Collection: New Courses and Programs

Discover the art of sculpture and investigate the human form using wire, clay, cardboard, and more. 

Let the environment inspire your designs and bring your unique vision to life as you explore hand building with clay. 

Push the limits of representation in painting this summer. Over three days you will take a journey from realistic painting to abstraction and utilise a variety of painting mediums including watercolour, acrylic and oil paints.

Join us at NAS this Summer to explore the world of large-scale drawing. 

Come join us at NAS this summer and expand your knowledge of what a book can be. 

Learn the fine art of copper plate etching, a medium both steeped in tradition and one that allows for exciting approaches to contemporary art making. Discover the wonderful array of marks, tones and working processes that are possible in this alluring and engaging art form.

Explore the potential for chance encounters between images and words inspired by the art of Rene Magritte. Increase your painting skills to create original imagery with dream-like associations and meanings.

Develop skills, techniques and insights while drawing the three dimensional world of the urban environment. Deborah Marks will guide you through the fundamental drawing concepts that enable a responsive approach to the drawn environment: line, scale, perspective, volume in space, positive/negative spatial relationships, value and composition.

Become inspired by the art of Rene Magritte, whose illusionary paintings connect the poetic expression of ordinary subjects into mythical realms. Complete a series of studies in different mediums and develop at least one sustained painting informed by Magritte’s work, exploring your own imaginative expressions. 

An immersive course emphasizing the importance of drawing as a foundation for understanding and interpreting the world. Learn how drawing provides a direct exploration and challenge to our perceptions, when viewed as a transformative element in art practice.

Are you short on time but eager to learn how to take great photos? In this week-long photography workshop, you'll break free from automatic settings and master the fundamentals of manual exposure, enhancing your creative control over your shots.

Develop your ceramic practice with handbuilding techniques in clay. Explore slab construction, coiling methods and surface treatments with coloured slips to create original sculptural forms.

Discover the art of papermaking and bookbinding by learning to craft your own paper and create handmade books, including Japanese binding techniques and hardcover journals. With hands-on experimentation, you'll explore techniques such as folding, cutting, and constructing to develop a unique artist book from an existing one. 

Learn the skills required to reproduce the same form on the potter’s wheel, over and over again. Discover how to throw clay and use the wheel efficiently to ensure consistency across forms and develop your own visual language of fluidity on the wheel.

Learn to paint expressively with an individual approach while increasing your knowledge and understanding of the importance of colour, composition and form. Using acrylic or oil paint, students will learn how to mix and experiment with colour and will be encouraged to paint quickly and loosely and to develop expressive brushwork.

Explore the varied processes of screenprinting starting with basic stencils and moving into photographic techniques. Learn how to create original prints from drawings, photographs and existing images, as well as how to use the darkroom and the computer for photographic processes with image separations and colour mixing. 

This exciting course combines textiles with creative drawing using diverse techniques with paper, fabric, collage and assemblage. In this course you will explore the materiality of different surfaces.  Students will be guided in sketching, painting, weaving and embroidering lines on the surface of papers and textiles.

Do you want to learn practical drawing techniques and encourage your creativity to emerge in a supportive studio environment? Discover how to see and draw with proportion and perspective, and how to work from small studies to larger, sustained drawings.

Learn the fundamental principles of abstract painting and discover how colours change and move in a picture plane. Tonee Messiah introduces painting techniques from modernist abstraction to the present day and shows how painters approach the translation of subject matter using colour as a powerful expressive tool and emotive agent.

Learn fundamental welding skills and complete small-scale welded steel sculptures. With demonstrations and techniques for using arc and MIG welders and oxyacetylene to cut, shape and bend steel, as well as ways to grind steel and use surface treatments suited to steel.