Adelaide Central School of Art is an independent, not-for-profit, accredited higher education provider of tertiary courses in the

visual arts The visual arts are art forms such as painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, photography, video, filmmaking, design, crafts and architecture. Many artistic disciplines such as performing arts, conceptual art, and textile arts al ...

, located in

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, Australia. Adelaide Central School of Art uses the

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model of visual arts education. The school offers an associate degree of Visual Art, Bachelor of Visual Art, and Bachelor of Visual Art (Hons), and short courses, workshops and masterclasses.

History

The School was founded in 1982 by Rod Taylor and Heather Nicholson. Initially occupying a rented space in Bloor Court, Adelaide, it moved in 1988 to a warehouse in Gilles Street, establishing itself as an accredited independent art school. In January 1994, the School moved to heritage buildings in Osmond Terrace, Norwood, leasing them from the School's founder until they were sold in 2011. Taylor retired in 2008 and was succeeded by Ingrid Kellenbach as CEO. Adelaide Central School of Art relocated to the Glenside Cultural Precinct in January 2013, completing the first stage of the renovation of two iconic heritage buildings in May 2013. The South Australian Government granted the School a 50-year lease on these buildings located adjacent to the Adelaide Film Studios home of the South Australian Film Corporation and related creative enterprises. The new Glenside Campus provides facilities in the three-story Teaching and Studio Building, including spaces for classes, integrated student studios, lecture room, media room, enlarged library facilities and display space for artwork on each level. In September 2018, the School announced that Penny Griggs, Director of the

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, would succeed Ingrid Kellenbach as the School's CEO in November 2018.

Degree courses

The degree courses are designed to develop technical and conceptual skills. The curriculum includes the disciplines of drawing, painting, sculpture, art history and theory and contemporary studies, for part-time or full-time study.

Campus

The School is located on the Glenside campus in two heritage buildings that formed part of the Glenside Hospital. The buildings were renovated by Adelaide-based architects Grieve Gillett in consultation with the School and the renovation received an award from the Australian Institute of Architects for Heritage Architecture in 2014. Adelaide Central School of Art Teaching and Studio Building

Adelaide Central School of Art Teaching and Studio Building

Adelaide Central Gallery

The Adelaide Central Gallery was formally opened as part of the School in 1991. At threat of closure in 2002, a restructure in 2003 allowed the gallery to continue. The gallery has hosted two award-winning exhibitions: Façade received the 2018

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Award for Best Visual Art & Design; and Home Stories received the 2011 Adelaide Fringe Eran Svigos Award for Best Visual Art & Design.

Rankings

In the Quality Indicators for Learning and Teaching survey for 2017, the school was ranked the best art school in Australia for 2017 (second-best in 2016).

Notable faculty

* Roy Ananda * Daryl Austin * Daniel Connell * Johnnie Dady * Andrew Dearman * James Dodd *

Nicholas Folland Nicholas (Nic) Folland is a South Australian artist and arts educator. He is Head of Contemporary Studies and Sculpture at Adelaide Central School of Art, a Samstag scholar (awarded 1999), and subject of the 2014 SALA Festival monograph, ''Nic ...

* Zoe Freney *

Geoff Gibbons Geoff Gibbons is a South Australian artist, printmaker, and arts educator. He is a founder of Bittondi Printmakers Association and a lecturer at Adelaide Central School of Art. Biography Geoff Gibbons was born in 1947 in Adelaide, South Au ...

Sasha Grbich Sasha Grbich ( ) is a South Australia installation artist, arts writer and arts educator. She is a 2018 Samstag Scholar and lectures at Adelaide Central School of Art. Biography Grbich graduated from Adelaide Central School of Art in 2003 ...

Rob Gutteridge Rob Gutteridge (born 1954) is a South Australian artist and arts educator. As well as teaching at Adelaide Central School of Art, Gutteridge runs the Rob Gutteridge School of Classical Realism. Biography Gutteridge was born in West Bromwich ...

* Sue Kneebone *

Monte Masi Monte Masi is a South Australian artist, curator and arts educator. Biography Monte Masi was born in Adelaide in 1983 and is a performance-based video artist. (Samstag page) He has a Bachelor of Visual Art (Hons) and a Master of Visual Art ...

John Neylon John Neylon (born 1944) is a South Australian arts writer and arts educator as well as being an art critic, curator, painter, and printmaker. He is an art critic for The Adelaide Review, an author for Wakefield Press, and a lecturer in art hi ...

Christopher Orchard Christopher Robin Orchard is a South Australian artist and arts educator who began as a sculptor but subsequently specialised in drawing. His character, the Bald Man, is a recurrent motif. Orchard is Associate Professor at Adelaide Central School ...

Julia Robinson (artist) Julia Robinson is a South Australian artist and arts educator. She lectures at Adelaide Central School of Art and her work has been included in the Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art in 2016 and 2020 and The National (New Australian Art) in 2 ...

Sera Waters Sera Waters is a South Australian textile artist, arts writer, and arts educator. She lectures at Adelaide Central School of Art. Biography Sera Waters was born in Murray Bridge, South Australia, in 1979. She has a Bachelor of Visual Arts ( ...

References

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