BA (Hons) Painting

Course detail Content: what students can expect

• To study the practice of painting, its history, culture and contemporary position, as part of Camberwell's Fine Art programme
• To make work and discuss it through individual tutorials, group and cross-course critiques, and seminars in a specialist studio environment
• To study the methods and materials of painting through practical workshops and demonstrations by artists, technicians and conservators, working with our partners across London such as Dulwich Picture Gallery and Tate Conservation
• To have access to workshops in printmaking, photography, film and moving image, wood and metalwork and digital facilities, to enable our students to think of painting in its’ most expanded form and its relationship to other art forms. View Camberwell's facilities section
• To participate in subject specific and cross course contextual studies programmes, to enable our students to have the critical knowledge and theoretical and historical understanding of contemporary Fine Art practice
• To have the option to choose between a final year dissertation or practical work placement or live project
• To test how paintings and artworks are installed, received and understood professionally by participating in an external exhibition and collaborating with your peers across the Fine Art programme in the development and implementation of other external group projects
• To attend both a programme wide Fine Art lecture series and subject specific lectures, seminars and subject-specific field trips

Specific BA Painting workshops will encourage our students to explore:

• The properties, uses and best practice when working with traditional oil and acrylic paints, as well as non conventional artists' materials
• How contemporary artists use Old Master processes and techniques
• How contemporary and historic painters have used and understood colour within their artworks

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Structure

Camberwell offers students the chance to study in-depth Painting, Sculpture, Photography and Drawing, while still enabling students to access cross-course teaching and facilities, as well as work 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 Painting
• Unit 3: Critical context and reflective practice
• Unit 4: Exploring subject possibilities - Signs of Painting

• 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

All our students have the opportunity and are supported in exhibiting their work in external venues in London.

During the second year all our students can take part in a wide variety of seminars and workshops hosted by a variety of external arts organisations.

Students have the opportunity to take part in UAL's Erasmus and international exchange programme. Recent BA Painting students have spent part of their study with partner institutions in Leipzig, Madrid, Marseille, Milan, New York and Tokyo.

In the third year all students, can if they wish, undertake a work placement, instead of a written dissertation or practical live project. Students have worked alongside well established artists, such as Richard Wentworth or David Batchelor. Others have worked within educational or curatorial institutions, such as Tate or Chisenhale Gallery, or within a specialist area such as a foundry or paint manufacturer.

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

• Daniel Sturgis - Course Leader
• Juan Bolivar - Lecturer
• Stella Capes - Lecturer
• Stuart Cumberland - Associate Lecturer
• Matthew Draper - Lecturer
• Tina Gverović - Lecturer

• Hannah Lees - Associate Lecturer
• Neil Rumming - Lecturer
• Benjamin Senior - Associate Lecturer
• Daniel Sinsel - Associate Lecturer
• John Wilkins - Associate Lecturer
• Sam Windett - Associate Lecturer

Contextual Studies Staff

• Bruno Ceschel
• Quilla Constance
• Fran Cottell
• Kimathi Donkor
• Peter Kapos

• Jordan McKenzie
• 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