RMIT 2025 late November/ early December Flex Term Intensive
(Flex Term 2502/ Program Option/ Flexible Term Class)
Capture, Translate and Synthesise Intensive VART3505
27-Nov 4-Dec 2025
Assessment 8-Dec
9.30 – 12.30, 1.30 – 4.30
Location: 49.2
Lecturer: Dr Peter Westwood
Course Description
This intensive course will introduce you to fundamental principles of capturing, translating and synthesizing your visual perceptions through drawing, reproduction, graphic languages and related skills of perception. You will experience drawing as a primary means of working with thoughts, processes, gestures and experiences through a range of materials and media. The course provides creative strategies and methods for you to translate your thoughts and perceptions into artworks.
Objectives provide a foundation in drawing and mixed media that can be further articulated through individual projects. You will gain skills that generate artistic departure points which form the basis for development into more complex art works.
Learning in these courses will take place in a studio environment and will be designed to deepen your creative thinking and expand notions of making in response to visual and material associations.
RMIT 2026 late January/ early February Flex Term Intensives
(Flex Term 2602/ Program Options/ Flexible Term Classes)
Painting: Materials, Methods and Concepts VART1316
27, 28, 29 Jan + 3, 4 Feb 2026
Assessment 6 – Feb
9.30 – 12.30, 1.30 – 4.30
Location: 2.3.4
Lecturer: tbc
Course Description
The Painting: Materials, Methods and Concepts Intensive course is designed to give students an elementary understanding of the concepts and materials used in the production of paintings. Students 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 links into their major area of study. The student will achieve this by making paintings using various media and supports. Advanced projects are negotiated with students with a greater experience in the subject.
Students will have the opportunity to immerse themselves and create artwork in the RMIT Painting Studio Spaces.
Photography 101 VART3590
27,28,29 Jan + 3,4 Feb 2026
Assessment 6 – Feb, Online Submission 20th Feb
9.30 – 12.30, 1.30 – 4.30
Location: 6.2.3 and 4
Lecturer: tbc
In this practical, theoretical and hands-on course, you will develop skills and knowledge around photography. Through a series of lectures and complementary workshops, you will gain skills in photographic capture through editing and presentation. A historical and contemporary overview of photography, genres of photography, visual literacy and communication tools will be investigated. The course provides various opportunities to engage with lecture topics and explore creating images that creatively express your ideas.
This course is delivered face to face, with lectures and presentations, pre-recorded and available online. In the course the students will have the opportunity to work with contemporary photographers and artists and access to industry standard cameras and lighting equipment.
Boulevarde Du Temple Louis Daguerre 1838
Alternative Photographic Processes VART1704
27,28,29 Jan + 3,4 Feb 2026
Assessment 6 – Feb, Online Submission 20th Feb
9.30 – 12.30, 1.30 – 4.30
Location: 6.5.1 and 8.7.76
Lecturer: tbc
This course introduces you to the beginnings of photography and present-day digital and analogue processes that continue to exploit the relationship between image and reality. You will examine the early pioneers exploring the chemical and physical phenomena that define the medium of photography, including the history of the camera and the development of printing processes.
The course encourages practical and conceptual experimentation with materials and processes to expand your individual photographic or visual arts practices. You will also explore the techniques, idiosyncrasies, history, and cultural connections that are a significant part of photography and create examples of various historical and alternate photo-image-making processes.
This course will be delivered through face-to-face classes and provide you with the opportunity to utilise our darkroom and editing labs.
Untitled, Isabella Capezio 2025