NCAT FOLIO PREPARATION | CREATE INFORMATION EVENING

It is that time of the year, when prospective students begin to think about their creative future.

If you are thinking about applying to NCAT Folio Preparation or NCAT Create in 2015, we recommend that you come along to our information session on Monday 13th October, 6 - 7pm at NCAT.

Our staff will show you around the facilities and explain how our courses work. They will talk you through the advantages our courses will give you and the elective options on offer.

NCAT Folio Preparation offers: 

CUV40111 Certificate IV in Visual Arts

CUV40311 Certificate IV in Design

VCAL Senior Extension - Folio Enhancement

NCAT Create offers:

CUV30111 Certificate III in Visual Arts

VCAL Senior Extension - Folio Enhancement

Both courses offer students an opportunity to build creative skills and confidence. All students have access to industry standard equipment and facilities, including apple computers and ipads, the Adobe Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator and Indesign), purpose built drawing studio, and a stimulating creative environment.

In the meantime, you can complete an application form and email it to us at NCATfoliopreparation@gmail.com 

Application forms are available 

here: 

http://ncat.vic.edu.au/applications 

or here: http://ncatfoliopreparation.blogspot.com.au/p/how-do-i-apply-to-nds.html 

NCAT CREATE COLLAGE WORKSHOP WITH LOCAL ARTIST ANNE WARREN

We have been very lucky to have the opportunity to team up with Anne Warren, a local Melbourne artist who helped us take our NCAT Create students through the finer intricacies of collage. Anne is a highly skilled Dada inspired Collage artist with an extraordinary ability to cut the finest of details with a tiny pair of embroidery scissors! 

"From a photo I have taken or from a found image in a book, I respond to the visual images that are around me. I will juxtapose an image or part of into a new environment to allow the viewer to interpret as they wish".

- Anne Warren

Kindly reproduced from her excellent wordpress blog: http://annewarren.wordpress.com/

Anne has a Diploma in Visual Art as well as a Bachelor in Fine Art (Drawing) from RMIT University (2009). She is currently exhibiting, is an active member of Alphington Open Studios, the Out of the Box group of artists and is teaching mixed media, digital, collage, assemblage, drawing workshops from her studio.

Anne worked with our students to create small collages on water-coloured backgrounds which were all about placement and finding the right image. The workshop coincided with a copyright unit and as a result, the students sourced their images from appropriate copyright free books and magazines, found in op shops and dusty bookshelves!

The Create students got so much out of Anne's workshop. The following week many came in with new collages and began to branch into varying styles. We went on to do mixed media with a big conceptual push based on birds and memory as themes and they just blossomed. The Create students went on to make a piece based on tags, taking ideas in all sorts of directions. We have seen a real change in confidence and output through the collage workshops which has been wonderful to watch. Anne's introductory workshop was a real turning point. There is nothing like some success to ignite a creative spark!

*All NCAT Create images are © Northern College of the Arts & Technology 2014. All Create student artworks are reproduced with permission.

Anne (right) demonstrating collage techniques in the Create Studio above

All images ©NCAT Create