FOLIO PREP'S EXTENSION WEEK ENVIRONMENTAL POP UP

The NCAT Folio Preparation students explored street art as a response to environment on their recent extension week. The students worked collaboratively in small groups to produce a broad range of quirky responses using simple materials including chalk, disposable cups, string and paper.

   

NCAT CREATE PORTFOLIO REVIEWS

AS A REQUIREMENT OF THEIR COURSE, THE NCAT CREATE STUDENTS PRESENT THEIR PORTFOLIOS AT MID AND FINAL REVIEWS. PORTFOLIO PRESENTATIONS GIVE STUDENTS AN OPPORTUNITY TO DISPLAY THEIR ARTWORK AND LOOK AT IT AS A BODY OF WORK.

Often a lack of space stifles the ability to look at all the work a student creates and therefore they miss out on seeing an overview of their emerging style, plus identifying strengths and areas for improvement. At mid and final portfolio review, Create students are able to lay out all their work in an allotted area and examine it as a body of work.

Portfolio review also allows students to be actively involved in group-based critiques. Critiquing each other's portfolios helps students to explore the creative process and their experience as a developing artist. The process of group critiquing is about finding a balance between compliment & constructive criticism. Students learn that the criticism is never personal – It is about the portfolio of artworks not the artist. Critiquing should always be balanced, neutral and constructive. Group critiques enable students to build skills by being exposed to different styles, options and approaches. It also assists students to push their responses to art beyond the initial "I like it" to questions of why and how, articulated using art based language.

The Portfolio review whilst initially potentially challenging to some, is an excellent opportunity to build creative confidence.The review process brings together the artworks produced in NCAT Create students' Studio, Digital and Life Drawing classes.

Accompanying their portfolio is a written Artist's Statement and in the final review, a creative resume.

All images ©NCAT Create

Ex NCAT FOLIO PREPARATION STUDENT WINS NILLUMBIK PRIZE 2015

Congratulations to ex NCAT Folio Preparation student Jessie Imam who has just won the Nillumbik Prize 2015, for her work 'Diagram of Sentiment'. 

'Diagram of Sentiment' by Jessie Imam

The $5,000 first prize was announced by Prize Judge, Melinda Martin, Director of Linden New Art and presented by Nillumbik Shire Council Mayor Cr Helen Coleman at the exhibition opening in the Barn Gallery at Montsalvat.

After finishing at NCAT Folio Preparation, Jessie completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Photomedia) at Monash University in 2009. She has previously exhibited in group shows around Melbourne and in Launceston and has collaborative work showing internationally. Jessie’s work has been included in exhibitions including Aesthetic Positioning (Melb), Ambidextrous (Melb), Suspicious Minds (Launceston), Love, Art school & Death (Melb) and Cafe Nu (Melb).

Jessie's most recent works centre around themes of death, transition and traces. She takes a mythological approach and uses elements in her pieces to spark conversations surrounding truth, reality and a tension between memory, vitality and death. Although from a photographic background, Jessie’s practice also includes sculpture, installation, painting and the moving image.

Check out the exhibition at Monsalvat until 2nd August. In the meantime, check out Jessie's Facebook art page here: Jessie Imam Fine Art. Further information can be found at http://www.jessie-imam.com/

Barn Gallery,

Montsalvat

7 Hillcrest Ave.7 Hillcrest Ave.
Eltham Victoria
Phone: (03) 9439 7712
Opening Hours:
7 days, 9am-5pm
montsalvat@montsalvat.com.au

*All images ©Jessie Imam. Bio text courtesy of the artist.

FIRST EX-NCAT CREATE STUDENT'S SOLO EXHIBITION

Liz Cameron on the opening night of her exhibition

Talented ex NCAT Create student Liz Cameron is hosting a solo exhibition of her artworks called RABBITS, GOATS, FOXES AND THE ODD DUCK.

Liz is a prolific artist who has used her experience at NCAT Create in 2014 to work toward an exhibition. She works across a range of both 2-D and 3-D media, exploring her fascination for anthropomorphic animals.
The opening was well attended and by the end of the evening there were red stickers everywhere.

Congratulations Liz on a (almost) sellout show!

Opening:
20 June 6-8pm.

Exhibition runs from the: 12th June - 23rd July, 2015

Folk Alley Cafe at St Andrews General Store
10 Caledonia Street, 

St Andrews, 

Victoria

You can keep up with Liz's creative pursuits via her Face book Artist's page: Liz Cameron Art

Artwork © Liz Cameron 

COLLAGE ARTIST ANNE WARREN TEAMS UP AGAIN WITH NCAT CREATE

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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! 

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"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 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

2014 NCAT FOLIO PREPARATION | CREATE: 100% SUCCESS RATE!

We are thrilled to announce that all of our 2014 NCAT Folio Preparation students who successfully completed the VTAC Tertiary/TAFE application process have been given first round offers! This follows the last three year's 100% success rate! All the NCAT Create students who applied to courses gained entry into them. Many Create students have gone on to establish personal art practice in a studio environment and one has landed an artist in residency position with the City of Yarra.

Our NCAT Folio Preparation and NCAT Create students will be going on to highly diverse courses from within the Art and Design fields, as well as into private and public arts practice, which is really exciting to see.

We would like to take this opportunity to congratulate them all on their hard work and persistence. Some students came to us unsure of their direction but they all left us confident, well skilled and really ready for University. Their preparation included intensive work on interview techniques, research on career pathways, a methodical approach to the VTAC preselection process and the production of truly amazing art and design folios. They will confidently head off to university with friends made at Folio Preparation.

We wish them all well on their individual journeys and look forward to seeing them do wonderful things in the future! We will also enjoy seeing them return to NCAT to possibly present to staff and students at forums and Industry days in the coming years.

Here is a run down of the diverse and exciting courses they have been accepted into:

Bachelor of Design (Communication Design)                          RMIT University Bachelor of Communication Design                                        Monash University - Caulfield Bachelor of Design (Animation and Interactive Media)          RMIT University Bachelor of Design (Games Design)                                         RMIT University Bachelor of Illustration                                                             Melbourne Polytechnic  Bachelor of Landscape Architectural Design                            RMIT University Associate Degree in Graphic Design                                         RMIT Diploma of Graphic Design                                                       Melbourne Polytechnic - Fairfield Diploma of Graphic Design                                                       RMIT Diploma of Graphic Design                                                       Melbourne Polytechnic - Prahran Bachelor of Textile Design                                                        RMIT University Diploma of Visual Merchandising                                             RMIT Bachelor of Fine Arts – Sculpture                                              University of Melbourne - VCA Bachelor of Fine Arts - Visual Art                                              University of Melbourne - VCA Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art - Object based Practice)                  RMIT University Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art - Expanded Studio Practice)            RMIT University Bachelor of Fine Art                                                                   Monash University - Caulfield Graduate Certificate in in Visual Arts                                         University of Melbourne - VCA Masters of Public Art                                                                  University of Melbourne - VCA Diploma of Visual Arts                                                                Latrobe College Diploma of Visual Arts                                                                RMIT