• Bendigo TAFE City Campus

• Full-Time – Face-to-Face – 12 months. Part-time enrolments are available.

• Students completing this course will be able to work as a: • Photographer • Printmaker • Sculptor • Painter

• • Some art and design skills • Intermediate literacy and numeracy

YOUR COURSE

A practical studio-based course designed for students beginning to develop their own artistic voice and command of techniques in a range of art forms. Fine Art is an art form practised mainly for its aesthetic value and its beauty (“art for art’s sake”) rather than its functional value.

You will learn the fundamentals of the industry: art theory, drawing, creative thinking, digital photography, painting, printmaking and sculpture.

You will work in a studio environment and learn to plan your daily workflow and how to collaborate creatively.

To complement your technical skills, you will graduate with employability skills and develop introductory project management skills. You will develop a folio of your original work.

YOUR SKILLS

Through hands-on experience you will learn drawing and design-based works such as painting, printmaking, photography and sculpture.

You will explore diverse approaches to art making, art theory, art self-development and portfolio creation.

YOUR DELIVERY

Your course is delivered in clusters of units designed to give you hands-on instruction in the range of techniques and tasks you can expect to experience in industry.

• Interview by teaching staff, present folio of your creative work, literacy & numeracy assessment

• Regular assessment during the course to show you have achieved the skills and knowledge required. Including written, oral and practical projects

• Your course is classroom centred in a studio-based environment.

Art theory

• BSBWHS201 Contribute to health and safety of self and others
• CUAPPR404 Develop self as artist
• CUARES403 Research history and theory to inform own arts practice

Drawing

• CUAACD301 Produce drawings to communicate ideas
• CUAPPR401 Realise a creative project

Creative thinking

• CUAPPR405 Develop and discuss ideas for own creative work
• BSBCRT301 Develop and extend critical and creative thinking skills

Digital photography

• CUADIG405 Produce innovative digital images
• CUAPHI403 Enhance manipulate and out-put photo images

Painting

• CUAPAI401 Experiment with techniques to produce paintings
• CUAACD401 Integrate colour theory and processes

Print making

• CUAPRI401 Experiment with techniques to produce prints
• CUAPRI301 Produce Prints

Sculpture

• CUASCU401 Experiment with techniques to produce sculpture
• CUASCU301 Produce sculpture

• Students who complete the Certificate IV in Visual Arts may continue their studies in higher education. They will graduate with the knowledge and confidence to make appropriate decisions regarding their future in the arts industry.