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.

 

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!