Part Time BA Honours Fine Art Sculpture

Awarding Body

University of Glamorgan

UCAS code:C22, Route A W130, Route B E130

Course Content

The Sculpture Course is designed to cover as many traditional processes as possible. You will work in steel fabrication, plaster, mould-making, bronze casting, stone carving and wood and also spend time outside the studios drawing and working with 'found' objects making environmental work. You will be encouraged to develop your own vision and produce a body of work leading to a final year show. This work can be in traditional or non-traditional materials and innovation and experimentation are strongly encouraged. As well as having specialist workshops to support the course, the Faculty is situated close to areas of spectacular coastline and mountains which offer ample opportunities to work in the environment.

Course Features

Dedicated well equiped workshops for stone, wood, bronze and steel. You will also have access to Mac and PC studios

Success in international competitions i.e. The British Art Medal Society Competition and presence at International symposiums such as 5th International Iron Casting Conference

The course also offers students the opportunity to study in the USA via a student exchange scheme with Kansas State University

All staff are working artists with good national and international exhibition profiles

There is dedicated technician support for the course

Staff are committed to developing new skill areas, i.e. the building of a cast iron cupolette allowing students to cast iron (believed to be the only one in an educational institution)

Annual foreign trips, this year students visited the marble quarries of Carrara and the carving workshops of Pietrasanta

Students are eligible to study abroad under the LEONARDO programme

The staff to student ratio is very good giving access to staff on a regular basis

The sculpture department has a hands on approach, most workshops take place in the studios with staff and students involved in the processes
Career Prospects and Progression

Sculpture students work in a variety of areas, all students should leave college with a sellable skill. Past students have gone on to work in foundries (Jerry Hughes is now manager of AB Fine Art Foundry, London). Some become artists assistants, others have become self employed and like Rawleigh Clay who has set up the Coed Hills Rural Art Space Through the enterprise programme students are made aware of opportunities available for sculpture graduates.

Modules

Year 1: Contextual Studies, Introduction to Sculpture 1 - Wood/Stone, Introduction to Sculpture 2 - Steel/Modelling, Introduction to Sculpture 3 - Bronze, Introduction to Drawing and Life Drawing, Integrated Practice. Year 2: Contextual Studies, Art Practice 5: Intermediate Studio Skills 1, Professional Studies, Intermediate Studio Skills 2, Art/Design Practice Project 6 Self Directed. Year 3: Dissertation, Enterprise and Visual Research each at 20 Credits and then Art/Design Practice 8: Self Directed (Final Major Project) at 60 Credits.

Method of Assessment

Coursework is assessed by individual modules, with credits accumulated annually.

Course Length

3 years full-time, or maximum of 60 credits per academic year for part-time study.

Time of Delivery

Daytime

Campus

Jobs Well Campus

Bilingual Provision

Students can submit assignments in Welsh

Entry Requirements

The minimum admission requirement for an undergraduate degree course in Art, Design and Crafts is 160 UCAS points from qualifications including A-Levels, Foundation, National Diploma, GNVQ, Access, Scottish Cert of Ed, Irish Leaving Cert, International or European Baccalaureate. Mature applicants with relevant prior experience are welcome and are considered on an individual basis. Interviews: All applicants are assessed on an individual basis and will be offered the opportunity to attend an interview with a portfolio of their work. Advisory interviews are also available prior to course application.

Full-time or Part-time

Full Time and Part Time