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

Lezlie Tilley wins Gosford Art Prize

Renowned painter and teacher at Newcastle Art School, Lezlie Tilley won the Gosford Art Prize.

 

Lezlie exhibits with Brenda May Gallery and their blog has some pics of Lezlie collecting the prize.
http://www.brendamaygallery.com.au/blog/index.php/prize-lezlie-tilley-winner-of-the-2012-gosford-art-prize/

She won the $10,000 prize with her painting Road to Alice – After the Fire. The prize was judged by
 Anthony Bond OAM, Director, Curatorial, Art Gallery of NSW.

Congratulations Lezlie. Well deserved for a dedicated artist and a great teacher.

Open for ART Business

No doubt many of you know of the NSW Government's decision to stop funding Art at TAFE. Clearly we are fighting this decision and there many groups of concerned students, citizens, art patrons all letting the Government know what a mistake they are making.

But you should know that WE ARE NOT CLOSING.

Teaching staff and Hunter TAFE management are working hard to look at alternative funding for courses both for continuing students and new students.

If anyone tries to tell you that Newcastle Art School is closing then tell them otherwise.

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.

Reg Russom Memorial Drawing Prize Winner announed

The Reg Russom Memorial Drawing Prize invites artists from the Lower Hunter region under the age of 31 to submit drawings of the hhuman figure.  The prestigious acquisitive prize, which was first awarded in 1955 honours artist and teacher Reg Russom.

 

 John Moroney's delicate pastel life drawing is the winner of this year's prize.

 

Ryan Williams' work was highly commended

Photobooth Photomedia Excursion

The Photobooth is alive and well and right on our doorstep here in Newcastle... shop 20 Market Square in the Hunter Street Mall to be precise. 

The delightful Paula Birch, Creative Director of Strip Of A Lifetime Photobooth and Service Station, was our guide during our visit where students were able to look, see and experience the Photobooth in all it's wondrous glory.

I think I speak for us all when I say we shall be returning. It is somewhat addictive!

some of the class from Diploma and Advanced Diploma in the Booth

Karama - Collect together: Contemporary Indigenous Art & Design

Karama - Collect together: Contemporary Indigenous Art & Design is an exhibition of works by traditional and contemporary indigenous artists and designers from the Hunter Valley to the Mid North coast. It includes artists from the Awabakal, Worimi, Biripi, Wonarrua nations and beyond.

This exhibition, curated by students enrolled in Newcastle Art School’s Museum Practices Course, provides an opportunity for artists from different tribal backgrounds, who are working across a broad range of media to collect together and showcase the diversity of indigenous art & design across the region.

Karama, from an Awabakal word meaning ‘a collecting together’ combines an exciting and inspiring collection of diverse media and art styles by the many indigenous artists living and working in Awabakal country; the Hunter Valley and as far away as the Great Lakes.

The exhibition will showcase work by both established and emerging Indigenous artists. These include contemporary artist and Yarnteen CEO Saretta Fielding; artists from the Gangga Marrang group based at Taree area including Rex Winston, Joan McDonald and Nicole Duncan; Award winning Naidoc Artist of the Year (2008) Les Elvin; Recipient of the Cessnock City Council Arts Scholarship 2012 and Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery intern Tara Standing; the works of Aaron Weights and Philip Sweeney from Cessnock Correctional Centre; and, emerging artist and student Grace Edwards.


 

Maggie's Prize

Congratulations to Maggie Hensel-Brown who won the Brenda Coulton Art Prize at Maitland Regional Art Gallery. Maggie gets to put on a solo exhibition of her work at the Regional Gallery in a month's time!

The entrants, most of whom were Newcastle Art School students and graduates and Newcastle Uni students, included Kelly Barlin, Ashlee Bucholtz,  Anna Buxton Soldal, Kelsey Fletcher, Thomas Hadland, Jean-Louis Kocher, Jesse Neale, Eleanore Plummer, Alexandra Robinson, Sarah Maree Stein, Laura Taylor.

http://www.maitlandmercury.com.au/story/203262/packed-maitland-gallery-for-art-prize/?cs=171
                                                        

Workshop Week 2012

Oh Oh it is Workshop Week again.. remember the Donkeys?

Well here is a little from the activity of 6th through 10th August. This will be on show in the Front Room Gallery in a few weeks. Look out for the wooden Holden.

My workshop was with basic Electronics and sound converted into some form of interactive art. Lots of soldering and buzzing.



The oscillators are small integrated circuits that are controlled with resisters and capacitors. In this case the drawing is a resister and the skateboard has a weight sensor on it. We also built small amplifiers (1/2 watt) to pump up the volume.

Sophie Toupein at the Front Room Gallery

TAFE Graduates Exhibition at PODspace

Currently on show at PODspace gallery nine artists respond to the theme, Fetish.

The exhibition opened on Thursday 19 July and runs until Saturday the 4th of August and features several TAFE graduates, Sally Dooner, Sarah Jones, Gina McDonald, Eleanor Jane Robinson, Daniel Smith, Rose Turner and TAFE Photomedia Teacher Clare Weeks.

Rose Turner's work at POD space

The nine artists who accepted the challenge of responding to the theme of Fetish have explored its many permutations in very different ways, resulting in an exciting range of works including sculpture, printmaking, photography, painting and fibre art.

Portrait Prize

The Newcastle Art School Photography department is on show right now with two of our lecturers currently in exhibitions. James Murphy has a portrait hanging in the Maitland Regional Art Gallery as part of the 1233 Portrait Prize. James received a Highly Commended for his entry. The finalists will be on show at Maitland through August.

An exhibition at Podspace Gallery has another of our lecturers, Clare Weeks, as well as several of our recent graduates. The show titled 'Fetish' is curated by Art School graduate Eleanor Jane Robinson and features several other talented artists.