A Visual Arts Degree at NADC? Register your Interest!

 SUPER EXCITING NEWS: NADC is currently calling out for expressions of interest from people who wish to undertake a Bachelor of Visual Arts. We are looking into the possibility of running this qualification here at NADC.

Registrations have only been open for a short time, and we have already generated a high level of interest!

Prospective students could include current and former TAFE visual and fine art students, and members of the broader community who wish to gain a degree in the visual arts with an emphasis on studio practice. The degree would hold multiple entry points depending on your existing qualification/s (if any). In order to run a Bachelor of Visual Arts at NADC,  first we need to gauge the level of interest. 

If a Visual Arts Degree in Western Sydney sounds good to you, please follow the link below, and fill out the very short registration of interest form. Please share!
http://nadc.wsi.tafensw.edu.au/fine-arts/

Another exhibition for Di Holdsworth

Di Holdsworth, 'The Tryst', (detail) mechanical assemblage, 2013

NADC visual arts teacher Di Holdsworth is continuing her run of recent exhibitions. Di is currently included in an exhibition in the Sydney Museum called 'Suburban Noir'.

This exhibition breaks with the tradition of presenting Sydney as a visual splendour, finding instead a more reserved city. The police photographs capture the spaces left behind: a moody catalogue of vacant lots, empty roads, desolate interiors and everyday fragments of life in these hard-bitten slices of Sydney. Look at these images long enough and everything starts to look like a crime scene. 

Guest curator Peter Doyle invited a group of visual artists to loan existing works or create new works in response to the forensic photographs. They have responded with diverse visual sensitivities and understanding, finding drama and tragedy but also surprising stateliness and dramatic beauty. The artists are Vanessa Berry, Dallas Bray, Rhett Brewer, Charles Cooper, Theresa Darmody, Di Holdsworth, Bruce Latimer, Michael Lewy, Frank Littler, Reg Mombassa, Peter O’Doherty, Ken Searle, Susannah Thorne and Anne Wallace.

More info about the exhibition can be found here:

http://sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/exhibitions/suburban-noir

You can read Christopher Allen's Weekend Australian review of the exhibition here:

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/review/forgotten-suburbia-in-sydney-photographic-exhibitions/story-fn9n8gph-1226854674096#  

Congratulations Di!

 

Alumni Exhibition

We are very excited to announce our inaugural Alumni exhibition, opening Thursday March 6th at 6pm in the Trapezium Gallery. Members of the Alumni Association have been given the opportunity to submit works for the show, and we're very keen to see what they've been up to since completing their studies with us. Please join us at the Trapezium Gallery for the opening, where light refreshments will be served. You'll have an opportunity to chat with many of the artists, and perhaps purchase an original artwork or two for a bargain price. See the invitation below for details.

Alumni exhibition - (click to enlarge)

Fine Arts teacher Tim Allen; magazine article and exhibition

The current issue (no.26) of Artist Profile magazine features a five page article on Tim Allen's work and practice. Artist Profile is one of Australia's leading art magazines; a quarterly journal of in-depth and exclusive interviews with contemporary visual artists.

Tim is currently exhibiting a solo exhibition with Defiance Gallery at 47 Enmore Rd Newtown until 1st March.

Tim has also been selected a finalist in the Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing, judged by Edmund Capon, and open from 1- 28 March at the Adelaide Perry Gallery.

Introduction to Digital Photography Course

Introduction to Digital Photography

 

In our Introduction to Digital photography course you will develop basic skills in taking digital photographs with manual controls.   

 

This practical, hands on short course is ideal for people who are interested in photography  just as a hobby or  for people who may be interested in pursuing photography as a career. If you have a digital SLR camera and would love to know how to use it, then this is the course for you.

 

Topics will include introduction to basic camera controls, composition, shooting with available light and much more.

 

The course is held at Nepean College in the picturesque grounds of Kingswood campus. This campus has fantastic student facilities, including ample parking, cafeterias, student gymnasium, and access to good public transport.

 

The class is run on a Tuesday evening from 6pm-9pm starting next week, Tuesday the 25th of February, and running for 7 weeks. For more information, and to enrol, please visit:

 

http://nadc.wsi.tafensw.edu.au/search/9698

 

This is an excellent pathway for those interested in applying for the Certificate IV in Photoimaging.

All welcome to the opening of the annual Student Art Award!

 

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Thursday 13th Febuary at 12pm is the official opening of the Student Art Award at Trapezium Gallery.
This eagerly awaited event is a highlight of the Trapezium Gallery timetable, featuring a showcase of the best student work from 2013. Three students from each of the Visual Arts disciplines (painting, printmaking, ceramics, art photogrpahy and drawing) have been selected (some student shave been selected in more than one discipline).
Awards will be given for each discipline with an overall Student Art Award sponsored by the Students Association. Judges for the award are Diana Robson, Director, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery and Karen Harris, Senior Cultual Officer, Penrith city Council.
Since graduating from NADC, these high achieving students are all now studying visual arts at higher education or working in the visual arts industry in a professional capacity.
Everyone is welcome to come along on Thursday at 12pm to help us celebrate the achievements of these talented artists.

Advanced Diploma Grad Show- you're invited!

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Our Advanced Diploma of Visual Arts students have had an amazing year this year. Their site specific project at The Penrith Regional Gallery & The Lewers Bequest is still on show until November 10, and neext week their grad show opens in the Trapezium Gallery, Nepean College Kingswood Campus.

You are warmly invited to the opening of Veni Vidi Vici, on Wednesday November 6, at 6pm. The exhibition will be opened by Dr Shirley Daborn, Collections Manager from Lewers. It promises to be an outstanding exhibition, and a great way for these emerging artists to finish off a year full of achievements.

Did you know that there is more than one pathway for entry into the Advanced Diploma of Visual Arts? The course is suitable for those who have completed a Diploma in Fine or Visual Art, but entry may also be gained by recognition of Prior Learning (RPL). This means we have a great mix of people in our classes, including recent Diploma graduates, but also artists who have an existing studio practice, and who wish to reanimate their practice by studying with like minded people under the guidance of experienced and friendly mentor/ teachers, who are practicing artists themselves.

To register your interest in the Advanced Diploma of Visual Arts, visit the following links,  

or call the section on ph 9208 9513. 

Advanced Diploma of Visual Arts Full Time:

https://www.tafensw.edu.au/howex/courseOfferingDetail.do?Command=offeringDetail&OfferNo=1229149

Advanced Diploma of Visual Arts Part Time:

https://www.tafensw.edu.au/howex/courseOfferingDetail.do?Command=offeringDetail&OfferNo=1229154https://www.tafensw.edu.au/howex/courseOfferingDetail.do?Command=offeringDetail&OfferNo=1229154