Drawing

Course Structure

Year 1

You will engage with drawing within the broader context of art. Through taught sessions and independent work, a range of practical concerns related to drawing will be explored. These include life drawing, anatomy and the use and application of systems such as constructed and visual perspective and architectural projection drawing. Critical and theoretical issues are explored through lectures, discussion seminars, oral presentations and writing.

A series of key ideas lectures will introduce you to several important debates and theories that underpin contemporary art and design, and you will be introduced to a range of strategies to help you develop a research methodology and reflective approach to your studies.

Year 2

As you develop your own independent practice you will consider key critical and practical issues within the contemporary context. A combination of taught sessions, written work and presentations will help you develop a research methodology. This allows processes and skills to be explored in ways appropriate to your evolving ideas. Knowledge and understanding of the wider context of art will be heightened through live projects where you select and present your work externally.

Electives - This programme is undertaken by all 2nd year BA students and offers a menu of complementary studies that allows you to broaden your enquiry both in practical terms and in relation to critical and professional contexts. There is the opportunity to strengthen your practice, deepen a particular seam of critical enquiry and expand technical skills in specific media or processes. For example: sound, animation, philosophy, curating, performance.

Year 3

You will be planning, developing and realising your individual, self-initiated programme of study, and carrying out sustained practical and contextual research through a choice of dissertation, work placement or live project you will explore in depth the context within which you choose to locate your practice. You will develop your ideas using an appropriate research based methodology and work towards a completed body of work, which will prepare you for ongoing study and professional practice.