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Established in 1976, the ANU School of Art has built a reputation
as a leading arts educator offering undergraduate training
in nine art and design disciplines— Ceramics,
Glass, Gold
and Silversmithing, Painting,
Photomedia, Printmedia
and Drawing, Sculpture,
Textiles and Furniture.
The use of new technologies, such as computer-based design
and multimedia applications, and their integration with traditional
visual media, is an integral part of the School’s philosophy.
Courses to complement and extend studies in the major Workshops
are provided by the Art Theory
and Core Studies Workshops,
and the Applied Design, Temporal Digital Media Studies, Field
Studies and Edition and Artist’s
Book Studio.
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The
Graduate awards of the School of Art are conducted as the
Visual Arts Program of the ANU Graduate School. Postgraduate
courses offered at SofA currently include:
These
provide for advanced study in the practice of art through
project work and research in the range of visual arts disciplines
offered in the School's Workshops.
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A
special feature of the ANU School of Art is its International
Exchange Network. Through this network students, normally
in the second year of their degree, have the opportunity to
study at University Schools of Art and Design in Asia, Europe,
North America and Canada.
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The
School also enjoys strong connections with other art schools
around the world, and with artists of international reputation.
The School's well-known artist-in-residence program brings
some of the world's most experienced artists to live and work
within the School, as part of a policy to expose students
to the work and processes of artists of the highest calibre.
Artists interested in applying for residencies should make
contact with the relevant Head of Workshop.
General enquiries can be directed to:
School of Art Office
telephone +61 2 6125 5810
email enquiries.visualarts@anu.edu.au
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School has developed strong relationships with the national
institutions in Canberra and regularly organises excursions
and lectures at the National
Gallery of Australia, the National
Library of Australia, the National
Portrait Gallery, ScreenSound
(formerly the National Film and Sound Archive) and the Australian
War Memorial. These venues, together with the ACT and
regional contemporary art spaces (for example, Canberra
Contemporary Art Space) show a wide range of local, national
and international work which ensure that students at the School
see the best of contemporary visual arts practice. In addition
to regular visits to these venues, the School organises many
off-campus activities and excursions within the ACT, to the
nearby coast (to Bundanon and the University's coastal campus
at Kioloa) and to other galleries and museums in metropolitan
and regional centres.
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Carolyn
Young
Master of Philosophy in Visual Arts.
I am researching the relationship between natural resource
management and the visual arts, with particular focus on the
photographic medium. The key concept behind my research is
to visually present what a healthy ecosystem represents to
different people. The artist has many roles in society, and
roles that could be relevant to natural resource management
include witness, critic, educator, social analyst, mirror
and entertainer. Visual artists potentially provide another
language for which scientists and farmers, for example, can
engage with each other and work together on natural resource
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The Library & Resource Centre is part of the ANU Library system
and provides a wide variety of resources both in the physical
collections and in electronic form for the study, research
and practice of the visual arts and music. The Library’s
web site at http://anulib.anu.edu.au/subjects/creative_arts/
provides a popular gateway to art resources on the web
including full text articles in Art Abstracts and Grove Dictionary
of Art and networked databases including ARTBibliographies
Modern, Bibliography of the History of art, Aboriginal artists
index, Index to Australian Art Journals and many interdisciplinary
titles.
The
Art Library is located within the School of Art and has a
focus on the specific requirements of image-based practice
in the visual arts. The collection includes 65,000 slides,
250 videos, exhibition catalogues, artists’ books, CDROMs
and a contemporary Australian Artists’ File of current
reviews. Equipment for viewing slides, video and digital projection
is available in the Art Library Seminar Room. There is also
a colour photocopier and colour networked printer. The Library's
Infolab provides access to the Internet, word processing and
email facilities. Information literacy programs include drop-in
sessions at the Infolab a well as introductory and advanced
sessions on specific databases.
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Artist’s
Statement Nicola Dickson.
My current PhD research project is based upon an investigation
of the visual and conceptual nature of natural history illustration
and the imagery incorporated upon wallpaper in regards to
their contribution to the formation and perpetuation of aesthetic
perceptions of the Australian natural environment. I am currently
exploring the use of a variety of media to incorporate and
reinterpret the conventions of these forms of representing
flora and fauna with the aim of exploring the perception of
the Australian natural environment as a site where both the
exotic and uncanny exists.
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further information about the ANU School of Art contact:
Student Services
School
of Art
Faculty of Arts
Canberra, ACT, 0200, Australia
Telephone:
+61 2 6125 5711 or
+61 2 6125 2898
email: enquiries.arts@anu.edu.au
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