National Art School HSC INTENSIVE STUDIO PRACTICE
National Art School
Course Overview
The National Art School (NAS) is an independent visual arts institution dedicated to providing a rigorous and comprehensive education for the aspiring artist. Dating back to 1833, NAS has the longest continuing history as a public art school and has been housed in the grounds of the historic Darlinghurst Gaol in East Sydney since 1922.
The NAS HSC Intensive Studio Practice is designed to enhance and extend students’ technical, conceptual and intellectual skills under the direction of experienced, practicing artists, through intensive practical study in one of the following disciplines:
NAS provides fully accredited degree courses and senior school enrichment programs that embody the School’s educational philosophy of studio based learning under the supervision of practicing artists.
Nas Hsc Intensive Studio Practice The NAS HSC Intensive Studio Practice is endorsed by the NSW Board of Studies and has been offered by NAS to Year 11 visual arts students in all government and non-government high schools since 2000. During the NAS HSC Intensive the student will: – work within a specialised discipline use a broad range of media and art making processes – refine their ability to interpret and evaluate their own and others’ artworks – engage in sustained critical reflection and evaluation – gain practical skills in preparing for, mounting and curating an exhibition.
BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY CERAMICS DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY DRAWING* PAINTING PRINTMAKING SCULPTURE
* In keeping with post-school degree course practice, drawing classes will include undraped life models.
Course Modules and Dates Module 1
Studio Workshop – 4 days Tues 7 – Fri 10 July 2015
Module 2/3 Studio Workshop / Assessment, Critique and Exhibition – 5 days Mon 21 – Fri 25 September 2015 An exhibition of students’ works will be held on the afternoon of Friday 25 September. Students, their families and Visual Art teachers will be invited to attend the exhibition.
A Nsw Board Of Studies Endorsed Hsc Course Tues 7– Fri 10 July & Mon 21 – Fri 25 September 2015
Assessment
Course Fees
At the end of Modules 1 & 2/3 students will be assessed by tutors on art-making tasks carried out in the studio, as well as their final body of work. The NAS HSC Intensive Studio Practice will appear on the HSC certificate as a one unit course with a mark but will not contribute to the student’s ATAR score.
The fee for 2015 is $300. Students requiring boarding are asked to pay an additional $300 ($600). This is payable once a student has been offered a place in the course (Term 2, 2015). Students are also required to supply their own Visual Art diary and to cover the costs of commuting to and from the School. NAS is not able to reimburse for travel from either Sydney Metropolitan or Regional areas.
How To Apply The application form can be downloaded from www.nas.edu.au and must be completed by both the student and their Visual Art teacher. Students must also submit four images of recent work. The application deadline is Thursday 2 April 2015. Offers will be made to students in Term 2. Students from both government and nongovernment schools may apply. The NAS HSC Intensive Studio Practice is open to Year 11 Visual Art students who are achieving at the highest level of excellence in their Preliminary Course and who demonstrate a mature attitude to their studies. Students who apply for this course should be considering a career in the Visual Art. Applicants must be nominated by their Visual Art teacher and should intend to continue with their Visual Art studies in year 12.
Boarding Boarding facilities are strictly limited and will be offered only to regional students who have no other accommodation alternatives. Boarding students will be offered share accommodation at a nearby hotel and will be supervised at all times by two teachers. Students living within the Sydney Metropolitan and Blue Mountains area, the Central Coast and Wollongong will not be offered boarding facilities and will need to commute.
Course Outlines
Black And White Photography
Students use the traditional fine art medium of black and white (silver gelatin) photography to explore photography’s specific visual language and concerns. Using 35mm SLR film cameras, they create negatives with which they print a series of black and white photographs in the darkroom. Students undertake sustained exploration of the fundamental expressive tools of composition, light, tone, subject matter and editing. Structured projects and exercises help develop understanding and competence, and lecturers guide students toward identifying and locating their individual interests within historic and contemporary photographic contexts.
Ceramics
ENQUIRIES
Educational Outreach Coordinator enquiries@nas.edu.au t [61 2] 9339 8744 nas.edu.au Forbes Street Darlinghurst Sydney NSW 2010 Australia CRICOS 03197B
Within the theme of ‘The Built and Natural Environment’ students will explore and document the world around them, working with clay and other raw materials to refine and translate their experiences and observations. Students will investigate and combine a range of ceramics processes, which will extend and enrich their knowledge and scope of the ceramic studio, and the possibilities of clay, glaze and firing, starting from the research and development of ideas through to the presentation of finished artwork for exhibition.
Digital Photography
Students use the burgeoning fine art medium of digitally-produced photography to explore photography’s specific visual language and concerns. Students undertake sustained exploration of the fundamental expressive tools of composition, light, colour, subject matter and editing.
They examine the manipulative possibilities particular to digitally produced photography and the resulting new perspectives now informing the medium. Structured projects and exercises help develop understanding and competence, and lecturers guide students toward identifying and locating their individual interests within historic and contemporary photographic practice.
Life Drawing
This course will focus on drawing the human figure and students will spend the entire program drawing from the undraped life model. Through intensive studio practice students will develop their observational drawing skills while studying the inherent structure of the form, proportional relationships and the role of perspective in foreshortening. Different methodologies of depicting form will be employed from quick gestural drawings to sustained exploration of the figure in a spatial context.
Painting
Students who have chosen this discipline will participate in the process of Transcription: the analysis and appropriation of an historically significant image by research and practice. In their study of the process of transcription students will interpret the formal qualities and language of an historically significant painting by observation of surface, composition, planar and architectural space as well as cultural and conceptual concerns. In focusing on subjective analysis and research they will be encouraged to develop a personal response to the artistic language of the work and develop a unique concept.
Printmaking
Students will investigate and combine a range of printmaking processes, which will extend and enrich their knowledge and scope of the printmaking studio. They will focus on the use of etching in an exploration of contemporary technical, aesthetic and creative concerns. The course will promote independent research and foster the development of individual ideas to produce a small folio of prints.
Sculpture
The aim of the course is the development of a set of 3-D figurative concepts realized in a unique studio environment. In developing their art works within different methods of sculpture (carving, modelling and construction) all students will undertake a sustained exploration of the human figure. Students will begin with a study from the undraped life model in clay and progress to a further study of the human form in relief carving in plaster. The final project entails producing a large scale figure using construction methods. An emphasis is placed on a reinterpretation of sculptural conventions and traditions.