LAB 1

Students are introduced to fundamental art movements and concepts to support practical and material workshops which give them an overview of techniques, methods and applications within the arts.  

LAB 2

Students are introduced to weekly topics with different issues being focused on and showing the different ways that the arts have interpreted, reacted to, contributed to or represented these issues across time and culture.

LAB 3

Students explore their own context and begin to think of the world more broadly with a focus on global perspectives. This is explored through international collaboration, researching different cultures and their art practices both historically and contemporaneously.

LAB 4

Students spend time visiting and researching different art spaces and institutions through physical excursions and digital means. The major culmination of this unit is in an industry project, a client brief delivered by an industry partner/s.

LAB 5

Students apply all their learning to develop major bodies of work for presentation. This unit is the final step towards emerging as a young professional, emphasis is placed on exploratory creative development of original ideas and viable concepts.

Brigit Heller

Image: Adrian Plitzco

Although fascinated by the rigid strength that different metals offer, Brigit uses a variety of mixed media in the creation of her mostly 3-D works. Her European heritage and rural upbringing shine through her works in different ways.

Brigit has shown her work in solo exhibitions at Icon Museum of Art, McClealland Sculpture Park and Montsalvat amongst others. She has also been shortlisted for The Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award among others. 

Public talks and workshops are also a regular feature in Brigit’s busy schedule alongside teaching and creating.

Emma Michaelis

Image: Mimby Robinson

Emma is an artist, curator, mother, perpetual student and academic who is interested in the intersections between viewer, space and work, asking: can we know what it is in some art that engenders real affective connections rather than detached representation?

Emma has a dedicated drawing practice, creating large-scale coloured pencil on paper drawings which seek to uncover the human relationship to parameters of physicality and the conscious/unconscious link between self and body.

Through years of making art and extensive working and exhibiting, Emma has developed a deep connection to the articulation and interpretation of the body and a keen interest in Feminist body theory, which sits alongside and is embedded within her formal training in Fine Art and Cultural Heritage and Museum studies with a specialisation in Collections management.