Art in the Outback 2002
Study Abroad, The University of New South Wales
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Location:
| Sydney - Australia | |
Highlights:
| ‘Art in the Outback’ is a six-week program, based at the College of Fine Arts (COFA) at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney, Australia. | |
Term(s):
| Summer | |
Language:
| English | |
English Instruction:
| Yes | |
Academic Credit:
| (12 - 12) | |
Subject Area(s):
| Art, Art History | |
Included:
| Meals (Some) | |
Accommodations:
| Apartment, Dormitory | |
Participants:
| Undergraduates, Graduates | |
Description:
| ‘Art in the Outback’ is a six-week program, based at the College of Fine Arts (COFA) at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney, Australia. The program also includes extensive field trips – from Kakadu National Park in Australia’s ‘top end’; to Uluru (Ayers Rock) in the ‘red centre’; to Cairns on the Great Barrier Reef.
The program is divided into a practical element and an academic element. The practical element will be derived from a first-hand encounter with a specific landscape and environment. By drawing and painting from direct observation, this course will encourage students to deal with the natural world as a source of ideas and inspiration while enabling them to discover the practical solutions to working outside the studio environment. Students will be challenged to use the material they have gathered in the field to develop studio work back in Sydney.
The academic element has been designed to complement and provide a background to the practical sessions in the field. In Darwin, students will be provided with an overview of Aboriginal art forms that were practiced prior to European settlement. They will examine traditionally-based art forms that are still practiced in the more remote parts of Australia as well as the most recent developments in Aboriginal art.
Three other parts of the academic element will deal with:
1. ‘Artists of the Centre’: a lecture exploring the varied responses by artists, both Aboriginal and European, to the dry inland of Australia.
2. ‘Sydney landscape artists’: this lecture will concentrate on Sydney Harbour as a subject and will include visits to the Brett Whiteley studio and the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
3. ‘Art in Australia from Colonization to Postmodernism’: these lectures will trace the history of art in Australia from the colonials trying to re-create the image of home in a foreign landscape to the postmodernist artists confronting and defining the homelessness of Australia.
Locations
The first ten days of the program will be in Darwin in Australia’s ‘top end’ with lectures taking place in Darwin and including a camping field trip into Kakadu National Park. Here students will study dramatic landscape, a spectacular array of wildlife and the unique and ancient rock art galleries of the Aboriginal people.
Later in week two, the program moves to the arid ‘red centre’ of Australia where students camp out in the field with their professors for ten days. This area is renowned for its red desert surrounds, massive monoliths like Uluru (Ayers Rock) and deep gorges, which hide precious waterholes. Many of these locations hold deep spiritual significance for the Aboriginal communities of the area. This area has also been a source of inspiration for many European artists.
Weeks four and five will be at The University of New South Wales – at the College of Fine Arts campus where students will stay at a small boutique hotel in Sydney’s art district, within walking dist | |
URL:
| http://www.studyabroad.unsw.edu.au/ |
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