Award Courses

The course structure is based on the following premises:

1. There are essential elements of a visual art curriculum which must be included in the courses. These are Drawing, Sculpture, Visual Language and Art History and Theory.
2. These elements need to be included in the first level, as they are fundamental to visual art training and form the foundation for further study. Drawing, which is seen as the most fundamental element in visual art, is a compulsory subject through to third level.
3. Professional artists need to have a grounding in business studies in order to arrange their professional art practise and market themselves and their work effectively. This element is included as a required subject in third level.
4. The fourth level of the programme is designed to enable students to draw together the experience of the previous levels and to begin to operate as professional artists.

Courses

GENERAL DRAWING 1
A structured and comprehensive course designed especially for those who have never studied art at tertiary level before. It begins with basic skills and drawing by observation, introducing the student to different ways of seeing. Form and structure, concepts, expression and imagination are explored in the second semester encouraging students to use drawing as a means of creative expression.

LIFE DRAWING 1
Life Drawing develops the student's abilities towards representation of the human fform for professional practice and personal creative expression. Consideration is given to study of anatomy artists, concepts of form and specialised skills and techniques relevant to rendering the figure.

GENERAL DRAWING 2 and LIFE DRAWING 2
The advanced levels of Drawing consist of General Drawing and Life Drawing to further develop students' awareness of drawing as a personal language. Students are introduced to a more sophisticated notion of drawing and develop greater depths of skills, processes and conceptual understanding. Level 3 allows students to gain a more specialised knowledge and facility in at least one aspect of drawing.

PAINTING 1
This is a foundation course in the basic skills and concepts of painting. It includes the use of tools, materials, techniques and colour theory as well as the ideas underlying the most common approaches to painting. It requires a level of drawing skills equivalent to those acquired in Drawing 1.

PAINTING 2
The second year of Painting focuses on developing a greater depth of understanding, knowledge and technical skill through studying painting as both an autonomous object and a conceptual activity via the study of expression, communication, narrative, Semiotics and Post Modernism. Students will also explore the potentials and limits of painting.  Currently the Level 2 painting electives are Tonal Realism, Life Painting and Abstract Painting.

SCULPTURE
Students become familiar with the language of sculpture and acquire the skills associated with carving, modelling, casting and construction. At the second and third levels, students can choose semester length electives from Figurative Sculpture in Malleable Media, Site Specific, Architectural Human Space, Process Based Sculpture or Three Dimensional Drawing, through which to develop practical and conceptual skills. Students also invenstigate the grammar and syntax of materials in physical space.

PRINTMAKING
Relief - This subject allows students to develop the basic techniques of relief printmaking and establish practical painting skills. Their practical expertise and aesthetical conceptual development are increased through critical discussion of both self-initiated and set projects.

Intaglio - Studies in etching and drypoint provide students with the skills and techniques to make prints using these media. Attention is also given to understanding the print medium with reference to historial printmaking and expresive possibilities.

DIGITAL IMAGING

Students are introduced to digital imaging techniques and the use of software applications exploring the use of the computer as a resource tool to extend the range of their studio practice. The emphasis of the course is to intersect traditional media with digital technologies.

VISUAL LANGUAGE
This course aims to facilitate an understanding of the conceptual language interent in various media in the visual arts (eg. 2D, 3D, digital, craft, architecture etc.) and to develop an appreciation of and articulation about the creative process.

ART HISTORY AND THEORY
Art History aims to equip the student with an understanding of the relationships between works of art and their particular cultural contexts as well as providing and introduction to concepts, issued and literature concerned with art.

PROFESSIONAL BUSINESS PRACTICE
Professional Business Practice will provide the student with a working knowledge of professional business practices as well as basic skills for survival and self management as a self employed artist.

Adelaide Central School of Art
45 Osmond Terrace
Norwood, South Australia 5067 Australia
Telephone +61 8 83645075
Facsimile +61 8 8364 4865
Email: acsa@acsa.sa.edu.au
www.acsa.sa.edu.au
CRICOS 01126M