BA (Hons) Drawing

Course detail Content: what students can expect

• To explore drawing as an end in itself, as well as a means for exploring other modes of art practice like film, installation, performance and sculpture
• To explore how drawing is used in disciplines outside art such as medicine, architecture and dance choreography
• To initiate and organise external projects, where students learn vital professional skills and develop a better understanding of context for your work
• Cross-course crits and tutorials, with second year activities and exhibitions giving Drawing students the chance to discuss their work with their Fine Art programme peers studying Painting, Photography and Sculpture
• To have access to Camberwell's shared workshops. View the Camberwell facilities section
• To test how their artworks are installed, received and understood by participating in an external exhibition with students from across our BA Fine Art programme
• A Fine Art lecture series open to all Camberwell undergraduate students studying Drawing, Painting, Photography and Sculpture

Taught studio sessions that compliment students’ work on:

• Drawing and the body - an exploration of the body as object and subject on the page and in real space
• Life drawing
• Linear perspective and orthographic projection drawing, using measurement to translate objects and spaces into lines

BA Drawing programme specification (PDF - 280 KB)

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Structure

By retaining single subject degrees in Fine Art at undergraduate level, Camberwell offers students the chance to study in depth Painting, Sculpture, Photography and Drawing, while still allowing students to access cross-course teaching and facilities, as well as working with their peers in other Fine Art areas.

All undergraduate Fine Art students at Camberwell attend cross-course crits and tutorials throughout their course, even though they are primarily based in their own subject areas.

• Unit 1: Introduction to BA Drawing, Painting, Photography and Sculpture
• Unit 2: Defining the subject - What is drawing
• Unit 3: Critical context and reflective practice
• Unit 4: Exploring subject possibilities - Drawing systems

• Unit 5: Options - Extended contexts
• Unit 6: Presentation and exhibition
• Unit 7: Defining a context for your work
• Unit 8: Presentation, collaboration and development

• Unit 9, part 1: Context - Dissertation, work placement or live project
• Unit 9, part 2: Personal and professional development - Portfolio, includes contextual statement, evaluative report and digital portfolio
• Unit 10: Individual programme of study

BA Drawing students have had placements with artists including Susan Collis, Saskia Olde Wolbers, Aleksandra Mir, Susan Stockwell, Berlinde de Bruyckere and furniture design and manufacturing company OPM. Students have also participated or performed in artists Joan Jonas and Doug Fishbone’s work and collaborated with galleries including The Courtauld and LUPA.

You will have the opportunity to exhibit your work in external exhibitions. Previous spaces have included Cafe Gallery Projects and Dilston Grove, The Departure Foundation, Hotel Elephant, The Old Operating Theatre and Copeland Gallery.

You will have the opportunity in your second year of an exchange with an international art school. Recent students have studied in Bergen, Ghent, Leipzig, Madrid, Marseille and Milan.

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

• Events, screenings and visits
• Group and individual critiques, tutorials and formal reviews
• Individual programmes of study
• Key ideas lecture programme
• Learning skills in practical and technical workshops.
• Lectures and visiting speakers
• Staff and student led seminars and discussions
• Taught drawing sessions

Assessment methods

• Assignments, essays, statements and reports
• Development file
• Peer assessment
• Portfolios
• Practical work
• Presentations
• Project and support work
• Proposals
• Self-assessment

Facilities

• 3D Workshops

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• Digital Media

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• Printmaking

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Staff

• Kelly Chorpening - Course Leader
• Miraj Ahmed - Associate Lecturer
• Fran Cottell - Senior Lecturer
• Tim Ellis - Associate Lecturer
• Nicolas Feldmeyer - Associate Lecturer
• Jeffery T Y Lee - Associate Lecturer

• Jordan McKenzie - Associate Lecturer
• Janette Parris - Associate Lecturer
• Annette Robinson - Senior Lecturer
• Jeanne Woodcraft - Associate Lecturer
• Yu-Chen Wang - Associate Lecturer

Contextual Studies Staff

• Bruno Ceschel
• Qullia Constance
• Kimathi Donkor
• Peter Kapos

• Rupert Norfolk
• Jelena Stojković
• Tom Worsfold

Recent visitors have included:

• Marc Camille Chaimowicz
• Hal Foster - Professor of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University
• Michelle Grabner
  
• Mary Heilmann
• Helen Molesworth - Chief Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
• Humphrey Ocean RA

• Eddie Peake
  
• Griselda Pollock - Director of the Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory and History (CATH), Leeds University
• Michael Raedeker
  
• Caragh Thuring
• Bob and Roberta Smith
  
• Lynette Yiadom-Boakye