Visual Art Staff Show - you are invited to the floor talk!

The 2016 Visual Arts Staff Show is currently on display in the Trapezium Gallery. This elegant exhibition showcases the arts practice of staff currently teaching on our visual arts courses. 

This week, on Wednesday March 23rd, the weekly NADC Arts Forum will be held in the Gallery, with many of the artists present to speak about their work, and answer questions from the audience.

Join us in the Gallery at 12 noon on March 23 for drinks and nibbles. At 12.30, NADC painting and drawing teacher Tim Allen will M.C. the floor talks, introducing the artists who will speak about the motivation and techniques behind their works. The talks will last for approximately half an hour, and from 1pm to 1.30 pm you can mingle with the artists and continue to enjoy the exhibition.

The exhibition includes work by David White, Tim Allen, Catherine O'Donnell, Jo Newton, Samara Kendall, Anthony Cahill, Cath Barcan, Jacqueline Spedding, Linda Seiffert, Cameron Ferguson, Matthew Ablitt, Di Holdsworth, Stephen Hall and Shirley Daborn.

The exhibition continues until March 31. Gallery hours are 9am-4pm, Monday to Friday.

Artwork by Anthony Cahill(iphone snap by Peter Helm)

Artwork by Linda Seiffert (iphone snap by Peter Helm)

QSRT 2016 opportunity for NADC students!

 Join Adnan Begic and Angela Stretch in the T Block auditorium on Wednesday May 2 for the first Arts Forum of the year. Angela is the lead artist in this year's Queen Street Riches and Textures project, and Adnan s the project co-ordinator. If you are not familiar with this amazing project and the professional opportunity could  provide for NADC students, make sure you come along and find out! This year's project is suitable for students in  all course areas in NADC. The Forum takes place from 12.30pm-1.30pm on Wedneday in the T Block auditorium.

Read below for a bit of background infoto the project courtesy of St Mary's Corner- but best to come to the Forum and hear for yourself!

Queen Street Riches and Textures is a cultural initiative developed by St Marys Corner Community and Cultural Precinct in 2012. The initiative engages local residents in creative conversations about Queen Street, the main street of St Marys through re-discovering, documenting, creatively expressing and interpreting the street’s past, present and future.

Engagement: Queen Street Riches and Textures is informed by three principles – engagement, mentorship and partnerships. The engagement is one of creative collaborations, social interaction and conversations, between artists and community and people and places.

Mentorship: Each year Queen Street Riches and Textures works with contemporary artists and through a specific artistic medium explores people and place. In each annual project a professional

artist also mentors local emerging artists while creatively engaging with the community.

Partnerships: Queen Street Riches and Textures is constantly extending partnerships with civic,

community, cultural, art and educational agencies, organisations and institutions.

Achievements: Since 2012 the project has achieved great community endorsement and participation of more than 300 local residents, 40 local and metropolitan art students and emerging artists and a number of partners and associates through a building sustainable relationships with regional educational institutions and community organisations.

Student Art Award opens on Wednesday

Join us!

 

 

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Blacktown Art Prize

The Blacktown City Art Prize celebrated 20 years this year. Nepean Arts and Design Centre is thrilled that the exhibition included six of our current students- well done to:
Ann Babinard, Annette Bukovinsky, Justin Bishop, Napit Junmanee, Rebecca Kutnjak, Gloria McGrath, on their inclusion in this high standard exhibition.

The show also includes 6 NADC alumni: Linda Brescia, Jody Graham, Negin Chahoud, Jennifer Gabbay, Bron Newman, Mandy Schoner-Salter. Congratulations to all- we are very proud of you!

You still have until January 31, 2016 to see this vibrant show. You can find more details here:
 http://www.blacktown.nsw.gov.au/Discover_Blacktown/Venues_and_Facilities/Arts_Centre/Whats_On/2015/September/2015_Blacktown_City_Art_Prize

 If you would like to study visual art with the Best in the West, and start participating in the visual arts industry, visit our webpage, and find out more about the courses on offer at Nepean Arts and Design Centre in 2016.

http://wsi.tafensw.edu.au/courses-and-careers/visual-arts/

Enrol now in the Bachelor of Visual Arts

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The Bachelor of Visual Arts is a partnership program with Federation University. This means that students have the opportunity to study at Degree level at NADC, however the program is administered and issued by Federation University.

You can read more about the Federation University Bachelor of Visual Arts program here.

Did you know our  Diploma and Advanced Diploma of Visual Arts programs at NADC give you direct entry into the BVA?

NADC has an innovative pathways program to the Bachelor of Visual Arts, that allows candidates to achieve three qualifications over the course of three and a half years of full-time study, with an exit point at the conclusion of each qualification.

 If you hold the entry qualifications (the pink ones in the diagram above) you can submit your application to Fed Uni  straight away at the following link! For location of study please select Western Sydney Institute.

https://apply.federation.edu.au/

If you are at the beginning of your post-secondary study in visual arts, then your first step to your degree is to enrol in and complete the Diploma of Visual Arts at NADC and/ or the Advanced Diploma of Visual Arts.

 Please attend one of our information and enrolment sessions in January to gain entry into the Diploma of Visual Arts, and the Advanced Diploma of Visual Arts. You will need to bring a folio of 6-10 artworks you have made. 

 The info/ enrolment sessions are being held on January 20, and January 27, from 1pm-4pm.

 Location: Nepean College, Kingswood Campus, in Building P, Ground floor, Room 53. 

You can get info on how to find us here:
http://wsifineart.blogspot.com.au/2011/06/how-to-find-nepean-arts-and-design.html

 Meanwhile you can start your application online here:
http://wsi.tafensw.edu.au/courses-and-careers/visual-arts/

Here's to a creative 2016!

Confluence - Advanced Diploma exhibition

Students of Nepean Art and Design Centre at Kingswood TAFE have had a busy year honing their artistic talent in the Advanced Diploma of Visual Arts course and the results of their efforts will be unveiled at their end of year exhibition opening at the Trapezium Gallery on Wed November 4^th 2015 at 6pm.

Confluence is the culmination of two years' study across the art mediums of drawing, painting, photography, ceramics and printmaking - students have refined their skills and revealed their talents under the guidance of teachers and look forward to showing their major works - a nerve wracking but very necessary process on the road to professional artmaking, and entry to Bachelor of Visual Arts at NADC in 2016.

The exhibition will be opened by Paul Brinkman, Director - Blue Mountains Cultural Centre / Blue Mountains Theatre & Community Hub, and light refreshments and drinks are complimentary. 

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Exhibition dates: 30/10 – 11/11

Gallery hours: 9am-4pm weekdays

Opening night: Wed November 4^th, 6pm

Trapezium Gallery, P Block

TAFE NSW – Western Sydney Institute,

Nepean College (Kingswood Campus)

12 - 44 O’Connell St Kingswood - enter via gate 2

enq ph. 92089484

15 Degrees: an exhibition of works by students from the Bachelor of Visual Arts at Nepean Arts and Design Centre

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The final Arts Forum for the term  at NADC will be held on Wednesday, September 16 in the Trapezium Gallery. The Arts Forum will be a floor talk and an opening for the impressive current Trapezium Gallery show, 15 Degrees - works in progress by Bachelor of Visual Arts students at Nepean Arts and Design Centre.

 A sumptuous array of food will be served from 12.30pm, with the talk commencing as usual at 1pm (and running until 2pm).

Our special guest is Rilka Oakley, who is a curator at the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre. Rilka will be in conversation with our BVA students about their work in the exhibition.

We do hope you can join us, to celebrate the achievements so far of our inaugural Bachelor of Visual Arts students, and appreciate the potential of their work yet to come.


The Bachelor of Visual Arts is a partnership program with Federation University. This means that students have the opportunity to continue their studies at Degree level at NADC, however the program is administered and issued by Federation University.
You can read more about the Federation University Bachelor of Visual Arts program here.

NADC has an innovative pathways program to the Bachelor of Visual Arts, that allows candidates to achieve three qualifications over the course of three and a half years of full-time study, with an exit point at the conclusion of each qualification.

NADC staff will be available to provide information at 2pm (after the Arts Forum) on the Bachelor of Visual Arts program, or call the section on ph 9208 9484 for further information.

If you hold the entry qualifications (the pink ones in the diagram above) you can submit your application to Fed Uni  straight away at the following link! For location of study please select Western Sydney Institute.

https://apply.federation.edu.au/