We have been asked for a long time now, when will we be holding art classes during the day?! Well, we are excited to announce we will be running two...
When we were kids, creating was a full-time job. Through creativity we learnt, laughed and lived. And although it is cliché, it doesn’t make it any less of a truth...
Over the ANZAC Day weekend we ran a small Drawing Intensive Workshop. Small because we had a smaller number of enrolments – however the result was an intimate workshop where Hilmi...
As part of my 9-month art journey this year, I am spending the first month in China. My link with China began 30 odd years ago when I started learning...
Hilmi’s Painting Class for Term One focused on one composition with different Still Life objects. Students could choose what would feature in their work, including shiny porcelain vases, old books,...
Gnarly eucalyptus trees often seen on a well-travelled stretch of road near the town Buangor, in country Victoria, was the starting point for Tim McMonagle’s latest exhibition. Buangor is a...
Ivana’s inspiring experience during our Summer School Ivana was one of a few students who undertook the challenge of completing both our Painting and Drawing Masterclasses in-between Christmas and New...
Marco Corsini’s Studio Art is a term-based course and has tended to be an eclectic fusion of talks and presentations by Marco (about four or five per term), guest speakers...
Still Life – a collection of inanimate objects – does not inspire everyone, and after drawing the same curved vase ten times, beginners often want to move on to “more...
I’ve just come back from camping and I’m drying out tents. Huge cubist polyester birds in hues of green, stretched by rope hanging over our back courtyard between a row...
Nando’s originates from South Africa and specialises in producing Peri-Peri Chicken, which uses a sauce made of crushed Peri-Peri chillies as a key ingredient. But did you know that Nando’s...
We had a full class for Term 3 Painting and our students produced some incredible work which we are very proud of and would love to share. Four sessions over...
Written by Elizabeth Fritz Melinda Harper’s vast kaleidoscopic collection of works has been carefully curated from three decades’ worth of paintings, screen prints, embroideries and much more. Harper’s love of abstraction,...
Lauren Ottaway, a current MAC student, shares her creative journey that led her from paint-brush to screen-printing. I first painted Louis the Frenchie as a gift for someone with a...
Over the summer holidays many of us our leave our paintbrushes and pencils where we left them after our final art class. So we have introduced two new short courses to motivate you to...
Saturday morning painting classes recommenced two weeks ago, and the work being produced by our early-morning artists is phenomenal. Marco will be teaching us a variety of different painting techniques...