Enrolling in the Bachelor of Creative Arts (Photography), Nat was able to reach her full potential with the support of multi-disciplinary teaching staff, while diving into the theoretical, historical and the contemporary fine art and cultural dimensions of the medium through a combination of lectures, practical workshops and demonstrations, class tutorials and critique sessions, gallery visits, solo and collaborative based projects.
Alongside taking a myriad of electives, there is a major focus on project-based learning within Deakin’s Bachelor of Creative Arts course, where students learn how to organise, manage and deliver a festival of exhibitions and performances of work.
“It was a phenomenal experience been able to showcase your artwork at Deakin’s Project Space Gallery,” Nat shares. “We got to experience that whole process of actually putting your art on the wall, and getting it eye level and understanding how everything within a gallery can affect and impact your artwork.
“Having your artwork displayed for everyone, whether it’s the public or Deakin students or teachers, to come and have a look at was really exciting because it’s an experience you don’t really get, or you would have to pay a fortune to do in the hope you sell your artwork. But for us, it was just to display our artwork and showcase every student and their individual talent. Not many people get that opportunity.”
Alongside the amazing teachers, who “were with you every step of the way” through the course, Nat also reflects on the benefit of immersing yourself in a community of photography peers, all going through the same course, learning the same ideas and practices.
“Everyone [in the course] has their own style and interpretation of art,” Nat explains. “There’s a different way that they will all understand and read photographs; somebody might look at a photograph of a portrait and be able to really emotionally connect to it, and other people won’t. When you’re working with so many different people, it really opens up your eyes to so many different avenues within photography; each student interprets the course in a different way.
The above is an extract from an article that originally was published by Forte Mag ‘Polizzi Photography: A life behind the lens thanks to persistence, creativity and Deakin University‘
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