Sculpture and Environmental Art with Foundation Year

Bachelor's degree

In Telford

Price on request

Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Telford

  • Duration

    4 Years

The Foundation year prepares students for university level study. Successful completion of our Foundation course permits access to any of our Art or Digital Media BA (Hons) or BDes (Hons) degree courses, which include Fashion, Fine Art, Furniture Design, Glass and Ceramics, Graphic Design, Illustration, Interior Design, Paint and Print Making, Photography, Product Design, Sculpture and Environmental Art — The Foundation year begins with modules aimed at providing transferable study skills and then, in the second semester, gives students the opportunity to study more specialist modules, with a focus on various aspects of Arts and Digital Media.

Wolverhampton's Art courses were ranked 27th out of those offered by 67 providers in the Guardian League Tables 2019.

The Sculpture and Environmental Art course is located in a purpose-built school of art. In the spacious fine art studios and specialist workshops (metal, wood, glass, ceramics, bronze foundry) you will have the opportunity to develop a sustainable practice. The specialisation of Sculpture and Environmental Art aims to offer you the opportunity to concentrate on sculptural practices and artistic responses towards the environment, including psycho-geographical approaches.

As a Sculpture and Environmental Art student you will be encouraged to develop your ideas by investigating the potential of materials and spaces available in the school and its immediate surroundings. You will develop an understanding of contemporary sculpture and environmental art practice, through experiment, research and critical thinking. You will consider making work in response to a context or site, and in the public realm. You will have the opportunity to acquire skills in modes of practice ranging from traditional through to contemporary media and processes, from object-making, through construction, carving, casting, to time-based practices such as video, performance, installation, site-specific and digitally generated work.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Telford (Shropshire)
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Level 3 Southwater One, Southwater Sqare, Southwater Way, TF3 4JG

Start date

On request

About this course

As a Sculpture and Environmental Art student you will be encouraged to develop your ideas by investigating the potential of materials and spaces available in the school and its immediate surroundings. You will develop an understanding of contemporary sculpture and environmental art practice, through experiment, research and critical thinking. You will consider making work in response to a context or site, and in the public realm. You will have the opportunity to acquire skills in modes of practice ranging from traditional through to contemporary media and processes, from object-making, through construction, carving, casting, to time-based practices such as video, performance, installation, site-specific and digitally generated work.
The course aims to offer an open ended and practice–led approach to learning with students working from conceptual ideas through to the tools and materials of studio production. The course aims to fuse practical and material led practice with critical and contextual exploration. This fusion will enable you to develop a sustainable model of practice as a professional artist and teach you a range of transferable skills relevant to careers in the creative industries. At all levels of the course you will work alongside practicing artists and researchers who aim to teach through their specialist fields.
All of our students have the opportunity to engage with an additional ‘Employability Award’ associated with their degree, and a high percentage of our students achieve the gold standard as a result of our employment-focused curriculum.

2019 Entry

DD from A level
BTEC QCF Extended Diploma grade PPP, BTEC QCF Diploma grade MP
UAL Extended Diploma in Art & Design grade P, UAL Diploma in Art & Design grade M
Pass Access to HE Diploma (Full Award)
If you've got other qualifications or relevant experience, please contact The Gateway for further advice before applying.
International entry requirements and application guidance can be found here

Other Requirements
Applicants will also be required to provide satisfactory reference. Those meeting the entry requirements may be shortlisted for a Portfolio Review.

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Subjects

  • Environmental Art
  • Media
  • Public
  • School
  • Glass
  • Art
  • Sculpture
  • Ceramics
  • Design
  • Installation

Course programme

BA (Hons) Sculpture and Environmental course is assessed on 100% coursework.

The curriculum is delivered through a series of projects which will give you the opportunity to develop making and designing skills, conceptual ideas, contextual knowledge and understanding and experience of live industry briefs/ external projects in the public domain.

The Sculpture and Environmental Art course aims to:

  • Encourage you to explore different media relevant to the development of your own work.
  • Support you to acquire specialist knowledge and practical experience of working in Sculpture and Environmental Art with the opportunity to develop ideas through into painting, printmaking, conceptual and social practice, film video, photography, performance and installation.
  • Provide you with the opportunity to observe, discuss and take part in a sustainable model of studio based practice alongside artist/practitioners who are engaged in their own work.
  • Enable you to develop an individually negotiated Fine Art practice informed by a relevant theoretical and contextual framework.
  • Develop critical and analytical skills in historical and critical research and writing.
  • Engage in a series of offsite and publicly facing projects to develop your professional skills and career aspirations.
  • Understand and locate your work appropriately within the broad and specialist contexts of your subject and research appropriate to your personal and career objectives.

Through the three-year course you will be encouraged to understand and adopt positions in relation to Fine Art practice enabling you to increasingly adopt and develop personally focused projects at level 5 and 6.

LEVEL 4

At level 4 you will have the time and space to evolve ideas in relation to current debates and concerns within visual art. You will be learning and acquiring the fundamental skills of Fine Art practice with close support from subject specialist artists/teachers through a combination of specialist workshop-based learning and studio practice, supported by seminars, tutorials and lectures.

Offsite

During the first year you will take part in a range of onsite and offsite lectures and seminars in local and regional galleries and exhibitions. You will be encouraged to engage and respond to exhibitions, visiting artists and study trips.

LEVEL 5

At level 5 you will have the opportunity to broaden and test your art practice as part of a sustained studio culture. You will engage with the art community and external partners through a series of ‘Off Site’ projects and increasingly debate theoretical positions within your practice.

LEVEL 6

As a Level 6 student you will develop a more independent and outward facing approach to Fine Art practice. A concentrated period of studio practice will give you the confidence to independently manage your studio time, conduct and resolve ideas in your practical work and learn to present yourself confidently as an emerging artist in the outside world.

Why not check out what our students got up to for their final projects at our annual Degree Show 2018

Sculpture and Environmental Art with Foundation Year

Price on request