David John Christopher Briggs

Teaching Experience:
To date I have approximately 8000 contact hours of experience teaching art in private institutions, industry, adult education, vocational training and higher education sectors, with particular emphasis on teaching life drawing and colour theory.

Billy Blue College of Design, North Sydney, NSW 2006 - present
Lecturer responsible for:

• The first year drawing component for the main (February) intake of  the Advanced Diploma in Communication Design (2006-2008), comprising the subjects Introduction to Drawing and Develop Drawing Styles. The subjects cover a comprehensive range of topics including basic drawing skills, perspective, tone, colour, and composition.
• 
  Landmarks in the Development of Drawing and Design to 1900, an eight-week component of the subject  Design Culture and Theory in the Associate Degree in Communication Design. Topics covered include art history, basic drawing skills, perspective, composition, and colour.

 

Walt Disney Animation Aust./Disneytoons Studio, Sydney, NSW 2000 - 2006

• Drawing teacher responsible for the  life drawing component of the training programme for the biannual intake of new trainees; 3 to 5 hours per week for up to 40 weeks per year.
• Also periodically gave seminars in colour theory for the Backgrounds Department, and one-off sessions for animation teams to help them with specific characters.

Julian Ashton Art School, Sydney, NSW 1996 - present

• Fundamentals of Life Drawing course (1996- present): conceived, devised and presented this weekly course from its beginning; supervised assistant tutors. Four 2.5 hour-classes per week, forty weeks per year.
• Fundamentals of Life Drawing workshop (1996- present): Five-day workshop,  presented up to four times annually.
• Colour, Light and Vision workshop (1998 - present): Five-day workshop,  presented up to five times annually.

National Art School, Darlinghurst, NSW 2004 annually to present

• Guest lecturer (two lectures per term) in anatomy and life drawing in the 2nd - 3rd year elective Drawing the Figure with Dr. Christopher Allen.

Aristocrat Technologies, Rosebury, NSW 2002-3

• Drawing classes provided as staff development for the Art Department

University of NSW Union, Kensington, NSW 1996-2004

• Taught regular Creative Development classes in Drawing, Life Drawing, and Painting.

University of Queensland, St Lucia, Qld 1980-94
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Qld
University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic
University of New South Wales, Kensington, NSW.

• Tertiary level teaching experience in Geology. At the QUT I had full responsibility for devising and presenting their undergraduate lecture and practical classes in palaeontology.

 

Qualifications

• Certificate IV in Training and Assessment 2008 (Hostec Training)
• Foundations in Learning and Teaching 2006 (Macquarie University, Centre for Professional Development)
• The Julian Ashton Art School, Sydney 1995-1999 Awards: Sir William Dobell Scholarship (1995) (The Dobell Scholarship is the top annual award given at Ashtons, judged specifically for fine draftsmanship). Julian Ashton Art School Diploma in Fine Art
• University of Queensland, Department of Geology Ph.D. 1988 B. Sc. (Hons) First Class 1980 Iona College, Brisbane, Qld 1974 Senior Certificate Awards: Dux of School; First Prizes in Senior English, Mathematics I & II, Physics, Chemistry and Logic; Tertiary Entry score 990 (maximum possible score).

 

Prizes

• Art Gallery Of New South Wales Robert Le Gay Brereton Prize for Drawing 1996

 

Publications

The Dimensions of Colour (website) www.huevaluechroma.com
"Essentially on online textbook/tutorial on appearance, or the dimensions of colour and light, written from the perspective of artists. The site is very nicely done and blends technical and artistic information well." (Mark D. Fairchild, Professor & Director, Munsell Color Science Laboratory, Rochester Institute of Technology, New York http://www.cis.rit.edu/fairchild/WhyIsColor/books_links.html)

"One of, if not, the best color website online" (Graydon Parrish, painter, author, teacher http://rationalpainting.org/index.php?topic=278.msg11037#msg11037)

Further Reading http://djcbriggs.googlepages.com/