Do You Want to be Immersed in Creativity, Performance, Design and Innovation?
The UniSQ School of Creative Arts (SoCA), prepares students for global engagement as practitioners, educators, creators, advocates, and patrons of the arts. We foster the development of professional skills, innovation, change and intellectual growth in a nurturing and inspirational learning community.
What Can I Study?
Community Wellbeing
Editing & Publishing
Design & Interactive Technologies
Film & Screen
Music
Television & Radio
Theatre
Visual Art
Creative Arts Honours
Post Grad / Research
SoCA Staff
Our staff are a motley crew of hard-working, enthusiastic individuals who enjoy teaching and researching while continuing their own professional artistic practice.
Why Choose Creative Arts?
We provide hands-on, practical skills development underpinned by discipline-specific theory to ensure our graduates are knowledgeable and profession ready. Our graduates possess critical and creative thinking, effective communication, imagination, entrepreneurialism, a strong sense of agency, and a commitment to making a positive impact in the community.
Did you know SoCA’s creative arts programs are also not included in the Federal Government’s recent fee increases for Humanities courses which means you won’t pay higher fees for your courses?
Enrol and be part of the next generation of storytellers today!
Our Students
Our students are amazing people from all walks of life who want to express themselves creatively and to create work that tells stories, connects with others, and pushes boundaries. We come to know every student and we feel privileged to walk alongside them as they travel along their learning journey of personal and professional development.
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USQ Visual Arts – Student Experience Chasley Wilson
USQ Film Project – Soi Hazell
USQ Music Students – Showcase Performance ‘Something in the Water’
USQ Television Broadcast Project
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USQ Theatre Production – The Tempest
Alumni
Daniel Maddock
Photographer, Filmmaker and Academic
Bonnie Green
Professional Musician
Daniel Elborne
Practising Visual Artist
Daniel Maddock
Daniel is an award-winning cinematographer, photographer, filmmaker and academic. He has had a strong and varied career in the tertiary sector having taught at the University of Southern Queensland, Griffith Film School, JMC Academy, SAE College and the Queensland School of Film and Television. Daniel has published research in journals and books with his thesis being nominated for the Chancellor’s Medal for Excellence in PhD Research at Griffith University. Daniel’s cinematographic and photographic practice is rare and multidimensional; he has been published in almost every medium of film-making including broadcasted documentaries, television drama series, music videos, television commercials, branded content, corporate, educational and television news whilst also publishing stills in magazines, newspapers, billboards and online in the genres of architecture, fashion, food, interior design, lifestyle and advertising.
Notable Productions:
– Love Patrol [Television Series Drama – SBS] – ACS Award Winning
– Artscape: APT7 – Our Century, Our Art [Television Documentary – ABC]
– The Battle of Fire Support Base Coral [Television Documentary – History Channel]
– Calais ‘Seeing it All’ [Music Video – ABC]
– Ball Park Music ‘You Only Want Me When I’m There’ [Music Video – ABC]
 Vimeo site:  https://vimeo.com/danielmaddock
 The Space/Time website is a good go to as it has extensive behind the scenes videos…. https://www.spacetimemovie.com
Bonnie Green
Music has always been a part of who Bonnie is. She graduated from USQ with a Bachelor of Creative Arts (Honours) in Music and is currently completing a Doctor of Philosophy in piano pedagogy, specifically focusing on creative music-making and learning.
Pursuing tertiary studies in music at USQ has opened doors for Bonnie to work as a performer, piano teacher, accompanist and musical director. Through studying, Bonnie has also discovered her talent and passion for improvising, composing and arranging, recording her own music and helping other artists record their albums. With initial plans to study Journalism, Bonnie found her way back to music after living in Denmark as an exchange student, where her love for music was rekindled through exposure to genres such as funk, pop and jazz.
Overcoming personal challenges of self-confidence, breaking away from false humility and recognising that she is good at what she enjoys, Bonnie runs to pursue her passion as a career, continue learning and desires to share her talent and knowledge with others.
Daniel Elborne
Up to this point, the most definitive sense of purpose I’ve found is in making art. Alongside this, consuming and studying visual art dominates a great deal of my remaining time and energy. As a distinctively human enterprise, I recognise that art is an essential component to defining, shaping, and critiquing both history and culture. It is USQ where I realised this, and where I decided, with a great deal of support, to pursue life as an artist.