TVET Photography

Any school students interested in doing our TVET Digital Photography, or Fine Arts, courses should see the article posted on our website. These young artists produced some great work.

http://www.hunter.tafensw.edu.au/news/Pages/TVET-students-snap-quality-photography.aspx

Zoe Tweedale

Advanced Diploma Graduate Zoe Tweedale is having an exhibition at Robin Gibson Gallery in Liverpool St, Darlinghurst. Open until the 2nd October.



Zoe's paintings are developing strongly and show many of the fascinations that drove her as a student. Great to see her doing so well.
http://robingibson.net/exhibitions/zoe-tweedale

MOMENTUM opened last night in the Front Room Gallery. An exhibition of work by Advanced Diploma Visual Art students. Please come and see it as it is on until the 20th September

Photogram project at JHH

Currently on exhibition at the John Hunter Hospital is a project by Advanced Diploma of Fine Art Photomedia students. The piece was created during a visit on the grounds of the hospital where discarded items were collected. Inspired by these treasures, the students then continued to collect items from TAFE to produce the final work.

Artists/Students: Kelly Barlin, Ashlee Bucholtz, Paul Carr, Maggie Hall, Tara Keher

LAUNCH exhibition opening

Please come to our opening of LAUNCH - the first of our Advanced Diploma exhibitions for the year featuring Ashlee Bucholtz, Joy Laoli, Georgia Mason, Sarah Stein, Kathryn Taunton, Emilie Tseronis and Sharon Williams.

The opening is on Wednesday 28th August from 5:30pm and will be a relaunch of our Front Room Gallery, now located fully within the Newcastle Art School.

TVET photo and art exhibit

Until August 23rd upstairs in the Front Room Gallery is a great exhibition of students in our TVET course. These artists are high school students who attend TAFE courses at the Newcastle Art School in digital photography and fine art.

 

The work features projects, portraits, digital effects, great thematic images and strong technique.

Reg Russom Prize

 

 

Congratulations to Brooke Wann who won the 2013 Reg Russom Drawing Prize. Judge John Barnes, Director of Cessnock Regional Gallery, selected her work from drawings by students of the Newcastle Art School and the University of Newcastle.

 

An encouragement award sponsored by Eckersley's Art Supplies was awarded to Tara Keher for her drawing.

The Reg Russom Drawing Prize is for a figurative drawing and celebrates the Newcastle artist and Head Teacher of the Art School, Reg Russom. The prize was first offered in 1955.

 

 

 

Workshop Week at TAFE

Workshop week is a time to try something new. The usual path is deviated from and we throw ourselves into the deep end of some strange and fascinating new methods of mark making. Sometimes old, sometimes new, sometimes borrowed and sometimes blue (that's the cyanotype workshop)

The workshop I conducted with Clare Weeks was all about making a time lapse animation. We had a lovely group of eager participants. The process can be time consuming but our group dove in head first and came up smiling. Several hundred images later and each member of the group had a completed animation by the end of the day. Some of which are displayed below for your enjoyment.

Thanks to the artists Sharon Williams, Patrick Maverty and Nicholas Grimes

TVET Animation

During term two of the TVET photography course we did a project involving stop motion animation. This process involves capturing a sequence of images of something happening and stitching them together to create a continuous motion animation. The number of images usually starts between 60 - 300 (one of the students shot 2000 images for her animation)

Below are two examples of the work done by this creative group of high school students.

Kiss My Arts

During the month of May, MS Australia ran a fundraising program called Kiss Goodbye to MS. Two TAFE photography teachers, Clare Weeks and James Murphy, participated in the event by collaborating on an image each day of the month and posting these images to the 'Kiss Goodbye' Facebook page. Each image represented one letter of the fundraiser title KISS GOODBYE TO MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS X

The team were called Kiss My Arts and during the month of May they also coordinated an exhibition of the same name. Many TAFE teachers, students and ex-students came together to exhibit artworks at the exhibition and donate a percentage of the sale price of their artwork to MS Australia. The proceeds of the month long fundraiser and the exhibition amounted to over $2,500.00

Well down to all the participants for an outstanding fundraiser.

Kodak Salon

This years Kodak Salon at the Centre for Contemporary Photography in Melbourne drew a record number of entries including two of the teaching staff and one of our graduating third year students. Clare Weeks and James Murphy both from the teaching staff and Thomas Hadland each represented Hunter St Fine Arts boldly and well.

James Murphy took out the Kayell Best Inkjet Print category with his image Urban 570 (pictured below)

What are you killing? Installation by Elissa Jane

This installation made from recycled materials depicts a coral reef in the yellow stairwell at Newcastle Art school.  This work forms part of  III - Advanced Diploma of Fine Arts Graduating students exhibition.

Detail of Fragmental - enamel on aluminium by Elizabeth Frances

2nd Year Artist's Luncheon 2012

Cert 3 Students Practicing Ebru

Cert 3 Students practicing Ebru

The Result

Volume Three - Prints & photographs by Diploma of Fine Art students



Top left: woodblock prints by Ellie Kauffman, Top right: Digital print by Christine Bushell,

Bottom left: Digital print by Kelly Barlin, Bottom right: Chine colle etching by Kathryn Taunton

Volume Three displays a wide variety of printmaking and photographic techniques.  Students have pushed these techniques with a strong combination of edgy and psychologically driven work delving into the human condition, while other works explore our fraught relationship with the planet.





III Advanced Diploma opening

Friends of the Newcastle Arts School.
Please come to the opening of III, Advanced Diploma Fine Arts Graduating exhibition. It will also be our last exhibition in the Front Room Gallery.

If you want to support the Newcastle Art School and these graduates, come along and celebrate.

New Video

 

Take a look at our latest video.

We will have all our course offerings for 2013 up real soon.

Museum Practices 2013

Only a few places left for this popular course. Register your interest now!

Newcastle Art School is currently accepting new enquiries for the 2013 Museum Practices course. The 2012 interns have had a successful year that has seen two student volunteers being employed as casual staff members at their internship sites.

Congratulations to Tracey Lang for being employed to work on the digitisation of photography at The Great Lakes Museum. This project is being supported by The Powerhouse Museum in Sydney.

Lisa Kirkpatrick was also employed by Maitland Regional Art Gallery and she additionally worked on a successful grant application to tour the Baldessin exhibition during her internship this year.

The 2012 student group has over seen and developed several exhibitions in the Front Room Gallery in 2012.  We have visited many galleries and museums all over the Hunter Region and as far afield as The Nicholsen and Macleay Museums in Sydney University as well as The Biennale of Sydney. 

This course is for those employed as assistants in, or working as volunteers in, an art gallery or museum.
The intent of the course is to provide broad skills, knowledge and understanding of museum and gallery practices to current employees, trainees or potential art workers in skilled technical, or supervisory support positions in museums or galleries.

You will undertake research on collections and objects, develop exhibition designs and displays and participate in public programs and other activities with a gallery or museum.

The delivery is flexible and combines work experience, structured courses, research and projects. The course includes training on site at Regional Galleries and other venues. If you are not already an employee or volunteer of a gallery or museum you will be supported to volunteer at a Regional Gallery or another appropriate site.

For further information contact Linda Swinfield ph 4929 0354 or email linda.swinfield@tafensw.edu.au or Head Teacher Matthew Tome ph 4929 0315 matthew.tome@tafensw.edu.au

or by registering for the course by clicking on the link below

https://www.tafensw.edu.au/howex/courseOfferingDetail.do?Command=offeringDetail&OfferNo=1105150

Volumes I & II Painting & Sculpture by Diploma of Fine Arts students

Volume Two  - Sculpture and painting by Diploma of Fine Art students opens Wednesday 24 October 5:30 pm

Volume I - Painting and sculpture by Diploma of Fine Art students