Image: Studio Photo, Photographer: Peter Ellis

Course Guide: VART1316

Lecturer: Sarah Tomasetti

Course Coordinator: name and email

Day: Monday
Time:

Delivery mode:
Location: 2.3.04

This elective will give you an elementary understanding of the concepts and materials and contexts used in the production of paintings. You will be encouraged to experiment with and respond to materials; develop an awareness of visual perception and intuitive sensibilities; and see painting as a self-reflexive ongoing practice, which may link to your major area of study.
You will extend your knowledge regarding Painting through experimentation with different painting supports; preparation of grounds; various painting media; colour mixing; colour theory; compositional and spatial considerations. Studio based learning via projects and instruction sessions where you will be producing paintings, drawings and collages. There will be individual consultations with the lecturer involving feedback and appraisal on exercises and self-directed projects where appropriate.
Advanced projects are negotiated with students with a greater experience in the subject. The course is supported by individual visual research, including the production of a visual diary. Group tutorials, critiques, demonstrations, student presentations and gallery visits. Methods of Production, Health and Safety will be experienced.

Image: Greg Creek, RMIT Life Drawing Studio

Course Guide: VART1325

Lecturer: Greg Creek

Course Coordinator: name and email

Day: Mondays
Time: 9:30am – 12:30pm, 1.30pm – 4.30pm, 5.30pm – 8.30pm

Delivery mode:
Location: 4.5.05

In this elective course you will learn studio skills and competency in drawing the figure. 
You will explore the methods, materials, and concepts concerning perceptual drawing. These range across the application of appropriate materials in a range of drawing modes and studio settings; perspective and non­perspective approaches to visual representation; proportion, form, weight and volume; figure/ground relationships; positive/negative space; use of props and backdrops; details of head, feet, hands; depiction of movement; serial and sequential works. Your learning will develop across four thematic Modules culminating in a self-developed project.

Course Guide: VART1398

Lecturer: Fleur Summers

Course Coordinator: name and email

Day: Monday
Time: 1.30pm – 4.30pm

Delivery mode:
Location: 37.1.7

This course is designed to introduce students to the traditions of sculpture within the framework of current art practice and to develop sculptural values and competence in the use of materials and techniques. In this course you will develop a greater understanding of sculptural concepts and materials through the development of your personal art practice through experimental object making. Students will be introduced to a range of skills including modelling, construction and assemblage using simple sculptural materials through studio teaching. 

Image: Joseph Cornell Untitled (Fortune-Telling Parrot For Carmen Miranda) The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, 1976 © The Joseph And Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation/Licensed By Vaga, New York, NY

Image: Cecilia Baker ‘Cyanotype’

Course Guide: VART1704

Lecturer: Isabella Capezio

Course Coordinator: name and email

Day:
Time:

Delivery mode:
Location: 006.05.001

This course introduces you to the beginnings of Photography to the present day. You will examine the early photographers exploring the chemical and physical phenomena that define the medium of photography. You will also explore the techniques, processes, history, and cultural connections that are such a significant part of photography. The studio will be presented through a variety of activities including workshops, darkroom, experimentation, lectures, critical analysis, discussion, practice, presentation and reflection.

Image: William Kentridge. Courtesy of MAC

Course Guide: VART2022

Lecturer: Martine Corompt

Course Coordinator: name and email

Day: Monday
Time: 9.30am – 12.30pm

Delivery mode:
Location: 4.2.6

Temporal drawing, refers to Drawing over time and explores the connection between the practice of drawing and experimental animation, developing a deeper understanding the many aspects of drawing/mark making and its translation to movement and the moving image. 

We will ask questions such as: What can be used to make a mark, what things leave a trace? And how can this be captured over time? We will experiment with both traditional and more ephemeral process-based media, such as inks, water, scratched surfaces, dust, light, and shadows. 

Incorporating both collaborative and individual class projects, this studio-based course will also be complimented by a range of lectures, screenings, demonstrations, and group tutorials. 

No prior experience necessary 

Image: Please Be Careful, 2020, Sarah Douglass, RMIT Public Art Trail

Course Guide: VART2027

Lecturer: name

Course Coordinator: name and email

Day:
Time:

Delivery mode:
Location: 50.01.01

This course introduces the practice of art in public spaces. You will explore a range of works created outside the gallery or domestic environment including sculpture, light works, street installation, public painting, performative, social or relational works, virtual projects and art integrated within landscape and the built environment. You will review and critique the role of these works in contributing to ideas of public space. Your investigation and reflections will inform how your work will develop and move into public spaces and inform the development of your projects about and for public space.

Image: Bin Dixon Ward, The Captains Daughter, SLS Nylon, Ink

Course Guide: VART3473

Lecturer: Mark Edgoose

Course Coordinator: Mark Edgoose (email)

Day: Monday
Time: 1:30pm – 4:30pm

Delivery mode:
Location: 04.02.06

In this course, you will explore and experience a range of materials and processes using digital manufacturing techniques and CAD modelling software to build jewellery and objects. Digital manufacturing processes covered will include object printing and use a variety of outsourced and in house printing including Form labs printing. CAD modelling will focus on learning basic to advanced Rhino software. This course will be delivered by artists who use digital technology and printed artefacts in their own work through face-to-face classes. 

Image: Andrew Clapham, Altered-R 2021, Acrylic Silk-Screen Print on Paper

Course Guide: VART3478

Lecturer: Andrew Gunnell

Course Coordinator: name and email

Day: Monday
Time: 1.30pm – 4.30pm

Delivery mode:
Location: 95.01.03

This course will introduce you to screenprinting processes and technologies that focus on photographic, drawing and text based printing. The objectives of the course are to provide you with the skills and knowledge to: produce photographic screenprints; reflect upon the role of screenprinting in contemporary art; and expand the aesthetic and conceptual possibilities of your art practice utilising a reproductive medium.

Image: name, ‘title’, year, medium. Photographer:

Course Guide: VART3510

Lecturer: Jerry Galea

Course Coordinator: name and email

Day: Friday
Time:

Delivery mode:
Location:

In this course, you will participate in an internship or artist in residence program in an arts, photographic or cultural organisation, company, festival, commercial industry, gallery, museum or studio, through dual negotiation with the industry and School. You will be expected to work as directed by the host organisation, to address and solve real-world issues in an arts industry workplace environment.

This is a Work Integrated Learning course designed to facilitate a practical working relationship between you and selected arts and cultural organizations.

More information about RMIT’s Work Integrated Learning can be found here: http://emedia.rmit.edu.au/careerstoolkit/welcome?destination=node/1

Image: Caitlin Ramsden-Smith, 2018

Course Guide: VART3511

Lecturer: Bronislaw De Wilmesau-Kozka

Course Coordinator: name and email

Day: N/A
Time: N/A

Delivery mode: Online
Location: N/A

This course you will investigate how photography functions within a fine art context. It is a fully integrated online course, where you will be able to navigate the course materials independently. The course will provide you with an overview of historical and contemporary photographic ideas and practice. ou will be exposed to a diverse range of significant local and international artists who draw upon a variety of photographic technologies in their practice, and investigate the language of photography and how it informs fine art photographic image making. The course provides you with opportunities to respond to lectures and explore ways of processing and articulating your own ideas with photographic techniques through digital SLR camera craft and digital software editing processes. Practical activities aim to engage you in applying photographic discourse to your contemporary art practice.

Image: Griselda Crombie

Course Guide: VART3514

Lecturer: Kris Coad

Course Coordinator: name and email

Day: Monday
Time: 1.30pm – 4.30pm

Delivery mode:
Location: 6.02.01

In this course you will explore and experiment with the physical properties of materials and develop fundamental skills in the making of objects through ceramic methods. You will also address conceptual and technical concerns related to the making of objects. This course helps you understand the relationships between idea, concept, form and material as you begin to develop an individual approach to your art practice. 

**Students will be issued a materials list prior to semester start 

Image: Migrant Mother, Dorothea Lange, 1936, United States Library of Congress’s Prints and Photographs Division

Course Guide: VART3590

Lecturer: Isabella Capezio

Course Coordinator: name and email

Day: TBC
Time: TBC

Delivery mode:
Location:

The course approaches the medium of photography as modes of communication, art and creative technical skills. In studying this course you will be shown how photography has developed throughout its history and its theoretical contexts. We will discuss how our growing understanding of the principles of human perception and communication has influenced photography. You will be introduced to basic principles of the camera and you will also be provided with techniques for responding to the content and structure of photographs.  You will gain a visual literary on how images are created, presented and read across a wide genre of photographic fields. This course will provide you with the opportunity to examine and establish professional image capture workflows using a digital SLR and/or interchangeable lens camera. You will develop skills in how to control image craft, edit images and present them to communicate ideas and concepts.

image: name, ‘title’, year, medium. Photographer:

Course Guide: VART3627

Lecturer: Jody Haines, Dr Ruth DeSouza and specialist guest lecturers

Course Coordinator: name and email

Day: Thursday
Time: 10:30am-1:30pm

Delivery mode:
Location: 6.2.3

This course invites you to develop a reflective relationship to the knowledge systems of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

The course takes a practice-based approach to learning and will actively involve you in thinking about, questioning and exploring a range of responses to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ ways of knowing, being and doing as critical knowledge systems.

A focus on your own subject position and relationship with First Peoples’ sovereignty will be vital in forming a personal response and considering the broader implications of the conceptual frameworks for your creative practice.

Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:

1. Develop an understanding of creative practice in relation to place, culture and history on unceded land.
2. Critically reflect on and evaluate assumptions, biases and methods in your creative practice in response to your location, situation and relationship with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander custodianship.
3. Through creative practice locate and situate yourself in relation to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledge systems.

The course will be delivered collaboratively with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and will include a range of activities including workshops, demonstrations, practical activities, field trips, tutorials, lectures and group discussions. You will engage in a range of learning activities that explore creative methods for developing an understanding of First Nations perspectives, world views and lifeways as important knowledge systems.

The creative outcomes produced will be featured in an end of semester exhibition in the School of Art’s IDEA space.

Image: Lithogrph: (Detail) Washes Experiment – Student Group Work, 2018

Course Guide: VART1221

Lecturer: Andrew Gunnell

Course Coordinator: name and email

Day: Monday
Time: 1:30pm-4:30pm

Delivery mode:
Location: 49.02.18

Through practical workshops this course introduces and explores a range of processes and techniques of lithography as a medium for drawing. Line and wash techniques will be developed over a series of projects. This elective provides an introduction to lithographic skills processes, such as, preparing a stone, drawing on a stone, processing the stone with adding and subtracting to your image as well as providing ongoing students with an opportunity to extend existing skills. You will gain an understanding of safe handling of materials and processes within the lithography studio, and how to apply these to the visual expression of conceptual principles.

Image: Studio Photo, Photographer: Peter Ellis

Course Guide: VART1316

Lecturer: Sarah Tomasetti

Course Coordinator: name and email

Day: Monday
Time:

Delivery mode:
Location: 2.3.04

This elective will give you an elementary understanding of the concepts and materials and contexts used in the production of paintings. You will be encouraged to experiment with and respond to materials; develop an awareness of visual perception and intuitive sensibilities; and see painting as a self-reflexive ongoing practice, which may link to your major area of study.
You will extend your knowledge regarding Painting through experimentation with different painting supports; preparation of grounds; various painting media; colour mixing; colour theory; compositional and spatial considerations. Studio based learning via projects and instruction sessions where you will be producing paintings, drawings and collages. There will be individual consultations with the lecturer involving feedback and appraisal on exercises and self-directed projects where appropriate.
Advanced projects are negotiated with students with a greater experience in the subject. The course is supported by individual visual research, including the production of a visual diary. Group tutorials, critiques, demonstrations, student presentations and gallery visits. Methods of Production, Health and Safety will be experienced.

Image: Greg Creek, RMIT Life Drawing Studio

Course Guide: VART1325

Lecturer: Greg Creek

Course Coordinator: name and email

Day: Mondays
Time: 9:30am – 12:30pm, 1.30pm – 4.30pm, 5.30pm – 8.30pm

Delivery mode:
Location: 4.5.05

In this elective course you will learn studio skills and competency in drawing the figure. 
You will explore the methods, materials, and concepts concerning perceptual drawing. These range across the application of appropriate materials in a range of drawing modes and studio settings; perspective and non­perspective approaches to visual representation; proportion, form, weight and volume; figure/ground relationships; positive/negative space; use of props and backdrops; details of head, feet, hands; depiction of movement; serial and sequential works. Your learning will develop across four thematic Modules culminating in a self-developed project.

Course Guide: VART1398

Lecturer: Fleur Summers

Course Coordinator: name and email

Day: Monday
Time: 1.30pm – 4.30pm

Delivery mode:
Location: 37.1.7

This course is designed to introduce students to the traditions of sculpture within the framework of current art practice and to develop sculptural values and competence in the use of materials and techniques. In this course you will develop a greater understanding of sculptural concepts and materials through the development of your personal art practice through experimental object making. Students will be introduced to a range of skills including modelling, construction and assemblage using simple sculptural materials through studio teaching. 

Image: Joseph Cornell Untitled (Fortune-Telling Parrot For Carmen Miranda) The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, 1976 © The Joseph And Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation/Licensed By Vaga, New York, NY

Image: Cecilia Baker ‘Cyanotype’

Course Guide: VART1704

Lecturer: Isabella Capezio

Course Coordinator: name and email

Day:
Time:

Delivery mode:
Location: 006.05.001

This course introduces you to the beginnings of Photography to the present day. You will examine the early photographers exploring the chemical and physical phenomena that define the medium of photography. You will also explore the techniques, processes, history, and cultural connections that are such a significant part of photography. The studio will be presented through a variety of activities including workshops, darkroom, experimentation, lectures, critical analysis, discussion, practice, presentation and reflection.

Image: Shana Moulton, ‘Decorations of the Mind II’, Galerie Gregor Staiger, Zurich, 2011

Course Guide: VART3464

Lecturer: Arlo Mountford

Course Coordinator: Ian Haig

Day:
Time: 9:30am – 12:30pm

Delivery mode:
Location: 04.02.06

In this course you will examine technical, historical and theoretical aspects of video art practice. The course encourages you to develop a critical dialogue between your practice and the history of video art, as they relate to installation and screening-based modes of exhibition. Through a series of exercises and a program of integrated screenings, class discussions and gallery visits, the practical demands of video production will be contextualised. You will develop capacities in the processes of video technology and production relevant to your studio practice. The material covered reflects the breadth of moving image production and draws upon examples from cinema, television, video art and examples of video technology in the home, work and public arena. 

Image: Bin Dixon Ward, The Captains Daughter, SLS Nylon, Ink

Course Guide: VART3473

Lecturer: Mark Edgoose

Course Coordinator: Mark Edgoose (email)

Day: Monday
Time: 1:30pm – 4:30pm

Delivery mode:
Location: 04.02.06

In this course, you will explore and experience a range of materials and processes using digital manufacturing techniques and CAD modelling software to build jewellery and objects. Digital manufacturing processes covered will include object printing and use a variety of outsourced and in house printing including Form labs printing. CAD modelling will focus on learning basic to advanced Rhino software. This course will be delivered by artists who use digital technology and printed artefacts in their own work through face-to-face classes. 

Image: A Hemline Of Sky Through Smoke, A Hemline Of Forest Through Smoke, and A Hemline Of Water Through Smoke (2020), Gracia Haby and Louise Jennison.

Course Guide: VART3480

Lecturer: Andrew Gunnell, Louise Jennison

Course Coordinator: name and email

Day: Monday
Time: 9:30am-12:30pm

Delivery mode:
Location: 49.2.2

In this course you will explore the possibilities offered by the artist’s book for the presentation of visual information and ideas. A broad range of book binding methods will be introduced and applied in hands-on, interactive online workshops that encourage you to think laterally about what a book might be and how a narrative might be constructed. The methods of bookbinding covered in this course incorporate both adhesive and non-adhesive book binding methods, from simple folding techniques to more formal sewn binding methods. You will discuss and apply bookbinding methods appropriate to a range of mediums in order to extend your creative practice. 

Images left to right: Ana Mendieta, Untitled (Facial Hair Transplants), 1972, Anna Maria Maiolino, Eugenia Lim, The Peoples Currency 2017, Justene Williams, The Worker (Costume from Victory Over the Sun),2016,

Course Guide: VART3504

Lecturer: name

Course Coordinator: name and email

Day: Monday
Time: 1.30 – 4.30pm

Delivery mode:
Location:

In this practical course you will explore a range of performance traditions and strategies drawing from historical and contemporary art. You will examine key aspects of Performance Art including the body, gesture, process, collaboration, audience/spectatorship, liveness, time and spatial dynamics to develop and stage your own performance works.

The history of performance draws on the collaborative traditions of 20th Century avant-garde movements such as Dada, Futurism and Conceptualism. It incorporates and combines strategies of improvisation, intervention, visual art, dramaturgy, choreography, voice, and events in the public realm.  Performance can be understood as a way of engaging directly with the social world, the audience, the specifics of a space, the artistic process and the politics of identity.

You will also explore artists’ ideas, movements, philosophies, styles, periods, technologies and methods in relation to performance, which will help to form your own creative responses.

Image: name, ‘title’, year, medium. Photographer:

Course Guide: VART3510

Lecturer: Jerry Galea

Course Coordinator: name and email

Day: Friday
Time:

Delivery mode:
Location:

In this course, you will participate in an internship or artist in residence program in an arts, photographic or cultural organisation, company, festival, commercial industry, gallery, museum or studio, through dual negotiation with the industry and School. You will be expected to work as directed by the host organisation, to address and solve real-world issues in an arts industry workplace environment.

This is a Work Integrated Learning course designed to facilitate a practical working relationship between you and selected arts and cultural organizations.

More information about RMIT’s Work Integrated Learning can be found here: http://emedia.rmit.edu.au/careerstoolkit/welcome?destination=node/1

Image: Caitlin Ramsden-Smith, 2018

Course Guide: VART3511

Lecturer: Bronislaw De Wilmesau-Kozka

Course Coordinator: name and email

Day: N/A
Time: N/A

Delivery mode: Online
Location: N/A

This course you will investigate how photography functions within a fine art context. It is a fully integrated online course, where you will be able to navigate the course materials independently. The course will provide you with an overview of historical and contemporary photographic ideas and practice. ou will be exposed to a diverse range of significant local and international artists who draw upon a variety of photographic technologies in their practice, and investigate the language of photography and how it informs fine art photographic image making. The course provides you with opportunities to respond to lectures and explore ways of processing and articulating your own ideas with photographic techniques through digital SLR camera craft and digital software editing processes. Practical activities aim to engage you in applying photographic discourse to your contemporary art practice.

Image: Griselda Crombie

Course Guide: VART3514

Lecturer: Kris Coad

Course Coordinator: name and email

Day: Monday
Time: 1.30pm – 4.30pm

Delivery mode:
Location: 6.02.01

In this course you will explore and experiment with the physical properties of materials and develop fundamental skills in the making of objects through ceramic methods. You will also address conceptual and technical concerns related to the making of objects. This course helps you understand the relationships between idea, concept, form and material as you begin to develop an individual approach to your art practice. 

**Students will be issued a materials list prior to semester start 

Image: Migrant Mother, Dorothea Lange, 1936, United States Library of Congress’s Prints and Photographs Division

Course Guide: VART3590

Lecturer: Isabella Capezio

Course Coordinator: name and email

Day: TBC
Time: TBC

Delivery mode:
Location:

The course approaches the medium of photography as modes of communication, art and creative technical skills. In studying this course you will be shown how photography has developed throughout its history and its theoretical contexts. We will discuss how our growing understanding of the principles of human perception and communication has influenced photography. You will be introduced to basic principles of the camera and you will also be provided with techniques for responding to the content and structure of photographs.  You will gain a visual literary on how images are created, presented and read across a wide genre of photographic fields. This course will provide you with the opportunity to examine and establish professional image capture workflows using a digital SLR and/or interchangeable lens camera. You will develop skills in how to control image craft, edit images and present them to communicate ideas and concepts.

image: name, ‘title’, year, medium. Photographer:

Course Guide: VART3627

Lecturer: Jody Haines, Dr Ruth DeSouza and specialist guest lecturers

Course Coordinator: name and email

Day: Thursday
Time: 10:30am-1:30pm

Delivery mode:
Location: 6.2.3

This course invites you to develop a reflective relationship to the knowledge systems of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

The course takes a practice-based approach to learning and will actively involve you in thinking about, questioning and exploring a range of responses to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ ways of knowing, being and doing as critical knowledge systems.

A focus on your own subject position and relationship with First Peoples’ sovereignty will be vital in forming a personal response and considering the broader implications of the conceptual frameworks for your creative practice.

Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:

1. Develop an understanding of creative practice in relation to place, culture and history on unceded land.
2. Critically reflect on and evaluate assumptions, biases and methods in your creative practice in response to your location, situation and relationship with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander custodianship.
3. Through creative practice locate and situate yourself in relation to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledge systems.

The course will be delivered collaboratively with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and will include a range of activities including workshops, demonstrations, practical activities, field trips, tutorials, lectures and group discussions. You will engage in a range of learning activities that explore creative methods for developing an understanding of First Nations perspectives, world views and lifeways as important knowledge systems.

The creative outcomes produced will be featured in an end of semester exhibition in the School of Art’s IDEA space.