PROJECT 1 Materials; Process and Transformation 2d Visual Media Duration: 6 Weeks They are asked to examine the roles of form and material in the production of meaning within 2d visual media and visual art languages. The students are encouraged to work with a range of materials through drawing and painting workshops and developing processes and their transformations, They will be asked to evaluate the functions and characteristics of materials in the specific contexts of the subjects outlined in their briefs. They are asked to discriminate between appropriate materials and media for increasing the legibility of their subjective ideas/ conceptual intentions. Their research work is to include contemporary and historical art practices that have been governed by questions of material form.

Duration: 6 Weeks; Students are asked to research and examine the roles of form and material in the production of meaning within sculpture/3d and visual art languages. Students will be encouraged to examine key questions and differences between art objects that have been hand-crafted, manufactured, found or assembled. Students are asked to demonstrate their ability to identify their understanding of material integrity and how it may relate to their own subjective ideas/conceptual intentions. They will be introduced to basic casting, while advancing their skills in wood-work and metal-work. While investigating the challenges and of creating material/formal translations of their own ideas, their research work should include contemporary and historical art practices that have been governed by questions of material form.

Duration: 4 Weeks; Students are asked to develop a body of research that will supply them with resource material for the development of their technical Painting/ 2d skills. This research block facilitates the student in learning specific skills in relation to painting and using materials. They will establish a basic grounding in painting techniques, technical skills and identify appropriate subject matter. They will direct their own subject program and systematically work towards accumulating practical painting /2d skills. Students self-initiate research, present work that demonstrates a variety of technical skills in painting and 2d media and use and manipulate tools for preparing stretchers and painting supports

Duration: 4 Weeks Status: Elective. Assessment: Summative Weighting: 20% Questions Of Material Form In Relation To Paint/ 2d Visual Media Students are asked to locate their research in investigating the challenges and possibilities in creating material /formal translations of their subjective ideas. They are asked to examine the roles of form and material in the production of meaning within painting and visual art languages. The students are encouraged to work with a range of materials through drawing/painting workshops. They will be asked to evaluate the functions and characteristics of materials in the specific contexts of the subjects outlined in their brief. They are asked to discriminate between appropriate materials and media for increasing the legibility of their subjective ideas/ conceptual intentions. Their research work is to include contemporary and historical art practices that have been governed by questions of material form.

Duration: 4 Weeks Status: Elective. Assessment: Summative Weighting: 20% Questions Of Metaphor In Relation To Paint/ 2d Visual Media Project aims include the production of a body of research that reflects an individual investigation of the idea of metaphor. It directs the student towards an examination and understanding of the many functions and strategies employed by metaphor for communicating meaning in Painting 2D/ Visual Media. This project encourages the student to explore the capacity of metaphor for abstracting physical and metaphysical ideas in painting/2D visual disciplines, both in contemporary and art historical movements. This is a tutor-led project, with significant emphasis on the student making an individual and creative response while also improving and sophisticating their painting/ 2D and interdisciplinary skills.

Links Between Art History/Cultural Studies & Painting: Where possible during the PAINTING blocks, the art history and cultural studies courses will compliment the studio briefs, relating each studio project to an historical and critical discussion. Suggested topics: • Pop Art. • Neo Abstraction and Neo Expressionism. • Theories of ethnicity and race. • Film Noir.