Workshop VART 3650 & 3652 Workshop 2 & 4
Post Internet art
- Location: 2.4.4
- Day/time: Friday 1.30 – 4.30
- Teaching staff: Ian Haig
In this course you will explore how the impact of the internet has transformed contemporary art practice. Post Internet art is contemporary art that is aware and influenced by internet culture and social media. You will explore how your individual studio practice can respond and reflect on different aspects of internet culture: Google Collage, Experimental art memes, Internet self-portraits are some strategies that will be explored.
The course also looks at how to transform the digital into physical objects through a variety of different conceptual approaches. The workshop will explore the question: How has the immaterial digital world impacted on more traditional media like painting, print, sculpture, drawing and also video.
The workshop will also include lectures on post internet artists, group and individual tutorials and artist talks.
Abstraction +
- TBC (but its very exciting)
- 2.3.04
- 9.30 – 12.30
In this workshop you will engage with a range of concepts and material investigation into abstraction and non- objective art practices, leading to an individual approach to these questions in your studio practice. We will focus on how artists generate and develop ideas to make contemporary artworks related to the process and history of abstraction.
You will produce experimental research work that addresses materiality, scale, colour, composition, pattern, structure, surface and matter, utilizing gesture, play and chance associations. Various cultural influences on the development of abstraction will be considered. You will be encouraged to develop your own approach to contemporary abstraction utilizing a range of methods of making such as painting, print and digital technologies, drawing, collage, photography, the object, signs and symbols, the language of installation and ephemeral works.
The structure of the course will involve student presentations, visual lectures, individual and group tutorials and feedback. This workshop will be concurrently delivered to first and second year students in person in a studio environment.
PAINTING CONTEMPORARY PRACTICES
- Location: 2.4.04
- Friday 9.30 – 12.30
- Staff: Saffron Newey
In this workshop, you will experience painting’s vital energy through a range of projects that investigate the concepts, strategies and processes used by painters to generate work. You will develop creative strategies and research methods that build proficiency in painting and lead to sustainable individual studio practice. The importance of experimentation, play and chance will be explored in the development of visual language. Diverse material practices will be engaged to explore the relationship of painting to photography, film, the internet, pop culture and the sublime.
Both abstract and figurative outcomes will focus on composition, scale, use of colour, collage, surface, texture, gesture, opacity and transparency.
You will experience a range of media and processes including oil, acrylic, watercolour, and gouache and their application on a variety of supports. This course is studio based, complemented by student presentations, demonstrations, visual lectures, individual and group tutorials and feedback in a supportive and stimulating environment.
Book as Art Object
- Location 49.2.2
- Day/time Friday 9:30am-12:30pm
- Teaching staff Hannah Caprice
The Book as Art Object Workshop has been designed to provide Fine Art students with an expanded understanding of the book as a vehicle for artistic expression within a contemporary context. In this class, you will explore the possibilities offered by the artist book for the presentation of visual information and ideas through exploring the relationship between book binding methods and content. A broad range of book binding techniques incorporating both adhesive and non-adhesive book binding methods will be introduced in this hands-on workshop, as you create your own original book-based art objects. Lectures, studio-based demonstrations, and peer-to-peer learning will help to advance notions of narrative and the page.
Photographic Screen Print
- Location 95.1.1
- Day/time Friday 1:30pm-4:30pm
- Teaching staff Andrew Clapham
This workshop will introduce you to screen printing processes and technologies that focus on photographic, and text-based printing. The objectives of the course are to provide you with the skills and knowledge to produce photographic screen prints; reflect upon the role of photographic screen printing in contemporary art; and expand the aesthetic and conceptual possibilities of your art practice.
BRONZE FOUNDRY
- Location – 37.1.7
- Friday 9.30 – 12.30
- Teaching staff – Fleur Summers
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.
Hybrid 2D Drawing
- Location: 4.5.05
- Day/time: Friday 9.30-12.30
- Teaching staff: TBC
In this course, you will develop skills in combining picture making, visual research and composite materials as a way of generating new knowledge and ideas for your studio practice. The two-dimensional ground is a place to play and experiment, to bring new ideas together, to translate and recombine public and personal meanings. This course provides a range of individual research strategies formed around cycles of making and principles of assemblage, collage, montage, unmaking and reworking, reflecting on the interplay of the image-as-object and medium-as-process. Objectives are to extend your skills to transform traditional mediums, to complement your emerging studio practice through individually realised projects and to develop awareness and understanding of how broad social and cultural perspectives can be reflected in contemporary art practice.
Drawing and Perception
- Location: 4.5.05
- Day/time: Friday 1.30-4.30
- Teaching staff: Irene Barberis
In this course offers you will investigate through a structured drawing program facets and techniques of drawing skills through approaches to seeing, thinking and perception. It encompasses life drawing and general drawing expanded to embrace aspects of the performed figure, spatial dynamics, mark making & trace. You will explore your personal vision, examine conventions and contexts of drawing and its capacity to communicate expressively across a range of media. You will produce a folio of resolved drawings with a support folio of studies and research material that is relevant to a range of areas of study.
Creating Narrative Through Ceramic Form and Surface
- Location: 6.02.01
- Day/time: Friday 9.30 – 12.30
- Teaching staff: TBC
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.
Plaster Moulds and Ceramic Hybrid Forms
- Location: 4.01.01
- Day/time: Friday 9.30 – 12.30
- Teaching staff: Jennifer Conroy-Smith
This workshop will explore techniques and processes that combine elements of plaster mould-making and hand forming, to make hybrid sculptural forms. Through a series of projects and investigations, you will engage with alternative techniques and processes, using plaster, clay, texture and colour. Exploring slip casting with liquid clay, combined with press moulding, sculpting and surface treatments, creating work that explores a fusion of techniques.
VART3627 Creative practice in place: Working on unceded lands
[please note that this School elective may counted as a Workshop]
- Jody Haines, Dr Ruth DeSouza and specialist guest lecturers
- Thu 10:30am-1:30pm
- 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:
- Develop an understanding of creative practice in relation to place, culture and history on unceded land.
- 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.
- 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.
Casting and Metal Alloying
- Location: 2.01.03
- Day/time: Friday 9.30 – 12.30
- Teaching staff: Katherine Bowman
In this course, you will explore the physical properties of various metals and processes used in small-scale casting. Processes covered will include lost wax, mould making for multiples and metal alloying. There is a considered focus on creating original models from a wide range of wax processes. You will also experiment with creating metal alloys and understand how these alloys give colour.
Jewellery Attachments
SYNTHETIC SAPPHIRE, CUBIC ZIRCONIA, FOUND MATERIAL
- Location: 2.01.03
- Day/time: Friday 1.30 – 4.30
- Teaching staff: TBA
In this course you will learn how the notion of attachment can be applied in jewellery making to incorporate non-metallic materials and the readymade. You will first investigate basic methods of jewellery settings and you will then extend this knowledge by experimenting with diverse ways of attaching dissimilar materials together and jewellery to the body.
Soft Sculpture
Tricia Page ‘Pimp My Ride’
- Location: 37.01.07
- Day/time: Friday 1.30 – 4.30
- Teaching staff: Carmen Reid
This course focuses on the possibilities of making soft sculpture within a contemporary art framework. Students will undertake a series of short workshops which introduce a variety of conceptual and technical skills including basic pattern making, working with scale, hand and machine sewing, armature construction and the use of readymades. These skills will be contextualized by the works of a range of artists. Students will develop their own works using a range of pliable materials and are expected to develop new experimental approaches and definitions in the production of soft sculpture.