Woodlands Art Show

To celebrate the first anniversary of the mental health units at Toronto Private Hospital, the Woodlands Art Show held its first art prize on Friday 10th October.

Entries were judged by Toronto Private Hospital CEO Andrew Mereau, Local MP Greg Piper and a representative from Lake Macquarie Art Gallery.

The winner was announced at the first anniversary celebration morning tea and the winner was.........

Newcastle Art School student Lynette Bridge. Lynette won $300 and also donated her work to the hospital in the hope of helping people living with a mental illness to seek expression through the arts.

Congratulations Lynnie!!!

Celebrating the TAFE/High School collaboration

It's the final week for TVET Fine Arts and Digital Imaging students this coming week. Three terms are never enough for the creative energy these High School students bring the Hunter st Creative Industries campus.

Below are some examples of the excellent work created by these students throughout the course of the last thirty weeks.

Donkey Sanctuary - Workshop Week

This last week was workshop week which included site visits and trips.
This video is from the Donkey Sanctuary at Clarencet0wn organised by Michael Bell. Students got to spend the day drawing on site and developing images of the donkeys. There will be diplay of work in the exhibition next week in the Front Room Gallery.

We are reviving our blog and hoping to use it to promote the activities of the Newcastle Art School and the Front Room Gallery.

Additionally we have started our Facebook pages and hope they will link well to allow people to know about what we are doing.

Tonight was the opening of Resolved, our Advanced Diploma Drawing exhibition at Podspace.

Only a small selection of work was able to be shown from a strong and diverse program. The pieces are a small but powerful selection from the studios. Drawing supports the studio work, in that the ideas are developed and evolve in drawing, but they also take on a life of their own and effectively show another side of the coin that is art practice.