Durban’s Most Famous Art School opens in Jo’burg

In a recent Department of Communication discussion paper on local and digital content, Animation has been identified as an area requiring urgent development. The animation industry is rapidly developing in South Africa as the world's appetite for animation increases. American, Canadian and European animation production companies would like to bring production work to South Africa, as it is an English Speaking country. Local demand for short form animation in commercials is also increasing. The handful of institutions offering animation as a course cannot supply high quality animators fast enough for the growing demand.

It is with this demand that Johannesburg, as the country’s leading producer of moving images will benefit from the establishment of the CFAD Jo’burg Campus in 2010. Heading the Johannesburg campus is award winning producer and former Subject Adviser for Art, Shan Moodley. In the early eighties Moodley quit education to concentrate on television production. He joined the SABC in 1980 and produced such memorable shows as Police File, Prime Time, No Jacket required and Pop Shop. In 1997 Shan Moodley was appointed the first chairperson of the National Film and Video Foundation. In recent years he has consulted to the cultural and communications industries, developing policies and strategic documents.
The CFAD three-year integrated diploma in multimedia incorporates animation and TV commercial production. It is the only graphic design diploma that has an integrated approach giving graduates flexibility to work in a variety of areas within the design industry. Arts commentator, Peter Machen recently wrote that CFAD is an extremely well resourced education centre that puts most other design schools to shame. He also remarked that there is a constant buzz of activity and the work experience at firms is an important element of Soobben's approach to training young minds. CFAD CEO and founder, Nanda Soobben and Academic Director Krish Moodley will be working closely with Shan Moodley and his team at the Jo’burg Campus to ensure that the campus maintains the tradition of producing high quality, competent and employable graduates.
To view course content and for more info: www.cfad.co.za

MINE: KZNSA Professional Practice Course

MINE presents bodies of work in a sweeping variety of media, with vibrant oils and acrylics telling important stories of everyday life, moody graphite adding grainy depth drawn from life, funky animation that saunters in and out of absurd situations, outrageously delicious lightboxes, the movement of wind-swept landscapes captured in collaged hard copy, and a strange, warped and totally new form of photography that simulates the folding twists of our dynamic environment.

Elizabeth Sparg, Renee Leslie, Simmi Dullay, Lesley Magwod-Fraser, Angie Arbuthnot, Bheki Kambuhle, Mbekeni Mbili, Cally Lotz and Lee Scott Hempson are the participants in the second KZNSA Professional Practice Course. Over the past three months, this group has engaged in an interactive process of theory and practice in exploring the essential requirements of how to make it big in the art world.

The title of their exhibition – MINE – alludes to one of the core requirements of success in this highly competitive field: the development of a visual language that is unique, bold, and exciting; that says something new and says it in a manner that has never been seen before. The provocative manipulation of matter and materials defies the traditional, adds depth to the contemporary, and re-defines the artists within the context of their highly specific lives.

EXHIBITION OPENS ON TUESDAY, 17 NOVEMBER 2009 AT 6PM
ARTISTS’ WALKABOUT ON SATURDAY, 21 NOVEMBER AT 10AM
ARTISTS’ RESEARCH SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS ON THURSDAY, 26 NOVEMBER AT 6PM
EXHIBITION CLOSES ON SUNDAY, 29 NOVEMBER 2009 AT NOON

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