Visual Arts
Studying art at North Metropolitan TAFE is the best thing you can do for your future career as an artist. Throughout your studies, you will be exposed to stateof-the-art facilities and an inspiring environment, right in the heart of Perth’s Cultural Centre in Northbridge. You will benefit from strong, long lasting partnerships with prominent art bodies within the artistic community, and learn from lecturers who are practicing artists in Western Australia. Our courses provide you with the knowledge and skills needed to enter the world of the visual arts and crafts, giving you a solid foundation for a career in this industry. You will also have the opportunity to continue your studies at one of Western Australia’s leading universities.
CERTIFICATE III IN VISUAL ARTS Through this course you’ll learn how to create two and three dimensional forms in a variety of visual arts areas. This course will help you visualise, develop and present ideas and images. Our visual art and craft qualifications provide you with skills that are relevant to current industry trends and practices. You’ll develop skills in drawing, painting, printmaking, ceramics and design. By the end of the course you will be able to design and produce paintings, sculptures, ceramics, textiles, printmaking and electronic art; experiment with materials and techniques; develop knowledge of art history and theory and understand current art issues.
CERTIFICATE IV IN VISUAL ARTS This course will give you an immersive visual arts experience, where you’ll be able to explore a variety of mediums including painting, drawing, sculpture, ceramics, printmaking and digital art. Plus you’ll gain skills in contextual studies.
- You will be exposed to stateof-the-art facilities and an inspiring environment. –
DIPLOMA OF VISUAL ARTS Take your art to a high level. This course will develop your skills and knowledge in selected areas of visual art and craft, with options to focus on areas such as painting, print media, ceramics, sculpture and digital media and refine these skills in studio classes designed to bring your ideas to reality. This Diploma will enable you to take on complicated art projects with a developed skillset and knowledge of various materials and mediums.
ADVANCED DIPLOMA OF VISUAL ARTS The Advanced Diploma of Visual Arts will prepare you for professional practice as a contemporary artist. You will explore, practice and demonstrate what it is to be a visual arts practitioner and gain a variety of skills and knowledge to be self-sufficient upon graduation. As a visual artist you may work in your own practice, or in a wide range of contexts across the arts, government or commercial organisations; bringing a visual arts perspective to areas such as business, community services, science and education.
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Eric C Visual Artist Comfort of Legacy, 2017
2017 GRADUATE
If you’re going straight into the industry, remember your value. Volunteering is a great place to start. Make sure you balance what is genuinely worth volunteering for and when you should be paid for your time.
In between graduating TAFE and starting Uni, I had the pleasure of participating in a group exhibition at Smart Casual Gallery in Fremantle. I continued to be part of seven exhibitions over the year, one of which was my first solo. Although it was a lot of work with the Uni load, I am so glad I did them. I learnt more about galleries and installing art through practical experience than by studying it at Uni.
This tiny town makes it very possible to network with people of influence. It is the same in every other facet of life; it’s who you know, not what you know. We are lucky to have ARIs such as Paper Mountain and one of the newest ones Cool Change Contemporary, who are run by intelligent, supportive and invested people
As a TAFE graduate, you are well and truly ready to practice art without a Bachelor degree; however
– As a TAFE graduate, you are well and truly ready to practice art. – having that extra qualification is helpful for traditional job seeking or if you want to work in other parts of the industry that takes Bachelor Degrees as a minimum for its employees. While Uni does have a heavy work load, I would encourage you to apply for any opportunities including exhibitions and residencies to do alongside your studies, if you can manage it. Study environments can only offer you so much. In my experience of study and even work life you learn way more on the job and in outside experience of any industry, including this funny old art industry.
who put emerging artists first, as the people who run it are emerging artists themselves. Also collaborate with people. We all share a mutual interest of art and making in this isolated town, so get to know people by sharing this love of making! Remember the reason why you chose to study art. Remember that love and appreciation you have for making and critical thinking of objects. Even when we have to do soul destroying jobs to support ourselves, make time for this.
– Eric C
Associate Degree of Visual Art Not Central Exhibition 2018 @nmt_artgrads2018
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I’m Not. 2018 Gaffer tape on black paper. 210mm x 297mm
– My work explores notions of identity and representation through the appropriation and re-contextualising of imagery from online and analogue sources. I utilise metaphor and tension, eliciting affective responses and blurring the boundaries between binaries such as public and private. In doing so, I aim to interrogate and undermine societal ideas that are often uncritically accepted or ingrained. –
Felice Anderson felice.anderson@hotmail.com vimeo.com/feliceanderson @felicesparkle
– Curiosity and wonderment, contentment and vulnerability are childhood experiences that inform my exploration of various materials and processes. In my work I seek to invite the viewer to relive some of their own early experiences and memories, and to re-establish the sense of innocence and wonder that is often replaced by the responsibility of adulthood. –
Chloe Henderson chloegeorgiahenderson@gmail.com @chloehenderson_art
Embrace. 2018 Paper, fabric, embroidery thread. 100cm x 75cm
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(Writing) Outlines... 2018 Digital print. 841mm x 1199mm
– In my body of work ‘cognitive dissonance’ I am exploring notions of masculinity in contemporary Australian culture, focusing on the romanticised ideals of masculine bravado. Through my own set of visual codes I investigate how these ideals are instilled and perpetuated on a subconscious level and the affect this has on defining self. –
William Kitely wkitely22@gmail.com vimeo.com/williamkitely @williampjkitely
– Sugar has gone through a process of manipulation. By changing state and appearance, the work addresses the perception and affect of the everyday food. Simultaneously my objects are beautiful and abject, irritating our visual tastebuds: We know that sugar has ill effects on our bodies, we are attracted to it. Just like the sweet sensation on the tip of my tongue my work is ephemeral. –
Sathya Robinson satya.robinson@yahoo.com.au @the_giggly_campfire
What comes out 2. 2018 Burnt brown sugar hand molded. 178mm x 170mm x 95mm
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