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.

 

Cath Barcan exhibits in MAP project

NADC Visual Arts head teacher Cath Barcan is one of the artists in the latest Modern Art Projects exhibition. MAP explores the junction of art and architecture by staging exhibitions in private homes in the Blue Mountains, and many of these homes are classic examples of mid-century design. 

The latest exhibition, curated by Rilka Oakley, is being held on Sunday July 6. Playfully titled 'Hide and Seek' the exhibition situates artworks in and around the domestic architectural setting.

The MAP website explains further:

"Unfolding like a game the Hide & Seek exhibition navigates points of view, while challenging our default perspectives on things. The curator notes “Objects are often observed from a single view (whether this is intellectual, conceptual, historical, physical, emotional or just habit)”. As such the curation suggests looking at things from multiple points of view may be an invaluable tool. Hide & Seek negotiates this idea, and invites the viewer to find the art, to look and ask, is this the art? To spend time making an assessment of what they are looking at, or even how they are looking. “This engagement with the process of discernment or decision-making allows space for new perspectives to emerge”. The select guest artists in Rilka Oakley’s Hide & Seek curation are Cigdem Aydemir, Cath Barcan, James Culkin & Beata Geyer, Anne Graham, Billy Gruner, Daniel Kojta and David Sudmalis."

 Entry is by registration only; follow the link for more details.
http://www.modernartprojects.org/beachcomber/

NADC staff and graduates in exhibition at Penrith Regional Gallery

I'll be your mirror 3, Jo Newton, inkjet pigment print 60cmx 60 cm , 2014

This image by NADC visual arts teacher Jo Newton are featured as part of Winter Light at the Penrith Regional Gallery & Lewers Bequest, opening tomorrow afternoon at 4pm. Jo also has some pinhole cameras placed around the garden that will be making exposures over days and weeks. Winter Light also features NADC graduates Paula Gerrard and Ivy Jean, so make sure you get along to one of our great regional galleries this Saturday!

It's never too late to study art!

 Ray Atkins stands with one of his artworks. Source: News Limited

 

 Diploma of Visual Arts student Ray Atkins has a lovely story in the Parramatta Advertiser this week, talking about the fulfillment studying art has given him. Follow the link, or read the text of the article below.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/newslocal/parramatta/its-been-a-long-journey-for-ray-atkins-but-at-66-hes-finally-found-his-muse/story-fngr8huy-1226933182061

RAY Atkins has travelled a long road to become the art student he wanted to be when he left school.
But, at 66, Atkins is just happy to be finally studying fine arts at TAFE, after a lifetime that has seen him close to death, in a variety of jobs and with a marriage under his belt.
While he has never been far from the paint brush, it was only when he joined Parramatta Art Society in 2009 that he realised art was his first love. He paints abstracts and landscapes.
“Getting great encouragement from the society made me think again about studying art, so I enrolled in a fine arts diploma course at Kingswood TAFE, which I am enjoying and I may end up doing the advanced diploma course,” Atkins said.
He shrugs off the possibility he may have worked in art, perhaps as a teacher, if he had studied it from a young age.
Acting was another possibility but he knocked back an interview with NIDA for reasons that are not clear to him even today.
“My mother, who is still alive at 92, still keeps reminding me of that missed opportunity,” he said.
But his mother is just glad he survived a horrific car accident when he was 20, causing severe brain damage with the possibility he would have disabilities for life.
That accident set him back as he faced years of rehabilitation, facing the prospect of never walking again.
But, showing the same determination and sunny nature that sees him enjoying art classes with people of all ages, Atkins bounced back, working as a linesman assistant for a power company and as a an army storeman — all far removed from the creative life.
Along the way he married, and divorced.
But art still featured in his life and it was while entering in the Blacktown Art Show that he saw a notice about the TAFE art course.
“And I haven’t looked back,” he said.
“I want people to know that it is never too late to realise your dreams.”

- Parramatta Advertiser, May 27, 2014

Joint Venture: A Visual Arts Exhibition as part of Head On Photo festival

Han from Diploma of Visual Arts installs a piece for 'Joint Venture'

 

Students of Visual Arts photography at Nepean Arts and Design Centre have an exhibition as part of the Head On Photographic festival.

 

Joint Venture is opening in the Trapezium Gallery on Thursday May 22 at 12 noon. It is a fun, experimental exhibition that makes full and inventive use of the Trapezium Gallery and the walls beyond the gallery, and features a playful, composite approach to installation and photographic image making.

 

The title of Joint Venture  alludes to a way of working the students have been exploring whereby images are comprised of multiple frames and viewpoints, creating a collage-like result. It also refers to the collaboration between Diploma and advanced Diploma students of Visual Arts who were given the same brief to explore, and their various responses to this brief.

 

The exhibition runs until May 30. Don't miss this fun and experimental exhibition!

 

 

 





Me, Myself and I closing and book launch

It was great to see everyone at the Me, Myself, and I exhibition closing on Wednesday where we launched our 4th book. The book is available for purchase from Blurb.com, and can be accessed from the link below (or on the right). There has been a delay in the e-book availability due to formatting issues - we will let you know as soon as they are resolved. Congratulations to Caitlin Buckingham, whose work was chosen for the cover, and to Jacylyn Lindsay whose work was chosen to represent the 2014 exhibition on the cover of next years book. Emma White and Jacylyn Lindsay each won a copy of the current book in our 'lucky door prize' draw.

 

The exhibition has now come down - many  Thanks to all our participants for your many and varied contributions to the exhibition. Works will be returned over the next few weeks. If yours is NOT returned it means it has been chosen for pre-selection for next years book. At the closing we also announced that next year will be the 10th anniversary of our annual self-portrait show, and so we'll be mixing things up a bit and inviting anyone who has ever studied/worked at NADC to participate - we anticipate it will be massive, and very much look forward to the opportunity to catch up with past graduates.

 

 

Update - New Closing Date!

Due to unforseen circumstances the closing of Me, Myself and I has been moved to 12noon Wednesday May14th. We will be giving one of our books away as a lucky-door prize, and announcing which one of the works on show will be the cover of next year's book.