Graduate Diploma Fine art

Course detail Content: what students can expect

• A studio-based and practice-led course that brings together a wide range of media including painting, sculpture, film and video, digital media, sound, print, performance and drawing
• Practice and theory are integrated, helping you understand the contexts and conditions that shape and frame contemporary art practice
• To be allocated a tutor group that you’ll meet on a regular basis to discuss each other’s work
• Significant control over what you learn, the pace you do this at and how you might demonstrate this. Students will be helped in these decisions through on-going dialogue with their tutors as well as fellow students
• To receive inductions into the processes and facilities available in the college’s studios and workshops, with specialist technicians on hand to offer support
• To have access to Chelsea's shared workshops including ceramics, casting, laser cutting, photography, metalwork, woodwork and audio visual editing suite. View the Chelsea facilities section

Graduate Diploma Fine Art programme specification (PDF - 229 KB)

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Structure

The course runs over a total of 30 weeks. Learning and teaching are delivered through a programme of regular one-to-one tutorials, seminars and lectures, featuring a wide array of artists and practitioners.

The course is studio based and students work in a designated Graduate Diploma studio. The course is delivered through three units of study:

You will establish and develop a working practice that best makes use of the College environment and your studio. You will ask fundamental questions about what it is to have a research informed practice where you will explore and articulate ideas through making work. This unit will help you develop a holistic approach where theory, practice and a professional context are interdependent within a practice that you will develop through the next two units.

Having explored potential ideas and theories that inform your practice in the first unit, you will next contextualise your practice within the diversity of current theories and debates. You will critically evaluate and identify references within art, literature, popular culture or theory. You will focus on your own specific interests to develop a secure grasp of the areas of concern that are important to your practice. The lectures and seminars act as models of how to focus, analyse and explore particular issues in greater depth.

This unit asks you to develop your work towards a point of realisation in the form of exhibitions and through a portfolio. You will be expected to exhibit your work and, through the documentation of these exhibitions, demonstrate your ability to consolidate your research-informed practice into an appropriate form. The exhibitions will also demonstrate your awareness of how your work might operate appropriately within a professional context.

Monday 24 September - Friday 7 December 2018

Monday 7 January - Friday 15 March 2019

Monday 15 April - Friday 21 June 2019

Learning and teaching methods

• Exhibition, group and work in progress crits
• Group and individual tutorials
• Independently directed research and study
• Individual and group based analysis and evaluation
• Lectures and professional speaker programme
• Peer assessment, support and development
• Presentation skills workshops
• Project work, supported by integrated teaching of history, theory and contemporary practice
• Speaker programme highlighting contemporary fine art issues
• Studio based teaching and practice
• Student presentations
• Team work
• Technical workshops
• Visits and work-based learning opportunities
• Workshops on documentation, portfolio presentation and digital skills

Assessments methods

• Artist statements
• Art submissions
• Essays
• Presentations
• Projects
• Research portfolios

Facilities

• 3D Workshops

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• Photography Studios

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• Digital Studio

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Staff

Dr Katrine Hjelde