Former name | Queensland College of Art, Technical School of Visual Arts, Brisbane School of Arts |
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Type | Public |
Established | Founded 1881 |
Parent institution | Griffith University since 1 January 1992 |
Chancellor | Andrew Fraser |
Vice-Chancellor | Carolyn Evans |
Director | Beck Davis |
Former Director | Elisabeth Findlay |
Students | 1,270 |
Location | Brisbane and Gold Coast , Queensland , Australia |
Campus | Multiple sites |
Website | griffith |
The Queensland College of Art and Design, QCAD [1] is a specialist visual arts and design college located in Meanjin (South Bank, Brisbane), and Southport on the Gold Coast of Queensland in Australia.
Founded in 1881, the college is one of the oldest arts institutions in Australia and has been part of Griffith University since 1992, amalgamating as part of the Australian Government tertiary education reforms [2] known as the Dawkins revolution [3] [4] . The then Queensland College of Art opened at South Bank campus in June 2002.
QCAD is within walking distance of QAGOMA, State Library of Queensland, the Queensland Museum and is co-located with the Queensland Conservatorium, the Griffith Film School and the Griffith Graduate Centre.
The Queensland College of Art and Design at South Bank campus is co-located with the Griffith University Art Museum (GUAM) [5] , formerly known as Griffith University Art Gallery (GUAG) [6] , as well as a collection of galleries known as the QCAD Galleries [7] .
The college is located within the South Bank parklands, along with the Queensland Conservatorium, the Griffith Film School and Griffith Graduate Centre. [8] The college delivers programs across both South Bank and Gold Coast campuses. At South Bank the focus is on Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art, Visual Arts, and Design. The Gold Coast campus focuses specifically on Design degrees.
The Griffith University Art Museum, also on the South Bank campus, houses the Griffith University Art Collection, the second largest public art collection in Queensland. [9] The Museum organises exhibitions, educational and public programs, as well as conducting "research, teaching, publishing and dialogue among communities of Griffith University students, faculty, artists, scholars, alumni, and the wider public". [10]
There is a collection of galleries known as the Queensland College of Art and Design Galleries (QCAD Galleries) located on the campus.
QCAD Galleries include (i) Webb Gallery, (ii) Grey Street Gallery, (iii) Project Gallery, (iv) PoP Gallery, and (v) White Box Gallery.
In addition to visual arts and design degrees, the college offers a unique degree designed to prepare Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders to become professional artists - Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art. The degree focuses on traditional Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art media, styles and forms, together with strategies for their viable adaptation within a highly urbanised society. It is planned in accordance with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander principles and philosophies. Teaching respects Aboriginal laws concerning the ways in which techniques and images may be used.
During this program, students research their own family history and traditions, undertake field trips to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and study contemporary culture and politics.
The college offers a range of degrees and qualifications, awarded by Griffith University, ranging from diplomas to doctoral studies. [11]
Qualifications
Diploma of Design
Diploma of Visual Arts
Bachelor of Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art [12]
Bachelor of Design [13]
Bachelor of Visual Arts [14]
Bachelor of Design (Honours) [15]
Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours) [16]
Graduate Certificate in Design
Graduate Certificate in Visual Arts
Master of Design
Master of Visual Arts
Master of Philosophy
Doctor of Visual Arts
Doctor of Philosophy
The college also offers double degrees:
Bachelor of Design / Bachelor of Business [17]
Bachelor of Visual Arts / Bachelor of Business [18]
Indigenous Australian art includes art made by Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders, including collaborations with others. It includes works in a wide range of media including painting on leaves, bark painting, wood carving, rock carving, watercolour painting, sculpting, ceremonial clothing and sandpainting; art by Indigenous Australians that pre-dates European colonisation by thousands of years, up to the present day.
Griffith University is a public research university in South East Queensland on the east coast of Australia. The University was founded in 1971, but was not officially opened until 1975. Griffith University is credited with introducing Australia's first degrees in environmental science and Asian Studies. The university has five campuses, in Gold Coast, Nathan, Logan, South Bank, and Mount Gravatt. The university was named after Sir Samuel Walker Griffith, who was twice Premier of Queensland and the first Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia. Sir Samuel Griffith played a major role in the Federation of Australia and was the principal author of the Australian constitution.
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Hetti Kemerre Perkins is an Aboriginal Australian art curator and writer. She is known for her work at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, where she was the senior curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art at the gallery from around 1998 until 2011, and for many significant exhibitions and projects.
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Jennifer Herd is an Australian Indigenous artist with family ties to the Mbar-barrum people of North Queensland. She is a founding member of the ProppaNOW artist collective, and taught at the Queensland College of Art in Brisbane, where she convened both the Bachelor of Fine Art and Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art. In 2003 she won the Queensland College of Art Graduate Students prize, the Theiss Art Prize, for her Masters of Visual Arts.
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