Workshop Preferences
Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) has a two stage enrolment process for Workshops 2 – 5.
- Stage 1: Students enrol via Enrolment Online into Workshop course codes.
- Stage 2: Students submit Workshop preferences through myTimetable.
Workshops for second and third year are are offered under the following course codes in semester 1:
- Workshop 3 VART 3651 – 2nd year students
- Workshop 5 VART 3653 – 3rd year students
Important Notes:
- Workshop classes are 12 credit point courses and require 3 contact hours per week + associated learner directed hours.
- You cannot repeat any class in your preference lists.
- Although we would like to offer all of the Workshop options below, classes are subject to viability and may not run if numbers are too low.
- Refer to RMIT Timetable website for deadlines and details around preference process.
MyTimetable Important Dates
- Early December 2024 myTimetable available in read-only mode
Late January 2025 Preferencing Opens
5pm Sunday 9 February 2025 Preferencing Closes
10am Monday 17 February 2025 Review and allocation adjustment opens (based on availability)
5pm TBC Allocation adjustment closes
Internship VART3510
Teaching staff: Jerry Galea &TBC
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
Please find link to the course guide.
This elective can be taken also as a workshop option
Experimental Clay Materiality
Teaching staff: TBC
Friday 9.30am – 12.30pm
Location 6.02.01
An experimental approach to key ceramic materials in glaze formulation and their role in the development of unique surfaces. How extraneous factors such as found materials, kiln atmosphere, clay bodies and methods of application can promote unexpected outcomes.
Bronze Foundry
Teaching staff: Simon Perry
Friday 9:30am – 12:30pm
This course is designed to introduce you to the fundamental techniques of bronze casting. Bronze casting has been used across continents for thousands of years and is now predominantly used for casting fine art objects.
In this course you will develop practical skills across a range of processes and materials, which are commonly used in sculptural practice and industry with a focus on the lost wax casting method. The course involves preparation for two bronze pours and will involve practical instruction in the use of workshop equipment alongside relevant health and safety training. Casting in bronze involves a team effort, work boots, covered clothing and safety glasses.
This course is mainly practical but with appropriate tutorial presentations covering theoretical and relevant historical background.
Please note: You cannot complete this course without regular attendance due to the processes involved.
Drawing and Body
Teaching staff: Irene Barberis
In this workshop course you will explore drawing techniques of the body and approaches to perceiving and expressing the body in space, the body as vessel, sign and as site of meaning. It includes life drawing and general drawing approaches, as well as ideas of embodiment and experience.
You will investigate thematic and self-directed projects addressing self and personal vision within your emerging art practice through drawing and related practices that are relevant to a range of areas of study.
Enameling and Colour for Metal
Teaching staff: Dr Kirsten Haydon
Artist Books
Teaching staff: TBC
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.
Photo Etching
Teaching staff: Deborah WIlliams
In this course, you will further develop your understanding of analogue and digital technologies focusing on intaglio etching, with an emphasis on photographic imagery and processes. Lectures and workshops will provide a mixture of theory and technical skills enabling you to produce works and reflect on the role of traditional and electronic print media in contemporary art. This will help you to expand the aesthetic and conceptual possibilities of your art practice.
Drawing Electric
Teaching staff: TBC
As electrical impulses in the brain transform through our nervous systems into marks on a surface or in space, be it a cave wall, paper or a hologram, electricity is key to the life force of creative endeavors. From simply putting the light on to see what you are doing to being connected into complex electrical networks of AI algorithms, Drawing Electric will experiment with the material possibilities of drawing in relation to electricity.
Soft Sculpture
Teaching staff: TBC
Foundation Video and Sound
please note this course has limited places
Teaching staff TBC
Ceramic Form and Surface
this course has limited places
Teaching staff: TBC
Friday 1.30 – 4.30 pm
Location 6.2.01
This course is an explorative approach to hand forming clay. Investigating influences and techniques, you will explore non-conventional sculptural methods to manipulate and develop form and surface qualities. Projects will encourage material experimentation with a focus on practice and enquiry.
Foundation Ceramics
this course has limited places
Teaching staff TBC
Friday 9.30 12.30
Location 4.01.01
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This is an introductory workshop course that will introduce you to technical skills in Ceramics focussing on plaster moulds and multiples. You will engage with materials, processes, tools, technologies and focus on acquiring the skills required to make Ceramic art works. This workshop will inform your practical studio investigations through a series of projects.
Pop Trash & Remix
Teaching staff: Ian Haig
Friday 1.30 4.30 pm
Location 4.01.01
“Everyone knows the usefulness of the useful, but no one knows the usefulness of the useless” Chuang Tzu
In this course you will explore how aspects of low, pop and everyday culture can inform creative practice and offer new ways of considering cultural analysis and critique. What is meant by the definitions of trash, kitsch, and pop? And what kind of cultural hierarchies and histories do they represent? Through a range of discussion and practical experiences and material exploration you will investigate strategies such as appropriation, montage, assemblage, and remix to question cultural forms, hierarchies and value systems and explore the vast and complex terrain of pop and trash culture.
Students will be introduced to artists working with Pop and Trash themes and will explore a range of media and techniques, from junk collage, found imagery/footage, AI, obsolete media (such as vinyl records), low fi and mass-produced materials and other mixed media and found objects. Building upon your strengths, you will be encouraged to consider the discarded, rejected, and the overlooked in your art practices.
Sound art and Installation
Teaching staff: TBC
Friday 1.30 4.30 pm
Location TBC
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Foundation Gold & Silversmithing
this course has limited places
Teaching staff: TBC
Friday 9.30 to 12.30pm and Thursday 4.30 to 7.30pm
Location 2.1.03
This is an introductory workshop course that will introduce you to technical skills in Gold & Silversmithing. You will engage with materials, processes, tools, technologies and focus on acquiring the skills required to make Gold & Silversmithing art works. This workshop will inform your practical studio investigations through a series of projects.
Hybridity & Migration
Teaching staff Sofi Basseghi
Friday 1.30 to 4.30pm
Location 2.3.04
The histories of migrations have had a significant impact on the world, its cultures, peoples and nations. Hybridity, particularly through a postcolonial lens, has seen the development of new transcultural forms. Together the interrelated impacts of hybridity and migration will establish a platform which gives you permission to draw on the rich and diverse fields of knowledge embedded within this semester, to use within frameworks of contemporary art practice.
These fields of knowledge, which this course navigates, are complex and extremely relevant to contemporary art. Artists have an important role to play in interrogating, influencing and shaping this discourse as it is being played out across nations, politics and communities.
Bio-Materiality
Teaching staff: TBC
Friday 9.30 to 12.30pm
Location 2.4.04
In this course you will explore the origins of your materials and how different kinds of matter can constitute meaning in the making of artworks. You will experiment with ephemeral forms and approaches to making that extend beyond the use of traditional art materials and develop projects that expand your practice beyond the studio and gallery settings.
Students will be introduced to contemporary artists working with the origins and agencies of a range of materials and will have the opportunity to put these methods into practice within a series of self-directed projects.
Undead Materiality
Teaching staff: Mark Edgoose and TBC
Friday 1.30 to 4.30pm
Location TBC
In this course you will explore the origins of your materials and how different kinds of matter can constitute meaning in the making of artworks. You will experiment with ephemeral forms and approaches to making that extend beyond the use of traditional art materials and develop projects that expand your practice beyond the studio and gallery settings.