BA (Hons) Fine art: Painting

Course detail What will you learn?

• Painting processes evolving from hand-driven, mechanical and digital modes of making
• Drawing as analytical thinking
• A problem-solving approach to making work
• Ways to imagine painting as a model for expansive fields and extending the discipline
• To find your own voice as an artist informed by critical enquiry
• How to engage and share the studio as a site of enquiry
• To work individually and collaboratively
• How to navigate territories outside the college and work within a professional landscape of contemporary practice
• To take ownership of your own learning and practice so that you can, ultimately, work independently within the field

• Through contextual seminars, reflective reading groups, group tutorials, interactive lectures, peer learning, student-led projects, workshops, technical teaching, off-site visits, college trips outside London, which have recently included Amsterdam, Margate, New York and Rotterdam
• You will have access to a specialist painting technician, who will provide technical support and material knowledge
• Via access to other specialist technical workshops such as woodwork, print, a painting methods and materials area, audio-visual and photographic workshops. View the Wimbledon facilities section
• Through diverse forms of teaching to suit a range of practices and groups
• By engaging with spaces off-site where art is produced and exhibited
• Through a rich programme of panel discussions, artists' talks and screenings
• Via Painting pathway initiatives such as artists in residence
• Via our yearly research thematic - currently 'Painting as technology', documentation of events and conversations around painting led research on paintingresearch.net

In purpose-built studios with natural light and a range of project spaces, seminar rooms and lecture theatre.

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StructureYear 1

• Unit 1: Introduction to Fine Art: Painting, Sculpture, Print and Time-Based Media
• Unit 2: Introduction to subject specific practice
• Unit 3: Establishing subject specific practice
• Unit 4: Introduction to critical practice for fine art

• Unit 5: Understanding collaborative practice
• Unit 6: Developing subject specific practice part 1
• Unit 7: Developing subject specific practice part 2
• Unit 8: Developing contextual practice for fine art

• Unit 9: Realisation of subject specific art practices
• Unit 10: Realisation of critical practice and research for fine art

Our students have the opportunity to get involved in external exhibitions with organisations that work closely with us throughout the course, as well as exhibiting at offsite venues. Work placement / experience is part of the second year.

Students can also apply to study abroad in their second and third years as part of the college’s Erasmus scheme.

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

• Artist and professional practice talks and workshops
• Briefings, discussions, lectures and seminars
• Cross course group crits
• Field trips and off-site visits
• Group and individual presentations and tutorials
• Independent learning
• Lectures and artist talks
• Online learning
• Peer learning and review
• Portfolio review
• Project planning
• Research training
• Student presentations
• Studio and workshop based self directed study and research
• Study skills
• Technical workshops and inductions
• Workshops on writing styles, research methodology and critical debate

Assessment methods

• Blogs
• Critical professional practice presentations
• Exhibition of work
• Off-site project
• Peer evaluation
• Portfolio
• Presentations
• Research journal
• Self evaluation
• Studio exhibition presentation
• Technical skills
• Written work - assignments, essays, reports, scripts and statements

Facilities

• 3D Workshops

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• Kristy Noble.

  Audio Visual Department

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• Kristy Noble.

  Digital Media Centre

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Staff

• Zoë Mendelson - Course Leader
• Phil Allen - Associate Lecturer
• Nelson Diplexcito - Senior Lecturer
• Mark Fairnington - Reader in Painting
• Tim Johnson - Specialist Painting Technician
• Alan Magee - Associate Lecturer
• Ian Monroe - Associate Lecturer
• Alicia Paz - Associate Lecturer
• Suzy Round - Senior Lecturer
• Paula Smithard - Senior Lecturer
• Neal Tait - Associate Lecturer
• Alex Veness - Senior Lecturer