NCAT CREATE INFORMATION SESSION FOR 2021

 

NCAT Create is hosting an online Information session for its wonderful part-time Diploma of Visual Arts on Tuesday the 1st of September at 7pm. You must register on the NCAT website ncat.vic.edu.au and we will send you out a link to join us via Zoom. 

NCAT Create is a renowned art course designed for adults who are looking to study visual art part-time. Tune in to hear what it is all about with @lacontrapposto 
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UPCOMING INFORMATION SESSIONS FOR FOLIO PREPARATION AND CREATE

If you would like more information about NCAT Folio Preparation or NCAT Create and a tour of our facilities, we have an information session coming up at the beginning of Term Three. Swing by and say hello!

NCAT FOLIO PREPARATION

and NCAT CREATE

INFORMATION SESSIONS

6 PM SHARP

TUESDAY 7th AUGUST 2018

NORTHERN COLLEGE OF THE ARTS & TECHNOLOGY

62 MURRAY ROAD, PRESTON

Due to building works,

entry is via Sheila St or Jensen Rd gates.

Sessions start promptly

Call 03 9478 1333 for further details or check the NCAT website ncat.vic.edu.au

WELCOME TO THE 2018 NCAT FOLIO PREPARATION STUDENTS!

Welcome to our 2018 Folio Preparation cohort. It is a full house this year! Students have come from all over the place... even Perth! The students are spread over two groups - Design and Visual Arts. We are looking forward to a cracking year of creativity. Apologies to those on the waiting list who missed out on a position. You are welcome to reapply for 2019 but get in early. Applications open in June.

Interested? You can read more about what is in store for the students here

WHAT OUR ALUMNI ARE SAYING ABOUT NCAT CREATE

Sometimes the best way to get a feel for a course is to ask what ex students think...

What our NCAT Create Alumni say

"Thank-you for Create! The NCAT Create course proved to be a year jam-packed with new ideas, skills/practices – a year that I shall never forget. A year of delight! A watershed year!
Since the course I have continued drawing, painting, completing my visual diary and now feel strange if I don't draw, make or photograph something on a daily basis. Creating has become a practice - a pleasurable and satisfying practice.
My subsequent Monash university interview proved to be a life highlight and I felt that I had come "home" when I received my offer to their Fine Art degree. Thank you so much Tracy for your advice and for giving me the material and "know how" to prepare my fine art folio.
A heartfelt thank you to CREATE for getting me back on track!" 
-Elizabeth Esdale

"Exciting times. Thanks so much to the teachers at NCAT Create. It was such a wonderful year last year. It'll be hard to top it but got a thrill today when I committed myself to studying BA Sculpture at RMIT. I've always wanted to be in the big city and I now feel like a proper grown up! I am so grateful to have spent my time with you all last year. Here’s to my creative and inspired future!"
-Margaret Perversi

"After 12 years as a stay at home mum, I enrolled into NCAT Create and had such a creatively (and socially) fulfilling year! Never did I feel like I was out of the loop, having been "mum" for so long, but I was made to feel like an artist, to push through fears of "what if I can't", and get glimpses of what I'm really capable of. I give so much credit to the teachers for this, they are all awesome!! I was exposed to so many art forms in the year, many of which I had no idea I'd enjoy so much. I met so many great people, had so many great conversations and made so much great art!
I now have a shared art studio with some of the wonderful people I met and we all continue towards our creative goals and dreams." 
Thank you NCAT!!
-Danielle Triantafillou

NCAT Create 2016

NCAT Create 2015

"I enrolled in and completed the NCAT Create course in 2015. I cannot recommend it highly enough. The support and encouragement to return to, and follow my passion after a long break was incredible. I start my Bachelor of Fine Art in Drawing & Printmaking at VCA in a couple of weeks, and would not have had the confidence or folio to even think about applying before Create. If you are thinking of applying to NCAT Create or even just contacting them for more info, I'd say 'go for it!'You've got everything to gain!"
-Belinda Reid

NCAT Create 2014

"The NCAT Create course was a life changing experience for me - A supportive learning environment, with staff who are professional and encouraging. If you are considering undertaking a Visual Arts course, I can highly recommend the Create course at NCAT, it is fantastic!"
-Lisa Shannon

"I just wanted to say a big thank you to you and all of the staff for everything you have done for us in the Create course. I feel a bit emotional writing this, as it has really been the best thing I HAVE EVER DONE! I can't believe how unbelievably patient and helpful you and all the teaching staff have been. It has been incredible. And let's be honest- we are not the easiest bunch to teach!"
-Jess Buckley

"I completed the Create Course at NCAT in 2015. It was a thoroughly enjoyable and exciting experience that gave me the courage and confidence to start creating art again after a long time away from it. I found the tutors to be energetic, exhilarating, experienced and above all passionate about what they taught. 
NCAT Create reintroduced me to all the aspects of art I love - life drawing, printmaking, collage, photography and digital media. I updated my digital skills, learnt about valuable resume and job requirements, and to top it all met amazing, talented & inspiring people! 
I would highly recommend this course to anyone who perhaps needs a gentle push back into a career within the visual arts or for anyone who wants to start their future in the art world. I am looking forward to my future career in Illustration."
-Tanya Bickers

"Studying the Create course at NCAT was amazing. I learnt so much and felt inspired and supported by every staff member. I have no hesitation in recommending NCAT Create as a stepping stone for anyone interested in pursuing a career in the visual arts". 
-Valentina Maxwell Tansley

"Just wanted to say THANK you to you all for an amazing year. The CREATE course was so valuable in so many ways for me. It's given me the confidence to commit to being an artist, and you have all been so generous with your knowledge, experience and support.
I have enjoyed all the classes, I loved Studio and Life drawing to bits, it felt like such a treat to have a dedicated space and guidance to develop my voice and skills in those areas, and it solidified more of a commitment to my art through the conversations we have had. Probably my most surprising discovery is the realm of the digital world that the digital teachers patiently guided us through, it has been a big leap for me. I am actually addicted to Photoshop! - a shock to me that's for sure (I am a complete technophobe).  Thank you all for your passion and skills.
I just received an offer for Print Imaging Practice at RMIT which I'm pretty chuffed about- at this stage of my life it's pretty amazing to have taken this step. I gained the confidence to do this through the CREATE course and through all the skills and encouragement you offered. Thank you so much. We Create students have been incredibly lucky!"
-Becky Lo

"NCAT Create was amazing! It gave me the confidence to pursue something I'd always dreamed about! I met a great bunch of people, learned new skills and totally transformed my life! I now practice art daily, have a studio, a website and a career path. I've exhibited in galleries, sold works, won competitions and am studying [Diploma of Illustration] - all this and to think only a year ago I'd had very limited art experience". 
-Louella Evans

Further information on applying to NCAT Create can be found here

NCAT CREATE 2016

NCAT Create 2016

Another terrific Create group who are already loving the NCAT Create course! Welcome on board Bei Janetzki, welcome back Ali McCann, Mark Russell and Tracy Paterson and a fond farewell to Sue Durham who has retired to do her own creating!

FOLIO PREPARATION INFORMATION SESSION

NCAT Folio Preparation has an information session coming up on Tuesday 13th October at 6pm. If you are interested in building a fabulous set of art or design skills along with a great folio for entry to Uni, come along for a chat!

Staff will be around for anyone interested in Create as well.

COLLAGE ARTIST ANNE WARREN TEAMS UP AGAIN WITH NCAT CREATE

©NCAT Create

We have been very lucky to have the opportunity to team up yet again with Anne Warren, a local Melbourne artist who helped this year's NCAT Create students push conceptual ideas through 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! 

©NCAT Create

©NCAT Create

"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/

©NCAT Create

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!

Following Anne's workshop, the Create students went on to produce conceptual mixed media collages and montages based on two ideas: Remembrance and Birds. The results are a striking exploration of deeper meaning within artworks. See the images below. *All images ©NCAT Create

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©NCAT Create

©NCAT Create

©NCAT Create

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NCAT FOLIO PREPARATION ORIENTATION 2015

Every year we enjoy meeting our new Folio Preparation cohort and love finding kooky ways to bring them together... what better way could there be than a dose of CAKE DECORATING! 

Small teams pour crazed creativity onto sponge cakes! Lets let the pictures do the talking! 

Welcome to Folio Prep. 

Images ©NCAT Folio Preparation