In the Drawing & Painting program, students learn to become a creative and engaged artist. Students concentrate on their painting studio skills and study art theory, history and contemporary social issues.
Painting
Sarah Arsenault
“Intertwined creatures possessing human, animal and botanical characteristics populate the fictional landscapes I create, identifying a world that is not yet lost, but needs a resolution. I want to encourage a response to the interconnectivity that... More”
Drawing and Painting
Samantha Leggett
“I see my practice as an opportunity to play with atmosphere, mood, and spatial logic. Working in oil, watercolour, charcoal and ink, I use landscape and natural imagery to explore the contrast between emotive, expressive gesture and the rational,... More”
Painter
Danielle Coleman
“Coleman explores the distaste or taboo of communicating romance within visual works of art. The language of kitsch allows the work to be excessive and garish, overly sentimental and ironic. Coleman plays with the constructed, idealized, romantic... More”
Animation
Sonia Beckwith
“My GradEx piece entitled 'The Bathers' features three women washing themselves in nature and caring for one another. They are stretchy and smushy, drawn in a digital cartoon style with saturated skin tones and exaggerated physical traits. These... More”
Abstract Painter
Mash Ritchie
“Generating from ideas of transition, impermanence, and the human condition, Ritchie's work presents a reality consisting of unsettled intense emotions. Through these periods of emotion it is explained and sought to become a manifestation of inner... More”
Oil Painting
Corynn Kokolakis
“Vivid paintings record intimate moments of transition and development, capturing children when they are most honest and without reserve. The figurative gesture is celebrated, and we get a glimpse of the individual as each child moves autonomously... More”
Desiree Nechacov aka. Desiree
“My work is a collection of abstract paintings that explore the polarities of the inner-self. Using oil on canvas and panel, I aim to investigate the human subconscious, acknowledging both inner light and shadow. Working wet-on-wet, I add and... More”