Archive for November, 2011
The Fresh 11 exhibition was opened on Friday night. It was a wonderful opportunity for PSC Art graduates to exhibit their amazing work to mentors, family, friends, PSC staff and teachers and current and past students. Fresh 11 features works by the emerging artists of the 2011 art specialisation class and explores themes of beauty, genetic modification, enrionmental [...]
STUDENT: Carly Chartres, 3rd year part time ASSIGNMENT: Major Folio Project – Metaphors STUDENT COMMENT: This image comes from my ‘Ghostly Shadows’ folio which is largely inspired by photographer Sally Mann and her beautiful yet haunting black and white images. I wanted to create a dark and moody narrative this semester. I love the dark tones [...]
ACMP Student Photographer if the Year Awards announced last night and PSC scooped the pool taking out the major award Educational Institution of the Year! Congratualtions to our students Kim Munro who won the Commercial category and Liane Hurvitz who won the advertising category To find out more check out Australian Commercial and Media [...]
Last night a crowd gathered in the impressively lit studio at PSC and shared a celebration of the final year PJ students work. Students, lecturers, and staff of PSC, mingled with invitees from the photography industry and some very relieved mentors! The walls of the studio were hung with captivating images taken from each student’s [...]
PSC is proud to announce the recent success of our staff member, Jackie Cernoy, in taking out the Fiona Myer Award at the graduating show for Victoria University Visual Arts course this week. When not working at PSC, Jackie is busy developing her art practice specializing in painting and sculpture. Throughout her studies at VU [...]
STUDENT: Daan Hoffmann, Year 2 full time ASSIGNMENT: Time-Lapse or Stop-Motion video for Produce a Moving Image STUDENT COMMENT: For our moving image class with Nic Kocher we were tasked with creating a time lapse or stop motion video. Having wanted to delve into this side of photography for a long time, I jumped in [...]
Final year students Sarah Lynch (Photojournalism), Ruth Perry (Commercial) and David Lowry (Art) are part of a group exhibition opening on Wednesday 7 December. The exhibition will be held at the Clifton Creative Arts Centre and is a collaboration of visual artists using a variety of mediums from photography to painting and mosaic. Sarah expressed [...]
1. What did you want to be when you grew up? It flickered between singer, dancer , archaeologist and meteorologist 2. When did you decide to pursue art as a career? It was never a momentary decision, it was something I have always done in different forms. 3. How would you describe your work [...]
Winner of the tertiary category for The Age Nikon Photo Challenge Elma, who is currently undertaking the first semester of first year part time here at PSC, has won the tertiary category for The Age Nikon Photo Challenge. What a wonderful achievement for Elma to win this competition after only a few weeks of study. [...]
STUDENT: Kimberley Munro, 3rd year full time ASSIGNMENT: Major Project Folio. STUDENT COMMENT: This shoot was a collaboration between the make-up artist and myself. We both wanted to work on a illustrative bald cap design together and came up with a design we were both happy with. The image also features in my 2011 folio [...]