful images of solargraphs on flickr. If you'd like to make your own camera there is a good explanation of the process on instructables.

Don’t wait until next year- Diploma of Visual Arts Now!

Jessica Roach Diploma of Visual arts graduate 2013.

 

NADC will be starting a new group of students mid year in the Diploma of Visual Arts. You don’t need to wait until the beginning of 2015 to begin your course.

 To reserve your place, follow the link http://nadc.wsi.tafensw.edu.au/search/7171/

Register online, then come to the information session on Monday 7 July at 12 noon in room PG35, Building P,  at the Kingswood campus, Western Sydney Institute.

To find us, enter TAFE via Gate 2 in O’Connell St, Kingswood, and follow the road to the end. Building P is at the end of the large free car park. Detailed information on how to find us is here

http://wsifineart.blogspot.com.au/2011/06/how-to-find-nepean-arts-and-design.html

 Come to the session to find out more, see our great facilities, and you can show  us art work you’ve made. We can advise you on whether the course will suit you. Your course would begin on Wed 16 July 2014.

If you can’t make the session, call the section on 9208 9484 or Customer service on 131870. Teachers will be on holiday, so leave your contact number if you get the voicemail.